Ms Lyndsey Fifield, who is leading the charge on this story, worked for The Heritage Foundation as a Social Media Manager, so yeah she's a pro at drumming up outrage. She was one of the founders of "Justice for Kavanaugh, building up support for that drunken frat boy and covering up his misdeeds. Take her story with a big grain of salt. The control of the Senate and another two years of Trump rampaging through our life is at stake. The right wingers are pulling out all stops to protect vulnerable Republican members.

Maine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered

https://apnews.com/article/maine-platner-senate-trump-mills-tattoo-collins-fa8328a3c8aa5d5e0f34adb379e977b8

When it became politically problematic for him.

If he didn't have himself some political ambition, he'd still be wearing that shit with pride. To paraphrase another group, Pride in his Boys.

The only person who says anything remotely like this is the female GOP operative who was quoted in the NYT article. She's the source for all the tattoo gossip. His fellow Marine, who got the same tattoo at the same time in Croatia, said they were drunk and young and had no idea it was a Nazi symbol.

Even knowing the origins, it didnt remotely symbolize to him hatred, but rather the deeply intertwined connections to the people in his unit.

He didn't wait to remove that tattoo in 2025 because he is a hateful nazi. But likely because it was one of the last material reminders of the people who paid the ultimate price.

Symbols aren't horrible because of what they intrinsically represent. They cant be, because they will almost always be subjectively interpreted. Their meanings are rooted on the actions of the people who carry them and the cultures that maintain them.

The swastika is similar but reversed. The longest known meaning of the swastika is not Nazism and hatred.

The swastika (known as "Manji" in Japan) is a Japanese Buddhist symbol that doesnt remotely represent hatred. It means good fortune, peace -and the footprint of Buddha.

But Hitler flipped it into something else entirely.

Platner's skull was the last remaining material reminder of the people who gave everything. He got rid of it because it offended other people. But the personal significance was beyond what any of us can imagine in the enormous sacrifices it represented by his friends.

Doesn't really do any good for them considering...

Thanks for the thread mainer

I accept his explanation.

Time to move forward.

don't remember being young, drunk and stupid. Or maybe they were always perfect.

from perfect, but not drunk. And no nazi tattoos.

i can’t judge what someone does after witnessing such horror. Fatalism or bonding with others or self-mutilation via tattoo to externalize the grief or pain or guilt that is eating you inside.

Not gonna judge that.

spend their youth getting drunk and stupid. Lots of people, in fact.

Or is that considered “not working?”

Okay you want to use it to excuse the tattoo and then his reddit comments. But does it cover mistreating women as recently as 2021? Does it excuse sexting outside of his marriage even more recently? Using retarded as a slur? At what point are our actions a reflection of who we are as an adult?

One of the key things I took from therapy is that your actions are the real demonstration of your values and if your professed values don't match your actions, you either have to change your actions to match or you're lying to yourself.

says what?

State of Ohio.

to make me want a tattoo.
I was in the shops with friends. watching and thinking.
Ain't no way! What if I change?
Anyway, not a fan.

How many men would bother?

Being in combat does not justify treating women like crap.

Because you just don't like the cut of this man's jib.

Fifield - if I were in a relationship with a guy who bragged about a Nazi tattoo — I’d be outta there in a flash. Hey, Lindsey - if true why did you stay with a Nazi sympathizer?

Fifield certainly made it sound like this was something Platner was proud of having. So with all these other women in his life that he undoubtedly was naked with — did not one of them say “hey what’s this thing on your chest and why did he know proudly say that’s my Nazi tattoo”? Cause not a single other woman has mentioned him talking about this Nazi symbol.

And other than this tattoo - has there been any indication of Platner being a Nazi sympathizer? Organizations? Policies? Because nothing has come up that makes me believe he is. But I do know that Fifield - the only woman who has mentioned this — regularly tweets/retweets Stephen Miller- a real Nazi.

For a proper tesponse to your question.

But Bethany is busy writing for the New York Post and Washington Examiner. Or maybe she's still figuring out how to tie Platner with her Stolen Youth book. It's about how progressives are turning America's kids into moral degenerates.

and we are still debating this shit?

jesus wept