The context is that he was posting on a news article about a fake police officer with SS tattoos carrying weapons to intimidate BLM protestors in Las Vegas.
https://archive.ph/EDNKt (this cnn article says his reddit username is p-hustle)
I used samac.io to search his deleted comments.
A few more comments:
oh wow so he habitually and consciously defends nazi symbology and you cancel him just for that? purity politics are why the left never wins
i’m as left as it gets, but hexbear is getting a bit ultra even for me
This purity politics is why I am going to leave the left and become a right wing grifter
This is a bit, right?
Just thought you should be informed he was banned for being a wrecker right as you said this
In fairness to the banned user, another Hexbear user did call people ultras over this in another thread (I regret the time I have spent reading these threads).
I understand someone’s posting getting a little unhinged when this website produces a “come on guys maybe the nazi tattoo war criminal didn’t realize it was a nazi tattoo” struggle session. Disgraceful amerikkkanism.
To be fair, I didn’t recognize the symbol, but I’m also like a newborn when it comes to ppolitics. If someone told me a tattoo (on me or a friend) was a nazi symbol, I’d be immediately working to get it off my body and making sure my friend did the same (if they wanted to stay my friend, anyway). This guy being told he has a nazi tattoo and saying it’s just what you do in the military is very sus.
To be fair, I didn’t recognize the symbol, but I’m also like a newborn when it comes to ppolitics.
Yes, to be clear, I’m not accusing people who are simply actually unaware of it of anything. However, it’s an incredibly well-known symbol that the nazis used, maybe right behind the swastika and the SS symbol. Someone who is a politician and has had it tattooed on their body for 20 years could not be unaware of what it means.
It’s also already been shown through his deleted r*ddit posts defending other people’s SS tattoos that there’s no way he was unaware.
told he has a nazi tattoo and saying it’s just what you do in the military
Most honest AmeriKKKan veteran, tbh
This guy being told he has a nazi tattoo and saying it’s just what you do in the military is very sus.
These posts in the OP are five years old, so he either:
- did no introspection on his own tattoos at the time
- learned he got a totenkopf and didn’t care
either way, lol. lmao even. DSA’s lack of demcent coming to bite them again for any of their socials ever platforming this unrepentant fash
Given the
in the comment I am going to assume they posted wrecker shit elsewhere because that is obvious sarcasmI am become Cuddlefish, banner of wreckers?
(I had nothing to do with this it was just good timing, I will never accept a moderator role)
Typical tankie purity tests
I will be sure to inform the black guys I know with bolts that they’re Nazis now and not USMC Scout/Snipers
First of all,
But also lol @ “how could I be a fascist, my stormtrooper friends are Black!”
I remember this argument!!!
average marine
Lol yep this shit pops up every few years. Aging like a fine toilet wine.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/09/us-military-marines-nazi-ss-flag-photo
lol, that means he knew what the skull meant
Had to look this up. He actually has a totenkopf tattoo thats so nuts wtf.
CW: Nazi imagery
This is the guy saying he’s a “communist” in burgerreich politics.
So he just alternates between political extremes? One day he’s a nazi, the next he calls himself a communist? Wtf
I think neo-Nazi’s are the far-left of the American military. The regular members are worse, much less the actual-right-wingers.
An overton-window shifted all the way to the right. He’s practically a communist for prominently featuring only one Nazi tattoo, real men wear much more.
(I’m only half-joking)
He was a marine, we all know that they aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed lol.
was gonna do the horseshoe theory emoji but it’s fuckin gross lmao
I mean, yeah? You could maybe make the argument that some dumb bastard in 2006 joining the corps was too stupid to know better and just liked the aesthetic, but if you genuinely had some sort of ‘political awakening’, you’re telling me you still wouldn’t know what it means? Fascism is intertwined in history with basically all forms of left wing politics. And you KEPT it on?? If you don’t treat it like a malignant growth after your ‘awakening’, you’re either:
- Still a complete dumbass and not to be trusted
- A liar and DEFINITELY not to be trusted
Ed: Jesus I didn’t realize how ‘controversial’ this had become today. If you have a Nazi logo tatted on you and you claim to be politically literate, YOU CANNOT BE TRUSTED. The circumstances of getting it do NOT matter, especially if it is still on you.
Ed: Jesus I didn’t realize how ‘controversial’ this had become today. If you have a Nazi logo tatted on you and you claim to be politically literate, YOU CANNOT BE TRUSTED. The circumstances of getting it do NOT matter, especially if it is still on you.
American “left” try not to fall for it again challenge. Hexbear users NOT immune.
Somehow the threads where a social fascist does some social fascist thing always get 200+ comments and become like this
In a perfect world, they would have like 6 comments of people clowning on the social fascist and we’d all move on
Option 2, it’s around that time for a psy-op, chestnuts roasting round an open fire and whatnot.
If you have a Nazi logo tatted on you and you claim to be politically literate, YOU CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
I had a disagreement with a lib colleague of mine that even if the Nazi heads of NATO were telling the truth about having been forced to join the Nazis, it’s still an extremely powerful position to put someone who was a former Nazi.
I also tried asking him a very basic question, “If the former Nazis HAD joined the Nazi party willingly, are you saying you believe they’d admit that?” He didn’t want to answer that question and just kept reiterating that they said they were forced to. I told him regardless of what he believes, you don’t put people with that kind of awful background in major positions of power, that you don’t take that kind of risk (I would’ve pointed out that it’s because they were former Nazis that they were given their positions but that would’ve been delving deeper into history than they were clearly prepared for).
On top of all that, June 9th 2020 was maybe the most socially unacceptable white supremacist revisionism has been in amerikkka in its entire history. Like anyone caping for this shit on that date is irredeemable except through a reeducation camp.
I didn’t even think of that
He was really out here nazi posting (including the “I know a black guy who committed genocide with me”) right before, during, and after George Floyd’s funeral
This guy was a Blackwater mercenary as recently as 2018. At the very least, his decision-making ability is totally compromised and the man shouldn’t be trusted in a leadership position. I wouldn’t trust the guy even as a fellow rank-and-file member of an org.
At the worst, the guy’s an op.
Then again, in a choice between voting for a guy who might be a cryptofascist trying to infiltrate a nascent national leftist movement or the fucking centrist Governor of Maine for US senate, sorta a toss up.
Edit: lol. Claiming that there is no “conspiracy to infiltrate white supremacist in the Marine Corps.” Less of a conspiracy, more of a “comes with the territory.” It’s the raison d’etre of the entire Armed Forces, the entire fucking country even.
I hate all American military jackboot losers tattoos or no.
He says he’s a communist in one comment, but there’s no results for Mao, Lenin, Marx, Engels, Hasan, or dialectics.
He’s not a real communist, in other words. He appears to have no proper theoretical understanding of the ideology he claims. He’s like scientist who learned his science from pop science, instead of real schooling and textbooks. He’s a communist because some cool people historically that he saw on Reddit or in pop-history books were communist. This is exactly the kind of thing a progressive social Democrat would do.
He mentions he’s a DSA member, and that he canvases for progressive Democrats. A progressive Democrat is what he is if he was honest with himself, and did any research into communism, socialism, or capitalism.
He could have changed, read theory, and became a real communist over the past 4 years, but it’s pretty clear he hasn’t done that.
the sixth head is Hasan
I don’t think that Graham Platner is claiming to be a communist anymore. He deleted the reddit account 3 months ago because he wanted to hide it. On October 17, he put out a video on his twitter account denouncing his reddit comments.
He’s running as a Berniecrat (unions, healthcare, housing, etc) but also against sending money to Israel. I think it would be foolish to think that he’s further Left than he’s claiming to be.
I don’t think he was a Hasan fan or Chapo or Trueanon. He did post Bill Burr a few times, which could mean anything. His main thing seemed to be posting on the Socialist Rifle Association subreddit.
A funny thing is that he used the Destiny-affiliated company to delete his reddit account. Destiny’s cohost Dan Saltman owns (redact dot dev) and was the former owner of TinyChat. Graham used redact to “delete” his reddit comments.
says he’s a communist in one comment, but there’s no results for Mao, Lenin, Marx, Engels, Hasan, or dialectics
bit idea, a Fourier type who calls themself a communist what because they support building hippie communes
Democrats no longer the moderate wing of fascism. Just fascists all the fuckin way down.
“Maybe he didn’t know what the symbol meant”
A genuine argument being made approx 1 hour ago on this forum
The
timespan is approaching zero.The amount of people trying to argue that and that they’ve never seen it before is wild
I’ve been on the internet for decades and never seen it before 🚩
Then again are so too many that love to claim they need to be shown the dog whistles before they belive they’re used by those they interact with
Seriously, HOW? It’s an incredibly common and well known symbol, not to mention anyone who looks at it without knowing it will instantly think that it looks like an ultra-right-wing thing, especially tattooed on a war criminal’s chest. I’m amazed that people apparently have never seen it. It’s literally in the incredibly well known “are we the baddies” sketch.
Combination of Americans are fucking stupid and so many think stuff like that sketch are going over the top.
Like those that think people in starship troopers are the good ones
A few notes. Yes, the SS tats and symbols are def a thing in the Marines, never saw them myself on anyone though. I can vouch for being young and dumb as a possibility for making stupid decisions and not knowing a lot of those symbols, and fascism is def baked into the cake in the US military. But decades later, no shot. Also, Croatian tattoo artists probably don’t offer non-Nazi skull and cross bones too often. But their history of being aligned with the Axis isn’t well known by the public.
At any rate, I can break down his explanation of the culture that he doesn’t get because he’s too stupid.
Groups of young men become psychologically damaged by doing horrific things that they’re lead to believe are good. Their own nature struggles to reconcile doing wrong while thinking they’re doing right. This creates an emotionally volatile state that could be described as neuroses. Many turn to drinking, heavily, further dulling their mental faculties. They do so together and trauma bond while never actually discussing the energy it takes to not recognize the cognitive dissonance. They encourage each other in all of these behaviors and reinforce them amongst each other, leading to further mental and emotional instability, and further efforts to supress it. Feeling like they belong to something exclusive that backs up their sense of being a self-sacrificing hero easily draws them in due to their emotionally vulnerable state, so they’ll go along with whatever symbolic tradition that makes them feel like they’re in the club. Repeat ad nauseum.
In short, they’re a high school clique that murders people and everyone in it becomes an alcoholic because they’re mentally stunted by their occupation.
It’s that fucking simple, there’s no mystery. This is just hand waiving away reality and the idea that there’s anything wrong about what they do.
The “totally normal” tattoo that Platner was downplaying.
Nothing wrong with being a KISS fan. Lots of Marines are KISS fans. Also a lot of old school Buddhists and pirates.
I figured he was just an adherent to ‘Keep It Simple Stupid’ and wanted us all to know he doesn’t have time for all that.
I’m just really into norse mythology and runes
The first red flag was being a marine, the branch that people join to commit warcrimes. Yes, all members of the US military are imperialist lapdogs, but there are levels to it. “I’m too poor, so I’ll sign up to become an imperialist lapdog because I need money” is for people in the army and navy. It’s like how there’s a difference between being signing up to become a detective working in some city police department and signing up to join ICE.
acab includes
Glad to be totally checked out of electoralism
Feeling pretty good about having invested zero faith or interest in this guy. Please Zohran don’t have a fucking black sun or something oy oy oy.
This is the article here was commenting on.
https://old.reddit.com/r/USMC/comments/h7uw3s/oh_boy_how_about_that_for_a_twist/
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