you don't understand it's common for stupid military people to get one and keep it. Plus um acksually it wasn't really one because it's slightly wrong even though he immediately covered it and didn't show it off to prove that you can't say it was a nazi SS skull

https://lemmy.world/comment/23616129

sunrisepirate @piefed.social

Apparently the accusations of him being Nazi stem from a tattoo he got while on shore leave. Seems like pretty slim evidence. From the article:

Instead, the accusation is entirely based on a skull and crossbones tattoo that Platner got when he was a young Marine on shore leave in Croatia. He and a friend picked the design off the wall of the tattoo parlor. Unfortunately, he chose a Totenkopf, the skull and crossbones configuration used by the Nazi SS. If you do a Google search for “how to tell Totenkopf from other skull and crossbones designs,” you’ll learn that it has a “more articulated lower jaw” and more “defined” teeth than skulls used in other designs. I’m willing to take it on faith that there are people who can tell at a glance which jawline is which, but I am not one of them — and neither, unfortunately, was Platner.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Because the Amerikkkan people are too much of a hitlerite people to care about killing people in the global south

To give the people of Maine a modicum of credit, it’s not like anyone else on the ballot is significantly different on that front policy-wise. Platner just has a more vulgar history with it. Which isn’t to justify him, just that he wasn’t particular in that regard.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 4 points 8 hours ago

it's like, i don't want to justify a guy who had a nazi tattoo and worked as a merc for the great satan, but i'm ok with any triage that involves stopping the genocide of mostly children? surely we don't need to say that the democratic party is so identically the same as the republican party that electing a guy who the democratic party hates for being against funding genocide is the same as electing a lady who has on her record funding genocide.

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago

maybe dont get a nazi tatoo if you dont want to get called nazi?

speaking of which, that's another thing that amerikkkans don't care about. the smears didn't work because maine is an extremely white, extremely rural state. the only nazi symbol the average person can recognize and then bring themselves to feel something about is a swastika. otherwise people would (rightly) be making a much bigger and more constant deal about hegseth's equally fascist crusader tattoos.