So....Vaush mentioned some comments about Platner's military service on a live stream, and uh, yikes. Yeah, I was giving this guy a pass, but I kinda got issues with this. Okay, so the guy was asked before what american wars he would have volunteered to fight in, and he chose a lot of these really easy one sided imperialistic wars, many of which have aged badly because they were exactly the kinds of wars we didnt need to fight. Now, I dont really find him not wanting to fight in a hard war with mass death unjustifiable, I wouldnt wanna fight in the more brutal wars either. But come on, basically, he finds being what amounts to an occupier and not having to deal with a population that fights back "enjoyable?" Jesus. Like, if I were asked, I'd probably not wanna fight at all. And that's a fair perspective. I wouldnt wanna fight the big wars because they were meat grinders, and the small occupying wars still have a non zero chance of death, and many of them are dubious morally.
Just...wtf? idk, he comes off as sociopathic here. Now, he's probably evolved a lot since those days if he ends up as a reddit communist going all ACAB on people, but yeah no, this doesn't endear me to him at all. He's still the "best" option given the alternatives are a republican and a neolib, but man, I wish we could have a better candidate than this. Still, even with these scandals, his polling is pretty good in the primary. I just wish we had someone who didnt have all of this crazy baggage.
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