• TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        Hunter Biden. Guy fucked up A LOT and owned up to it. People love that. It shows that he’s real. He’s had life experience, and not all of it gleaming. Platner was the same way (as far as we knew at the time). Angels are like unicorns in this day and age, sir, especially when a large percentage of the young male population had some hand in the war on terror. It did last 20 YEARS after all. Are we to disenfranchise ALL of them just because they had commanding officers that put them in places and told them to do things that were unsavory? Are we to condemn out right the follies of misplaced patriotism shown by impressionable boys in perpetuity, even as they evolve into men? This was the question Mainers had to ask themselves. There’s an old saying about appearances and paying dues: People are alot like pencils. It’s easy to look sharp when you haven’t done any work. THAT was the narrative Platner was purporting. Did we get had? Yes, and we’ll have to live with that, but at least we are learning from the error, which is more than we can say about Trump supporters. My point was to not lump us in with them. We are NOT the same.

    • TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      How long did he wait to cover it up? I would have been far more willing to let that slide if he had covered it up years ago. As soon as he knew what it was he should’ve been at the tattoo parlor getting it blacked out. Not waiting until it gets discovered in a run for Senate.