I know it’s very, very old news - but it remains amazing to me how so many people use the net as a tool to double down, triple down, and quadruple down on whatever they feel must be true. Reality and facts don’t matter. Their unhinge net bubble is their happy place. I assume the majority of r/TheBulwark denizens decided that because Platner is a former Marine so he’s a badass - he’s just the kind of candidate they love and they’ll support to matter what.
When it’s clear he has a Tokenkof tattoo that’s no biggie. They just create a reality in their mind where the tattoo is not really that.
It’s missing the key feature of the SS skull! The cracks! Nobody really knew Totenkopf was a thing! It’s a C tier Nazi emblem! You absolutely wouldn’t look twice at it in 99% of real-world situations!
When it turns out he’s been lying and he knew it was a Totenkopf - that’s still no biggie. They simply ignore that until/unless they can figure out a way to show it’s not really true.
[To be completed later.]
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That redditor should try saying those things in public. People would look at him as though he was insane.
If there were no cracks in the skull on Platner’s tattoo then let’s see a nice clear close-up of it.
Here’s an image of the tattoo that I’ve enhanced. Notice how you can’t see the fine line details of the teeth or where the crossbones are distinguished from the skull itself? But we’re supposed to believe that there’s enough clarity and resolution in the image that we can tell for certain that there’s no crack in the skull? These people are deeply unserious.
Somebody should interview the Croatian tattoo artist - if he actually exists that is. I wonder what he’d say.
Journo: “Is it a Nazi tattoo? A Totenkopf?”
Croatian tattoo artist: “Of course it is! And I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my sloppiness. There are no cranial sutures on the top of the skull because they were too tricky for me. I was new to tattooing then.”
Now I’m wondering if Platner got the tattoo from somebody else somewhere else.
Unless it was his last tattoo then there’s a good chance that whoever tattooed him since he got that one done saw his chest and the totenkopf on it.
There are two types of tattoo artists:
The ones who know all of the fascist and gang symbols that refuse to tattoo them and the ones who are comfortable with tattooing those symbols. If a typical tattooist saw that tattoo they’d likely refuse to tattoo him or they’d offer to cover it up.
This is speculative, sure, but it’s less speculative than the arguments that amongst a handful of blurry, poorly lit pixels you can clearly tell that there are no cracks in Platner’s totenkopf tattoo, that Platner has never seen a Nazi with a totenkopf in his entire life, and that nobody had ever pointed out that he had a Nazi tattoo on him.
The selective suspension of disbelief that is on display is really breaking my brain.
He’s also a self-proclaimed history buff. I think the democratic party and most libs will continue to back him until new information comes forth like a handful of witness confirm that he bragged about slaughtering Iraqi civilians for fun.
Yes, there’s limited historical evidence of them using the reverse:
Prior to the Nazis seizing power there was fairly widespread use of the swastika, including in Germany, and its use was less codified so you can probably find pre-Nazi German swastikas being flown that are of the opposite orientation and it would take a real history buff (obviously not a Graham Platner-tier history buff) to be able to tell if that’s a Weimar Republic era warship flying the reverse swastika or if the image was taken a few short years later under Nazi Germany. (Also anyone who can tell the difference immediately who isn’t some dusty old academic in the history department of a university deserves a side eye.)
So yeah. It’s complicated but it seems like it was used, albeit rarely.
We could literally dig out a signed and thumb-printed written confession accompanied by a video explicitly admitting he’s a nazi and a big fan of Adolf Hitler and they would argue he meant he’s a grammar nazi and just liked Hitler’s art, which is totally different. After all, he’s an American patriot, and therefore can’t possibly have knowingly gotten a nazi tattoo. They’d probably follow it up with an implicit endorsement of the most devastating genocide in world history by waxing poetic about the “great American experiment” or whatever the fuck
Step 1: Lie
Step 2: Double down
Step 3: Gaslight
Mainstream American politics is just a group of nazis fighting each other over who’s more of a loyal fascist to their favorite genocidal empire.
These people are the textbook definition of BlueMAGA. They would happily kill another million brown children if it meant they got some of the spoils.
I know it’s very, very old news - but it remains amazing to me how so many people use the net as a tool to double down, triple down, and quadruple down on whatever they feel must be true. Reality and facts don’t matter. Their unhinge net bubble is their happy place. I assume the majority of r/TheBulwark denizens decided that because Platner is a former Marine so he’s a badass - he’s just the kind of candidate they love and they’ll support to matter what.
When it’s clear he has a Tokenkof tattoo that’s no biggie. They just create a reality in their mind where the tattoo is not really that.
It’s missing the key feature of the SS skull! The cracks! Nobody really knew Totenkopf was a thing! It’s a C tier Nazi emblem! You absolutely wouldn’t look twice at it in 99% of real-world situations!
When it turns out he’s been lying and he knew it was a Totenkopf - that’s still no biggie. They simply ignore that until/unless they can figure out a way to show it’s not really true.
[To be completed later.]-–
That redditor should try saying those things in public. People would look at him as though he was insane.
Nazi:
Not Nazi:
Know the difference! (/s)
If there were no cracks in the skull on Platner’s tattoo then let’s see a nice clear close-up of it.
Here’s an image of the tattoo that I’ve enhanced. Notice how you can’t see the fine line details of the teeth or where the crossbones are distinguished from the skull itself? But we’re supposed to believe that there’s enough clarity and resolution in the image that we can tell for certain that there’s no crack in the skull? These people are deeply unserious.
Somebody should interview the Croatian tattoo artist - if he actually exists that is. I wonder what he’d say.
Journo: “Is it a Nazi tattoo? A Totenkopf?”
Croatian tattoo artist: “Of course it is! And I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my sloppiness. There are no cranial sutures on the top of the skull because they were too tricky for me. I was new to tattooing then.”
Now I’m wondering if Platner got the tattoo from somebody else somewhere else.
Unless it was his last tattoo then there’s a good chance that whoever tattooed him since he got that one done saw his chest and the totenkopf on it.
There are two types of tattoo artists:
The ones who know all of the fascist and gang symbols that refuse to tattoo them and the ones who are comfortable with tattooing those symbols. If a typical tattooist saw that tattoo they’d likely refuse to tattoo him or they’d offer to cover it up.
This is speculative, sure, but it’s less speculative than the arguments that amongst a handful of blurry, poorly lit pixels you can clearly tell that there are no cracks in Platner’s totenkopf tattoo, that Platner has never seen a Nazi with a totenkopf in his entire life, and that nobody had ever pointed out that he had a Nazi tattoo on him.
The selective suspension of disbelief that is on display is really breaking my brain.
He’s also a self-proclaimed history buff. I think the democratic party and most libs will continue to back him until new information comes forth like a handful of witness confirm that he bragged about slaughtering Iraqi civilians for fun.
did they use the reversed swastika as well? Not very informed on nazi symbology beyond the basics.
Yes, there’s limited historical evidence of them using the reverse:
Prior to the Nazis seizing power there was fairly widespread use of the swastika, including in Germany, and its use was less codified so you can probably find pre-Nazi German swastikas being flown that are of the opposite orientation and it would take a real history buff (obviously not a Graham Platner-tier history buff) to be able to tell if that’s a Weimar Republic era warship flying the reverse swastika or if the image was taken a few short years later under Nazi Germany. (Also anyone who can tell the difference immediately who isn’t some dusty old academic in the history department of a university deserves a side eye.)
So yeah. It’s complicated but it seems like it was used, albeit rarely.
Side eye delivered
We could literally dig out a signed and thumb-printed written confession accompanied by a video explicitly admitting he’s a nazi and a big fan of Adolf Hitler and they would argue he meant he’s a grammar nazi and just liked Hitler’s art, which is totally different. After all, he’s an American patriot, and therefore can’t possibly have knowingly gotten a nazi tattoo. They’d probably follow it up with an implicit endorsement of the most devastating genocide in world history by waxing poetic about the “great American experiment” or whatever the fuck
Step 1: Lie
Step 2: Double down
Step 3: Gaslight
Mainstream American politics is just a group of nazis fighting each other over who’s more of a loyal fascist to their favorite genocidal empire.
These people are the textbook definition of BlueMAGA. They would happily kill another million brown children if it meant they got some of the spoils.