Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoMaine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbollockwww.notus.orgexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up1537arrow-down121cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1516arrow-down1external-linkMaine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbollockwww.notus.orgArthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square200fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·edit-22 days agoWait what makes it a Nazi tattoo? Are all skulls potentially Nazi tattoos? It just looks like a regular (somewhat cartoonish) skull and bones Edit: Oh seems like part of a specific SS symbol
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down3·2 days agoI mean, after the swastika, SS logo and iron cross, it’s like the fourth most famous Nazi symbol
minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down7·2 days agoThere’s a pretty wide gap between spots three and four, bud. Even before considering that you forgot about the arm bands and the mustache. Also skulls are the most widely used symbols for all sorts of things throughout history and modern pop culture
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down4·2 days agoYeah but that’s a very specific design, bud
minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down7·2 days agoThat’s what I said lmao. And that it’s only part of the very specific design half the comment section’s never seen before. Some guy even tattooed it on himself without knowing it, buddy
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoI guess half of the comment section must not be used to dealing with Nazis, pal
minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 days agoCongrats on figuring it out. A rare sight in comments sections
minus-squareBussyGyatt@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoThat somewhat cartoonish skull-and-crossbones is specifically the symbol worn by, among some others, the nazis who operated the extermination camps.
Wait what makes it a Nazi tattoo? Are all skulls potentially Nazi tattoos? It just looks like a regular (somewhat cartoonish) skull and bones
Edit: Oh seems like part of a specific SS symbol
I mean, after the swastika, SS logo and iron cross, it’s like the fourth most famous Nazi symbol
There’s a pretty wide gap between spots three and four, bud. Even before considering that you forgot about the arm bands and the mustache.
Also skulls are the most widely used symbols for all sorts of things throughout history and modern pop culture
Yeah but that’s a very specific design, bud
That’s what I said lmao. And that it’s only part of the very specific design half the comment section’s never seen before. Some guy even tattooed it on himself without knowing it, buddy
I guess half of the comment section must not be used to dealing with Nazis, pal
Congrats on figuring it out. A rare sight in comments sections
That somewhat cartoonish skull-and-crossbones is specifically the symbol worn by, among some others, the nazis who operated the extermination camps.