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Arthur Besse ( cypherpunks@lemmy.ml )  to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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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

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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

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Arthur Besse ( cypherpunks@lemmy.ml )  to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish ·
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‘I Am Not a Secret Nazi’: Graham Platner Tattoo Controversy Roils Maine Senate Race
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The oyster farmer said he got the ink while on a drunken trip to Croatia during his time in the U.S. Marines.
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  • Alas Poor Erinaceus ( zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml ) 
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    He should do a photo op where he gets the skull removed and has a hammer and sickle tattooed there instead.

    EDIT: Ok, looks like he went with a Celtic doggie-knot thingie instead.

    • Arthur Besse ( cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      don’t hold your breath; he’s already pleaded insincerity about his old reddit comments where he’d called himself a communist.

      it might be more like this

      screenshot of tweet from Patrick @dramaticirony: "not getting your ss totenkopf tattoo removed before your primary campaign because you might still need it for the general"

      • Jayjader ( Jayjader@jlai.lu ) 
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        I really hate how I can’t immediately and unequivocably dismiss this as a joke. Sign of the times, I guess.

    • Jayjader ( Jayjader@jlai.lu ) 
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      Amid the frenzy, another Democratic candidate released his own shirtless photo to show off his arm tattoo of former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign logo.

      Reality continues to be stupider than fiction…

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind ( PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 
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      He should do a photo op where he gets the skull removed

      🪓

  • Kallestar ( Kallestar@lemmy.ml ) 
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    He has other tattoos. You’re telling me that the Totenkopf wasn’t addressed by any of the artists he has worked with since he got it? Or are you telling me the Totenkopf is his most recent tattoo (from 2007)? Or are you telling me he has (un)knowingly/“accidentally” worked exclusively with Nazi/Neo Nazi tattoo artists who wouldn’t lose their shit seeing one of the most recognizable Nazi symbols right on his chest. It’s pretty fucking hard for me to really believe he didn’t know what it was for the last 18 fucking years, and who-knows-how-many tattoo parlors since then who also didn’t tell him, or offer a coverup.

    I’m not even touching the Blackwater in 2018 shit. That’s fucking inexcusable.

  • HubertManne ( HubertManne@piefed.social ) 
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    does he even have a snowballs chance?

    • Thesilverpig ( Thesilverpig@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Yes, that’s why Schumer and his media allies and flinging so much shit against him.

  • ShinkanTrain ( ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) 
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    He regrets getting that tattoo. It makes his second Nazi tattoo redundant

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