Okay, I do appreciate the actual sourcing. Now that we're looking into it, it doesn't say what you said it says.

It says, "On patrol at Abu Ghraib." Abu Ghraib is a place as well as a prison. Was inside the prison, on patrol as a guard? Or outside it, on patrol as an infantryman in the place called Abu Ghraib? There is not enough from that single sentence to tell which of those it is. Why do you say that one sentence proves that he was a prison guard at Abu Ghraib? Why are the people freaking out about what a massive deal it is that he had a tattoo or other random character-assassination bullshit haven'd said anything other than that one sentence, about him being a full-on guard at Abu Ghraib and then never having said a word about it or any of the abuses he saw there?

It could be that second thing. I'm just saying that just that one sentence doesn't mean to me that he was a prison guard there. There's a careful ambiguity about "on patrol at Abu Ghraib" and no followup.

Also he was calling everything bad "gay" and used "fags" as an insult as late as 2021 (oddly seems a bit closeted tbh but w/e)

He wasn't using "fags" as an insult in 2021, he was saying in 2021, “I like how our gay antics make him so uncomfortable he hates us. I’m doubling down on gay chicken next time in honor of this Air Force pussy.”

He also said:

He attributed his change in perspective to friendships with LGBTQ+ people, both gay and transgender, that deepened after he returned to Maine. “When I lived in Washington, D.C., I had a number of very close gay friends,” Platner said, with whom he often “attended showtunes night at JR’s,” a popular gay bar near Dupont Circle. “It was only later, when I moved back to Maine, that I became friends with a number of trans people, and that really opened my eyes.”

“Even though I thought I was open-minded,” he continued, “there were elements to their existence that I had been entirely unaware of. That was when I began to really take far more seriously the damaging nature of language, the damaging nature of even just discussing whether people exist or not.”

He said that realization led him to speak publicly in defense of LGBTQ+ students. “Earlier this year, I testified at a local school board meeting in defense of a policy that was protecting LGBTQ students,” he said. “For me, at this point in my life, you either stand for what you stand for or you don’t.”

Extremely sus. So bad that I would not personally touch him with a thousand foot pool. Ex Nazi or current Nazi murderer is not a good look no matter how you slice it.