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What do you think of Platner and will he bring new life into the democratic party or be a second Fetterman? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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The nazi tattoo is like my biggest red flag and I can't tell if I've just because of B.J. Blazkowicz

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Between the tattoo and working for mercenaries, I think he is a non-starter.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago

He was in Blackwater and is a Nazi. And he did not apologize for his war crimes.

How the hell are people falling for this

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

dude literally has a nazi tattoo...

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Which people are still defending!

Fuck it's one of the emblems of the SS, 2nd to their lightning bolts, and people are excusing it even in this thread.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

this one really stumps me. libs, man.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago

I really can't decide what's worse. Those defending the tattoo or those saying they had no idea what the symbol was.

[–] dogbert@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

Seems like a pretty easy option to not support the guy who went on 4 tours in the Middle East killing brown people and getting Nazi tattoos. Good luck liberals 🤣

[–] CamileBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/uMnc4ddc7j4

He did an interview on Pod Save America where he talks about the tattoo, and I think he did really well answering all the questions.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't need him to do well. I need him to do good.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 13 hours ago

I mean, gotta get elected for that.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'd say cautiously optimistic, hadnt seen the tattoo stuff before but doesn't look too bad, on surface reading of articles I could believe he legit didn't realize it looked like a Nazi thing, especially having taken it though army screening.

Honestly if anything some of the reddit posts that were found make me like him more and believe he might be an actual progressive

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The fact that there was oppo ready to go on him like that leads me to believe he's a progressive.

The party didn't try to ratfuck fetterman.

EDIT: Just looked into the tattoo thing. Ratfuckery or no, this doesn't look good.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago

I'm still unsure what his progressive ideas are though.

[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 4 points 15 hours ago

The Reddit posts were taken out of context. He was reiterating what another poster had said so he wasn't the one to bring it up initially.

[–] DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Gonna need a source on that tattoo claim before I take it seriously.

[–] dogbert@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago

The source is literally a picture of the guy with a Nazi tattoo…