not only because it’s absolutely one of the top 3 most recognizable nazi symbols

I think he did know, but the “it’s recognizable to other people” argument falls flat on its face considering the shirtless photo that ignited the controversy was taken at a Jewish wedding and nobody seemed to notice or care, if a hundred plus Jewish Americans couldn’t detect it, then the average American cracker absolutely wouldn’t. In fact it makes me wonder in that photo he knew what it was but was confident nobody else would and felt he was getting one over on people; that tracks more accurately with established neo-Nazi behavior

Don’t confuse your knowledge with that of the wider public, most Americans cannot recognize symbols like the Sonnenrad (Black Sun), the Wolfsangel, the Totenkopf (Death’s Head), or numeric codes like 1488, because those symbols fall outside of routine Hollywood cinematics. The “History Channel Effect” and the “Hide in plain sight” doctrines of countless neo-nazi orgs have been major leftist insights into the pervasive phenomenon of American historical illiteracy, don’t throw away those insights just to get an own, Platner is already a target-rich-own environment

but because as far as I can tell it’s a part of military training to recognize extremist symbols and they absolutely would have learned about it.

That is absolutely not a thing, the US military does not give a rats ass about teaching about or combating neo-nazism, I don’t even expect the average FBI agent to hold that knowledge. What on earth are you guys saying?

Wasn’t referring to the tattoo, but a blatant hit piece that the New York Times ran that portrayed him as being abusive to his girlfriends and fantasized about wanting toremoved people.

Problem was that the source was a Republican operative that worked for the Heritage foundation and for his opposition. The article itself also gets numerous other ex girlfriends statements that contradict the Republican operative.

The statement from the Republican op was clearly a smear job and the NY times was running it to smear him because of his criticism of Israel and the authors of the piece have written Zionist articles before.

There were people on the site that even agreed with the assemement and decided to just run with it anyway cause they don’t like him, that is doing Zionist propaganda

I don’t think he’s a Nazbol because he’s progressive on social issues, I’ve never seen an ACP type guy that’s pro trans.

I hope he’s good as well despite his 90 million red flags. He’s not going to be able to pass anything in the Senate even if he trys so the best he will probably be able to do is be an anti war progressive mouthpiece.

Vote blue no matter who but hexbearly. You don’t live in Mainr, nobody here lives in Maine. All you’re doing is telling everyone how low your standard for “critical support” is Your support of him means nothing. You are free to not worry about that. This is your chance to tell the world that you acknowledge the humanity of the people victimised by a fascist murdering war criminal, and instead you’re trying to whitewash a guy with an ss tattoo who talked about how fun it was to do a little war criming.

I really wonder how you can claim to think the victims of American imperialism - which he wishes he got to do more of, openly advocates for funding better, and feels he should receive a greater reward for - are human beings while advocating that this monster is the “lesser of two evils”.

“I love fighting in little wars” and “I wish I got to fight in <insert conflict here>” are not just “scandals”. He is guilty of racialized mass murder, wishes he got to do more of it, and wants to make the USA more capable at it. I assume you haven’t met the people who lost their entire families in the “little wars” he wishes he got to fight more of. I assume you haven’t seen the people, disproportionately small children, who have body parts blown off by the uxo and mines left behind in his “fun” little wars, or indeed the civilians who are killed and maimed when a “clever” troop finds a way to use rifle grenades as improvised mortars after mortars are banned due to the high risk they pose of civilian casualties. I have and as a result I know he is responsible for the exact same things in the wars he did fight in, that he kept going back to fight more in as long as he humanly could, up to and including joining a mercenary company when the military said they wouldn’t let him keep doing the racialized mass murder. But you shouldn’t need to have met these people to know that they ARE people, and that it is not in fact okay to advocate for a man who bears full responsibility for the death and destruction wrought upon them, not even as supposed “harm reduction”.

Implying the crayon-eater won’t just be another Zionist once he’s in office.

I’m not huge into American politics besides presidential stuff, but this guy is 100% going to vote in favor of reactionary shit and pro-israel stuff once he gets elected, at least with John Fetterman he didn’t have nazi tattoos on him and his wife was left-wing, this guy just seems like a huge red flag and I see nothing good about him.

He’s even self aware enough to say he won’t be the next fetterman

Here’s hoping that comes with a stroke for him too, preferably one that kills him so I don’t have to hear about this piece of shit ever again

Reminds me of a Clinton-era SNL sketch where a politician’s entire platform was that he couldn’t have any sex scandals because he lost his testicles in a fire.

Someone remind me, is all USian politics sexual pathology?

While the comment itself references genitals, my first thought in relation to Ken dolls would be that they’re all copies of each other with little difference in deeper personality traits.

The only results that come up when I searched the word is just Klippenstein posting about this article and his substack