We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
I can’t get over how truly bonkers it is that he didn’t say either WWII or the Civil War, two extremely high profile options where for once Americans got to kill someone worse than them
The only good part of being a boot in Vietnam is that you’d be justified in fragging your officer, you’d probably be ambushed by the brave soldiers of Vietnam, be tricked by the brave soldiers of Vietnam into getting in to a firefight with another American infantry squad, get skewered with a bamboo trap and die of some fun disease, or if you’re lucky, get captured by the brave soldiers of Vietnam and turn coat to fight for the good guys.
This Goon probably would’ve been down bad to do as many My Lai massacres as he could get away with instead. Shit he’d probably volunteer to be a flamethrower mook
Told my not that politically radical dad about it and even he noticed the list of wars was just wars where he could kill brown and black people without much fear of being killed back, except for Vietnam which probably just shows that Platner has main character syndrome and thinks he’s built to survive war.
I can’t get over how truly bonkers it is that he didn’t say either WWII or the Civil War, two extremely high profile options where for once Americans got to kill someone worse than them
The only good part of being a boot in Vietnam is that you’d be justified in fragging your officer, you’d probably be ambushed by the brave soldiers of Vietnam, be tricked by the brave soldiers of Vietnam into getting in to a firefight with another American infantry squad, get skewered with a bamboo trap and die of some fun disease, or if you’re lucky, get captured by the brave soldiers of Vietnam and turn coat to fight for the good guys.
This Goon probably would’ve been down bad to do as many My Lai massacres as he could get away with instead. Shit he’d probably volunteer to be a flamethrower mook
Hey at least you’ll be high
Didn’t he say he only liked wars where the other side was wildly outgunned?
Told my not that politically radical dad about it and even he noticed the list of wars was just wars where he could kill brown and black people without much fear of being killed back, except for Vietnam which probably just shows that Platner has main character syndrome and thinks he’s built to survive war.