Dude was defending people getting the SS doppelrune tattoo’d has “military tradition” or whatever on reddit. He had the tattoo for 18 years, there is nothing “quick” about it.
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DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was a skull and crossbones and he got it converted into a celtic knot with dogs on it, very quickly. Then eight billion bots tried to tell me he was a homophobe because he said “All officers are gay, and not in the fun dick-sucking way” on Reddit in like 2012. I really didn’t buy that, and it primed me to get pretty dismissive of the noise pretty quickly.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
The only part I believe about this is that it’s tradition in the US Military to get matching Nazi tattoos.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
I sourced it in the comments below the first comment, have a look yourself.
vapeloki@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Source?
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Image see also themainemonitor.org/platner-reddit-comments/ and just search for “bolts”.
vapeloki@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You don’t have the original post, image or link, that discussion was placed under do you? Srsly, I can’t form an informed opinion with only selected facts.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
he only covered it when pressured by national outcry, he spent his adult life with a nazi tattoo and never regretted it.
I fucking hate nazi apologists.
vapeloki@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
German here. Is there any real image of the tattoo anywhere? I could only find some images with a big black blob.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
irish_link@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The issue with this kind of stuff is history. As a 40 you’re old American, whose grandfather served in World War II, I had no idea what that tattoo meant before this whole scandal.
The only symbolism we ever went over in school was the flag and swastika. I believe they thought dumb kids would mimic the iconography to look edgy.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Yeah, I keep saying this but idiots keep telling me I must have been a dumbass not to recognize it. I told them to show me a single screenshot of this symbol appearing in any media that depicts nazis or WWII and they couldn’t provide one, they just kept deflecting and calling me a dumbass.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
I love how the main defense is “bro we all are so ignorant about history that we don’t know one of the most recognizable symbols of the nazis, but trust, we can definitely tell this guy isn’t one”
vapeloki@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ok, after some closer look, it could resemble the SS “Mützenabzeichen”, but it could also just be a generic skull.
BTW, the British atme are no nazis are they? www.army.mod.uk/…/royal-lancers/
I can not say what exactly that tattoo was there is no clear image I found, so I can not jump to conclusions in any direction.
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
He doesn’t even deny it though?? He confirmed it was a totenkopf in interviews with cenk uygur for example. Good god, the amount of proof you all require to confirm that the tattoo of a guy defending people getting SS doppelrune tattoos, goes on murder spree’s in west asia and sexually assaults women matches the SS Totenkopf just to confirm that what? He actually is a piece of shit??
Objection@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
The British symbol looks nothing like a totenkopf, the tattoo looks exactly like a totenkopf, 1-to-1 on every detail, no matter how much people try to pretend otherwise.
vapeloki@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Thanks a lot!
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 day ago
And that’s the other thing, dude has been being AGGRESSIVELY smeared since he announced his run. And it’s very obviously because he’s one of the only candidates in the US that are espousing actual leftist talking points. It’s also why I was immediately skeptical when I heard this.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We all need to start expecting oppo drops against progressive candidates with centrist primary runners-up the week or so before ballots finalize.
If they have progressive runners-up, expect the oppo drop in October the week before early voting opens.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Yeah well of course. But the thing is, we can expect it all we want but we will see if it works. Because if it does then I don’t know what progressives in north america do to actually combat that within the realm of voting and democracy within the system we are in.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I expect an october surprise against Talarico. And it’s not gonna come from republicans.
If democrats can’t find any dirt on Talarico, they’ll fuck with his campaign funding instead.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Yeah, republicans and centrist dems alike are terrified of this guy, and yet tankies are still going “nah, he’s a fascist!”
And then they’ll complain that america never elects leftists and the overton window keeps ratcheting to the right. Like gee, I wonder why…
chunes@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
To be clear, the reason is 100% the republicans and centrist dems, and 0% the tankies.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
It would be a lot harder for right-wingers to sell this insane caricature of leftists to the average voter if there weren’t so many tankies out there behaving exactly like the caricature.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 14 hours ago
Are the tankies that are anti platner in the room with us now?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Yes, actually. Yes they are.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Yes, actually. Yes they are.