The business's income is substantially derived from his labor. If you have to get pedantic about the technical Marxist definition of "working class", you're completely missing the point.
He also works for the business.
The NAFO people are toxic sociopaths.
The theory that fascism is a suicidal ideology for broken people with hopeless lives continues to be proven again and again.
I think part of the issue is confusion over the distinction between “working class” and “blue collar”. The former arguably has more of a technical economic definition (capital vs labor), whereas the latter is more malleable and sociocultural. But the median voter uses them interchangeably.
Yeah, I agree. I'd prefer someone to win CD2 by pretending to be more conservative than they are, and then doing progressive stuff at every opportunity once elected. But I also feel like we can't be *too* mad about the fact that he is who he said he was.
I you run out of ammo you get an automatic time-out to go back to base and restock. That's just logic, come on.
Yeah, and Platner grew up in Sullivan, which doesn't have its own school. Sullivan got consolidated into RSU 24 in 2009 (which has its own school) but that was well after Platner graduated Bapst.
Or if you need to scratch the "call it illegal" itch, call it a cowardly perpetuation of an illegal war of aggression.
his mom's restaurant among many other customers
He's presumably talking about John Bapst, the private school in Bangor that Platner attended for three years and then graduated from.
the area where the ship was sunk was also a combat zone
Ditto for Inglorious Basterds. The specific design of the small skull on Col. Landa's hat was not a focal point of any scene in that movie! You were supposed to be watching Waltz's performance, not committing the specific skull iconography to memory.
More people need to realize that their experience of the world is not universal.
Many people have not seen a single Mitchell and Webb video! Many people who saw that video multiple times (e.g. me) did not take a mental snapshot of the skull design!
He cited his sleeve tattoos as the reason he couldn't re-enlist in the Marines (which seems entirely plausible) and that he joined the Army National Guard instead. I am also aware that he later worked for Blackwater.
That seems unlikely and beyond the scope of your knowledge. That analogy doesn't make sense.
I never said that, and I won't say that. I am merely trying to push back on the false certainty that you and others are promoting re: the circumstances of him getting the tattoo.
(this article doesn't even support the claim made in the blocked post I was replying to)
I'm shocked that I missed this entirely unsourced article by the very credible journalist Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which "combats the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values..."
which ones?
doing my best to be diplomatic here, give it a try sometime
Good call. More out-of-staters should do this.
I don't know what else to tell you lol. I'd be curious to learn how you came to this understanding.
I can see your reasoning, but I think it's very far from conclusive.
Sullivan became part of a larger regional school unit (RSU 24) in 2009 which has its own high school, but that was after Platner would have graduated high school.
Maine pays tuition at approved private schools (such as Bapst) for students in towns that don't have their own school. Platner grew up in Sullivan, which doesn't have its own high school.
it might have been, I have no idea
that's not what happened. you made that up!
Grim wasn't claiming anything about how Platner paid for Bapst; he was just saying that Bapst is a school where much of the student body is working class or low income people who have their tuition fully paid for. But there is good reason to think his tuition was paid based on where he grew up.
