So I opened this video and it was a different person and it was two hours long. Maybe you could give me a hint about when Graham Platner speaks in it?

He did explain it, apologize, and cover it up with a tattoo of a rat.

He protested the Iraq War before he enlisted in it. When I ask about the apparent contradiction, he shrugs: “I thought I could do some good. And I wanted to play soldier. I might have read too much Hemingway.”

source: https://newrepublic.com/article/199682/graham-platner-maine-senate-profile

Upvoting because Graham Platner is cool.

because us liberals idolize other western countries as enlighted white paradises

Comparing to the Holocaust, yeah. And it is true. One of these atrocities was way bigger.

no this is a managerial decision. close is a simple concept (like ‘bigly money’) that the managerial class can understand. so they put it close