• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    And it’s funny that the name people use (“totenkopf”) is just “deaths head”, i.e., any skull. The specific one he got did match a Panzer division logo, but it’s not a well publicized symbol that would be commonly recognized.

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      2 days ago

      What a load of bullshit, of course he knew what it was.

      I swear, y’all will convince yourselves of literally anything.

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        18 hours ago

        There’s some testimonies online even from his own Reddit account that alluded that he knew the meaning all along. I don’t know guys, but Platner just screams Fetterman 2.0 to me. Would really love to be proven wrong.

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          15 hours ago

          Yeah, it’s not even like one of the more esoteric symbols, it’s the one that is most apparently evil at first glance

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        2 days ago

        I think you’re a liar if you say you’d have recognized the SS totenkopf before this attack broke.

        And I think you’re an idiot if you believe this is a secret Nazi plot that involves intentionally getting and keeping a Nazi tattoo for 20 years and only remembering to cover it up when you run for public office.

        So, which are you?

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          14 hours ago

          Really? That’s your argument? That there’s no way that a person would ever recognize an infamous SS symbol, so they must be lying? Lol wow.

          I don’t know what else to tell you beside, yes I fucking did.

          Pretty much anyone who has ever, in their life, studied WW2 and the Nazis beyond a surface level knows the symbol. I grew up watching WW2 documentaries on History Channel, so I’m sure that didn’t hurt.

          And even if you haven’t, it’s literally the symbol in the “are we the baddies?” sketch.

          Regarding the tattoo, my guess is that he never planned on having the electorate see the tattoo. But why the fuck do I need to analyze this guy’s decision about not covering up his Nazi tattoo?

          For me, “he has a Nazi tattoo” is enough for me to not support him for public office. It’s very simple.

          As I’ve said before, I’m not in Maine, but I would vote for him in the general if I was, and hope he’s not a fucking Nazi. Because in our shit system, it’s still a better choice than any Republican.

          But I guess fuck me for wanting the bar to be a little higher than, “just vote for the murderer with the Nazi tattoo and hope for the best.”

          It’s also pretty disheartening (and unfortunately, not all that surprising) to see the "I refuse to vote for anyone who supports genocide"crowd bend over backwards to avoid being critical of this fucking guy. The reddit edgelord who murdered Iraqis civilians.

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            8 hours ago

            Lol. So liar.

            We all know the reason you’re so hot on this ridiculous line of attack is just because you don’t like his politics. You weren’t driven off by your imagined mastery of Nazi symbology, you weren’t ever going to support him in the first place.

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        2 days ago

        Legit question: how old was he when he got it?

        When I was a marine I did and said a bunch of homophobic stuff. I just did it because it was the thing to do and I didn’t have a fully developed frontal lobe. I wasn’t the only one and there were a bunch of people in the same boat.

        If he did it at like 34 I would probably assume he is lying. But if he did it before 25 I would say he did a stupid thing and can possibly look past it if his action match his rhetoric.

        Remember everyone gooning for fetterman? He turned into a piece of shit without racist tattoos.

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          2 days ago

          He got the tattoo at 23. Deployed oversees during the Iraq war. Almost 20 years ago. Nearly half his life ago.

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        1 day ago

        You sure are spending an awful lot of time and energy in this thread, defending what is quite a weak line of reasoning. Can I ask whose payroll you’re on? It might be time to tell the boss it’s not going too well here.

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          15 hours ago

          It takes me like 3 sec to type out a comment, dude, this isn’t hard work. There’s very little time, and essentially no energy put into this.

          I fucking wish someone would pay me for this shit. I’ve literally said that I would vote for the guy if I were in Maine, so I don’t think they would want anything to do with me.