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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol (www.notus.org)
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[โ€“] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

don't hold your breath; he's already pleaded insincerity about his old reddit comments where he'd called himself a communist.

it might be more like thisscreenshot of tweet from Patrick @dramaticirony: "not getting your ss totenkopf tattoo removed before your primary campaign because you might still need it for the general"

[โ€“] Jayjader@jlai.lu 14 points 1 month ago

I really hate how I can't immediately and unequivocably dismiss this as a joke. Sign of the times, I guess.