USA

If it's the kind of thing that could trigger someone then it's common courtesy to mark it NSFW when posting publicly. It's the same as content warnings on media.

Man, seeing the American torturers happy, smiling as they pose with their victims is horrifying. I can understand if they felt it was necessary, but they clearly take joy in torturing people. That's so fucked up. The torturers deserve life in prison

She's at work

I'm not, I'm sharing important historical photos to highlight American Crimes Against Humanity.

Now please go bury your head elsewhere, this is not the place for your bullshit.

I recommend blocking this community.

Let’s start with some honesty. The links in that post, the Wikipedia page on the Nisour Square massacre , the Brookings article , and the ILawJournals piece , have nothing to do with Graham Platner. They are about the crimes committed by Blackwater contractors in 2007. Dragging Platner’s name into that is misleading and irresponsible.

If you actually check reliable sources, here is what they say. Platner served in Iraq as a United States Marine, not as a private contractor. That is an important distinction. Years after leaving the Marines, he worked a short-term security contract in 2018 with Constellis, the company that absorbed what was left of Blackwater. The contract was for the State Department in Kabul, Afghanistan, not Iraq. The New Yorker notes that he served near Abu Ghraib years earlier but was not involved in any of the abuses that happened there. The GQ profile and The American Prospect both report the same thing: Marine service, later contractor work, and no evidence of wrongdoing.

I understand not liking the military industrial complex. I do not either. I have seen how it chews people up and spits them out while companies make millions. But there is a big difference between criticizing that system and accusing an individual of war crimes he did not commit. That kind of careless attack does not expose corruption. It only spreads misinformation and damages a person’s reputation.

If we want to have serious conversations about private military contractors and America’s foreign policy failures, then let us have them. But let us do it honestly. Graham Platner did not shoot civilians in Baghdad, and pretending he did only weakens whatever moral argument you are trying to make.

In October, various news outlets reported on past Reddit posts by Platner between 2013 and 2021 in which he called himself a "communist", declared that "all" cops are "bastards", and agreed with a post describing White people as "racist and stupid". In a 2013 Reddit discussion about anti-rape underwear, Platner commented that people worried about assault should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to". He also referenced political violence in multiple posts; in 2018, he wrote: "Fight until you get tired of fighting with words and then fight with signs, and fists, and guns if need be." Platner also said that "an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice" and urged readers to "Get Armed, Get Organized. The Other Side Sure As Hell Is."

Slightly based ngl (well the rape take is pretty terrible).

In 2020, all four convicted were pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Fucking wat

I'd take him over another crypt keeper any day. Establishment Dems are fascists just like Republicans.

Let’s start with some honesty. The links in that post, the Wikipedia page on the Nisour Square massacre , the Brookings article , and the ILawJournals piece , have nothing to do with Graham Platner. They are about the crimes committed by Blackwater contractors in 2007. Dragging Platner’s name into that is misleading and irresponsible.

If you actually check reliable sources, here is what they say. Platner served in Iraq as a United States Marine, not as a private contractor. That is an important distinction. Years after leaving the Marines, he worked a short-term security contract in 2018 with Constellis, the company that absorbed what was left of Blackwater. The contract was for the State Department in Kabul, Afghanistan, not Iraq. The New Yorker notes that he served near Abu Ghraib years earlier but was not involved in any of the abuses that happened there. The GQ profile and The American Prospect both report the same thing: Marine service, later contractor work, and no evidence of wrongdoing.

I understand not liking the military industrial complex. I do not either. I have seen how it chews people up and spits them out while companies make millions. But there is a big difference between criticizing that system and accusing an individual of war crimes he did not commit. That kind of careless attack does not expose corruption. It only spreads misinformation and damages a person’s reputation.

If we want to have serious conversations about private military contractors and America’s foreign policy failures, then let us have them. But let us do it honestly. Graham Platner did not shoot civilians in Baghdad, and pretending he did only weakens whatever moral argument you are trying to make.

So you'd rather a corporate bought legislature than a real person that has shown growth and change?

You sound like a far right bot

When it's US atrocities

• we should focus on present
• let bygones be bygones
• it was normal during that time period
• it's progressive compared to present day
• it's russian/china propaganda
• they want to divide us
• russia made us do it
• bad people only exist in USA?
• I wasn't involved in that period,why should it matter to me?
• okay it was bad but look at all the good it has done for our country
• because of us, you're in the most peaceful part of history
• thank you for your service
• what you're going to do about it?
• got mine, fuck you

But when talking about its enemies

• bring up the same atrocities from decades and decades ago, over and over again to brigade the arguments.

This is basic US conditioning.