He talks about increasing benefits for people in the military and increasing recruitment. That doesn’t sound like someone who is reflecting on the military in any way that aligns with my ideals.

I’d love to see people talk about reforming the military and ensuring better channels of reporting. He states he personally saw people target civilians, but I don’t see him campaigning about better whistleblower protections. Maybe I missed it because I’m not following it that closely, but he seems to wholly support the military and just be upset about fraud and waste and not about the raping and Geneva convention violations.

That’s fair.

I also think it’s a fair assessment to say that younger gens are doing it more. I think in part it’s because there’s been a big cultural shift in such a small time period and a larger portion of the younger population has moved with it. It’s hard to act lovingly towards people who are in your view unrepentantly supporting backsliding on centuries of progress.

I obviously have no details about your relationship with your kids, and I know you didn’t ask, but it’s possible he’d be interested in explaining his thought process if he felt you’d be receptive to hearing him out. At least you’ll know why he blamed you for something you were powerless to stop. I’m always sad to hear about people going no contact because I have and I know how hard it is. The people were such big parts of my life and though I have gotten to a place where I don’t long to repair the relationship, if they reached out and I felt like they came with an open mind and an open heart I’d be glad for the chance. Sometimes it just takes someone reaching out. Maybe your son doesn’t feel the same way, but good luck to you both.

I didn’t see a direct link in the article, so here you go (seems to be Japanese only, which is understandable): https://gokilove.jp/

This persons comment history indicates this is likely a lie/bait: https://lemmy.world/comment/24226662

I don’t know the full situation with your kid, but that seems unusual if there is no context being left out. Acting like it’s an issue with an age group going no contact over “everything” is really disingenuous though.

He’s pretty hated by his neighbors if I remember correctly. He started an illegal school on his compound and his neighbors have attempted to get it shut down, but he’s too powerful for even the people in his vicinity. I can’t imagine what a less empowered individual could do.

Not to be a doomer, I’m just at a loss. We need class solidarity on a level we’ve never had before.

I’m not attempting to suggest it was. Just that the statement that Americans like violence and have opinions on who it should be directed towards likely holds for at least a simple majority of people around the world. Obviously where people mostly differ is who it should be directed at.

Most people think violence can be justified. There are very few pacifists in the world, but I understand your point. I’m not inherently anti violence, but I have brought up not just his military history but his support of the military as part of his platform from the very beginning. I wish people cared as much about anti imperialism (and the other issues of our military industrial complex) as they do about domestic issues. Americans are quite militaristic though and I think it will take a lot to move us from that position.

Platner still supports the military and wants to increase benefits and amp up recruitment. I don’t think he really cares about what he did or saw over there. I’m not saying people shouldn’t vote for him or that he’s lying about PTSD or anything, but I often see people suggest progressive policies equate to anti militarism but it’s just not the case in this situation at least.

I have no way to determine who did what when, but I think if he really was reformed his policy on the military would be much different.

Only snippets of the article were available to me, but I wonder if it was clear to the participants that they all referenced the same thing. “Cultivated” has an association with crops and traditional farming so it’s possible people associate it with non lab grown meat. Obviously word choice matters, but I’m unclear if it’s a matter of them finding the phrasing more appealing, or just being unintentionally misled by the term.

Meaningless article except for the following:

However, the third image it generated was absolutely insane and seemed to border on the illegal. As such, we have opted not to attach that result to this article. However, it was unnerving to see something like that created out of nowhere.

No elaboration whatsoever so I’m guessing maybe CP because what other images are borderline illegal? How that’s not the main point of the article I have no idea. The article otherwise is just the “say I’m alive” meme already posted in the comments.

In the newest Superman movie he and Lois go to his family home. He has punk band posters that she claims are normie or poser or something. The following scene comes later: https://youtube.com/shorts/2LivEfhnW9k

In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

Great article. Per usual, meta is a horrible company filled with horrible people who make the decisions.

Yea, not a fan of Buittegeig either for the reason you stated and also some of his policy positions. For what it’s worth, though AOC, Bernie, and Zohran aren’t perfect, I think they serve as a pretty good counterpoint.

I truly cannot stress enough that I don’t care about his philandering or personal life, just his policy positions or his personal beliefs that would affect those positions. I don’t really think it’s whataboutism. I don’t think we should be increasing military benefits until we address the actual problem with the military. He admits he watched people murder civilians aboard for fun and he did nothing about it. I don’t think a morally upstanding person can do that and still sign up to support the US military. I don’t think that’s a particularly high bar to clear, and morality is a pretty good predictor of politics in my experience. I’m not saying Mainers need to abstain or that they have a better option, just that I think we can do better. I’d like to see us commit to doing better, but obviously my idea of better differs from others because the left is not of one mind.

I think it’s reductive to suggest the alternative to someone with the number of issues Platner has would be smooth groined. Plenty of Dems with better policy positions (imo) haven’t victim blamed SA survivors, kept supporting our military activities despite admitting to being personally aware of people targeting civilians for fun and leveling cities, or had a Nazi tattoo.

My biggest issue sticking point is his stance on the military, but maybe that is less bothersome to others. I’m not saying people shouldn’t vote for him, but there’s plenty of people in the US that are on the left and don’t have that kind of history.

Died is the past tense of the word die. I think in this case they are indeed wrong.

It’s ok to say “I loved my wife, I still do, but I did previously too.” Since the love occurred in the past tense that makes sense, but since her death has not occurred I do not believe OP is grammatically correct.

I don’t really eat at fast food places with kiosks, but when I have had the occasion I actually prefer it too. Because I don’t eat at these places often I am generally unfamiliar with the menu and the kiosk tends to have it organized with pictures which are helpful if I don’t know what a “crazy burger” is. It also makes me feel less rushed since I don’t have a human on the other end who has to wait for me to decide or to tell me what’s in a crazy burger or whatever. Especially because a lot of places don’t seem to display their full menu anymore. Not sure what’s up with that.

Hi! Just a ping about the article if that’s still on the table.

I appreciate your perspective, but please note I’m not attempting to promote apathy. I’ve said regularly to go out and vote, even for imperfect candidates, and I understand why people would vote for him, but he has removed several parts of his platform after being publicly criticized for them. Below is an archived version of his website that has the following quotes:

I will work tirelessly to rebuild the American military.

If we are serious about addressing the recruitment crisis, we will take some money out of these ungodly contractor and bureaucrat salaries, and pay the rank and file a fair wage.

Full disclosure, I have very little sympathy for our troops and see what they do as very different than working for MS or something. I’m not against them moving on from that life, but I don’t think we should be supporting an increase in recruitment until we can get a handle on rape within the military, war crimes, and better options for civilians. If we keep investing in compensation for troops and vets it will be more and more tempting for the exact wrong kind of people (people who just need a paycheck). I know people in the military and they often went that route because there was no other options for them. We should have much higher recruitment standards. That should in part stop people who sign up and have no concept of right and wrong and do war crimes for fun.

I also do not support the VA. There should not be a two tier system for healthcare. If a vet qualifies for Medicare or Medicaid then they should have access, but we need Medicare for all and a VA stands in the way of that.

To be clear I don’t care too much about the concept of military spending in general. A military is needed after all, but I’d rather money be spent on corruption and waste than on more soldiers. As it stands now, I do not feel safer in a room with soldiers, so I don’t like the idea of making more of them.

To be as fair as possible to him, he does say he wants to get rid of military spending fraud and stop forever wars, but that seems like an extension of his want to devote more spending to the actual military.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250827163707/https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform

Edit: formatting

I pass an anti data center yard sign quite regularly that is featured right next to a pro trump yard sign. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

I wish he would have sat out forever. He’s unrepentant about his involvement with the military and is looking to increase military benefits.

The left has no need of people who are in support of expanding the military, especially considering what it’s been up to recently. Just one “drug” boat targeted by us would be enough to demonstrate that our military has no intention of following the law or denying illegal orders. Unfortunately for us there have been enough “drug” boat attacks to demonstrate that the entire organization is corrupt and not worthy of its current budget.

If we have enough firepower to waste murdering civilians then we should consider investing more money in schools so people can learn the definition of the word. Any politician who can’t see that should not be taken seriously or embraced by the left.