Platner was subject to one of the most intense smear campaigns in the history of modern electoral politics. Despite a platform that would make him one of the Senate’s most left-wing members (along with Bernie Sanders and, if he wins his own race, Abdul El-Sayed), he was widely accused of being a secret Nazi
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Have you seen Hegseth’s tattoo? Why aren’t we complaining about actual nazis, with actual power, instead of this guy who isnt even elected yet, and has said he was wrong?
We aren’t. That’s the whole point.
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I looked up what his tattoo looked like. I had never seen that design before. I would have just assumed its a stylized jolly roger. If I were into tattoos, I could see my dumb ass 19yr old self getting that tattoo. I was really into pirates back then.
I don’t get why anybody thinks its farfetched that a 19yr old marine thought a skull and crossbones design out of a catalog at a tattoo parlor looked cool, and got it while out with his buddies. Then years later someone finally points out that its a Nazi tattoo, he gets it covered up when he is able to.
I’ve seen documentaries about reformed neo nazis covering up their nazi tattoos, and working to de-program, and get other neo nazis out of the lifestyle. People can change for the better, and people can simply be ignorant of the myriad of nazi symbology and get a dumb tattoo.
He was a machine gun section leader and then he worked as a private military guard/grunt, which everyone acts like is this shocking betrayal not understanding that for the individual soldiers actually doing soldier stuff that isn’t an unusual career path and it simply isn’t the same as being a CEO of a company like that… and while you can criticize it you can also make the argument it might be good to have someone in the Senate who has actually experienced what it is like to be a grunt in the US military, not everybody needs to have that experience, diversity is good but a couple more of those and a couple less lawyers would do us a whole lot of good I think.
I am not saying the guy is perfect either, it is just that the accusations are so lazy and I think voters see that in Maine clearly.
Smear campaign? What part of him having a nazi tattoo and explicitly acknowledging what it was many years before getting into politics and then lying about it is a smear? All of this has been objectively verified, there’s no debate here.
Did he run on a left-leaning campaign? Absolutely. Should you trust nazis that sound nice? This might surprise you, but they often lie to gain power.
Please stop spreading misinformation, Platner is not a Nazi. If you are going to make that claim you need proof and you need to source it from someone who is credible, not a rightwing hack or clueless news outlet repeating whatever line they are fed about Platner.
yeah, this is insane. platner has potential. his deep historical trove of unvarnished fascist bashing appears legit and his current policy proposals are miles better than 99% of what is out there. don’t like him? leave your goddamn basement and run for something. I currently dont see the lie on platner’s face or in his words.
the wife and I just wrote up our monthly pittance contribution list and he’s on it because “fuck collins”.
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What part of my comment is misinformation?
- Did he not have a nazi tattoo?
- Did he not explicitly acknowledge that it was a Totenkopf years before running for public office?
- Did he not lie about knowing what it was after the fact, during his campaign?
Reposting my exact comment from a few days ago:
Smear campaign? I read his public reddit posts bragging about murder, looked at his lifelong Nazi tattoo (before he covered it up for office), and formed the only possible conclusion an honest person could…
It’s not really a “smear” when dude is a former state thug with a nazi tattoo, but I guess he removed/covered it up? Ok, but can’t blame people for being upset.
The tattoo again huh? That all you got? How’s it working?
Didn’t read anything, did ya?
