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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/u-senate-candidate-graham-platner-215012230.html
"In a January 2, 2020, on the Reddit thread, "Why Did You Enlist In The Marines?" Platner posted, "I wanted to have an adventure and kill some people."
took less than 30 seconds.
He worked for fucking Constellis, which inherited Blackwater's contracts when they dissolved and reformed. He spent six month in Afghanistan working for the PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANY, in other words, a mercenary. This information is in the wikipedia article YOU linked.
"After his military service, he worked as a State Department security contractor in Afghanistan "
"In 2018, Platner returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, for about six months as a State Department security contractor with Constellis, where he provided diplomatic security to the US Ambassador to Afghanistan."
It's right there, he became a fucking MERC.
You said you watched his campaign closely, yet you only post a Wikipedia page to refute my claims of Platner working for a PMC, and in that same article it straight says that is what he did.
You also claimed he never said the bit of about joining the military to kill people, yet he did. It took me literal seconds to find all this information, and I, in no way, consider myself to be watching his campaign closely.
If you want to get into this he said/she said crap, like the posted article, he has a number of ex's that claim he talked about, and behaved, in disturbing ways, with at least one saying how she was told his unit specifically got the totenkopf tattoo because they drew parallels from what they were doing to military groups like the SS. You can look this one up yourself. I have proven what I say has backing, you haven't.
Why are you trying to cover for this whack job?