There are so many posts, and often written in that same crude style, that you could single out any number of them to paint whatever picture you wanted. But as a whole, they more or less align with the image Platner's given the public about who he is.
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6. Speaking of military service, Platner repeatedly made clear his time fighting US wars had shaped his worldview, and left him disillusioned & cynical about both what he called US "imperial adventures" and the system as a whole.

5. A good e.g. of the contradictions of Platner's posts: he could share what most people would consider an offensive story about a military game of gay chicken one moment, and condemn homophobia the next. He used Reddit to give his fellow service members help & advice.

4. Gun rights aside, Platner, a veteran, shared a host of conventionally progressive views, albeit expressed in the hyper-vulgar style of what he called "our crude and offensive world" of military service.

3. In spite of the single, unflattering quote about rural voters that has been picked out, most of Platner's posts see him railing against liberals who look down on rural Americans, and insisting they'd be potential progressive allies if Democrats soften on gun control.

2. Platner often talked about his left-wing views and, even more frequently, angrily railed against fascism and armed far right groups, which he viewed as a growing threat that might require self-defense. He plainly is not a secret far right extremist.

1. Platner frequently expressed outrage & anger at the US military's mistreatment of Afghan civilians, and often pushed back against other users' racism, or angrily criticized what he viewed as instances of racism in the news.

It's not just the rate of killing, how indiscriminate it is, the violence toward kids & civilians, the annihilation of its ecosystem, its almost total physical destruction, the famine, or the tonnage of bombs. What's unique about Gaza is it's *all* of it.
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4th, the scale & intensity of bombing. The 70k tons of bombs (a lowball) dropped on Gaza are 6x Hiroshima bombs, but on an area 1/2 the size of Hiroshima and with 6x its population. It's worse than any war going back decades. And Israel used the most destructive possible bombs.

3rd the physical destruction: most of its homes, roads, hospitals, schools, cultural heritage sites, vital infrastructure, cropland & livestock, fishing sector. Basically everything that makes organised life possible in Gaza has been almost completely destroyed.

2nd, the extraordinary violence toward children, both statistically & anecdotally, and the famine we're now watching:

Comes after Dershowitz claimed federal judges "are protecting people" by sealing material.

Preska's seal orders have been vacated and the material is now set to be reviewed. Will Preska be the one to again decide what does & doesn't go public?
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Among other things, the judge, Loretta Preska, bought an $8.7 million Manhattan penthouse on discount from a former exec at Bear Stearns, the firm Epstein was arguably most closely associated with.

This is only the latest conflict-of-interest controversy for Preska:

All of this was reported mostly in mainstream outlets from 2019 on. You will hear that Epstein's intel ties & his possible blackmail of the elite is just a crazy conspiracy theory cooked up by MAGA, but that is not true.
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In general, when you look at everything Trump & the GOP did to get their BBB over the line, you can't help but suspect they simply cared more about the agenda it contained than Biden & the Dems did about theirs.
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For the press, Musk was good for clicks. For Trump critics, he was the ideal political foil. But he was never really driving the Trump cuts, and now he's officially gone anyway.
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The NYC city council elections also solidify an emerging national trend: there is a united front being formed between corporate interests & what we might call the Israel First lobby, who see the Left as a common enemy. Read and share here:
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