Being universally opposed doesn’t make one right, best, or good.

There’ve also been a few reports of him knowing it was a Nazi symbol years before he got it covered up.

You’re making unfounded assertions devoid of his history. I do not share your optimism.

Not sure why you’ve spammed that MLK Jr. quote across this thread as it really doesn’t seem to apply.

Firstly you are assuming (or worse projecting) the identity of your interlocutors. Secondly “support of the movement” doesn’t mean blindly following anyone that claims to walk with you despite historical evidence that they do not. Similarly critiquing the very real failures of a candidate with no track record of support is not “finding every available excuse.” We should critique all our leaders because we want both for them to improve and to foster others to be better. Following based on lip service alone is some misguided messianic practice, and Platner ain’t no messiah.

This disingenuous injection of MLK Jr’s words feels no better than the right’s jingoistic quote mining as an attempt to produce a diverse authority that agrees with them.

I highly doubt MLK Jr. would be in favor of a white boy with a Nazi tattoo who served multiple tours and signed up as a mercenary because he liked killing so much.

Not at all. I was for Bernie. He doesn’t have a Nazi tattoo, hasn’t served in the infantry, doesn’t like killing people, hasn’t had multiple deployments, nor became a mercenary. He wasn’t perfect, but he was more perfect than Platner.

Did you mistake Lemmy for a mirror?

You are pretending the political establishment politicians on both the right and the left uniting against someone isn’t the best candidate regardless.

I think he’s better than Collins. I don’t think he’s a good candidate in the field of all possible candidates that could (but aren’t) run.

Furthermore being universally opposed doesn’t make one right, best, or good.

Stop watching cable news

I don’t watch cable news.

And you pretending a guy with a Nazi tattoo who joined the army to kill people and loved his time in the infantry so much he went back is a progressive for putting on a blue uniform is materially different how?

I’d love to be wrong, but all I see at this stage is someone who learned the right words to say to get power, and I’m disappointed that: 1) people are giving him credence without regard to his past and 2) there’s no better progressive candidate without a sordid past.

The making of the next Manchin/Sinema/Fetterman

Weird that the Trump rally that was always supposed to be a Trump rally was forced to become a Trump rally when the artists that weren’t told they’d be playing at a Trump rally found out the gig was a Trump rally and dropped out from playing at the Trump rally because they didn’t want to be associated with Trump by playing at a Trump rally.

Who’ld’o guessed it?

They can.

“Millions” would be less than 1% of the US population, and SpaceX is virtually guaranteed to continue to get federal contracts.

Does that mean it’ll be open season?

A sabotage problem? Sounds like a sabotage solution!

And some tools are worse than others.

Some require retentioning belts, readjusting the bed level, or other maintainance items before you can get a perfect print again.

My Prusa was tucked in between the cushions of my couch for a cross country move, left in storage for one year, and moved again before I just blew the first off and smashed out a perfect print from an SD card. That’s a solid enough performance I don’t think I’d consider any other brand.

That took an expert?

If you don’t train juniors you don’t get seniors to fix shit or to build you more AI.

Boooo!

Based 'cause it means fewer soldiers will be able to fight.

Cringe 'cause it’s fucking stupid and everyone who physically can should get the flu shot.

They enable recently frustrated libs to make connections with more left wing groups. My mutual aid group got a lot of donations and more volunteers at each of the previous No Kings and 50501 protests. We don’t collect information of prospective volunteers, and while our group had to submit some info for the tabling application, it’s not more than what we submit for finding grants and contained no personal volunteers information aside from the primary contact. I and several others helped run the tables throughout the event without any event organizers having any info about me.

The police, of course, have access to whatever cell info they buy from all events, so I just leave it at home or turn it off.

So did Denver PD, BTW.

Sure.

He’s a monster with deplorable policies and beliefs, a blight on humanity, and deserving of some brutal comeuppance, but that doesn’t mean he’s done nothing of benefit. Denying that vile people don’t occasionally do something right is a great way to grow calloused against humanity in general which will make it difficult to form actual genuine connections with others–something that’s necessary if we’re gonna build a better world from this.

I personally try not to deny reality when having discussions with others.