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.
Either the guy really doesn’t know much about basic history, in which case I wonder if he’s a good catch for that job, or he is lying about it, on which case he also isn’t a good catch.
Though not as obvious as, say, a swastika, this symbol is obvious enough that someone IN THE MILITARY should have known, and something tells me he knew
So that leaves him with the option to -indeed- cover it but I’d say I’d want more as the guy clearly was into Nazi history and liking the symbols at least. I’d need to know that that is the past, that that was just a dumb phase and that he really has moved away from it, and that he not just covered a symbol whole keeping the same thoughts inside
You’re making tons of assumptions and then holding those assumptions as the same as fact. I’ve known a few friends and family that have gone to the military, and I say this with love to those people, they were all dumb. They all now regret having served, or at least regret having served in order to attain the benefits they now gain for having sold themselves to the US, and only one of them (of say maybe 8) has learned anything about the history of the US or the symbols often used throughout.
What ‘tells you’ he knew? Where is the ‘clearly into Nazi history’ coming from? What part of the US schooling covered the various nazi symbols? Because none of those were something I’d have recognized as anything other than ‘military, Fuck Yeah!’ tattoos as a 20 year old.