Do you have a source for that? Only clip I could find had him also endorsing Susan Collins and was clearly satirical. The stream I watched had him not really sure how to react to it for a while. I think he assumed the skull was more well known than it actually was, like if he had an actual swastika on his chest.

Idk, I was raised Hindu, and the swastika is a fairly common icon and is perfectly reasonable to use but if I’m presenting it in a public context, I understand that I may need to clarify how its being used to people who are not familiar with the specific cultural context in which I’m using the iconography.

He’s not doing that, he’s just like I thought it was a funny skull, and it seems like he was made aware of it before hand, didn’t really get it with any intent around the historical context, and never thought to get it covered up.

I’m not saying he’s a secret Nazi, but I do think he’s just careless with his public image which has real repercussions as a politician on a national stage. Its not even about what other skeletons he has in his closet, its has his campaign team even done its due diligence vetting him and having proper communication strategies around potential scandals that may arise.

No one’s perfect, but part of doing politics professionally in a national scale means taking the job seriously and running your team professionally. It doesn’t matter what your policies are if you can’t develop any influence to actually push your ideology. Otherwise you’re just one vote.

Nancy Pelosi made a good point about AOC when she first joined and tried to aggressively push for policies, she has her agenda and cast her one vote which is all the political power she has. Now that’s not to say you need to bend the knee completely, but AOC has since been able to develop and leverage political pressure from the general public through a well curated personal brand by asking useful questions and running personal brand and her campaign in a serious intentional way. From what I’ve seen of Plattner, I don’t see that coming from him.

Say what you will about Hasan, I think his take on the tattoo is spot on. Regardless of whether or not he has or had Nazi sympathies, it shows a just complete incompetence in how the campaign was run and he’s just a liability to progressive movements.

If he isn’t going to take his campaign itself seriously. How you present yourself and are perceived in public matters and affects your ability to develop coalitions to push through legislation, especially on a national scale as a senator.

If I were a Maine voter, I would hold my nose and vote for him, but the next election cycle, he’s got to go unless he really shows some maturity in how he runs a national campaign within the first year. Otherwise, start looking for and pushing a different candidate for the next election cycle.

They don’t even have pork rolls! Completely different.

*that sounds like the caricature of you I have in my head

Ultimately, it would be more productive for the center to yell at the establishment for supporting corruption and unpopular policies rather than turning left.

Look at how much more vitriol there was for a leftist mayoral candidate from the establishment than there was towards the leaders who do nothing while a dictator consolidates power. Apparently, its fine not to vote for a democrat if you personally think it will cause tons of economic damage in this case, but not the other.

I do think “vote blue not matter who” has shown that the current establishment will happily hold the transgendered community hostage to sell out the working class.

Just because people’s deaths are only aggregated in statistics. People who die because of a lack of healthcare or commit suicide because of their economic situation, doesn’t mean its not also important to fight for. Doesn’t make as good of a headline though.

I think it can be ship of theseus’d, just replace all the key people in the party and keep the name.

FDR was a democrat, if it could go from that to what it is now, it can be turned back into a socialist party.

How do we know who to give food to of people aren’t competing against each other to hoard as much wealth as they can?

Yeah, because the Dems have been keeping him in news cycle after news cycle by attacking him so he can spread his policy ideas.

It’s a ton of racism too. Darker skinned Jews get all sorts of discrimination, it’s just not as extreme as someone who is Palestinian.

Both are happening.

It’s important to understand what went wrong so when you with on a fix, you won’t make the same mistake.

People can both bitch about politicians and also help fix the problem.

So long as the donor checks keep clearing, establishment Dems are happy to play spoiler for big business and let Trump destroy the country.

It’s as opposed to right wing Democrats who are also making islamophobic attacks against him.

Progressive Democrats are the 3rd party. That’s why establishment Dems are trying to suppress them.

I’m tempted to participate in disruptions of ICE raids, but my parents are naturalized citizens and with that potentially being revokable, I don’t want to take any chances.

That being said, you also don’t know where the bottom will be, so slowly buying into a falling market should let you get a good amount of buys in close to the bottom.

Thankfully, Elon has shown that whatever Trump mystique there is won’t magically transfer to someone else just because they’re associated with him.

Dude, I held my nose and voted blue no matter who, they didn’t uphold their end of the deal by actually putting forward policy ideas that might help people so here we are.

Most democratic voters I know don’t actually like the democratic party, they just hate Republicans more.

No, the Democratic leadership is ineffective at best, complicit at worst. They need to go so we have an actual opposition party. They’re not going to do anything but save their own asses.

10 democrats voted with Republicans to censure one of their own. They need to clean house before they can actually mount any opposition.

Blue no matter who was kicking the can down the road to buy some time, but was never a real solution. They weren’t even able to Garner enough popular support so now we’re in this mess.

Time to put people in who are as passionate about protecting the constitution as the current party leadership is about crushing populist candidates.