Idk what is most surprising here:

  • he hasn’t gotten it covered (apparently had since 2006)
  • this made it through the pod save edit to be shown on their video
  • pod save had him on

Wonder what the excuses will be this time on why it’s okay he’s still in the race as if he wins probably will be another fetterman.

Or maybe I’m so conspiracy brained I wonder if this is a way to make the ancient governor running look like the best candidate

  • godlessworm [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    im pretty sure most people on this website did up til about a week ago, as evidenced by the fact that all i know about him is that about a week ago he was well regarded and now its come out his whole shit was a lie

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      Anyone could look at his national socialist platform and guess where this was going. He was talking about helping veterans and revitalizing the shipbuilding industry while being an unrepentant mercenary/imperialist

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      im pretty sure most people on this website did up til about a week ago,

      ?

      Didn’t it come out a week ago that this guy had done multiple tours in Iraq (including as a mercenary) and had minimal regrets, while calling himself a communist at one point? That’s all I knew about him and was enough to set off the alarm bells.

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      Ya I remember telling a friend I don’t know anything about this guy but from what I had seen so far, he was pretty based before. Now I’m pretty embarrassed, but oh well, you’ve got to adjust with new information. All I remember seeing on here was posts of his leaked reddit comments saying capitalism needs to be torn down, the shit the US is doing abroad is bad, the military radicalized him, things like that.

      I didn’t know he was a Blackwater mercenary who had reenlisted multiple times, doesn’t regret it and says everything he did was good, and he has a Nazi tattoo. Obviously, thats some different context lol.

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      Never heard of the guy before today. There’s one Post on this site with the guy’s name in it before today. Guess I’ve succeeded in being less online?