US Senate candidate Graham Platner reassures transgender Mainer he will fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Despite past controversies, he emphasizes growth and empathy. #GrahamPlatner
Let’s be honest here.
How many people would have recognized that image as a Nazi symbol before thos became news? I wouldn’t have, skull tatoos are common. News articles had to tell is it was and show pictures of and explain what it had been some 80 years ago.
Maybe he knew it was a Nazi symbol, but I kinda doubt it given his political statements and the fact that any smart person running for office in Maine wouldn’t have got it removed long before.
How many people would have recognized that image as a Nazi symbol before thos became news? I wouldn’t have, skull tatoos are common.
That just makes a stronger case against him. It is what it is–a nazi symbol used by the nazis. Not being familiar with it just means you’re an average person who hasn’t learned about all their symbols beyond the infamous swastika. The main people who are most likely to recognize it are either people who are into WWII history or people who are into nazi shit. Among those two groups of people, someone who would actually tattoo it over their heart are in the latter, not the former group, certainly not the average person. He has (finally) admitted he knew what it was.
But that means he’s not a smart person. That, along with the fact he is obviously prone to making poorly-informed decisions would give me serious pause about voting for him. Those are not the qualities of a good leader.
Then don’t vote for him when the primary rolls around if you live in the state. Elections are a mechanism for finding out if his faults are acceptable to local constituency he would represent. People are acting like he’s a set in stone candidate and this is some moral crisis for the party.
The primary is in June of 2026. The “democratic establishment” and every opinion column ragebait columnist should just cool it. Let the voters decide in 8 months if they buy his apology and whatever else he does between now and then.
Let’s be honest here. How many people would have recognized that image as a Nazi symbol before thos became news? I wouldn’t have, skull tatoos are common. News articles had to tell is it was and show pictures of and explain what it had been some 80 years ago. Maybe he knew it was a Nazi symbol, but I kinda doubt it given his political statements and the fact that any smart person running for office in Maine wouldn’t have got it removed long before.
That just makes a stronger case against him. It is what it is–a nazi symbol used by the nazis. Not being familiar with it just means you’re an average person who hasn’t learned about all their symbols beyond the infamous swastika. The main people who are most likely to recognize it are either people who are into WWII history or people who are into nazi shit. Among those two groups of people, someone who would actually tattoo it over their heart are in the latter, not the former group, certainly not the average person. He has (finally) admitted he knew what it was.
But that means he’s not a smart person. That, along with the fact he is obviously prone to making poorly-informed decisions would give me serious pause about voting for him. Those are not the qualities of a good leader.
Then don’t vote for him when the primary rolls around if you live in the state. Elections are a mechanism for finding out if his faults are acceptable to local constituency he would represent. People are acting like he’s a set in stone candidate and this is some moral crisis for the party.
The primary is in June of 2026. The “democratic establishment” and every opinion column ragebait columnist should just cool it. Let the voters decide in 8 months if they buy his apology and whatever else he does between now and then.
Smart people don’t know everything. Smart people change their mind when confronted with things they are wrong about or don’t know enough about.