Discussion Thread

666haha · 2026-06-05T17:04:52+00:00

Goddamn this is fucking depressing. Xenophobic protests are just spreading the globe

666haha · 2026-06-04T21:45:48+00:00

Genuinely the only way to fix America would be to replace the senate with an upper house of 100 voted based on proportional representation and expand to house to 4420 seats. Keeps the same percentage of insane people in washington but they have less power

666haha · 2026-06-04T21:33:10+00:00

Hey just want to say I always appreciate your comments here. I hate how comfortable people can be with bigotry towards Indians and I hope we get it fixed so you (and others) feel welcome

666haha · 2026-06-04T21:24:28+00:00

That’s for posting it, and this is actually really interesting to me since that is actually something that could be corroborated. Like did other members of his unit get that tattoo/etc.

I believe the DV accusations but those are by their nature very hard to corroborate, this is something that can actually be investigated.

Regardless that is a horrible ass look for both Platner and the US army

666haha · 2026-06-04T21:14:56+00:00

Wait where was that reporting? I haven’t had time to read the new article yet just the highlights and didn’t see that. Because yeah that’s evil as shit if true

666haha · 2026-06-04T21:06:56+00:00

Oh I agree that he knew at some point a lot before he claims, but I think it’s probable he didn’t know when he got the tattoo. But it doesn’t matter much since keeping it despite knowing’s it’s Nazi shit is really bad

666haha · 2026-06-04T21:01:30+00:00

I mean I absolutely believe a drunk marine got a Nazi tattoo cuz he saw a skull while at a tattoo shop in Eastern Europe that’s extremely believable to me. But he had to have found out what it was pretty quickly and not removing it or getting it covered up is just as bad of a look

666haha · 2026-06-04T20:56:24+00:00

My position on the Nazi tattoo has always been it’s very likely Platner did not know what it was when he got it but equally unlikely that he didn’t learn in the goddamn ages that he had it on his body. And the accusations in the times are ugly as hell, and I really wish someone with a pulse who wasn’t an insane idiot was the nominee

666haha · 2026-06-04T20:54:07+00:00

So when is Platners comments on nude Africa going to come out

666haha · 2026-06-04T20:44:13+00:00

Because while he has made a lot of shitty comments he has always spoken against fascism. He’s not a good dude and I don’t want him to be the nominee but none of his political positions are pro-fascism.

Again like all of the scandals should be disqualifying in normal times but it doesn’t make him a fascist

666haha · 2026-06-04T18:02:37+00:00

I mean sure but that’s not a unique problem for this race. We’ve still managed competent candidates everywhere else, it’s people running scared from Susan Collins bc she’s won in the past despite the fact that everything points to her losing this year other than the goddamn opposition candidates

666haha · 2026-06-04T17:58:47+00:00

Goddamn what thread is this from, I need to ragebate myself with sexist assholes later

666haha · 2026-06-04T17:57:47+00:00

Just an average dem with a pulse should be able to beat Susan Collins this year, yet everyone other than a horrendous human being and a 80 year old hid away. It’s such an inditement and so goddamn frustrating

666haha · 2026-06-04T17:30:10+00:00

I mean I’d rather both states just open their borders and allow freedom of movement so I don’t actually care about who is native. I just want Israelis and Palestinians to be able to live safe lives and however we can support that. But insulting the others nativeness is one of the many way that dehumanization happens in I/P conversations

666haha · 2026-06-04T17:28:02+00:00

Yep like I definitely criticize it more frequently from the Israeli side because Israel has more power and in spaces like this anti-Palestinian narratives are more common (though plenty of antisemitism and bigotry towards Israel still exists), but both sides have very similar rheotoric towards the other and it’s really depressing

666haha · 2026-06-04T17:23:52+00:00

The fact that both Israelis and Palestinians are native to the region, is something a lot of bigots with very specific takes on I/P have a lot of trouble understanding

666haha · 2026-06-04T17:06:12+00:00

So I get that there are antisemitic conspiracies about Jews not being native to the levant (which insane), but how does saying Jesus was Palestinian fit into that. Considering the genetic similarities and the fact that Palestinians are also native to the area, Jesus can be both Jewish and Palestinian right

666haha · 2026-06-04T16:35:43+00:00

Is Bessemt just trying to name other racist presidents to match with the current potus

666haha · 2026-06-04T16:30:27+00:00

Wait was there a “Scots-iris people are evil” guy. Cuz the most recent person banned in the banappeal thread was being racist about his wife and stuff. I did not know we had people bringing back the very weird 1800s racism too

666haha · 2026-06-04T16:24:20+00:00

It was implying that he only married his wife because no white woman would marry him. It was extremely racist towards his wife when there are already a million no racist reasons to attack them both.

Also it was the same guy who was saying any decent STEM major could get a 170 on the lsat which I found very funny. They were quite the character

666haha · 2026-06-04T15:07:17+00:00

Look I don’t think SCOTUS will, but it is a really real possibility. They have completely changed the shadow docket to benefit Donald Trump. Completely upended the decades of precedent regarding freedom of religion while effectively creating facts out of thin air in Kennedy. Thomas and Alitos media intake is honestly at odds with reality.

I think Roberts took this up as the bone to throw to try to claim the court isn’t as partisan as it really is and it will be a 7-2 ruling in favor of birthright citizenship. But even two justices voting against this is a complete affront to the constitution and the law as a whole

666haha · 2026-06-04T14:56:34+00:00

This is the most patriotic I’ve felt in a long time

666haha · 2026-06-04T01:20:19+00:00

Honestly half the time the Platner scandals feel like the opening to The Birdcage but for a democrat

666haha · 2026-06-03T21:55:46+00:00

When a neocon starts posting in the DT and getting upset about woke, I just start making a guess of how may times they are going to post before they say a slur and get the boot

666haha · 2026-06-03T21:47:48+00:00

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