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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:
Wtf? All I said was the Platner had repeatedly referred to his tattoo as his Totenkopf years before publicly acknowledging the nazi tattoo. Why would that be removed, do we hate journalism? https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs
Nowhere in that article, or the associated links, does Platner call it “his Totenkopf.”
Reading is hard sometimes, I'm sorry you struggled with it:
My mistake. Not sure why the word search didn’t find it before. I’ll restore the original comment. I’ll forgive the self-righteous indignation because I can understand why having your memory questioned is frustrating.
You didn't question my memory, you questioned my honesty, and I took that personally. I appreciate the apology.
Good thing I’m not campaigning for office, or that mistake would disqualify me.
I question whether you are qualified to be a moderator, seeing how you called me a liar, called me indignant for correcting you, and failed to restore my comment after promising to do so 3 hours ago, probably because restoring it would make you look silly for removing it in the first place.
eyyyy, hit em with that spreading misinfo and being a psyop BAN. Dude was earlier talking about how people with trauma/PTSD are less capable, unstable and can't be trusted.
To clarify, the unstable personality could be entirely separate from the ptsd. Ptsd manifests in a variety of ways, but in none of my comments did I say ptsd is the reason why he is unstable. He has gone through massive personality and belief changes, that's a fact. He has been diagnosed with ptsd, that is also a fact. Both of those should be considered when putting someone in a position of power for 6 years.
The people in Maine don’t seem to care about Platner’s past, and their opinions are the only ones that matter.