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wildcat09

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  1. Again, he's very obviously lying about not knowing what it was.
  2. Yeah, I keep coming back to the fact that Biden really did believe in the political efficacy of materially investing in left behind areas and Dems did that under Biden. Most of the infrastructure and manufacturing investment was disproportionately targeted to exurban and rural areas. Hell, deaths of despair in rural areas even began decreasing under Biden. But rural folks if anything hated Dems and minorities even more by November 2024 than they did in November 2016. It's real hard to remain sympathetic.
  3. None of us know a single thing about 7 of the 9 options in that race man.
  4. Most likely he's another Sinema.
  5. He’s just respecting his elder predecessors.
  6. I didn't say it's more known, I said it's arguably more offensive. Men wearing that fucking symbol gassed some of my family, I'm pretty sure I've got the right to feel that way.
  7. I get it, you're all fucking fried by the nazis winning again, especially Bozo. But they didn't win because everyone likes nazis now. They won because most people didn't believe they're nazis. There's a reason GOP senators are still folding when guys who are too publicly nazi are proposed for senate-confirmed positions, and it's that most people still hate obvious nazi shit. Running a guy with a fucking nazi death camp tattoo won't increase the chances of winning a coin flip election against Susan Collins. This isn't "we should run the safest candidate," it's simply "this guy ain't fuckin it." He's going to continue to have more embarrassing shit like this come out, because he's at best a huge dumbass with no impulse control. And nominating him would be like if the GOP nominated a pro-abortion candidate: it would destroy the party. It's a big tent right now and we need to make room for a ton of people, but "no nazis allowed" is the party's whole fucking deal right now.
  8. I thought it was pretty weak but didn't really have a huge problem with the party trying to draw a strict line against harassing women. Do you think his replacement has been bad at the job? ETA: and it's not somewhat marginally nazi, it's what their fucking death camp guards wore. It's arguably more offensive than the swastika. Trying to downplay it is some heinous shit man.
  9. The totenkopf tattoo. I feel like I’ve been pretty clear about this.
  10. Why do you think “guy with a totenkopf tattoo” can be part of a viable opposition to Nazis?
  11. Oh good, I guess he just had the one nazi tattoo. That’s fine.
  12. "Let's plant a nazi in the Democratic party, we could probably sneak one through in a weird small state like Maine" would be far from the worst idea they've ever had.
  13. Also, the coverup tattoo isn't itself a nazi symbol but definitely radiates a lot of Hitler particles.
  14. Ok, I changed my mind, I do think he's secretly a nazi: 1919 is both short for SS and the year the precursor to the nazi party was founded.
  15. On average, how many children a week do you molest?
  16. Maybe it's become such a problem they literally didn't have any other options for their intended Senate candidate.
  17. Chainsaw, "Politician says what I want to hear" is supposed to be the minimum they need to do to earn your vote, it's not supposed to mean you immediately agree to throw your basic sense and values into the garbage. I don't believe it's likely, but it's entirely possible that he's literally a fucking CIA plant they wanted to use to help steer voters on the left. His backstory could certainly align with that. Restless son of successful parents, joined the military to see action and got out and joined up with Blackwater to see more action. That's certainly a type of guy intelligence agencies like to recruit. But he said the right words about Gaza and used the term "oligarch" and now you're just gonna overlook all that plus a nazi death camp guard tattoo? A tattoo he clearly lied about and is only now removing while basically saying "fuck you if you got offended but yeah I guess I'll get rid of it"? Again, this is not the redemptive arc you want it to be. He hasn't apologized, he hasn't demonstrated any growth, etc. He just said a few of the right things about a couple of topics you care about and you're willing to disregard a thousand red flags? You think the state that has re-elected fucking Susan Collins a hundred times is going to agree with you on this?
  18. No. I think the most likely explanation is he got it and kept it because he thought it looked cool and thought that it being a nazi symbol wasn't a big deal, because he's not particularly concerned about opposing fascism or white supremacy.
  19. Think harder about this.
  20. An active duty jarhead probably can't solve 2+6 correctly, but they're a lot more likely to recognize nazi military insignia.
  21. Yeah man, he confirmed he had it.
  22. How many fucking people do y'all think have nazi tattoos? What percentage of voters are you worried about alienating here? What percentage of voters do you think will be alienated by pretending that a candidate having a nazi tattoo shouldn't be a big deal? Think about the world in which "has a nazi tattoo" is a completely acceptable thing for a fucking Democratic candidate for public office to have. Think about what that would tell young men. Think about what it would tell Jews. Fuck, think about what it would tell all the young people who've recently been stomped on for advocating for Palestinian lives, which was characterized as unacceptable anti-Semitism. In two months those of you still stanning this guy are all going to be looking back at yourselves wondering how you could've been so dumb. I'm just trying to save y'all the time here. You know I'm right.
  23. He could've done that had he removed or altered the tattoo at literally any time before it became a political scandal. But he didn't and when he realized someone was going to report on it he ran to a friendly podcast to tell some obvious lies about it. It's kinda hard to believe anything he says about it now.
  24. The fuck there is. No real antifascist would walk around with a fucking nazi tattoo for 18 years!
  25. And to be clear, this has nothing to do with whether people can change, or redemption is possible, or we should forgive people for not being perfect, or anything like that shit. He still has the fucking tattoo. He's had it for 18 years. Maybe he just got it because he was a young edgy guy who thought it looked cool and didn't really care about its nazi affiliation. But then him keeping it despite his supposed political maturation is very fucking revealing! It's telling that he cares so little about opposing fascism that he couldn't be bothered to have a nazi tattoo removed. Boys and young men do and say stupid shit. It's a very real problem now that boys growing up today have a lot of authority figures and other culturally influential figures telling them the nazis were cool and good. They certainly deserve an opportunity to learn and to grow and to be allowed to participate in society once they do. This isn't that. Platner grew up watching Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers and playing Medal of Honor and Wolfenstein. Platner grew up in an era where literally every authority figure and influential cultural figure told you one or two things about nazis: (1) they're bumbling dipshit losers, and/or (2) they're strung-out meth addicts who got forced into a white power prison gang. Platner's parents were professionals, they almost certainly weren't anything close to nazis. He's not some kid who was raised wrong, but learned better. He thought he could run for a fucking senate seat with a goddamned nazi tattoo. Either the tattoo was actually important to him or he thought it wouldn't be a big deal. Either option is entirely disqualifying.
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