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[–] 18 points 5 months ago (37 children)

Because the GOP likes to run Republicans as Democrats, I absolutely judge a book by its cover. He has a history of controversy aside from the Nazi tattoo. If Platner wins, I wanna revisit this comment in a few years to see if another Fetterman was born.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    This. It’s this simple. Fool me once… shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me every election…? Now come on that seems like some people are in on something…

    This isn’t my fight, but Dems in Maine couldn’t do better than a guy with a Nazi tattoo? Says a fucking lot.

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  • [+] 4 points 5 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Platner is literally a trust fund wanna be tough guy

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Fetterman had a stroke and the Establishment dems still decided to run him instead of literally anyone else.

    Fetterman isn't progressive populist's baggage, he is the Establishment's fault. This comparison is a non-sequitur every time it is brought up in relation to Graham.

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  • [+] -7 points 5 months ago (30 children)

    Except it isn't a Nazi tattoo and you literally can't cite anything that actually happened and actually means something.

    You are literally parroting right-wing propaganda, ya fuckin potato.

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    You didn't even know what that even was until a few months ago.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's how you know these "outraged" guys are full of shit.

    Fuckers couldn't have identified the problem tattoo out of a multiple choice exam, but they're BIG MAD with their dumb fucking feelings about it now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    And "well if I had a tattoo, I'd figure out its meaning". It's not an esoteric mystical design. Why would you ever think it had a special meaning? It's a skull and crossbones.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago* (12 children)

    I did not know about this specific SS department. But I was well aware of a general fact that Nazis wore skulls like that on their uniforms since I was a teenager, and I’m surprised to hear anyone had never heard this.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    LOL get the fuck out of here.

    You know damn well you wouldn't have picked that tattoo out of a lineup, and now you're pretending you're some fucking expert on Nazi iconography?

    Good lord. Go be a Republican if you're going to be this way. We don't need you.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I would think 95 people out of 100 could very easily pick a Nazi uniform skull out of a lineup of other skulls, and I am really surprised that you are so surprised.

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    How old are you, out of curiosity? Were you not around when everyone’s living grandfathers were WWII vets? Maybe the younger generations do not know this. But I assure you, it used to be very widespread knowledge.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    I am closer to retirement than I am to college and my grandfather, who is literally my hero, killed Nazis in France and Germany. His father's body carried shrapnel from the first time Germany got unruly. The shrapnel was too close to his spine to remove it.

    When I sit here laughing in disgust at the slander thrown toward Platner, it's not from a place of ignorance about the topic. I'm pissed because I understand what the Nazis were, and it dishonors the sacrifices, lives, and deaths of hundreds of millions of people to pretend Platner is one of them.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Ok, so you’ve been around a while. How many people in your many years have you seen with that particular skull tattooed on them? Is this a common sighting in your experience?

    Edit: I’m in my mid 40s and that number for me is zero. Also I would add that if Platner said “I was young and stupid and I regret it” I would find that a lot more respectable. But I’m not in Maine so my opinion really does not matter here.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    He's not one of them. He's just like them.

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    And none of that proves a 20-something kid had any idea what the fuck that was. Why would you? It's not a Nazi emblem. It doesn't look like anything out of a history book or a fucking Nazi documentary.

    But by all means, continue to be a ridiculous pedant about shit that does not matter.

    If you honestly are concerned about this, you're a fucking ridiculous person and we don't need to listen to you.

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

    Please learn how to comminicate without so much hostility when none was directed at you.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (5 children)

    "Please be less hostile as I slander and libel a politician because years ago, he got a tattoo that even I wouldn't have recognized as a problem"

    I mean Christ, how about you stop slandering good people over shit you just learned was a problem like five minutes ago?

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

    "good people"

    Wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both. Hell of an excellent experience.

    (In response to a high school student asking why people joined the marines; likely a target of the US military's child grooming)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I'd rather have 100 of him over any of you lying, lazy bastards.

    And I don't really give a shit about the opinion of a literal Chinese propagandist. GTFO here with that.

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