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It’s wild that the Nazi tattoo platner had for most of his adult life isn’t an issue for people. That seems disqualifying to me but what do I know.
I didn't know what it was before reading about it in reference to Platner.
I wouldn't have got it myself cause I think it looks cheesy and dumb, but I can absolutely believe the story that he walked into a tattoo shop and saw it on the menu and didn't know what it was.
It's not like the tattoo artist would go "By the way, this symbol has nazi associations, are you okay with that?"
Then that's a shitty tattoo artist.
Of course it's a shitty tattoo artist, we already knew that since they were offering the tattoo in the first place. Unless they dont know either...
More than the average person. Including Planter. I believe him. Honestly it hadn't really come up for me either before now. I recognized it from some album artwork of a band I no longer listen to. Before finding out what it referenced. Because they ironically associate with what was behind it.
Platner said he was a fan of history. He was squirrelly when confronted about it before he covered it up. He also was a mercenary for a long time with black water. All pretty fucking sus to me. But I can’t vote for him because I’m not a Mainer. I get to vote against open Nazis like Hawley.
The wonderful thing about history is there's just an unbelievable, unfathomable amount of it. What history was he a fan of? Roman history? The history of pottery? Paleozoic history? General military history? World War II military history? It makes a difference. Just saying that he's a fan of History doesn't make that immediately damning. If he claimed to be a fan and buff on World War II history yes that's definitely going to be troubling.
If acting squirrely is a sin most people are going to hell myself included. It's a normal and human reaction with being suddenly confronted with something we were unaware of. I would have been more worried had he covered it up just before he started running. The fact that he started running only to be confronted with it. And on top of that didn't have some slick rehearsed response to it. Is only promising to me.
Fetterman was always a dumbass bully. Only viable because his opponent was so controversial and famous that he just sucked up all the oxygen in the room when it came to media coverage. Whether it was the time he held an innocent unarmed black jogger at gunpoint or any of the other Myriad of many telltale signs of fetterman's flaws. They were there for everyone to see and he never apologized for them. And was never taken to task for them.
Conversely Platner from everything I've seen. Multiple interviews and comments by people who have actually met and talked to the man. Including many minority strangers who felt slighted by the raft of stupid things plattner has said in his past. The fact that they felt he listens, understood and learned when they talked to him. That many of them feel his response was sincere and adequate. Speaks volumes. It's the basic thing every representative in representative government should do. But completely avoids.
Platner certainly won't be perfect, and likely will struggle enough with just being adequate. But he will unquestionably be better than anyone the Republicans there put forward, as well as the establishment dems. I don't live where Platner is running. Where I do live we have no representation at state or federal levels due to gerrymandering. I would gladly take him over who we've been saddled with. Which may be a backhanded complement. But it's true.
He was a fan of war history. His Reddit account shows this. He even correctly identified the name of the Nazi crossbones logo which is a totenkopf. I say this though that I don’t think this guy is a Fetterman traitor in the future but he certainly knew the history behind the tattoo.
He just screams a much more obvious Fetterman to me...