Despite media scrutiny and attacks on his character, progressive Senate candidate Graham Platner continues to gain support in Maine, with 58% of voters backing him. His platform focuses on making life more affordable, shifting the Democratic Party away from corporate interests, and ensuring the wealthy pay their fair share. #GrahamPlatner
Leftist out here doing stupid purity tests, looking for some fairy tale candidate messiah. Gatekeeping anyone who isnt some perfect being. Because that’s representative of the normal human experience…
The tattoo thing was ALWAYS overblown. Anyone who knows marines, especially young shithead marines, knew that tattoo thing was stupid. I believe that he and his fellow marines didn’t know what it was when he got it. Because most people just learned what it was. So many people just now, this week, hearing the word “totenkopf” for the first time in their lives and feigning outrage.
I’ll even give you that maybe he found out later, knew what it was, but didn’t have it covered. And why?
Because it didn’t matter. That’s not what the tattoo meant to him, and its not what anyone around him thought it was. He had no pressing reason to cover it. Maybe it even served as a reminder of his shithead past.
It wasn’t until he got into the public eye when a bunch of terminally online nitpickers lost their shit that it actually became an issue to him to fix.
And he did fix it IMMEDIATELY.
And I’ve yet to see anyone who smugly reacted to the initial story with “so he got it covered right? right?” eat their words. Instead they’ve doubled down and moved the goal posts to “well, he should have had it covered forever ago”. Insufferable bullshit.
My brother in law, also a prior marine, had tattoos of clovers. Because he’s Irish and thought they were cool. It wasn’t until after his service that he learned that clovers are common with skinheads. And because he want a job in teaching, he got them covered.
This shit happens all the time. People making a stink about it are so far out of touch. They either need to touch grass, pull the stick out of their ass or the silver spoon out of their throat.
The privileged pearl clutching to instead defer support to another Biden/Pelosi/Schumer corpo dinosaur is pathetic.
Dems are great at talking themselves out of EVERY candidate, leaving us nothing but MAGAs.
Could you imagine if a strong, intelligent person like Elizabeth Warren was president? America, and the world, would be a much better, far less chaotic, place in the universe.
Even if he knew. Young soldiers doing stupid edgy stuff is par for the course. SS skull? Looks badass, man! That’s about the amount of thought that went into that.
You’re right, you should vote for the Nazi candidates that are proud to be a Nazis, and are promoting Nazi policies. That will teach those good Dem candidates…to not run for office.
It’s not about him being a “better” Nazi, or even a Nazi at all. It’s about whether you believe this politician before he’s even elected.
He’s clearly not a Nazi, and nobody in his history is claiming he’s had a history of Nazi behavior.
This is about his constituents believing him. If they believe his story, then vote for him. Or not.
But he’s not a Nazi, he’s a guy who used to be Marine, got drunk, and got a regrettable tattoo. That’s not a rare thing, and it shouldn’t disqualify anyone from anything.
100% this.
Leftist out here doing stupid purity tests, looking for some fairy tale candidate messiah. Gatekeeping anyone who isnt some perfect being. Because that’s representative of the normal human experience…
The tattoo thing was ALWAYS overblown. Anyone who knows marines, especially young shithead marines, knew that tattoo thing was stupid. I believe that he and his fellow marines didn’t know what it was when he got it. Because most people just learned what it was. So many people just now, this week, hearing the word “totenkopf” for the first time in their lives and feigning outrage.
I’ll even give you that maybe he found out later, knew what it was, but didn’t have it covered. And why?
Because it didn’t matter. That’s not what the tattoo meant to him, and its not what anyone around him thought it was. He had no pressing reason to cover it. Maybe it even served as a reminder of his shithead past.
It wasn’t until he got into the public eye when a bunch of terminally online nitpickers lost their shit that it actually became an issue to him to fix.
And he did fix it IMMEDIATELY.
And I’ve yet to see anyone who smugly reacted to the initial story with “so he got it covered right? right?” eat their words. Instead they’ve doubled down and moved the goal posts to “well, he should have had it covered forever ago”. Insufferable bullshit.
My brother in law, also a prior marine, had tattoos of clovers. Because he’s Irish and thought they were cool. It wasn’t until after his service that he learned that clovers are common with skinheads. And because he want a job in teaching, he got them covered.
This shit happens all the time. People making a stink about it are so far out of touch. They either need to touch grass, pull the stick out of their ass or the silver spoon out of their throat.
The privileged pearl clutching to instead defer support to another Biden/Pelosi/Schumer corpo dinosaur is pathetic.
Dems are great at talking themselves out of EVERY candidate, leaving us nothing but MAGAs.
Could you imagine if a strong, intelligent person like Elizabeth Warren was president? America, and the world, would be a much better, far less chaotic, place in the universe.
This isn’t a purity test. He knew
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
Even if he knew. Young soldiers doing stupid edgy stuff is par for the course. SS skull? Looks badass, man! That’s about the amount of thought that went into that.
Less thought was put into choosing that tattoo than the next bar to visit.
Then don’t wait until years later when you’re called out in the media to remove it. He knew, he kept lying about it.
Whatever, be mad forever then. I hope your perfect lefty savior shows up for you. If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll still be able to vote when they do.
Anything is better than a Nazi, I’m not asking for perfection
Except he’s very clearly not a Nazi.
If he’s not a Nazi he’s too stupid to be a politician anyway
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs
I’ll take a reformed Nazi over Janet Mills or Susan Collins.
Removing a tattoo is very expensive and very painful. Anyone would put it off for as long as possible.
Then at least don’t lie about it
You’re right, you should vote for the Nazi candidates that are proud to be a Nazis, and are promoting Nazi policies. That will teach those good Dem candidates…to not run for office.
No, you can pick a candidate to vote for who isn’t a Nazi at all, and if there is none maybe you should get somebody else to run
There is no such thing as “the better Nazi to vote for”. “Lesser evil” only works when you don’t have the option to replace the evil.
It’s not about him being a “better” Nazi, or even a Nazi at all. It’s about whether you believe this politician before he’s even elected.
He’s clearly not a Nazi, and nobody in his history is claiming he’s had a history of Nazi behavior.
This is about his constituents believing him. If they believe his story, then vote for him. Or not.
But he’s not a Nazi, he’s a guy who used to be Marine, got drunk, and got a regrettable tattoo. That’s not a rare thing, and it shouldn’t disqualify anyone from anything.