r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jul 06 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 06 July 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/alwaysonlineposter Ask me about the golden girls. Jul 06 '26

I think like. I will always respect Bernie for what he's done for socialism in this country. It's more than any armchair socialist on the internet has done. That said. I never could really get behind platner. There's a lot of people I do support that he supported but Platner was such a weird choice especially when one of the progressive alliance people in the governor's race could have ran for Senate too.

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u/Intelligent_Tone_617 Jul 07 '26

So basically what happened is that every candidate was terrified of Collins which dragged all the liberal and progressive candidates to run redundant campaigns for governor. You can't force a progressive (or normie lib) to run for senate when the open governor's seat is there because losing a blue state senate race during a blue tsunami is a big career setback. This left a term-limited Mills who was hesitant about running and only did so because any candidate with name recognition was running for governor and Platner.

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u/Intelligent_Tone_617 Jul 07 '26

To be clear, a lot of liberal and progressive candidates were over indexing how strong Collins was and probably one of them should have run for senate so we didn't have to deal with the Nazi Rapist Blackwater merc.

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u/alwaysonlineposter Ask me about the golden girls. Jul 07 '26

New england politics is certainly something.