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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol (www.notus.org)

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[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

I wouldn't, but then again I'm not a drunk Marine.

Like the other user above, I've also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don't recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I'm not saying it isn't a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.

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[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm more inclined to believe that he was drunk, and a foreigner wasn't a fan of American Marines in his country, and branded him with a well known nazi symbol on his chest just to fuck with him.