The poll shows that 58% of likely Democratic primary voters favor Platner. Janet Mills, Maine's two-term governor, who was recruited by national party leaders, was polling at just 24%. None of the other candidates in the crowded field received more than 1%.
Yes. https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-reddit-2674226288
That person didn’t ask how he was polling.
He’s talking about the 2 literal Nazi tattoos that he has had on his body for almost 20 years now. Which is a very legitimate concern.
I feel stupid for having to explain this to you people, but only Nazis who are really into the ideology permanently ink refrences to it on their fucking bodies.
He’s gonna win, so let’s hope the Nazi is progressive and kot lying to gain power like Nazis often do.
At this point we only have to hope he either was a dumb, clueless teenager in the military or hope he is a reformed nazi? Id love to believe he was just a teenager, I wouldnt recognize that symbol put up somewhere on the wall of a tattoo parlor, this is the first Im ever seeing that imagery.
He also got a tattoo of 1919, which is the 19th letter of the alphabet twice: SS
A college kid does not tattoo a random looking date on them without knowing what it’s supposed to mean…
Here’s the other tattoo. Big fat nothing burger.
AMC Professional Trail Crew
Oh hell yeah he only had 1 Nazi tattoo
Everyone gets 1 free permanent white supremacist art on their person before you start getting judged for them.
I wouldn’t have known that that rendition of skull and crossbones was Nazi symbology and just learned that today. He has a plausible story for how he got it, but you’re presenting this 1919 thing as a pattern to discredit that story.
If the 1919 tattoo is unrelated (and it sure seems to be), then your pattern of multiple Nazi tattoos falls apart and his story isn’t discredited by it.
Exactly
Everyone gets to have 1 tattoo that supports ethnic cleansing and still get the benefit of the doubt.
We will find out what his values are after he gets into power.
Just like Fetterman
2? What’s the other one?
The Totenkopf isn’t exactly a widely know Nazi symbol by laypeople, and he’s since had it covered up. If he’s saying he didn’t know, it’s probably the truth. The only universally recognized Nazi symbol is the swastika, and maybe half of people know the SS bolts.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/senate-hopeful-forced-explain-second-005831389.html
He also had a 1919 tattoo which is a dogwhistle for SS
You mean the 1919 tattoo that is part of the trail group tattoo and references the established date of the group that he is a member of? That tattoo? I swear to G-d, everybody is ready to label this guy as a nazi and leave it there and have no nuance, or decency. Where’s the compassion? Where’s the critical thinking? Do we not think it’s strange his campaign manager, who worked for the state with Mills, suddenly dipped the fuck out as soon as the reddit posts hit, right after Mills announced her run? The man got the damn tattoo covered already. I don’t see Pete Hegseth, actual nazi, getting his iron cross covered up anytime soon. Why can’t y’all see this is the establishment attacking this man, who has a problematic past, who has worked hard to change. But yeah, let’s let Mills get in there and continue the same bullshit we’ve dealt with for the past forty years.
Don’t get me wrong, I want progressive canidates.
It’s so fucking difficult to beleive a white man gets a white supremacist tattoo while in the white supremacist armed forces, then enters the most famously evil mercenary org on the planet, somehow does not hold Nazi beleifs.
I’m not capable of that much suspension of disbelief. It’s cartoonishly incriminating
Doesn’t matter tho cuz I can’t vote on that race.
Hopefully he isn’t a Nazi
I am a white man and I used to have very different views than I have today. Should I even bother?
If there are pictures of you supporting Nazism that people will find, then no, you shouldn’t run for office.
Sure, the purity tests have worked so well for us. Good, solid, and battle tested plan that has nothing to do with us being in this mess.