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‘This is oligarchy’: Nearly 100 billionaires are funding Susan Collins’ reelection bid
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I learned about the fuckin thing in grade school history in the goddamn rural Midwest. You're just saying that most people are really stupid. You've got a big fuckin blind spot for fascist imagery and it's got you doing nazi apologism. Ignorance isn't a goddamn excuse in a lot of situations and this is one of them. Nobody accidentally gets a nazi tattoo because it's not fuckin easy to find a tattoo shop that tolerates nazi imagery in the first place and the ones that do are fuckin nazi shops. Ignorance does not get to be an excuse for tattooing a goddamn death's head on you. No. If you knew anything about tattoo culture you'd know him getting in the first place very nearly guarantees he knew what it was. I'd still prefer him over Susan Collins but he's either lying or really fucking dumb and these are the only two options. Or he was forced to join a prison gang, so I guess three options but I'm pretty sure it's not the third. It is impossible to accidentally get a nazi tattoo.
Woopdie friggin doo, you learned something so that must mean everyone knows it, right? I learned lots of shit in grade school that I found out later not everyone knows. People thought I was arrogant for assuming they all know the same shit as me. That's what you're doing now.
Nothing I've said was nazi apologism, get the fuck outta here with that strawman. He says he didn't know what it was when he got it, and I believe that's a reasonable explanation. Maybe you don't, that's fine, whatever, but that doesn't make me a nazi apologist.
You're making excuses for an explicitly exclusively nazi tattoo. That's apologism buddy.
I'm saying he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo. That's not apologism.
And I'm saying that's bullshit because he would have to be one step above totally fucking braindead to unknowingly get a nazi tattoo at a nazi tattoo shop. So is he lying or pants-shittingly fucking dumb? Both are serious concerns that should be absolutely disqualifying under any normal circumstances but he can't be worse than Collins so here we are.