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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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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

It’s not the first controversy faced by Platner’s campaign. CNN first reported on Friday a series of Reddit posts made by Platner between 2013 and 2021 — and deleted before his campaign — in which he called himself a “communist,” referred to law enforcement officers as “bastards” and downplayed the severity sexual assault reports.

one thing is not like the others