“No one, whether you’re trans or not, wants the federal government digging through your identifiable patient information and figuring out what they like and don’t like,” Hack said. “It’s an absolute overreach, and people are really scared.”
Asked whether Hack’s priorities were measures he could support, Platner agreed. “Yes, indeed. They most certainly do,” he said.
Only to those with either thin skin, a sense of entitlement about what kinds of people should be allowed access to political power, or who don’t have a coherent theory of change.
Look. I’m a veteran. I drank that kool-aid and won the poverty draft lotto. I literally signed up for tacos. Understanding the imperialist machine from the inside changes you. And veterans have been representative in the fight against fascism in the US the whole time. And I’ve worked with every one in those links. Many of them were raised as conservative assholes. And for some of them it took their buddy getting blown up in the humvee next to them to wake up to the consequences of imperialism. And you should have the grace to allow people to change.
The “he deserved to die” outrage over Platners reddit comments literally solidified every veterans vote in Maine for Platner.
It’s kinda funny. They (media and the establishment) are so out of touch that they tried to make outrage around a comment literally every veteran would universally understand. Mocking someone in the military for their own stupidity and incompetence that should have gotten them killed.
I’m not a veteran myself. But, I have enough veteran friends to know that that is exactly how they talk about people they served with. It’s like military banter 101. The fact that they tried to form a “he wants troops to die” story out of it. It makes literally everything else they bring up useless.
I’ll just be happy when I have to stop hearing about this guy. Hope he wins. But, holy shit, he’s not worth this much attention.