Opponents went all in on smearing Graham Platner as a Nazi based on a bad tattoo choice. It didn’t work. Maine voters decided they’d rather have universal health care and an end to reckless wars than a polished politician with an unblemished past.
personally, having a totenkopf tattoo would be mostly a big no but I would still be open to the “I was young and stupid” excuse if it was met with corresponding longterm actions. However “I joined the modern day nazis multiple times to murder people across the world and to guard death and torture camps” is something unforgivable.
Idk man, it’s very fucking bleak seeing all these supposedly progressive, universalist voices doing so much effort to defend someone who has killed god knows how many people and I can only infer that americans generally are incapable of considering other people abroad as human beings.
I’m generalizing americans here but reading this thread I’m happy that there are at least a few of you pushing back against this idea, thank you.
Agree , this guy went to afghanistan and iraq thrice and once as a blackwater merc and wrote about how killing millions is worthy in “spreading their superior way of life”
There is a type of leftist who will rehabilitate a nazi so long as they promise free healthcare, Jakkkobin is one of them
Preface: I’m not an american
personally, having a totenkopf tattoo would be mostly a big no but I would still be open to the “I was young and stupid” excuse if it was met with corresponding longterm actions. However “I joined the modern day nazis multiple times to murder people across the world and to guard death and torture camps” is something unforgivable.
Idk man, it’s very fucking bleak seeing all these supposedly progressive, universalist voices doing so much effort to defend someone who has killed god knows how many people and I can only infer that americans generally are incapable of considering other people abroad as human beings.
I’m generalizing americans here but reading this thread I’m happy that there are at least a few of you pushing back against this idea, thank you.
Agree , this guy went to afghanistan and iraq thrice and once as a blackwater merc and wrote about how killing millions is worthy in “spreading their superior way of life”
There is a type of leftist who will rehabilitate a nazi so long as they promise free healthcare, Jakkkobin is one of them