I can't believe a former US marine who joined specifically for Iraq would be violent towards women.
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It was a skull and crossbones and he got it converted into a celtic knot with dogs on it, very quickly. Then eight billion bots tried to tell me he was a homophobe because he said "All officers are gay, and not in the fun dick-sucking way" on Reddit in like 2012. I really didn't buy that, and it primed me to get pretty dismissive of the noise pretty quickly.
And that's the other thing, dude has been being AGGRESSIVELY smeared since he announced his run. And it's very obviously because he's one of the only candidates in the US that are espousing actual leftist talking points. It's also why I was immediately skeptical when I heard this.
Yeah, republicans and centrist dems alike are terrified of this guy, and yet tankies are still going "nah, he's a fascist!"
And then they'll complain that america never elects leftists and the overton window keeps ratcheting to the right. Like gee, I wonder why...
To be clear, the reason is 100% the republicans and centrist dems, and 0% the tankies.
It would be a lot harder for right-wingers to sell this insane caricature of leftists to the average voter if there weren't so many tankies out there behaving exactly like the caricature.
Are the tankies that are anti platner in the room with us now?
Yes, actually. Yes they are.
Yes, actually. Yes they are.
We all need to start expecting oppo drops against progressive candidates with centrist primary runners-up the week or so before ballots finalize.
If they have progressive runners-up, expect the oppo drop in October the week before early voting opens.
Yeah well of course. But the thing is, we can expect it all we want but we will see if it works. Because if it does then I don’t know what progressives in north america do to actually combat that within the realm of voting and democracy within the system we are in.
I expect an october surprise against Talarico. And it's not gonna come from republicans.
If democrats can't find any dirt on Talarico, they'll fuck with his campaign funding instead.
The circumventing of democracy through all this dirty bullshit is maddening. Theres no way through the system. If you go outside the system you’re branded as a violent terrorist of some kind. Damned if you do, damned if you dont. Without a mass movement with a large (majority?) support base from the population, which I dont think will happen in north america in my lifetime, we are just fucked.
Too bad half the working class became right-wing populists instead of left-wing populists because 90% of their interactions with leftists were just them being blamed for all the world's woes on account of their whiteness.
Like maybe if you told them "we're all working class, and those billionaires and corporations are the problem," then maybe you'd get results.
But no, and whenever one of them complains about global financial elites, people accuse them of anti-semitism. Like, what the fuck? What's actually anti-semitic is assuming "global financial elites" refers specifically to jewish people, yet here we are...
Its not leftists that did that. Its liberals and online psy ops.
Right, I guess leftists can do no wrong and are never responsible for their failures. When liberals don't get elected, it's "stop blaming the voters and examine your own platforms for once!" But when leftists don't get elected. It's "the voters are so ignorant and malicious and they all deserve to get exactly what they voted for!"
I swear, leftists can be just as bad as anyone else when it comes to self-awareness. And I say that as a leftist.
Face it, the virtue signaling and performativism is strong on our side of the spectrum, and it does more damage to the movement than the right-wing caricatures we only validate whenever we rabidly chase away anyone who doesn't intuitively grasp our social scripts on-the-fly at a fluent conversational pace...
It has way more to do with capitalist interests blocking leftist candidates and literally sewing anti leftist ideas throughout media than it does with the actual voters. The feds have literally admitted to entering online spaces and doing exactly the things you’re talking about while pretending to be leftists. Cointelpro never ended.
And a lot of people eat that shit up. It wouldn't be so effective if we were immune to it.
I know but it just seems so obvious and stupid. Idk what to do when people are this easily manipulated.
Just sit back and watch the world burn. It's all we can do sometimes. I don't have much fight left in me.
Cast your vote and cross your fingers hoping enough people see reason. Maybe we'll get a pleasant surprise? I'm cautiously hopeful about these midterms.
Other than that, all I can really do is argue with people on the fediverse. It's not much, and I don't expect to convince the people I argue with. But if I can show a few bystanders another perspective which makes them think for themselves and come to their own conclusions, then maybe just maybe it'll be enough to combat just a sliver of the concerted disinformation campaign that's already done so much damage
German here. Is there any real image of the tattoo anywhere? I could only find some images with a big black blob.
https://houseandwhips.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/graham-platner-totenkopf-tattoo.jpg
Also it's not like he denied having it, he for sure had a Totenkopf-tattoo that he put a "celtic knot" over.
https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/graham-platner-ss-tattoo-maine-senate/
The issue with this kind of stuff is history. As a 40 you’re old American, whose grandfather served in World War II, I had no idea what that tattoo meant before this whole scandal.
The only symbolism we ever went over in school was the flag and swastika. I believe they thought dumb kids would mimic the iconography to look edgy.
Yeah, I keep saying this but idiots keep telling me I must have been a dumbass not to recognize it. I told them to show me a single screenshot of this symbol appearing in any media that depicts nazis or WWII and they couldn't provide one, they just kept deflecting and calling me a dumbass.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf_(Symbol)#/media/Datei:German_SS_uniform._Peaked_visor_cap_with_skull_emblem_(Totenkopf)._Norwegian_Armed_Forces_Museum_(Forsvarsmuseet)_Oslo,_Norway_2019-03-31_DSC01646_(cropped).jpg
Oh great, you've proven that there's a wikipedia article for it. This is proof that anyone who hasn't already stumbled upon it by chance is clearly a willfully ignorant nazi! /s
The only reason you're even linking it now is because we're already discussing it. My whole point is that hardly anybody knew what this symbol was prior to the discussion around Platner.
Now find a movie, TV show, book, comic, or video game that depicts that symbol on a nazi. Because that's what I meant from the start and you know it.
Read my other comments. I link this because this is the only real source, and for reference. A German! Wikipedia article.
No, nobody was an idiot for not seeing this, most Germans would not know that this was a Nazi symbol. And wearing those symbols is illegal here.
I see. Thanks for clarifying
I fully admit I am not the smartest or best student of history. However I recall no lessons un symbolism in any history class other than ancient Egypt and Neolithic era or late Stone Age.
Make not mistake I am not supporting any hatred other than towards Nazis. However when I first saw the image I honestly thought it was from Warhammer or something.
Yeah, I thought it looked tacky and stupid. I wouldn't have gotten it myself. But I also didn't know it was a nazi symbol until I read about it in the context of platner. Never would have guessed.
I love how the main defense is "bro we all are so ignorant about history that we don't know one of the most recognizable symbols of the nazis, but trust, we can definitely tell this guy isn't one"
Thanks a lot!
Ok, after some closer look, it could resemble the SS "Mützenabzeichen", but it could also just be a generic skull.
BTW, the British atme are no nazis are they? https://www.army.mod.uk/learn-and-explore/about-the-army/corps-regiments-and-units/royal-armoured-corps/royal-lancers/
I can not say what exactly that tattoo was there is no clear image I found, so I can not jump to conclusions in any direction.
He doesn't even deny it though?? He confirmed it was a totenkopf in interviews with cenk uygur for example. Good god, the amount of proof you all require to confirm that the tattoo of a guy defending people getting SS doppelrune tattoos, goes on murder spree's in west asia and sexually assaults women matches the SS Totenkopf just to confirm that what? He actually is a piece of shit??
I do not need nothing.
Why should I care? I want to understand, that's all. Maybe just read my other comments..
And, maybe you should read the fucking comments of him defending the SS dudes. He is not a nazi. He is just as stupid as one.
On the rape, no idea. Of course, believe women and investigate, but still, assumption of innocence holds.
But after all, America vote a class of Nazis and Neop Babies into power. A convicted rapist, fraud and openly corrupt man.
But hey, this dude is your biggest problem ATM?
Yeah. Nobody can help America anymore. You are lost
read this again but slowly...
This not a courtroom?? The guy is running for office?? He should meet higher criteria, like e.g. not "defending the SS dudes"?? Or carelessly lobbing grenades into dense population areas?? Or raping women?? What the fuck??
Dude was defending people getting the SS doppelrune tattoo'd as "military tradition" or whatever on reddit. He had the tattoo for 18 years, there is nothing "quick" about it.
Source?
see also https://themainemonitor.org/platner-reddit-comments/ and just search for "bolts".
You don't have the original post, image or link, that discussion was placed under do you? Srsly, I can't form an informed opinion with only selected facts.
here is one such comment chain: https://www.reddit.com/r/liberalgunowners/comments/gysbbx/comment/ftdomxz/
you can also use pullpush to resurrect his comments:
https://search.pullpush.io/?author=p-hustle&type=comment&sort_type=created_utc&sort=desc&link_id=gysbbx
sorry but you're gonna have to do the rest of the work yourself.
he only covered it when pressured by national outcry, he spent his adult life with a nazi tattoo and never regretted it.
I fucking hate nazi apologists.