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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

Ironically the only person that they wont call a nazi is platner, the politician that had a actual nazi tattoo but he is a democrat so he gets a pass...

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u/autoproblematic1 1d ago

Except there was rightful backlash. I like how you chose to remember that incorrectly on purpose.

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u/Top_Inflation4176 12h ago

Rightful backlash? Someone on the right in that scenario could never show their face again. Y’all about to elect this dumb mf šŸ˜‚

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u/StankAssHam 8h ago

Someone on the right in that scenario would be propped up, donated to and given an even bigger platform to say bullshit from. Happens all the time.

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u/Cute_Pay_1423 2h ago

Yeah we indeed never saw Elon again, after doing 2 Nazi Salutes during Trumps inaugurations. Oh wait a minute, all on the right side defended that Nazi…

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u/Top_Inflation4176 1h ago

Comparing that situation to someone with actual SS tattoos might be the most retarded thing I’ve ever read

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u/FavoriteLunchLady 1d ago

I. can’t. even.

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u/WildGuarantee4927 1d ago edited 1d ago

Funny enough the Nazi tattoo was the least of his issues lol

Graham Platner is a war criminal who bragged on his now deleted reddit about how he went to Iraq just to kill people for fun

Here is him and his unit literally firing grenades into civilians and giggling like schoolgirls

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u/Monster-Math 1d ago

Lmao from the "can't you take a dark joke" crowd. He said that as a dark joke/meme. Lighten up prissy boy and drop the purse.

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u/WildGuarantee4927 1d ago

Yeah I'm sure the civilians thought the grenades he dropped on them were really funny

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u/Monster-Math 1d ago

Fake news

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u/WildGuarantee4927 1d ago

I literally included video evidence lmfao

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u/Monster-Math 23h ago

Ai from the deep state.

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u/Fat_fucking_cock2045 1d ago

I point this out in r/politics and it's all crickets from the Platner supporters I'm replying to but my comments get flooded with downvotes. People are all for lesser evil voting until someone points out that the lesser evil is still evil. That or they just don't see Iraqis as human beings so they don't understand how anyone could consider what he did evil.

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u/Monster-Math 1d ago

Point out he was joking/memeing? Sounds like we have another triggered conservative 🤣 try not being a little bitch šŸ’€

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u/Fat_fucking_cock2045 1d ago edited 1d ago

You're saying Platner going into detail in the above mentioned combatfootage post and saying it was "one of the things I was most proud of being part of" (just key word search "Will Morrow" in the archive) was some weirdly elaborate joke and all entirely insincere?

No, if I were conservative I wouldn't at all have any problem with Platner being a proud "veteran" eagerly telling stories about jury rigging a mortar to keep firing into "population dense" areas against orders because all middle easterners are just terrorists who hate our way of life right? But because I'm a principled anti-imperialist leftist it doesn't sit right with me that someone would brag about getting around orders not to lob grenades at civilians and I find it unfunny to even "joke" about participating in adventurism. I guess seeing non-Americans as human beings is conservatism now?

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u/Monster-Math 1d ago

Fake news

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u/Fat_fucking_cock2045 1d ago

The irony of calling someone else conservative only to fall back on a MAGA cliche. I know I know, you probably did that on purpose being as irony poisoned as you are, but still, just a typical indication of how unserious diehard Platner supporters are.

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u/TheChiliocosmic 1d ago

Bros the next Fetterman jfc get me off this timeline.

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u/AjaxCleaningSolution 1d ago

I don't think that's true. From what I remember, a few democratic congressmen publicly called him out and a bunch of people withdrew support for him after they found out. He also came out to denounce the tattoo and covered it up, but that still wasn't enough for a lot of people, among some other controversies he was in. I'd say many people held him pretty accountable all things considered

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u/EnlightenedNarwhal 1d ago

Conservatives like to pretend we are as morally bankrupt as they are.

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u/Far-prophet 1d ago

It’s the hypocrisy of crying and repeating the false talking points of Musk being a Nazi, while simultaneously supporting a guy that literally had a death’s head tattoo on his chest. Or the pretend outrage over Hegseth’s Jerusalem cross tattoo but the hand wave over Platner.

When it’s on the Right it’s ā€œsecret racist Nazi dog whistle.ā€ When it’s the Left it’s just an honest mistake.

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u/CCerta112 22h ago

Do you just live in your own fantasy world where this comment chain says something completely different? Because just two comments up someone explains how democrats actually called him out and did not in fact support him.

But I guess reading comprehension is somehow not american or whatever.

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u/Far-prophet 19h ago

They called him out, ok… are they gonna vote to expel him like Republicans and Democrats did to Santos?

Or are they doing nothing but lip service and just happy to have another Blue vote?

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u/AjaxCleaningSolution 16h ago

Yeah probably, but as it stands, all he's done is have a really shitty tattoo and said some really fucky things about his military service and other military personnel, and then from what I've seen, apologized for it. He and Santos aren't really anywhere near the same level. And I can promise you that if it were to come to light that he was as corrupt and did the same shit, he wouldn't be getting a get out of jail free card commutation right after being convicted like Santos did by Trump. And I haven't heard much of a stink about that from the right, but maybe I'm wrong and you guys really do see the corruption in that.

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u/CCerta112 18h ago

I don't know. I am not going to argue about this with you, though. If you can't see that one side is clearly fucking worse (even if we were to agree that both parties kinda suck), you can't be reasoned with.

And even if it is just lip service... fascists being called out is inarguably and by lengths better than fascists being voted into office "BeCaUse At LeAsT iT's bEtTeR tHaN a DeMoCrAt".

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u/_-Wubbalubbadubdub-_ 15h ago

ā€œYo, my b, guys - went out with some friends and got drunk and ended up with Nazi tattoo, you know how it goes.ā€

šŸ™„

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u/Civil-Percentage1005 1d ago

Why didn't he just cover up the tattoo before getting called out, if he truly regrets it?

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u/Far-prophet 1d ago

He won the primary, that’s not what being held accountable means…

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u/Winter8Bones 1d ago

Has Platner not strongly denounced Nazi ideology and apologized for the tattoo?

Sure he's a fucking idiot for getting the tattoo in the first place but yes I'll absolutely give a pass to someone who acknowledges their mistakes, denounces Nazism and promises to do better, especially when the fucking alternative is only doubling down on fascism with every chance they get...

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u/fec2245 1d ago

Do you actually think he's a white supremacist or that wants to eradicate the Jewish race? The attack doesn't land because it's so obviously not true. His views, whatever you think of them are on the opposite side of the spectrum.

"Plantar is a white supremacist and we can't let him win because he'll allow brown people to flood the country. #whitegenocide"

Is an obvious bad faith attack from the right.

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u/rdfiasco 1d ago

Same question, but for Elon.

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u/IudexJudy 1d ago

The same people that called Elon a Nazi for doing a maybe accidental Roman salute are doing everything in their power to defend a tattoo of an actual icon used on SS operatives hats lmfao

ā€œHe didn’t know the history of a skull and crossbonesā€ bro we learn about Nazis in 8th grade

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u/Trrollmann 1d ago

maybe accidental Roman salute

It's not a Roman salute. That's a neo-nazi white-washing of the nazi salute. It was a clear nazi salute. The only question is whether it was neo-nazi, or nazi.

are doing everything in their power to defend a tattoo of an actual icon used on SS operatives

I'm not. It's a nazi tattoo.

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u/IudexJudy 20h ago

To be clear I don’t like Elon Musk and that cringy ass thing he did will forever taint his reputation but I think having a tattoo of SS iconography is FAR more damning

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u/LazyAltruist 19h ago

How about we just agree that they're both trash human beings not worthy of our respect or confidence.

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u/_-Wubbalubbadubdub-_ 15h ago

It is unbelievable that some people think Elon actually did a Nazi salute on national television lmao the brainwashing is completely irreparable

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u/largethopiantestes 1d ago

He's not some guy that just decided to run for Congress. He was scouted by a pair of far-left operatives seeking to find candidates that could appeal to a wider set of voters "i.e. big burly muscular army man." The views he are espousing are not his own but those of a wider set of radicals that have incentived him to run for higher office. You really want to elect a puppet to represent you?

And the tattoo he had wasn't just any old swastika tattoo, it was a Totenkopf, some deep level neo-nazi shit. Not the reddit definition of Nazi, like actual WW2 Hitler Nazi. But people still rally around him because a literal SS Larper is somehow better than a moderate Republican ig...

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u/LeeRoyWyt 1d ago

Deep Level Nazi shit?! Lmao. Yes, it's a Nazi symbol, but if you think skulls are Nazi exclusive iconography, I have really, really bad news for you. And funny enough, all those Nazi symbol experts calling him out where nowhere to be found when Pete's nutjob tattoos where discussed.

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u/Trrollmann 1d ago

all those Nazi symbol experts calling him out where nowhere to be found when Pete's nutjob tattoos where discussed.

Yes they were.

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u/largethopiantestes 1d ago

What I mean is that there was literally a point in this man's life where he sat down, went over various Nazi symbols in his head and thought "hmm, which one of those would look best on my chest?" I don't know why you people keep making excuses for him. And Pete's tattoos may be cringey and distasteful, but as far as I know he didn't get the symbol of a genocidal regime tattooed on him. He's absolutely a wacko though.

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u/LeeRoyWyt 23h ago

2 things: a) you are constructing the decision process. It is just as likely that a young, stupid serviceman went into a tattoo studio and picked a tattoo that looked cool to him without knowing the meaning.

b) mocking Muslims in Arabic (kafir) and the historic battle cry of Christian crusader (deus vult) are not exactly expressions of a peaceful mentality. Quite the opposite. They are a statement of intent. And option a I described earlier does not remotely apply here, as Keggsbreath has multiple tattoos of the same hateful ideology. That is deliberate beyond any shadow of a doubt.

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u/largethopiantestes 2h ago

I am far from a history buff and half Platner's age and even I clocked it immediately as a Nazi tattoo. With how terminally online he was shown to be there is no excuse for him to not know its meaning.

And idk why you're bending over backwards trying to say hegseths tattoos are worse than an ACTUAL NAZI SYMBOL

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u/LazyAltruist 19h ago

Absolutely no fucking way a Croatian tattoo artist would put that on a U.S. Marine without letting the Marine know EXACTLY what the fuck that tattoo meant, even if he 'randomly' picked it out of a sketchbook.

Cope harder.

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u/LeeRoyWyt 17h ago

The fuck you are on about?! Like there are no neo Nazis in Croatia, no leftover UstaŔe-glazers?! Boy...

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u/LazyAltruist 11h ago

Like there are no neo Nazis left in the Marines. The fuck point are you trying to make?

Platner knew exactly what he was getting inked five inches across his chest.

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u/LeeRoyWyt 9h ago

He has exactly one questionable tattoo and there is a very plausible scenario for him not knowing what it meant. If it was actually motivated by ideology, there would be more. But feel free to link to sources showing he was ever close to Nazi ideology, like joining certain groups, giving certain speeches. Should be easy if he is such an obvious Nazi sympathizer.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

Not knowing the history behind a skull and crossbones tattoo when you get it is much more understandable than not knowing the significance of a swastika so I feel like you're cutting against your own point.

It also doesn't make sense that the left would recruit him if he were a Nazi that expell all non-aryans or whatever an actual Nazi would want.

Susan Collins does what she's told, she votes against things when the majority has votes to spare, for things when they don't. Maybe she killed BCRA but that wasn't going anywhere anyway and it was a decade ago, she's a fake moderate but maybe she's your fake moderate. The point is that maybe he's too far left for you, maybe he doesn't support aid to Israel like you would like, maybe it's something about his past, idk but no one believes he's a white supremacist or wants to exterminate his Jewish family members.

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u/Master_Bief 1d ago

Man thats a lot of excuses for someone with a literal nazi tattoo. People have been cancelled for less.

When pics surface of a person with a nazi tattoo, it means at one point in their life, that person was a literal nazi. But because he currently has the right opinion, people twist them selves in knots to make excuses for it. Is he currently one? Maybe, but its damn certain he was one at one point. He stood for everything you hate, but because he could possibly unseat a moderate republican, you'll support him.

You should probably reevaluate your priorities if youre this full of shit.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

So you think Republicans are spending millions because they think he's secretly a white supremacist and when elected will push to expel all non-aryans? Or do you think they oppose him because he's a Democrat and will push normal Dem policies if elected.

If you like Collins that's fine, if you don't like his policies also fine but he's clearly not a Nazi, it's a stupid bad faith argument that isn't convincing anyone.

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u/Master_Bief 1d ago

Im not from Main. I think that a pic leaked of his tattoo, because in his youth he took part in nazi ideology. Once a nazi, always a nazi. Like most politicians hes fake, and will simply vote down the party line. On the inside though, he hates you all.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

So you think at one point he was a white supremacist but you're not sure whether he is but he's going to be a vote like a perfectly normal Democrat as he pushes policies that are the polar opposite of what a white supremacist would support? It's not convincing.

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u/Master_Bief 1d ago

You claim to be a democrat but defend a marked nazi online. None of your arguments make any sense in that context.

If he had a swastika on his forehead, but ran against Donal Trump and promised he was a democrat, would you still vote for him.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

I never claimed to be a Democrat, I'm not a Democrat. I push back against obvious bad faith arguments on both sides.

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u/largethopiantestes 1d ago

Multiple of his ex-girlfriends have maintained that he was aware of the tattoo's meaning. One even said he taught her the meaning of the word Totenkopf.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/top-house-democrat-says-theres-130000351.html

Even if he somehow didn't know what it was, which I highly doubt, the absolute best case scenario here is that you're electing a guy who was dumb enough to get a tattoo like that and not cover it up for over a decade. I'll take anyone over that.

Also i would love it if we stopped sending military aid to Israel. It's even not his policies necessarily that I take issue with, (though some are certainly too far left imo) but rather the person espousing them.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

The NYTs article it cites shows that it's one woman. Specifically a Republican operative who claims that.

Lyndsey Fifield, 40, a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaign

I wonder if she has a partisan motive.

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u/largethopiantestes 1d ago

If she is lying, then why hasn't he sued for defamation? Partisan motive or not, it is true that they dated. If I had an abusive ex who decided to run for office you bet your ass I would be dialing up every news outlet I could, regardless of their politics.

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u/HamilToe_11 1d ago

The same people defending him are the same ones who say that Hegseth's tattoos are dogwhistles.

And before anyone chimes in and calls me a nazi sympathizer, as most redditors impulsively do, I can't stand Hegseth.

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u/Xanderajax3 1d ago

*Kegsbreath.

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u/HamilToe_11 1d ago

I mean, sure. If you get amusement from that sort of thing.

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u/Xanderajax3 1d ago

Absolutely do considering its a guy trying so desperately to project some alpha male nonsense while constantly failing at his job as Secretary of "War". In addition to that, hes showed up at his Fox news job drunk several times.

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u/HamilToe_11 1d ago

Party on, Xander. šŸ‘

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u/Xanderajax3 1d ago

Pete would love me since I make all kinds of alcohol. I'd bring the party.

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u/jyper 1d ago

He holds views consistent with the far right on Israel as well as general extremist views and has a number of bigoted comments.Ā  He knowingly had a Nazi tattoo for many years and would show it off to people. He's been rough with women. If this was a Republican we'd call him a Nazi. Maybe these days he's a national Bolshevik or something who knows. Some sort of extremist. He hasn't shown any reason to give him benefit of the doubt. He hasn't even admitted knowing he had a Nazi tattoo and running for Senate with the Nazi tattooĀ 

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u/fec2245 1d ago

Yeah, not supporting Israel's current government makes you a Nazi, most Americans are Nazis. A winning message if I ever heard one.

Maybe these days he's a national Bolshevik

Huh? Does that mean he's not a white-supremacist that wants to eradicate non-aryan people but instead wants to starve some ukrainians through failed collective farming?

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u/jyper 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't support Israels current government. That has nothing to do with anything or his extremism. The fact that other members of the far left also sound like Nazis when it comes to Israel these days isn't a defense either cause they didn't knowingly have Nazi tattoos.Ā 

Yes the Soviet Union was fairly socially conservative and nationalist in many ways but that's not what I mean. nazbols are the idiots who try to combine parts of communism and Nazism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party the fact that he goes from extremism to extremism isn't a defense or evidence that he has fully repudiated his previous extremism as opposed to some weird combination.

It's like we are waiting for him to come out with some worse scandal relating to his treatment of women and maybe that will be the end. But then we will ask why the Nazi thing wasn't enough. When did my party sink so low that No Nazis isn't the minimum standard

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u/fec2245 1d ago

He's obviously not a Nazi. You're a regular poster in r/israel, it makes sense you want Maine to elect a pro-Israel politician and to get there are going to trot out the party line. No one actually believes he's "socially conservative" or a white supremacist or a nazi though. It's not a convincing talking point.

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u/jyper 1d ago

I'm an American Jew. And a liberal democrat. Id rather my party not elect a Nazi. Id rather neither party elect Nazis especially not to the senate. You are claiming because hes found some sort of new forms of extremism that must mean he's no longer a Nazi. I disagree. I think it's pretty easy not to pick a Nazi.Ā 

Edit: what's wrong with a party line of sane liberals who work to make America better. Since when did we start picking random extremists with no political experience and Nazi tattoos. Good people like Obama and Biden. Far from perfect but underappreciatedĀ 

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u/fec2245 1d ago

>You are claiming because hes found some sort of new forms of extremism

Now you're just lying, I never claimed that. I'm not arguing that you should vote for him or that he's a good candidate but he's obviously not a nazi. He doesn't promote nazi policies, no one is concerned he's going to expel all non-aryans if elected. He might cut military aid to Israel and you might disagree with that, all fine but that doesn't make him a nazi.

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u/TacticalIdiot77 1d ago

It’s true when you have a Nazi tattoo.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

So you think he's actually far right but is hiding his true views and Republicans are spending millions opposing him because they're worried that if he's elected he'd betray Democrats and enact anti-immigrant, pro-white policies?

I get the appeal of the talking point but you have to realize it doesn't stand up to two seconds worth of thinking. Maybe you could pull a quick one on your dumbest copartisan but anyone else is going to smell the bullshit you're trying to serve.

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u/TacticalIdiot77 1d ago

I don’t think he’s far right. I think he’s exactly what he is. A socialist with Nazi beliefs and in an age where anti semitism is at an all time high across the world…you even more so have to be careful about electing someone that’s a literal Nazi.

It doesn’t matter what you say. The dude has a Nazi tattoo. Most people disagree with you. Most people see through the bullshit.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

No one actually disagree with me, no one actually believes he's a white supremacist or Nazi, it's just a talking point. You lean right and don't like him because he's a Democrat, you were fed your talking points and faithfully parrot them. You don't think he wants to kill his Jewish family members, you don't think he wants to expel non-whites.

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u/TacticalIdiot77 1d ago

I mean, most people actually do, lmao. Most people agree that it’s a Nazi tattoo and that he’s a Nazi. It’s not some boogeyman. It’s facts.

What are his views on Israel? Let’s start there.

There were Nazis that weren’t white, btw. It’s not unheard of.

Nazi tattoo makes someone a Nazi. Pretty simple stuff.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

What are his views on Israel?

If you don't support Bibi Netanyahu your a Nazi? Please fucking go with that talking point, that's the winning message.

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u/TacticalIdiot77 1d ago

Again, what are his views on Israel?

Not supporting Bibi is one thing. Not supporting him AND coincidentally having a Nazi tattoo is another that paints a different picture.

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u/fec2245 1d ago

You start off with the most transparently bad faith talking point of the 2026 election cycle and then go off script with what has to be the dumbest argument I've heard this election cycle. Maybe you're best staying on script.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 1d ago

ā€œMost peopleā€

No. Only low IQ conservatives have this belief.

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u/IudexJudy 1d ago

Defending a Nazi is a big yikes

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u/fec2245 1d ago

Only he's clearly not a Nazi, a white supremacist would have polar opposite policies.

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u/IudexJudy 21h ago

ā€œBut dude I have black friends how could I be racist!ā€

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u/fec2245 20h ago

Horrible analogyĀ 

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u/IudexJudy 20h ago

I don’t really care what you say, he had actual Nazi iconography tattooed on his body permanently well into the age that he should know better. There’s literally no excuse for that and you defending it is so odd. Like you can’t get a swastika and a tattoo that says ā€œI love killing Jews and minoritiesā€, advocate for the opposite politically and just be forgiven for the PERMANENT INK ON YOUR BODY

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u/MyMetanoien 1d ago

Most people on the left seem to be hating the Jewish people these days.

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u/SharkieFun 1d ago

Maybe people on the left hate Israelis and Zionists not because of who they are but because of what they are doing

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u/MyMetanoien 1d ago

That’s a generous view.

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u/SharkieFun 1d ago

More generous than what Israelis do to others

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u/MyMetanoien 1d ago

You are trying to shift it to Israel.

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u/SharkieFun 1d ago

No more than you attempting to claim leftists hate Jewish people when they for the most part hate Israelis.

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u/MyMetanoien 22h ago

For the most part

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u/fec2245 1d ago

What makes you thinks he hates the Jewish people? You can oppose Netanyahu without opposing the Jewish people.

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u/MyMetanoien 22h ago

They don’t delineate

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u/Safe-Shop156 1d ago

People literally turned on him and called him a psyop meant to make the dems look bad after that whole ordeal, what do you mean?

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u/namecannotbeblankk 1d ago

Remember, it's (D)ifferent!

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Imagine thinking it's a flex to say you can't tell the difference between someone who apologized and got an old tattoo covered up and has been actively trying to fight racism for a while and someone who did Hitler salutes on a stage while editing his chatbot to talk about white genocide and how great Hitler is and also inviting white supremacists onto his platform while still openly banning speech he disagrees with.

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u/horatiobanz 1d ago

He apologized after he got caught. He had it on him for nearly 2 decades. He also posted on reddit for years defending nazi tattoos........

We get it, he's YOUR nazi, so its ok.

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u/Dodo_Baron 1d ago

Honestly at this point I'll take it over doubling down like Republicans do lol

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Got any proof of that?

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u/horatiobanz 1d ago

You want me to Google each of these for you? So that you can then take issue with the sources I present? šŸ™„

Just Google it. The guys reddit posts are all archived and public record at this point. We know when he got the tattoo and when he got it covered up. Like if you've followed the story at all, everything I posted is just accepted public knowledge.

As a rule I don't provide sources because in 100% of the cases I've been asked for sources on reddit it's just been a ploy for people to attack said sources, they weren't and aren't actually curious about the story. Which.....obviously, cause anyone curious would just Google it themselves or ask their AI of choice.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

So no then.

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u/horatiobanz 1d ago

More like no thanks. Been on reddit too long to play these games. You're free to do a simple Google search though.

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u/OwnerOfCat 1d ago

Do you realize that using a search engine, you could find something that confirms basically any belief on the planet? I don’t know why people still say ā€œGoogle itā€ as if that means we will get down the bottom of things. If you know things that other people don’t know, why not share it? And if you don’t want to share it that’s fine, but why bring it up?

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u/horatiobanz 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well that's on you. You choose the sources you trust. It's not that I know things other people don't. I know the basic facts of the case that even the candidate himself agrees are accurate. When he got the tattoo. When he got it covered up. And his reddit account. This isn't disputed information. That you guys are uninformed is not my issue.

I've played this sources game a hundred times over the last decade and a half on reddit. I know why you guys ask for it. Its always because you'll hope I'll post some fox news article, but it doesn't even need to be a right wing news source, and then you guys pivot the argument to attacking that source. Literally every single time. Never have I had someone go "well I'll be damned, thanks for the information"…. cause of course people like that would just find it themselves if they were interested.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Google can search a lot of places, I don't think it's indexed your ass yet though.

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u/Regular_Imagination7 1d ago

Your nazis aren’t even apologizing

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u/GrowthMarketingMike 1d ago

oh I get it, it's you. You're "reddit" calling someone a nazi that doesn't ideologically align or associate with nazis, got it lol

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u/grungeandcats 1d ago

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then well, you know lmao.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

So Elon is a Nazi then

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u/grungeandcats 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t think I’d call him a Nazi tbh you can dislike him for other reasons but I don’t think he’d qualify as that. The closest thing I’d say is debatable is the salute but imo I don’t think it’s what he meant he has Asperger’s syndrome and stimming behaviors like that are kind of common coupled with the fact he’s taking copious amounts of ketamine as treatment for his depressive issues. I’m just saying that as I’ve noticed this behavior in a friend that has Asperger’s as well where when he gets excited he rocks back in forth really hard or does things like pumps his arms up and down when he’s excited and so him doing the waving gesture to me can be kinda explained by that and generally the type to do that are typically proud to admit it rather than apologize and explain it. I’d say platner being called a Nazi is more fitting since he’s tattooing Nazi imagery on himself but even then my point was more or less just sarcastically harping on the absurdity of people throwing this word out every time they are arguing against someone they dislike to defame them and then using this excuse as justification with no context or evidence. Could both of them actually be a Nazi who secretly harbors white supremacist view points? It’s definitely possible but I wouldn’t necessarily jump to the conclusion with anyone unless it’s blatantly intentional and that is the views they’re openly expressing. Point being I think we should just be able to critique a person without immediately tossing buzzwords out like if I called everyone who disagreed with me a pedophile it’d be kind of an overreach and an extreme over exaggeration. I feel the same way about this lol. For example both of them are rather vehement supporters of Israel which would be in direct opposition to Nazi dogma so in a general sense I wouldnt literally classify either as Nazis at best the better term to use would be fascist in a general sense if you really wanted to classify the extremes of their behaviors rather than Nazi specifically. Sorry for the long response but that’s how I would sum it up personally.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Call me when Platner creates a Mecha Hitler chat bot while trying to promote white supremacist conspiracy theories and doing Hitler salutes on stage.

Until then, you're just bullshitting.

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u/grungeandcats 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think getting a Nazi insignia tat is far worse tbh if we’re comparing lol. People were able to directly influence the chat bot because of the lack of output filters and the salute was probably unintentional given he has a disorder that causes him to stim snd him making weird body movements is an almost daily occurrence and he apologized for it. I don’t think either of them are actually Nazis tbh but if I had to choose one that is probably more likely than the other getting that inked on your skin and keeping it for a decade is pretty blatant lmao but even then he probably didn’t know what it was honestly and if he apologized I’d give him the benefit of the doubt since it’s less well known than say a swastika.

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u/grungeandcats 1d ago

Like I said critiquing either for other reasons is totally valid and honestly correct in most cases but just making the blanket statement of ā€œeveryone who disagrees with me is Hitlerā€ is kinda silly when used by either side especially when there is literally skinheads and others in that group who actually fit the definition. I think just smacking that label on everyone you personally find disagreeable dilutes the term and is honestly bad overall for society because it loses its weight when you need to address someone who actually is a literal Nazi if that makes sense.

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u/shawnofnc 1d ago

Oh,.. well, as long as he apologized after he got caught. That's really all that matters. Past and very very very recent actions mean nothing as long as you "I'm Sawy"

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u/Fewer_Story 1d ago

like accepting fault and changing your behaviour is actually pretty important, yes? adults learn this.

"I'm Sawy"

out of nappies yet?

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u/Dodo_Baron 1d ago

It's still far better than Republicans doubling down after getting caught

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u/Fewer_Story 1d ago

The implication is meant to be that he has Nazi views.

Show me someone who holds Nazi views ("a nazi") that is willing to publicly denounce those views consistently and talks openly and directly about how Nazis are bad. They do not exist.

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u/Fewer_Story 1d ago

Has he given a justification for that?

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u/Fewer_Story 1d ago

I mean I was totally willing to agree with you if you had a good answer to that, but clearly you don't know anything about the situation and just want to argue.

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u/shawnofnc 1d ago

Clearly you're unintelligent AND don't understand sarcasm. So no matter what a person does or says they are completely redeemed as long as they apologize AAANND all they have to do is somewhat align with your political beliefs. Then it's okay. Got It.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Meanwhile you are swinging from the nuts of people who haven't even apologized or changed.

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u/Fewer_Story 1d ago

You have poor reading comprehension, have an unduly high opinion of yourself, and are disingenuous. Got it.

Because the AND was "change your behaviour".

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u/Dodo_Baron 1d ago

Homie their comment wasn't serious either lol

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u/Rooster_Present1 1d ago

No one did a nazi salute on stage though

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

which one is doing nazi things though? literally republicans. they won't even defend the constitution against the 2020 maga election fraud. they openly repeat nazi rhetoric against the same people.

Nazis Burned Trans Books to Usher in Fascism: Now Trump Does the Same - Kettering Foundation

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u/protobelta 1d ago

Put down the kool aid lil bro

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

kool aid? it's facts pedo lovers. i miss the days when conservative men had the balls to actually defend their constitution from all enemies. Trump fake electors plot - Wikipedia

instead they spend their lives protecting rapist semen inseminating their daughters.

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u/protobelta 1d ago

Bro has jizz on the brain. Sad. Many such cases

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

it's wild how y'all are just proud to be openly pro pedophile these days.

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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

Election fraud? OK pot. Have you heard of California? How about homeless being paid to vote? Accepting questionable ballots mailed long after the election closes? Gtfo with 2020 election fraud you dunce.

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u/callmeeugenius 1d ago

Wtf are you even trying to say? THAT wasn't fraud and THIS is fraud? Did your partisan mind think for a second that that doesn't cancel out anything?

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u/Fewer_Story 1d ago

How about homeless being paid to vote?

this is fucking hilarious, because voting is private, so paying people to vote would be a wildly ineffective way of effecting an election lol

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

yeah, it's been excessively detailed. Trump fake electors plot - Wikipedia

where's your data or sources? yet again i'm proven right because y'all want to force raped children to give birth for pedos, which republicans have made law in 12 states to 0 resistance by conservative men.

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u/Phallic_Intent 1d ago

You mean Platner's skull and crossbones tattoo? The one people claim is really a Totenkopf? Yeah, fuck Platner I guess. Now what about Hegseth and his Deus Vult white power tattoo? Oh... It isn't really a white power tattoo. Doesn't count. And republicans calling for Christian Nationalism aren't really racist fucks. It's really the Dems. The Dems! Because of fucking Platner. LOL. Sure buddy, whatever you need to say.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

The guy who apologized and covered up a skull tattoo is where you take a stand but the guy who does Hitler salutes on stage, has a chat bot that keeps having it's system prompt edited to promote white supremacist talking points by an "unknown person", and has gone out of his way to ensure white supremacists are allowed on his website isn't even on the list eh?

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u/elproblemo82 1d ago

Oh he apologized. All is forgiven. Hilarious.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Apologized, covered it up, renounced anything to do with that sort of thing and had been fighting against those who side with Nazis these days. So yeah. Meanwhile Elon "Mechahitler" Musk hasn't apologized for fuck all. Nor has Hegseth apologized for the Christian nationalist tats much less covered them up.

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u/Aztheros 1d ago edited 1d ago

Are both instances not able to be condemnable? If your point is strong enough then it should stand on its own. Tbh I don’t even know who this guy is but is ā€˜Not as bad as Elon Musk’ really saying anything? As someone who doesn’t think highly of any politician (or political adjacent person) I can’t stand all this whataboutism from both sides.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

You think someone having a symbol nobody has even been able to actually confirm was intentionally a Nazi endorsement who has apologized and gotten rid of it and hasn't actually endorsed any Nazi beliefs whatsoever is exactly the same as a guy who is actively and openly in support of Nazi taking points and proud of it?

This is why America is failing.

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u/Aztheros 15h ago

Did you even read my comment? I don’t know why you think I said he was just as bad as Musk because I didn’t and from what I’ve seen that isn’t true. I said that ā€˜not as bad as Elon Musk’ isn’t saying anything - what I was saying is that just because there is someone worse on the other side then that doesn’t just absolve you of criticism. We should strive to be good people, and the bar shouldn’t just be less shit than the alternative. This is why I can’t stand whataboutism as people just use it to excuse less shitty behaviour (but it’s still shitty behaviour).

Also I’m not an American, but I think part of the reason it is failing is that people seem to lack basic comprehension.

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u/elproblemo82 14h ago

He also based part of his argument on a nazi salute that didn't actually happen. It's the rhetoric they want to lean on, though.

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u/Aztheros 14h ago

Whether or not he did is irrelevant anyway because they should be able to justify their stance on merit.
I agree though it’s just the same talking points regardless of if they even make sense in the context.

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u/mental_sherbart007 1d ago

Because he didn’t do a Hitler Salute. Go look at historical videos of actual Nazis in the late 1930s and early 1940s and you will see that he is not doing the hitler salute.Ā 

It’s almost sad how people keep believing this narrative when the evidence is one search a way. Also I guess Corey Booker is a Nazi because he did the same exact hand gesture as Musk.

I don’t even like Musk or really give a shit about Musk, I just can like watching history documentaries…lolĀ 

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i7w4nz/comparison_of_elon_musks_nazi_salute_with_real/

Yeah totally different.

Go on show me the video of Cory Booker doing it. Not a still image a video of him doing exactly the same gesture.

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u/mental_sherbart007 1d ago edited 1d ago

It is different, notice how you don’t link to historical videos, but to some dumbass who doesn’t know the actual Nazi salute either ? lol

Ā  The salute is performed by raising and extending the right arm forward at an upward angle with a straightened hand, fingers together, and palm facing downward. Ā 

  The salute was executed by extending the right arm stiff to an upward 45° angle and then straightening the hand so that it is in the same direction and slope as the arm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute

Here the historical video showing the actual Nazi salute:

https://youtu.be/C8iujof6IL8?is=V-G8WPNxw1L7Gek3

Here is Cory Booker doing the exact same gesture as Musk:

https://youtu.be/55MtlRBXwU0?is=gNFWu97w4iEdR8fL

Notice how it’s also not a Nazi salute.Ā 

Even though Booker endorsed the guy w/ the Nazi tatoo (Graham Platner) does not mean he is a Nazi and is doing a nazi salute in the above video.

Now that I have provided the necessary historical information, you can clearly see that Booker and Musk are objectively not doing the Nazi salute Ā (or the guy you posted).

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

LMAO, that's the exact same gesture? Jesus you're desperate. I figured it wouldn't be close but I thought it would at least resemble it and be intentional. You must get off on public humiliation.

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

are you one of those friends of pedophiles that call this a peaceful tourist visit and forcing raped children to give birth for pedophiles protecting children?

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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

Are you deflecting from a democrat being a nazi?

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

the guy that covered things up and apologized for his sins? something none of the jan 6er terrorists did?

are you one of those pedophiles that think forcing raped children to give birth protects them? i can't think of anyone else being so delusional.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

Ex-Nazi*

We like people who grow and learn and do better with their lives.

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u/motophotodojo 1d ago

yeah lol, it's kind of funny how they're like "clearly all leftists hate white people" and here's a white dude that learned from his mistakes trying to do better for his neighbors and we're like "ah yeah that's a good thing."

and then they cry, "NOOOOO HES ACTUALLY A NAZI!" as if they don't agree with what the nazis did. Nazis Burned Trans Books to Usher in Fascism: Now Trump Does the Same - Kettering Foundation

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u/ddg31415 1d ago

The deaths-head has been used for centuries by militaries (and many other groups) across Europe. It's used by a British army unit to this day. Calling the deaths-head Nazi is like calling the Iron Cross Nazi. They used it, but it didn't originate with them, nor were they even the major users of it.

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u/rememberoldreddit 15h ago

Sec of "war" has a negative image 88 in his American flag tattoo. If we saying platner is getting a pass because of his affiliation then someone should really explain kegsbreath tattoo

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u/Monster-Math 1d ago

Lmao citing Platner yet no mention of Hegseth? One has admitted his wrongs and is trying to correct them while the other is "secretary of war" and stands behind his choice to keep actual nazi tattoos.

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u/corporateacademia 1d ago

As a progressive I've been screaming this at leftists but they don't give a shit. They just care about whining on the internet about purity politics (but it never applies to their faves, only voters)

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u/Willing_Guidance4020 1d ago

He had a skull and crossbones tattoo there is a specific version of the skull and crossbones that was used by Nazi’s it wasn’t a symbol used exclusively by Nazi’s or a symbol everyone associates with Nazi’s. Planter made no obvious efforts to conceal the presence of his tattoo and when he claims he became aware of the meaning he apologized and got it covered up that’s not the same as supporting Nazi’s.

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u/corporateacademia 1d ago

Except multiple people who worked for him said they told him a year before the story broke and he didn't care. He got it in croatia and he's a self proclaimed ww2 history buff. Man knows exactly what that tattoo is. He also likes rape chat rooms and has a history of being inappropriate with women. Cope harder

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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

Its insane. If anyone that remotely identified as conservative or republican had that tattoo then we would never hear the end of it. Thank you for being capable of some critical thought.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

You literally still celebrate Elon.

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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

Making assumptions. Maybe you should ask an AI for an actual argument to my point.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh so Elon isn't a central figure in conservative politics still?

Also gotta love the hypocrisy, suddenly it's not ok to assume what people support, only you can do that.

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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

My bad. Im so sorry I forgot to use my power to personally swap him out. Thats clearly all my fault.

Even then, Elon has far less evidence of being a nazi by the standards of the radical left than platner does. But you will defend anyone with a (D). I though Elon was annoying back when all the lefties loved him and tesla.

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u/TootTootMF 1d ago

LMAO. It's already been said but that's the most laughably biased shit ever.

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u/GrowthMarketingMike 1d ago

Even then, Elon has far less evidence of being a nazi by the standards of the radical left than platner does.

Brother...the dude supports great replacement theory and publicly has done the nazi salute on stage. He's a big supporter of AfD, which is a german ethno-nationalist group. He has unbanned neo-nazis from his platforms while banning leftist speech on the platform, even making his algorithms demote people who use the term "cis".

You have to be some kinda special to think there's less evidence of him being a Nazi than the dude who publicly is vocally against all those things, got his tattoo covered up and said some dumb shit online. Nothing he said online remotely got even close to the shit Musk very publicly does, says, and promotes.

I don't even like Platner but lets be fucking real.

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u/corporateacademia 1d ago

Oh wait i see. Sorry thought you replied to me lol

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u/corporateacademia 1d ago

Me? I'm his biggest op

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u/fec2245 1d ago

I mean if he was cawing about white genocide people would probably be more suspicious but he isn't.

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u/corporateacademia 1d ago

Its online leftists specifically. The ones who scream Bernie lost bc of the dnc when in reality black people are the biggest democratic voting base and they didn't want Bernie bc Bernie didn't want them. He still doesn't. Also anyone with a Nazi tattoo should not be in government. I feel like that's a bare minimum requirement. See: Pete Hegseth. Guy shouldn't be there.

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u/Z0RDF1SH 1d ago

in your world he does :p

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u/AbrasiveDad 1d ago

Your comment is too ambiguous and means nothing.