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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The anti-Platner posts show how privileged and out-of-touch you all are. You sound like Trump sounding out the word groceries. Do you know anything about Maine besides Kennybunkport and Acadia?

You all say "his dad was a lawyer!" like it means he was a partner in NYC Big Law. Sullivan, Maine has a population of 1200! Ellsworth, ME where he worked has a population of 8,000. You may drive by and through these places on your way to Bar Harbor but this is where the people who serve you live and work.

So the dad bought him a house? SO WHAT?! When I lived in that area, I bought the nicest house I'll ever live in just a few years before Platner got his for just over 100K. IK just looked it up and the median home price in Sullivan, Maine, in 2017 was between $116,000 and $140,000.

Platner lived his whole life in small-town, working class  Maine. He served multiple tours in the Middle East. He works with his hands. Your assumption that he is a "rich kid defying daddy" says a lot more about you than it does about him.[/quote]

Not only was his father a lawyer, his grandfather is a famous architect and his mother owns a restaurant that sells $41 seafood pasta with truffles. Having a lawyer for a Dad and restauranteur Mom who sells her well off diners truffle pasta just screams working class.

This is the menu at his downtrodden mother’s restaurant. Please stop with this madness.

https://www.ironboundmaine.com/ironbound-menu
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Thank you.  So sick of this fiction about him being "working class."  I don't care either way what his background is, but he needs to stop pretending he's something he's not.  [/quote]

Platner is a freaking oysterman!! He works with his hands. That's the definition of working class.

Go away with your lies, troll. Our working class man is going to win. Ha! 
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If you listen to the NYT interview, he defines working class as someone who has to get up and go to WORK for a living, as opposed to amassing wealth on assets. Whether a W2 employee or a small business owner, if your wellbeing depends on you getting up and WORKING everyday, if your world turns over if you get laid off or lose a bunch of clients…you are working class. Not if your money makes money while you sleep. [/quote]

+2 just started the podcast. Also his dad was his bank for the mortgage. He pays him back with interest.[/quote]

His Daddy giving him a $200,000 loan does not = growing up working class. You know that, right? I feel like I’m in an alternate universe.[/quote]
How do you define the working class? I have to work to pay my bills, mortgage, kids' college, and food. Others do not have to work or worry about what happens if they lose their job at 54 years of age. I need to know how posters are defining working class, because if you are working to live and sustain a lifestyle, you are working class in multiple tax brackets. [/quote]

So Platner gets exposed as the son of a lawyer and restaurateur and the scion of the family whose paternal grandfather was a famous architect who designed a restaurant on top of the World Trade Center and a line of $15,000 office chairs and had a self described chateau for a home and now we have to revise working class to include anyone who has a job and by this all so convenient expanded definition it can include two lawyer parents working to pay off a $3 million house in Bethesda?

No, I’m not playing that game. Your guy is a fraud and a charlatan and no different than Rachel Dolezal. No need to redefine definitions because some politician in Maine is full of it.[/quote]
I am an attorney with an MC income. If my son decides that after a year of college, because it's not worth the time and cost, and pivots to trade school for plumbing and HVAC, is he forever defined as MC because of his parents' lifestyle and profession? He works with his hands in dirty jobs that you would never do, but yet, because of his parents' lifestyle and income, you say he is not working class. GMAFB. And yes, DH and I will put money towards his children's education, but that still does not mean DS is not working class because his parents decided to help him financially. [/quote]

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