• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    As an organization the US military is evil and their recruitment strategies prey on poor people who want an out that doesn’t typically exist.

    I have sympathy for them, but I also don’t think it applies to former blackwater mercs.

    People should be judged based on where they are now, their actions in the present, and their self-criticism of their past actions.

    There’s all sorts of reasons I could point to why Graham Platner is unfit to be a leader in any leftist movement but the most glaring one is that as far as I can tell from his statements he thinks the US wasn’t engaged in anything wrong overseas.

    As for not being malicious or not being a criminal, here’s one of his posts where he talks about disobeying direct orders in order to commit even more warcrimes than he would otherwise be allowed to:

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    have fun electing Fetterman 2.0, I’m sure in another 4 years there’s going to be another social fascist with an even bigger bodycount that you guys will be pushing.