The context is that he was posting on a news article about a fake police officer with SS tattoos carrying weapons to intimidate BLM protestors in Las Vegas.
https://archive.ph/EDNKt (this cnn article says his reddit username is p-hustle)
I used samac.io to search his deleted comments.
A few more comments:
He says he’s a communist in one comment, but there’s no results for Mao, Lenin, Marx, Engels, Hasan, or dialectics.
He’s not a real communist, in other words. He appears to have no proper theoretical understanding of the ideology he claims. He’s like scientist who learned his science from pop science, instead of real schooling and textbooks. He’s a communist because some cool people historically that he saw on Reddit or in pop-history books were communist. This is exactly the kind of thing a progressive social Democrat would do.
He mentions he’s a DSA member, and that he canvases for progressive Democrats. A progressive Democrat is what he is if he was honest with himself, and did any research into communism, socialism, or capitalism.
He could have changed, read theory, and became a real communist over the past 4 years, but it’s pretty clear he hasn’t done that.
the sixth head is Hasan
I don’t think that Graham Platner is claiming to be a communist anymore. He deleted the reddit account 3 months ago because he wanted to hide it. On October 17, he put out a video on his twitter account denouncing his reddit comments.
He’s running as a Berniecrat (unions, healthcare, housing, etc) but also against sending money to Israel. I think it would be foolish to think that he’s further Left than he’s claiming to be.
I don’t think he was a Hasan fan or Chapo or Trueanon. He did post Bill Burr a few times, which could mean anything. His main thing seemed to be posting on the Socialist Rifle Association subreddit.
A funny thing is that he used the Destiny-affiliated company to delete his reddit account. Destiny’s cohost Dan Saltman owns (redact dot dev) and was the former owner of TinyChat. Graham used redact to “delete” his reddit comments.
bit idea, a Fourier type who calls themself a communist what because they support building hippie communes