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@TimRunsHisMouth @robreiner Scratch a progressive and you'll find a totalitarian yearning to come to the surface

@lucythegreat123 @JohannesTuyl America's Mother in Law

@JohannesTuyl I hate that she is my senator, she is the human equivalent of nails on the chalkboard.

The Graham Platner tattoo controversy is not about youthful mistakes. It is about the specificity of the Totenkopf. This is not the widely recognized swastika, it is the specific insignia of the SS units that ran the Nazi death camps. This is the symbol of the executioners. This is the symbol of the men that murdered 10 million men, women, and children. These men murdered the babies. For a self proclaimed military history enthusiast to wear the literal badge of Holocaust executioners for 20 years shows a level of understanding and admiration that cannot be explained away. People tattoo on their body WHO THEY ARE and WHAT THEY LOVE. The Democrats are so desperate to flip a Maine Senate seat that they have abandoned every moral red line they once claimed to hold. They have proven that winning at any cost is their only conviction and the Holocaust is just a cheap political prop to be weaponized only against their opponents. This is not just a betrayal of their voters. It is a total moral collapse.

@aaridi31 @ShabbosK You post/repost about Israel write a bit Do you think their culture is equal to all others?

@ShabbosK “Not all cultures are equal” is absolute supremacist garbage you sick fuck

Went to USC to debate students. A man threatened us; "remember what happened to the last guy that did this fucking thing." Please help us identify the individual (copied below). Certainly no Professor encouraging political violence should be allowed to teach.

@grinnell555 @GrageDustin @PaigeSully88 He got the tatoo Kept it until it was almost old enough to vote He praised Hamas

@Chimptistic @GrageDustin @PaigeSully88 You have no proof of any of that. He got a dumb tattoo. Stop with the assumptions and labeling. That's total BS. Or does Adelson pay you for your tweets?

Here is Graham Platner's former campaign manager (who refused to sign a $15,000 NDA) She posted this after her resignation.

@ArdyBee437933 @Oilfield_Rando The worst call from dispatch: Domestic Disturbance

@Oilfield_Rando A LE friend of mine answered a domestic violence call, the woman placed the call, as they were cuffing the man she decides "y'all aren't taking my husband to jail" and starts fighting the LE SHE called.

I actually cackled when she said “I work for the state. The Secretary of State.” I couldn’t be a cop. I’d turn around and leave as soon as I got to the front door. Nothing is going to happen in this case other than incinerated tax dollars.

@Oilfield_Rando Taps the sign.

@grinnell555 @GrageDustin @PaigeSully88 Is being a Nazi or antisemite a personal foible?

@Chimptistic @GrageDustin @PaigeSully88 Maybe that's the point. Personal foibles are no longer disqualifying.

@ShamashAran To be completely out of the mainstream, Jim Heath

Lindsay Buckingham

@grinnell555 @GrageDustin @PaigeSully88 Bill Clinton, serial philanderer, was also elected twice. Sleeping around may not be the best comparison...

@GrageDustin @PaigeSully88 Do you idiots realize that Trump won after cheating on his wife with a porn star? Do you realize that your Evangelical base supported him? Who are the idiots here?

Who get’s a better reception in today’s Democrat party?

@Slaphappy___ @LoganDobson @Devon_Eriksen_ It's easier for a power company to consider opening a data center, rather than the reverse, sure to regulatory hurdles NERC and FERC can be compliance nightmares

When Pittsburgh was the steel production capital of the world the steel manufacturers built their own boiler houses to generate steam for electricity. Hell, they even ran their own coal companies to provide metallurgical coal and steam coal for their own use. Why can’t these data centers, which are supposedly going to be big economic drivers where they are built, have their own power generation facilities like the steel industry did?

Imagine you run a 24 hour hamburger joint. You do pretty well. You sell 1000 burgers a week for $10 each, netting $5 on each. But almost all your money is made during “peak” hours when demand is highest — lunch, dinner. You net $5000 a week. Then a big change. A 24 hour factory opens across the street. The workers at the factory don’t have a set lunch hour, so they just run out for burgers whenever they feel hungry, roughly evenly distributed throughout the day and night. Burger demand surges — a little bit during those peak hours, but also at all hours of the night, mid-afternoon, early morning, all times you previously weren’t selling many burgers and your staff was mostly sitting around. With the surge in demand, you’re now selling 2000 burgers a week. You cut the price to $8 per burger (to encourage more factory customers), so you now net $6000 per week. Demand went way up, but you cut prices and are making more revenue and profit. At this point you might think I’ve told you a story about hamburgers. I’ve actually told you a story about data centers and electricity prices.

@grahamformaine Are we still supposed to punch Nazis?

Endless wars and billionaire tax cuts, or universal health care and banning billionaires buying elections? The field is set.

@CyborgPeds @mattyglesias He's a progressive, and he's twisting himself into knots to protect the party

@mattyglesias “Reflects somewhat poorly on him in a non-specific way” Are you utterly insane?

What is the upshot of the Platner tattoo discourse? Let's say I find his story fishy. I'm supposed to worry that this seemingly left-wing guy supported by all the left-wing people is secretly a Nazi just pretending to be a progressive populist?

@mattyglesias How about the specific worry that he's pro a Nazi and all that goes with being a Nazi?

Another example — I agree that the tattoo situation reflects somewhat poorly on him in a non-specific way, but what is the specific worry a voter is supposed to have about Platner? Yes, he gets a pass on being a Nazi because progressives think he’s progressive (ie not a Nazi)

@jonfavs 18 years with a Nazi tattoo Only took action when it hurt his political chances

Graham Platner isn’t just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins, he’s a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better. I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces. Clearly, that’s what so many people in Maine have done - from all different walks of life and political persuasions.

Dear Senator Sanders, Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment. The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything. Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register. Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it. And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth. When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed. Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont. You named. Two. Post offices. You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem. Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle. You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning. I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise. The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

@HankVenture5 I'd be lying if I said I never slept in my truck In the field for 20+ hours before I had relief and home being hours away, however

If you need nappy nap time during your lunch break you are a child.

@gov_fails I go places in support of my interests, or chaufer my family to theirs Like the hardware store, gun range, book store, motorcycle shop When I see the same faces visit after visit, I eventually talk to them

How do you middle aged men make friends with other men? I honestly find it easier to make friends with women, but that’s challenging for other obvious reasons.

@DeAngelisCorey Did they send home permision slips for this field trip?

"We are organizing our school so that the kindergarten through 6th grade students are also going to be able to march."

@IanRunkle Call police Make a pot of coffee for when the police arrive Out post note on the door: Beyond this point trespassers may be met with lethal force Wait in the foyer with my Tavor Hava Nagila playing on the Sonos Pants around my ankles

Oh Reddit, you are _adorable_. 30 minutes of warning, and a bat? Well, I guess I'll call the police, and they'll be here in four hours. Spend 28 minutes picking out the best musical track...

Tasers were invented for these times.