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[–] 17 points 6 months ago* (10 children)

What was disturbing on his reddit account, specifically?

Regarding his tattoo, I regretfully wouldn't have known either had someone pointed it out. They act like it's a swastika but I guarantee most people if they saw his tattoo wouldn't know what it was. I can see a silly Marine in his twenties doing something dumb like that and just picking it out of a book because it "looked cool," so I just need more than that personally. As soon as it was brought to public attention, he had it covered it up so seems reasonable. In my younger years I thought all the German stuff was cool. I played WWII games, listened to Rammstein, and never really connected the dots until later. I kind of get the same impression from Platner -- also why are you misspelling his name when it's in the headline? I see this done a lot by right-wing operatives. Hope it's just an innocent mistake.

I mean could he be another Fetterman? I guess anything is possible, but what other choice do we have?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Lsten to his interview with Jon Stewart. I had no idea who he was, but after that interview I want many more like him running across the nation. It was cute listening to Jon and him fangirling at each other by the end of the interview.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I did! Pretty good interview, as well as the one he did with John Favreau. I'm cautiously optimistic, but I have flashbacks to Fetterman that I'm still traumatized by lol

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    No one recognizes that tattoo as being a nazi tattoo. There are pictures of him, dancing, shirt off, tattoo exposed, at a relatives Jewish wedding. Classic Nazi behavior /s.

    As far as fetterman goes, that was such a unique situation. There were much more obvious red flags with fetterman plus he had a stroke. People are so aware these days, I dont see it happening again.

    Unless israel hits planter with the stroke ray he is obviously the best choice for maine.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I dunno if you should be bragging about not recognizing what's essentially the third most well known Nazi symbol

    Rammstein is explicitly anti fascist, btw, and most (if not all) WW2 games involved killing Nazis, not playing as them.

    This guy not only got a totenkopf tattoo, he voluntarily served several terms in Iraq. Voluntarily. Who knows how many civilians this guy murdered.

    I honestly hope I'm wrong, but I don't trust anything this guy says.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Reddit thing-I honestly cannot say as I never found it and havent cared to look. What people posted about it I didnt care to memorize. Im only holding out for a chance that hes changed, i dont want to read into his past.

    Name thing- i also havent cared to memorize platner. I think "palantir" is digging into my mind. I dont know the names of people ive worked with for years so....ehh.

    Again, Im also hoping hes not who he was years ago. Its all we got.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Maybe we shouldn't spread rumors then if it's a struggle to memorize a name in the headline or even know what the content was that was allegedly so disturbing...?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I appreciate the links, thanks! This is pretty much what I've heard and nothing I see as a complete deal-breaker. Some of what I see there tends to be somewhat reasonable:

    n his posts, he said all police are bastards, and rural White Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, reported CNN. He also responded to a 2013 post about asking people from other races questions.

    As someone who grew up rural and white, I can see where he's coming from and how he'd come to that conclusion.

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