https://xcancel.com/MENewsPhotog/status/1981024306457972878#m
source is WGME cbs local news of Portland, Maine
https://archive.is/LDjNj (vanity fair)
He described the tattoo in vanity fair magazine today.
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.
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.
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.
And they haven’t even publicized his past comments defending human trophy collecting
His what now?
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
Galway represent!
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
Yeah, he is a blatant op, no doubt.
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.
I’m sorry what? A dog… knot?
This man has the worst judgement in the world and should not be near any position of power anywhere.
I remember when I was a kid Barney was bad because purple was a girl color
My mom hated Barney for teaching kids hamburgers grow on trees.
explaining fruit to amerikkkans:
No shit really? That’s funny shit
My dad hated it cause it was lowest common denominator slop, he has a discerning critical eye for children’s media considering all he watches now is Nascar
For us it was just cause Barney was for babies, like 2-4 year old and we were fucking FIVE now and had more sophisticated tastes and watched shows about people fighting now.
I hated barney because sometimes we weren’t a happy family 😠
This is slander, Barney is in Hezbollah!
Reminds me of one of the best chapo cold opens. Essentially makes that joke but its Barney being one of the only celebrities to be pro-Palestine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIaY1u1_amA
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Holy shit he also has a 1919 tattoo? This has to be fed shit. There’s no way some dude with at least two Nazi tattoos and a history like his isn’t some sort of plant
Edit: apparently this one is okay, see comments below from OP
next week we’ll get to see his 1919 covered up with another weird runic thing, and also a swastika tattoo peeking into the edge of the frame
in a month’s time we’ll get a photo of his back and it’ll just be an enormous sonnenrad
He’ll get it covered with a celtic camel foot, but only part of it. A “camel toe”, if you will.
Graham now told WGME that the 1919 is part of a tattoo for “Trail Forest Crew” which was established in 1919. It’s a group of people who created hiking trails in the Appalachian mountains
https://xcancel.com/MENewsPhotog/status/1981080937015267530#m
It’s not Trail Forest Crew. It’s Trail Fixing Collective, he’s just forgotten the proper name of its origin.
https://www.trailfixingcollective.com/
Est 1919 according to this image, which is buried somewhere in their website
This one is fine. Unless it’s also part of an op. I’m still a little suspicious of the claim it was established in 1919. A google search restricting results to “before 2020” turns up absolutely nothing for “trail fixing collective” so I’m dubious that ever existed before 2021 and that in turn makes the 1919 really suspicious tbh.
All of this shit smells like op to me. Feels really similar to the fuckery that Bored Ape Yacht Club was pulling and practically every argument online is really similar to the same arguments about how that nft group couldn’t possibly be nazis.
I’m still a little suspicious of the claim it was established in 1919. A google search restricting results to “before 2020” turns up absolutely nothing for “trail fixing collective”
I’m not even sure that you have the right group. The WGME tweet says that TFC group is a subgroup of AMC Appalachian Mountain Club. It may not even have a website.
The 2 articles I linked were from 2016.
The URL for AMC is https://outdoors.org/ . It has captures on The Internet Archive going back to 1997.
For one though, you should not trust google search results as being a limit of known information. Google search is very bad and getting worse. Websites from before 2020 just don’t exist anymore. Old webpages get deleted or paywalled and then removed from google search results.
Also, much of recorded history from before the internet, simply isn’t on the internet.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010402013024/http://www.outdoors.org/
e/ on the about page of the website that you linked. it says that “trail fixing collective” was established in 2021 after being inspired by the old TFC group and asks old members to contact them.
So you’re right in the sense that “trail fixing collective” didn’t exist before 2021. However, it was created based on a different group called “TFC” which was established in 1919.
I’m not even sure that you have the right group.
Huh. Weird. It’s exactly the same crossed axes though? Like, verbatim it is the same. And for both to have 1919? Seems like far too much coincidence.
I don’t know man these situations are sus and I lean towards not taking risks with potential nazis tbh. I don’t care whether I’m right or wrong it is worth rejecting people like this on the basis of suspicion alone. If you reject them you’ll never get nazis, if you take risks sometimes you’ll be wrong and they’ll be nazis.
He’s listed on this website as a 2002 and 2003 member.
The 2022 pdf does contain a link to the www.trailfixingcollective.com url, but I think it is a reformation group formed in 2021.
https://www.amctca.com/wp-content/uploads/Chips-and-Clippings-2022.pdf
https://www.amctca.com/wp-content/uploads/TCA-Chips-Clippings-Fall-2013.pdf
For clarity purposes, I am not endorsing or supporting Graham Platner. I only make posts about information that I think is interesting or topical. These are my own personal notes.
That settles that then, assuming that the org is legit and everything. Just an unfortunately coincidence that a dude with an already existing nazi tattoo also happens to have been a member of an org with a nazi number establishment year.
Honestly the dude is a mess and shouldn’t be trusted anyway.
a member of an org with a nazi number establishment year.
I know nothing about this guy, but I’m 100% convinced he’s fash trying to blend in amongst the socdems. This is most certainly a dogwhistle, and people on the left are giving him wayyyyyyyyy to much benefit of the doubt for a dude with a fucking totemkopf on his chest.
idk a volunteer outdoor group isnt the kind of thing id expect to have a very good documentation online, and it’s a hell of a lot of work to disguise it when you could just say your great grandpa was born in 1919 or some such BS
“Trail Forest Crew”
googling this returns two results, none of them are about a distinct organization
combined with the totenkopf, i’m going to say it’s SSIt’s not Trail Forest Crew. It’s Trail Fixing Collective, he’s just forgotten the proper name of its origin.
https://www.trailfixingcollective.com/
Est 1919
This one is fine. Unless it’s also part of an op. I’m a little suspicious of the claim it was established in 1919. A google search restricting results to “before 2020” turns up absolutely nothing for “trail fixing collective” so I’m dubious that ever existed before 2021 and that in turn makes the 1919 really suspicious tbh.
All of this shit smells like op to me. Feels really similar to the fuckery that Bored Ape Yacht Club was pulling and practically every argument online is really similar to the same arguments about how that nft group couldn’t possibly be nazis.
Feels really similar to the fuckery that Bored Ape Yacht Club was pulling
Wtf was this?
The monkey nfts? Nazi op.
Also notable that they were called “Yuga labs”. “Surf the Kali Yuga” is a popular phrase among crypto-nazis, and I mean crypto not in the currency sense.
All of this shit when NFTs were relevant was a similar discussion. Crypto nazis generate the same feeling every time where it all feels slightly weird and tinfoil hat and people start questioning their own sanity but then later on everyone wonders why it was ever even a fucking debate given how obvious it was.
I included a link to the group that I found at the bottom of my post. The article says that the group was only referred to by the name “TFC” and that it would jokingly call themselves “Trail Fucking Crew”, but that some referred to the group as “Trail Fixing Crew”.
Another link.
Never even heard of that one before
Definitely not a super common one, but unless there’s a really good explanation like it’s a RIP Grandpa 1919-1990 tattoo or some shit it’s probably a Nazi symbol
1919?
19th letter is S, so it’s short for SS. I think it’s also a significant year in Hitler’s rise to power?
What’s the deal with 1919?
(ns)dap founding (the dap part)
What other tattoos does this mother fucker have?
“The tattoo on my right calf symbolizes unity. I think.”
“That’s a Black Sun. It’s a Nazi symbol.”
“Oh. Oops! I’m gonna make the local tattoo guy rich! And you don’t wanna know what’s on my ass!”
It is kind of hilarious that he replaced it with a dog knot and it’s still an upgrade.
What does that symbolise? I’m not going to google “dog knot”.
Lmao
Good idea not to Google it. Live in blissful naivety.
knotty dog
Lmao
going to the tattoo parlor and constantly glancing back at the audience like a contestant on the price is right
just last night
Bruh
This is turning into a PR nightmare and I’m fucking here for it.
Going to the tattoo artist to cover up my swastika with a sonnenrad
they’re dabbin on us
Absolutely hilarious. Nearly ppb level fuck you
bro needs to stop going to whatever Nazi tattoo artist he goes to because what lmao
TBH I wasn’t sure if you were exaggerating so I looked it up. No hyperbole, no exaggeration, that is a 100% a totenkopf on his chest. Just a totenkopf. Not some innocent thing that happens to be a lookalike. Not some riff on it co-opting it (not that that would be great either). Just a straight up totenkopf.
When I said in another comment,
Idk anything about the guy really, all I heard was “proud veteran” and he was already cancelled in my mind. The only way I’ll consider allying with an AmeriKKKan veteran is if they’re ashamed of it, apologetic, guilt-ridden, consider joining up a mistake, are committed to trying to atone for their mistake, and say “death 2 AmeriKKKa” every night before they go to bed. Anyone who’s proud of being an American soldier is a Nazi in my book.
I was using the word “Nazi” in a lazy and sloppy way to equate AmeriKKKan fascists with Nazis, I didn’t mean actual sieg-heiling totenkopf-sporting Hitler-loving Nazi Nazi.
Beyond parody.
The thing is, he seems so deeply unserious and aimless that he probably is not even a sieg-heiling Nazi. Maybe he is, but so far it genuinely seems like he is your average PMC, spoiled, American who’s fascism is undefined and mostly an outgrowth of this country being foundational to fascism. He is a grifter who does not believe in much of anything seriously. He is that particularly scary type of American soldier, the non-ideological fascist. If that makes any sense
That makes sense and is even more contemptible somehow.
That looks fucking stupid. This guy manages to completely fuck up at every turn. Incredible
He’s done all this reforming only just now that he’s running for office? Oh yeah, I totally believe he’s reformed his ways
Graham Platner uploaded another video of his new tattoo. It’s weird that he didn’t get it changed sooner. He shared the video of himself with the totenkopf on Pod Save America, knowing that it was a Nazi tattoo. He told Pod Save America that his opposition was going to use it against him, so he wanted to reveal it before his opposition. Then he only decided to get the tattoo changed after the podcast was released.
https://xcancel.com/grahamformaine/status/1981087613466660950
I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol
Not only is he a Nazi, but he’s a Nazi who is too scared to admit he’s a Nazi. Somehow I trust him even less. I wish the Iraqi insurgency had FPV drones when he was over there.
“Closely resembled” lmao
That last sentence feels so slimy! It feels exactly like a chud making fun of a lib. “Oh, I guess you need a safe space because you’ve been triggered” type shit. Except I think he means it to read sincere. I don’t think it is sincere, I think he’s a chud pretending to be a lib, and not entirely managing to keep the chud sneering at bay
