PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — His U.S. Senate campaign under fire, Maine Democrat Graham Platner said Wednesday that a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol.
The first-time political candidate said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007, when he was in his 20s and in the Marine Corps. It happened during a night of drinking while he was on leave in Croatia, he said, adding he was unaware until recently that the image has been associated with Nazi police.
If you’re claiming a strong ideological stance, ie being a communist, to be simultaneously claiming ignorance of having a tattoo from one of the largest killers of communists, and having served in the military of the runner-up, makes it hard to trust him or his political understanding.
it’s like a year before the election, surely someone else is able to run.
Yeah this is my thought as well. I hope I’m wrong about it though… Even if he got educated after the tattoo, at some point you’d think he’d look it up. Especially if he’s apparently becoming a communist.
What? Mao was the largest by far. It’s not even close. It goes Mao (60 million), then Hitler as the runner-up (27 million), then Stalin (probably about 20 million).
The Western world sure as hell is not friendly to innocent people of whatever ideological stripe but yes in particular 20th-century Communists, but we’re not even scratching the surface of what they do to each other. We’re like little leaguers at an MLB game.
As soon as you find out a guy has a nazi tattoo you decide it’s time to support the guy 🤔 I mean I knew you were a social democrat but this is really on the nose
As soon as a ton of people from all over our corrupted media landscape seized upon some ways they could talk about this person, who is not a Nazi, in a way that really makes it sound like he is a Nazi and that’s the most important thing to talk about about him, then yes, I concluded that he’s definitely an enemy of the establishment which makes him at least okay in my book. The fact that Chuck Schumer doesn’t like him is a bonus too.
Hey, what do you think of Leon Trotsky? I am just curious.
He was kind of a counter-revolutionary asshole who also happened to be in charge of killing a lot of anarchists, not a fan.
Tell me more
He was the war commissar during the civil war, effectively commander-in-chief of the red army, so he’s kind of responsible for what happened to the anarchist factions in it.
On some level he was going with a party line, but based on how the guy operated and what he was saying I don’t think that was much of a deviation from his actual beliefs.
I think it’s also telling how many former Trotskyists in the US pivoted to being neocon warmongers.
Oh God… this looks interesting but I have not the time to dive into it currently and my knowledge of this part of Russian history is basically 0. At a cursory reading, it kind of looks like the Russian Revolution happened, then elections, then the Bolsheviks lost the elections and announced that they were going to shoot anyone who contested their right to hold power no matter what because I say so, and so then there was more war, and I guess Trotsky was… running the Red Army during that time? Shooting anarchists, because they… wanted elections? Or something? That doesn’t sound right. I will read more when I have time.
I mean, if Trotsky was the guy who was killing the people who wanted elections, and only decades later turned around and tried to say that raw exercise of power with no attempt at a mandate was not what Communism is supposed to be about (which was what originally made me like him, and also what Stalin eventually killed him for more or less I think, because it made him “counterrevolutionary”)… you may have found a reason to criticize him that I get can behind. Of course the idea that he was shooting anarchists because they supported the Constituent Assembly sounds kind of out of character like I may have misunderstood something.
It’s too many layers.
Ah yes, those famous neocon Trotsky fans. Clearly, your grasp of geopolitics is unparalleled, and not at all based on a fuzzy team sports based value system totally unmoored from reality. Which Trotskyist neocon was your favorite?
This isn’t my own observation, it’s a well-trod assertion.
There’s been a lot of them, most way predating me. For me it’s probably Christopher Hitchens who started out out as trotskyist anti-stalinist and drifted over time to being in favor of the US-led full-scale invasion of Iraq.