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wildcat09

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  1. 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.
  2. The fuck there is. No real antifascist would walk around with a fucking nazi tattoo for 18 years!
  3. 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.
  4. He knew what it was, man. There's no way a self-described "history buff" who was in the fucking marines didn't know what that was. His own fucking campaign manager says he knew what it was. Think about it, what kind of Croatian tattoo shop would be offering a totenkopf as an option? You think that was the only nazi tattoo available on their wall? You don't think it was probably next to a fucking swastika? Do you seriously think he's had that tattoo for 18 fucking years and only now a couple of days ago learned what it was? Do you make a habit out of handing strangers your wallet or of buying oceanfront property in Arizona? He's not who you wanted him to be. Wishing otherwise ain't gonna change that. Maybe he always meant to get it removed but just never got around to it. Maybe he didn't want to get it removed because he thought it looked cool regardless of its status as a nazi symbol. Maybe he didn't want to get it removed because he's secretly a nazi who does want national socialism and he's just been hiding the national part of that. Maybe he's a fucking CIA plant. None of us can know, but even the best explanation is that he's incomprehensibly dumb, which would make him useless. And all of the other explanations are much worse than that.
  5. Fuck all this. He's 41 and he got that tattoo in 2007. We're talking years before gamergate. He's not a fucking zoomer who grew up surrounded by pro-nazi messages from the country's most powerful people. You're inventing a completely fictional story for him that you want to believe because you want him to be the guy you think he is. Use your head here. Shit, given his background, if he sounded more like Conor Lamb than Bernie you'd probably be saying he's an obvious CIA plant.
  6. You realize that Democratic party leadership just spent months coaxing a candidate into the race to run against him, right? He was never their choice. He didn't have to get party approval to run, that's not how it works. And it's absolutely plausible that he once held nazi beliefs, because he got a fucking SS death camp guard logo tattooed on himself.
  7. We need to trade Tari for a legit point guard.
  8. So tired of that fucking SGA push off.
  9. Tari looks so bad trying to score.
  10. Get his ass back to the end of the bench. That's fucking stupid.
  11. We could definitely write a much better test. There weren't even questions about how many times a month you're in a hardware store or, for the ladies, how many erotic novels about being kidnapped by pirates they've read in the last year.
  12. Yeah, if he'd had it removed it would've been incredibly easy to come up with an explanation that would've been acceptable to most liberals. It could've been anything from "I was young and stupid and didn't know what it was but got it removed once I learned what it was" to "I was an outright nazi but reformed and let me tell you why..." "I got it because I was drunk and stupid and I knew what it was and have known for the last ~20 years and I've still got it and won't get it removed because it doesn't mean anything" ain't it.
  13. The Pod Save interview was clearly an attempt to try to get out in front of the Jewish Insider story, which was most likely a Republican hatchet job, not a Democratic hatchet job. That's not the type of place they'd leak this to. The likeliest explanation is that he's a fucking idiot and he's always been a fucking idiot. That's why he was a jarhead in the first place, that's why he and his boys got nazi tattoos they probably thought looked cool as shit, and that's why he's posted a mixture of completely fine and reasonable and very stupid shit all over Reddit (and probably elsewhere online) for the past decade. His politics have probably evolved somewhat but are likely still largely incoherent because he's an idiot, but he figured out how to speak in a register that appeals to liberals and leftists who are looking for someone who seems like they'll actually fight Republicans. I get the appeal and why people are trying to defend him, but this guy ain't it.
  14. You're absolutely being too charitable. His explanation wasn't that he was indoctrinated and then reformed, his explanation was that he didn't know it was a nazi symbol. Which sure seems to be a fucking lie: Jewish Insider isn't the best source, but I think them or their source making that up is less likely than he's known what it is for a long time and doesn't really care, and in fact seems to enjoy showing it off.
  15. Lotta people doing this on Al Gore's internet today:
  16. People can certainly change. But I doubt he's changed enough, given the fucking SS tattoo he still hasn't had removed.
  17. Alright fellas, enjoy the next Fetterman I guess.
  18. A tattoo is not memorabilia.
  19. Naw, I'm not willing to cut him that much slack. He grew up a millennial and obviously interested in the military. WW2 movies were huge then, Band of Brothers was huge, etc. Nearly every popular first person shooter when he was growing up was about shooting nazis. In one of those, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the main bad guys are literally the SS lead by a guy named Deathshead. It's not a swastika but it's also not obscure. It's literally what they're talking about in the are we the baddies clip that became a huge meme! There's no way this fucking redditor hasn't seen that gif a thousand times. And not once did he think "hey, that looks kinda like my tattoo"?
  20. He hasn't had it removed. His excuse is that he just thought it was a cool skull and crossbones symbol and that he never knew it was a nazi symbol until the last few weeks or so.
  21. How many acceptable explanations do you think there are for why a person would get an SS logo tattooed on their body?
  22. Have you heard of the SS?
  23. His excuse is that he got it while drunk and didn't know what it was.
  24. Is the fucking SS Totenkopf skull:
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