the thing about Graham Platner is that he voluntarily spent like a decade fighting the US's illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, doing **multiple tours** and then **FUCKING WENT BACK** to work for another six months in Afghanistan as a mercenary. the hard-left position (and the one a lot of us took!!) should always have been "fuck this guy" or at the very least, "you don't get to lead us, bro, you're a killer. sit down."