Character matters otherwise you can end up in another fetterman situation.
Fetterman's problem is that he had a stroke which turned his brain into a Republican, that's not really a character issue.
Anyone who isn’t blinded by online groupthink can see this guy is a LARPing fraud.
LARPing maybe, but I see no reason to believe Platner is a fraud who will start working against progressive policies if he's elected, like Fetterman did. If anything, the reddit posts show his actual ideological commitments are further left than he's saying publicly.
I can’t imagine a genuine progressive allowing a Nazi tattoo stay on his body for YEARS
This is really not that hard to imagine given the context, and the people pretending it is are either being disingenuous or foolish. It's completely fair to question his judgement and downgrade him for getting a drunken tattoo of a "cool" looking symbol while on shore leave in Croatia, but to act like this is some secret sign that he's a crypto-Nazi is idiotic. This is a judgment issue, not a character issue.
These are the same people who cry genocide everyday but when some fraud gets a holocaust adjacent tattoo and doesn’t get it removed, gets a pass.
Yeah, just goes to show how morally bereft our political class is that there's no other non-genocidal options on offer. Maybe Janet Mills should come out against the genocide.
I don’t see how anyone especially minorities can respect what these cacs have to say going forward
Who are you referring to when you say "these cacs"?
Preservation of racial equality should be more important to any black man than some fraud Bernie bro throwing Bernie coded words at the wall for clout
I think stopping a genocide should be as important to any black man as any other issue. Not to mention the bevy of progressive policies that Platner supports and Mills doesn't. But you'll have to explain to me how Janet Mills is a bulwark for the preservation of racial equality in a way that Graham Platner isn't/wouldn't be.