We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
Impressive how many people immediately took up the baton of shitting all over this guy the second they got the order from whatever media bubble they are in.
I’ve been reading and watching what he has to say, and the more people screech he’s a Nazi it sounds more like a very obvious attempt to make people discount him. “What do leftists hate? Nazis! Hey leftists, this guy is a Nazi!”
Is the tattoo a problem? Sure. He should have had it covered ages ago, but his posts and positions aren’t that of a Nazi so that accusation just falls flat as soon as you do even a minute of research.
For other audiences, they are claiming that his Reddit comments expose him as a secret communist.
It’s exactly the same as Kamala Harris. To some audiences, she was a corporate tool who was going to sell us out to big business and make immigration worse because she loved ICE. To other audiences, she was a horrible communist who was going to kill business in America with her communism and believed in open borders. And they both bought it.
Fortunately, if Lemmy is any indication I think this kind of stuff is becoming less effective. One of the problems about Platner is that unlike Kamala Harris, he actually seems like he has genuine very good sincere things to say about what he wants to do, which makes a lot of this stuff kind of fall at the first hurdle. Hopefully.
I mean they’ve still got time to refine the strategy for a while, I’m sure they’ll keep workshopping it.
Impressive how many people immediately took up the baton of shitting all over this guy the second they got the order from whatever media bubble they are in.
I’ve been reading and watching what he has to say, and the more people screech he’s a Nazi it sounds more like a very obvious attempt to make people discount him. “What do leftists hate? Nazis! Hey leftists, this guy is a Nazi!”
Is the tattoo a problem? Sure. He should have had it covered ages ago, but his posts and positions aren’t that of a Nazi so that accusation just falls flat as soon as you do even a minute of research.
For other audiences, they are claiming that his Reddit comments expose him as a secret communist.
It’s exactly the same as Kamala Harris. To some audiences, she was a corporate tool who was going to sell us out to big business and make immigration worse because she loved ICE. To other audiences, she was a horrible communist who was going to kill business in America with her communism and believed in open borders. And they both bought it.
Fortunately, if Lemmy is any indication I think this kind of stuff is becoming less effective. One of the problems about Platner is that unlike Kamala Harris, he actually seems like he has genuine very good sincere things to say about what he wants to do, which makes a lot of this stuff kind of fall at the first hurdle. Hopefully.
I mean they’ve still got time to refine the strategy for a while, I’m sure they’ll keep workshopping it.