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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seeing "Dems say Platner must drop out"

Okay and...

REPLACE HIM WITH WHO????   WHO DO THE DEMS HAVE WHO IS POLLING HIGHER THAN BOTH PLATNER AND COLLINS???

If you can't answer with a name then that's a huge problem.  Because Collins HAS TO GO.
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Isn't it something to see democrats support a racist, sexist, antisemite in an effort to win a seat?  
Win at any cost.  Even if it proves you are morally bankrupt in the process. [/quote]

If what's claimed about Platner turns out to be real, we get rid of him in the following cycle.

My bet, however, is that all of this just vanishes into the ether the day after election day, just as so many other "scandals" have in the past.[/quote]

He is on record admitting that he had that Nazi tattoo on his chest for 17 years. It’s a scandal that some Dems either are so gullible to believe that he didn’t know what it was or are so power hungry that they don’t care that some guy with Nazi tattoos is running in their party because he’s charismatic and has a chance in Maine. [/quote]

Lots of people have stupid tattoos from when they were young and dumb.  But at least he knows it was a stupid tattoo.  The MAGAs running around with confederate flags and white supremacist tats won't acknowledge that whatsoever.[/quote]

No he doesn’t. He removed it for political expediency. If you believe a guy this steeped in WW2 history, who studied history in GWU and was in the Marines, Blackwater, and the State Department just accidentally got an SS officer’s logo tattooed on his chest you’re an idiot, or worse, just don’t care.

You know how many variations of skull and crossbones images you can find for tattoos? I’d guess you could find hundreds if not thousands. But this is the one this Reddit edgelord history buff got, in a place on his body that people aren’t going to regularly see, and I’m just supposed to believe it was a coincidence? And he went to Croatia to get it, a place where tattoo shops are presumably more loose about giving people Nazi tattoos than a tattoo parlor in Portland Maine or Washington DC?

Please stop insulting everyone’s intelligence.

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Your narrative makes it sound like he got that tattoo AFTER he studied history and served in the State Department and so on, and AFTER he should have known better.

That's completely upside-down and backwards.  He got that tattoo when he was barely out of his teens.  He went straight from high school into the Marines, and straight into combat, surrounded by other dumb kids straight out of high school, drinking too much and so on.  And Croatia, someplace like Zagreb where a bunch of young GIs might go will have its share of tattoo parlors where you point to a picture in a book or chart on the wall with all kinds of images, including crap like the Totenkopf.[/quote]

Platner is 41. He got it 17 years ago by his own admission. That makes him 24 when he got it. In the NY Times Daily interview he said he was a history nerd in high school who was such a history nerd that he participated in Civil War reenactments.

Even if you give him grace and pretend he didn’t know what he was getting when he was 24 - not barely out of his teens - you are telling me to believe that this history buff who presumably watched a lot of documentaries and movies about WW2 didn’t notice the glaring resemblance that his tattoo had to the symbol worn by all SS soldiers and and officers in these movies and documentaries and in the history books he read? And all of his supposed Marine buddies that got the same tattoo, some of which are presumably not completely ignorant about WW2 either, never realized the connection either in these 17 years and didn’t call him to say, “Hey man, I think we made a big mistake in Croatia. You need to get that tattoo removed!”

There is like a .001% chance that is true. Again, stop insulting my intelligence.[/quote]

He was 37 when he said he got it 17 years prior.  That puts him at 20 when he got the tattoo.  He said he was a "history nerd" but nothing in that somehow makes him a teenage expert on the SS and Nazi insignia.  And, tons of 20 year old Marines back then were getting skull and bones tattoos.  I still chalk hit up as being young and dumb.  But for you to sit here and pound your fist and insist that he was some kind of expert with deep fascination with the SS and fascism doesn't actually hold up to the "evidence" you're putting out there, and does not hold up to reality.  Your "intelligence" is doing a lot of stretching there.[/quote]

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