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.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipOP
    61·
    14 hours ago

    In the thread in question

    https://web.archive.org/web/20190226141422/https:/www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/auy0bi/battleweary_ss/

    • Person A: The totenkopf on the dude first on the left is a good clue.
    • Person B: has literal human skulls on uniform (…)
    • Person C: Many soldiers still use the skull as an emblem (see the Punisher skull for the SEALs) or regiment emblems all around the world. It’s a way of making others fear them and all. (…)
    • Person D: (…) Punisher is a kind of unofficial emblem and it’s more something some individuals do. I’ve seen it more on civvy and moto stuff than on actual servicemen.

    And, reproduced without edits, Lil Skorzeny himself

    When I was in Ramadi in ‘06 as a Marine grunt, the SEAL platoon we worked closely with for the deployment all had the Punisher skull spray painted on their armor carriers.

    There’s no question it’s far more prevalent on all the dumbass Grunt Style and Nine Line shirts these days, but the teams definitely adopted it for a while.

    Confirming he understands that the punisher skull usage is in the same vein as the totenkopf. And considering his tattoo is much closer to the latter and he outright mocks the former?

    So… try again. Maybe argue that him knowing how stupid it looks is an indicator that he always hated the nazi tattoo he had for 20 years and is thus a hero. Or just scream “fake news” until you go blue in the face.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      26·
      12 hours ago

      Being downstream in a thread that mentioned totenkopf and then veered into Punisher skulls is not the same thing as “of hey, I’ve got one of those on my body”. His reply is about Punisher skulls and in response to someone who was talking about Punisher skulls, who was themselves responding to a comment about Punisher skulls. There wasn’t a picture posted and the comment immediately under it called it a “skull”. He jumped in two replies deep into a conversation on the use of Punisher skulls in the military and if he wondered what the German word was 4 comments up, he already saw that it was “a skull”, which him and others already saw as a pretty widely used icon.

      Surely you’ve never seen someone join into a conversation in a child comment who obviously didn’t think deeply about a comment 4 levels upstream. Not on our Internet.

      You’re lying about facts.