A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.

Feel this is a good accompanying piece for all the folk insisting on caping for a Blackwater merc wth a nazi tattoo because he said something they liked.

  • Lutra@lemmy.world
    88·
    12 hours ago

    That this story needs deep investigation is illogical. The man has had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years, and said he never knew. There are 2 reasonable possibilities:

    Either he is extremely dull – a disqualification from office

    or

    He is a liar — also a disqualification from office.

    To dive into the story, is an effort to support what? a person who’s behavior has disqualified him. Or else, he is undisqualifiable, and that’s a interesting point.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      43·
      11 hours ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

      A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference but in a false premise. This premise has the form of a disjunctive claim: it asserts that one among a number of alternatives must be true. This disjunction is problematic because it oversimplifies the choice by excluding viable alternatives, presenting the viewer with only two absolute choices when, in fact, there could be many.