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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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Hmm, looks like he was prejudice 10 years ago, and perhaps a white supremacist before that. But, he called rural-whites racist more recently (and they definitely are more racist in aggregate), so looks like his POV changed. IDK, that seems fine to me.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    He has a nazi tattoo on his chest. Not, he got a nazi tattoo when he was young and drunk and didn’t know and as soon as he found out he got that shit covered up. He, to this day, has a Totenkopf tattoo. For the people in the back:

    ANY CANDIDATE WITH A NAZI TATTOO IS A NON-STARTER.

    Edit: Robert Evans sums it up well on Bluesky

    i liked how Platner was campaigning and I am prepared to believe a young marine could make literally any stupid mistake. but I don't believe a guy could spend twenty years maturing politically the way he has and not know what a death's head means

    if his attitude from the jump has been "I did this as a kid and have been ashamed of it since, it was a terrible mistake" I don't think I'd mind. but he's just not being honest here and that's suspicious as hell.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Hey Puritan, I'm an American zoomer AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHAT A TOTENKOPF WAS BEFORE YESTERDAY.

    May I remind you that most Americans didn't even know that Lays potato chips were made out of potatoes, and so Lays is now changing up their marketing to get that fact across?

    I think you highly overestimate how intelligent people in America are. We have the average literacy rate of a 6th grader. Come on.

    If Platner gets it covered or removed in the next 1-2 weeks, no big deal. He's positioning himself as a reformed veteran, and I'm willing to back him.

    We don't have many other Left leaning candidates in non-Blue states!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Jfc, are you serious? I’m a puritan because I take issue with someone having a literal nazi tattoo. The election is a year away, find a better candidate to get behind before then, it’s that simple. Do you also believe that Elon Musk was just reaching for his heart and waving during Trump’s inauguration? Do you think that Pete Hegseth got a Deus Vult tattoo because it looks cool?

    Platner was a mercenary who served four tours in the middle east, has a tier-list of wars he would fight in, is into military history. Zero fucking chance he doesn’t know what that symbol is at this age.

    It is ok that you supported him. He said a lot of things that are worth getting behind. There is now more than enough information out there to realize that he is, at best, a political liability.

    Having a nazi tattoo is a non-starter for a political candidate. If you can’t see that, then I don’t know what to tell you. Just because you are able to look past that, which you absolutely should not, you need to realize that he is unelectable to the general public. There is no amount of rehab to his image that can be done for this.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Platner isn't perfect. Support him or don't.

    And while you're at it, support those other Left leaning, anti Zionist frontrunners for elections next year across the US. I'll wait for those people to come to power while Platner takes names and kicks ass.

    Of course, if another candidate for the Maine Senate race appears and has better optics while championing the same views as Platner, I'm all for it.

    But let's keep closeted leftists from taking office because they aren't left enough.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He has a nazi tattoo!! Wtf are you talking about? That is disqualifying, end of story.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And he's denounced it! Wtf do you want?

    Why don't you have this same smoke for the US Military that should have caught this time and time again?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Where has he denounced it? In his rebuttal on Pod Save America he merely stated that he didn’t know what it was; which is obvious bullshit or he’s too much of an idiot to hold office. What I want is a candidate that doesn’t have a nazi tattoo on their chest, which somehow is not a dealbreaker for you. Be better.

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