• newacctidk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    The thing that is maybe most disheartening to me is that THIS is more damaging than him not regretting signing on for multiple tours of murdering foreigners and then joining Blackwater.

    Like the tat is very gross, but the actual signing up to murder people in the third world is so much more vile and harmful.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      Pretty much how I feel. I’m all for rehabilitation but like that doesn’t mean giving them leadership roles. And like I mentioned in another thread, any shop would help at least make the hate symbol illegible for the cost of a “tip” that pays for the ink if not free. They might not turn it into something fancy for free. But they will make it so you are no longer marked via an X or blackout or whatever. Bro could have done this shit any afternoon. Like fuck me if I had a Nazi symbol even if it was still a Nazi the first thing I’d do when running for politics is cover it up.

      Which leads us to the one saving grace: maybe this is evidence this guy is just that much of a bog-standard Yankee-Doodle dumbass and isn’t actually a Nazi running secretly.

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      The order the oppo research was released in is quite telling about American politics

      Day 1: Platner said he’s a communist and rural white people are stupid and racist

      Day 2: Platner being racist and blaming victims of SA

      Day 3: Platner has had a literal nazi tattoo for twenty years

      And they haven’t even publicized his past comments defending human trophy collecting or his dismissals of PTSD.

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          people have been digging on his reddit. he was also at abu ghraib in 2005

          Assume all possible content warnings:

          also knew about azov battalion in 2019 and admired them but supposedly didn’t know what a totenkopf was before getting one tattooed on his body

          EDIT: It won’t let me post that one for some reason. Must be getting rate limited after posting too many images

        • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          2 days ago
          CW: Dismissing sexual violence/ victim blaming

          This is just one instance but there seems to be many of him defending human trophy collecting in war over his years of posting.