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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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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is a complicated story. Reddit somehow released his username and tied it to him? No one has said how they were tied together.

The Washington Post reported Platner downplayed concerns about sexual assault in posts from 2013. CNN reported he labeled all White Americans in rural areas as racist and stupid in one 2020 post and said all cops are “bastards” in a 2021 post. The Bangor Daily News reported Platner asked why Black people “don’t tip” in a 2013 post.

Now he has a nazi tattoo that he didn't know was a nazi tattoo. That may be true? I don't know. He's going up against Susan Collins. I can't imagine the DNC wanting her over anyone.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Reddit somehow released his username and tied it to him?

CNN didn't say where they got his username, but he acknowledged the posts were his

From the article that reported the posts:

Most of the posts were made five years ago under Platner’s then-Reddit handle P-Hustle.

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Platner disavowed his posts, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online. He said his criticisms of rural White Americans and the police, and his political comments, do not reflect who he is and what he stands for today.

Now he has a nazi tattoo that he didn’t know was a nazi tattoo. That may be true?

It is mildly plausible that he could have gotten the tattoo without realizing what it was. It is highly implausible that (as he claimed on a podcast yesterday) nobody ever told him what it was during any of the many times he says he's had his shirt off over the last 18 years.

He’s going up against Susan Collins.

Not yet he isn't. The primary isn't until next June.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The reddit thing is actually the most troubling thing to me, how did CNN get it?

The second most troubling is he could also be a fetterman situation. idk.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Fetterman had a stroke so bad that it changed his political views.

We have no reason to think that Platner is going to stroke out before the primary and general next year.

It could be a Fetterman situation, or it could not. We don't know enough to be sure.

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