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I'm so looking forward to never hearing this bullshit talking point ever again. I swear, you guys have to be bots, there's absolutely no way a human being could look at the tattoo and the symbol side-by-side and have any doubt about it whatsoever.
Here is the tattoo:
Here is a totenkopf copy-pasted onto the same spot:
See how every detail matches exactly perfectly? So obviously you're lying, and you probably know you're lying. Why?
Yeah did research that tattoo existed and was used before members of the Nazis party used it. So that means that that tattoo can have meaning outside of a Nazi context, the Christian cross isn't just Catholic (if that makes sense).
Again platner covered it up
You can call it Nazi tattoo. It really doesn't matter to me mostly because I'm not in Maine
The same is true of the fucking swastika, would you excuse that too?
Irrelevant. "I doubt that it actually is a Nazi tattoo." You set the goalposts there. You could have left it at, "He probably didn't know what it was and covered it up when he found out," but you had to take it further and try to deny that it was ever a Nazi tattoo in the first place, which is obviously and objectively a lie.
Which further begs the question of why you would lie about this if you're not even invested. Do you often lie on behalf of people with Nazi tattoos?
Jesus Christ, do y'all have an actual script you all read from? Every. Single. Time. "It's not a Nazi symbol" transforms into "Yes, it's a Nazi symbol, but that's actually fine because blah blah blah."
Stop moving the goalposts. You said you doubted that it was a Nazi symbol at all. Now, you're acting like it's a given that it's a Nazi symbol but that it doesn't matter. So then, why did you lie? Why did you try to deny an obvious fact if that fact doesn't matter?
This is, of course, ignoring the fact that your talking points are out of date. Platner raped someone and lied about it. So no, he did not "prove he's capable of change." The only thing that was proven is either how gullible you are, or how willing you are to excuse red flags and horrible behavior from politicians the moment they say, "I'm sorry."
I fucking hate this liberal bullshit so much. "Returning a video to Blockbuster?" We're talking about a rapist killer-for-hire with a Nazi tattoo. It's absolutely disgusting for you to minimize that with that comparison, and if you're trying to present yourself as even remotely progressive while saying shit like that, it's doubly disgusting.
Newsflash, dipshit! He just dropped out of the race because it came out that he's a rapist! This whole mentality that you're describing was just clearly and unambiguously proven wrong. And I'm not trying to rub your face in it, because anybody can make a mistake, but if you're still trying to double down and defend this rapist Nazi mercenary, then I'm sorry, but you clearly need your face rubbed into your mistake.
Sorry symbols have different meanings depending on what part of the world you go to. I do encourage you to learn from other cultures and take the best parts from them and spread them.
Idk if platner lied about raping, but we can talk about that if we are done with Nazi symbols and the tattoo. I like to keep things simple instead of random accusations and subject changes.
Yeah not returning a video to never getting blockbuster is an illustration how petty y'all can get. It's not meant to relate to platner is more about you and the chunk of mentally ill Lemmy users.
What you lack in understanding you make up in misguided passion 😙
What fucking clown.