US Senate candidate Graham Platner reassures transgender Mainer he will fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Despite past controversies, he emphasizes growth and empathy. #GrahamPlatner
Let’s be honest here.
How many people would have recognized that image as a Nazi symbol before thos became news? I wouldn’t have, skull tatoos are common. News articles had to tell is it was and show pictures of and explain what it had been some 80 years ago.
Maybe he knew it was a Nazi symbol, but I kinda doubt it given his political statements and the fact that any smart person running for office in Maine wouldn’t have got it removed long before.
Even if it wasn’t a nazi tatoo; According to his words “He got a tattoo of a skull to memorialize his slaughtering of people in Ramadii and Falujah”. Then hiis comments which dated as late as 2021 where he said about his war that “we would kill them all because our ways of life is superior.”
BadEmpanda summerized it so well. What is your response to his arguments in this video?
Enough sucking the dick of a moraless supramacist psychopathic war criminal just because he learned to lie to get votes and promised you better healthcare.
Fuck off with that reformed nonesense. Just admit you’re a supramacist just like Nick Furete who says he would invade Venzula because it will benefit the US ecomony from their oil. Just like Israeli Zionist Jewish supermacists justifying maiming, blinding, and slaughtering of Palestinians because the Jews in their country gives them free lands and prevliages no one gets in any other where in the world.
Listen to the arguments in that video and see the evidence, then tell me how you are any different different.
Or admit it and say it loud you’re a moraless supramacist like Nick Furete, and at least I’d have more respect for you.
How many people would have recognized that image as a Nazi symbol before thos became news? I wouldn’t have, skull tatoos are common.
That just makes a stronger case against him. It is what it is–a nazi symbol used by the nazis. Not being familiar with it just means you’re an average person who hasn’t learned about all their symbols beyond the infamous swastika. The main people who are most likely to recognize it are either people who are into WWII history or people who are into nazi shit. Among those two groups of people, someone who would actually tattoo it over their heart are in the latter, not the former group, certainly not the average person. He has (finally) admitted he knew what it was.
I know quite a bit about WW2 history, and even I wouldn’t immediately recognise it as the SS skull. It’s not a Swastika, it’s not the SS symbol, it’s not even an iron cross.
The fact that he didn’t remove it when he prepared to run, but only removed in, and did so immediately, after it was pointed out, shows that he didn’t know. And he immediately distanced himself once he did know. I don’t know what more you can expect.
Ultimately, though, the only thing that matters are his actions. The fact that he stands up to fascists, calls out bigotry and stands up for marginalized groups, tells you much more about him than any tattoo ever will.
Bullshit. A group of drunk Marines in a tattoo shop on shore leave is EXACTLY the sort of idiots that would point a a fat-looking pirate skull-crossbones on a sketchy tattoo shop wall and all get tattooed together.
This and eating the red crayons are a core activity for ignorant young devil-dogs.
But that means he’s not a smart person. That, along with the fact he is obviously prone to making poorly-informed decisions would give me serious pause about voting for him. Those are not the qualities of a good leader.
Then don’t vote for him when the primary rolls around if you live in the state. Elections are a mechanism for finding out if his faults are acceptable to local constituency he would represent. People are acting like he’s a set in stone candidate and this is some moral crisis for the party.
The primary is in June of 2026. The “democratic establishment” and every opinion column ragebait columnist should just cool it. Let the voters decide in 8 months if they buy his apology and whatever else he does between now and then.
Can I just say how insane it is that the primary campaign starts this far in advance? There are countries that run an entire election with all its phases, campaigns and preparations in this time.
Let’s be honest here. How many people would have recognized that image as a Nazi symbol before thos became news? I wouldn’t have, skull tatoos are common. News articles had to tell is it was and show pictures of and explain what it had been some 80 years ago. Maybe he knew it was a Nazi symbol, but I kinda doubt it given his political statements and the fact that any smart person running for office in Maine wouldn’t have got it removed long before.
Even if it wasn’t a nazi tatoo; According to his words “He got a tattoo of a skull to memorialize his slaughtering of people in Ramadii and Falujah”. Then hiis comments which dated as late as 2021 where he said about his war that “we would kill them all because our ways of life is superior.”
BadEmpanda summerized it so well. What is your response to his arguments in this video?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JZc5Mbix3VE
Enough sucking the dick of a moraless supramacist psychopathic war criminal just because he learned to lie to get votes and promised you better healthcare.
Fuck off with that reformed nonesense. Just admit you’re a supramacist just like Nick Furete who says he would invade Venzula because it will benefit the US ecomony from their oil. Just like Israeli Zionist Jewish supermacists justifying maiming, blinding, and slaughtering of Palestinians because the Jews in their country gives them free lands and prevliages no one gets in any other where in the world.
Listen to the arguments in that video and see the evidence, then tell me how you are any different different.
Or admit it and say it loud you’re a moraless supramacist like Nick Furete, and at least I’d have more respect for you.
That just makes a stronger case against him. It is what it is–a nazi symbol used by the nazis. Not being familiar with it just means you’re an average person who hasn’t learned about all their symbols beyond the infamous swastika. The main people who are most likely to recognize it are either people who are into WWII history or people who are into nazi shit. Among those two groups of people, someone who would actually tattoo it over their heart are in the latter, not the former group, certainly not the average person. He has (finally) admitted he knew what it was.
I know quite a bit about WW2 history, and even I wouldn’t immediately recognise it as the SS skull. It’s not a Swastika, it’s not the SS symbol, it’s not even an iron cross.
The fact that he didn’t remove it when he prepared to run, but only removed in, and did so immediately, after it was pointed out, shows that he didn’t know. And he immediately distanced himself once he did know. I don’t know what more you can expect.
Ultimately, though, the only thing that matters are his actions. The fact that he stands up to fascists, calls out bigotry and stands up for marginalized groups, tells you much more about him than any tattoo ever will.
Bullshit. A group of drunk Marines in a tattoo shop on shore leave is EXACTLY the sort of idiots that would point a a fat-looking pirate skull-crossbones on a sketchy tattoo shop wall and all get tattooed together.
This and eating the red crayons are a core activity for ignorant young devil-dogs.
But that means he’s not a smart person. That, along with the fact he is obviously prone to making poorly-informed decisions would give me serious pause about voting for him. Those are not the qualities of a good leader.
Smart people don’t know everything. Smart people change their mind when confronted with things they are wrong about or don’t know enough about.
Then don’t vote for him when the primary rolls around if you live in the state. Elections are a mechanism for finding out if his faults are acceptable to local constituency he would represent. People are acting like he’s a set in stone candidate and this is some moral crisis for the party.
The primary is in June of 2026. The “democratic establishment” and every opinion column ragebait columnist should just cool it. Let the voters decide in 8 months if they buy his apology and whatever else he does between now and then.
Can I just say how insane it is that the primary campaign starts this far in advance? There are countries that run an entire election with all its phases, campaigns and preparations in this time.
This is probably why USA politics is so swayed by large donations. Only big money can afford buying TV ads over a year.