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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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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 3 days ago

Military murderer does drunken Nazi culture things while being paid to spread capitalism with violence. Doesn't apologize.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

"It's not my fault I chose to get drunk"

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (8 children)

“We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo. We went to a tattoo parlor in Split, Croatia. We chose a terrifying-looking skull and crossbones off the wall … a pretty standard military thing,”

and you did not, at any point in this "skull and crossbones" endeavor, have your "are we the baddies" moment?

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 12 points 4 days ago

Did you miss the subtle subtext in the first sentence? Or do you not know anyone at all who was or is in the military? I only know two or three but still one of them cut off the top of his own head with a ceiling fan. Thats the level of decision making and impulse control you expect from sober young men in the military.

[–] discosnails@lemmy.wtf 8 points 4 days ago

Worth noting that the Croatians were and are often still super aligned with Nazi shit.

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[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Something smells so bad, can it be his BullShit?!

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have a weird take on this but i think we are gonna start seeing a lot more of this and need to just get comfortable with people with fucked up pasts being on the side of people.

A lot of very hardcore right wing, racist and problematic peole are struggling to live and will start pushing for more socialist ideals because they have to, to survive.

I think what's happening is that oligarch is not a race. Wealth is not a race and those that may have thought you could make easy scapegoats by race and creed will realize and adjust their views. Its just not the fight we are having anymore and while we may not like the reasons people are fighting on our sides we kinda have to accept that they are.
If we can make the world better not just for the oligarchs and the ultrawealthy cultists we are gonna have to shake hands and learn to get along with people we have issue with, and give them space to be on a better position.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

See, I'd be willing to consider this for him if he had the tattoo covered up or removed. A fucked up past can't be forgiven if they still have a fucked up present.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Oh, the banality of evil. Oops, is murder actually wrong?! Why did no one tell me???

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