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Maybe I'm crazy, but "guys I grew out of the murderous Nazi beliefs" just doesn't cut it for me. Especially for someone running for office.
They might even be telling the truth. Don't care, you were a fucking Nazi so I will never trust you with the levers of power.
If this guy was actually a Nazi he'd be fast-tracked in the Republican party instead of trying to play on hard mode rehabbing his image as a working class Democrat. You don't even have to cover your tattoos up as a Republican, they just let you be secdef
Let's assume for the sake of this comment that it is all bullshit and he's actually right wing or whatever... The Republican party would now be in a win/win situation in Maine. No matter what the outcome is, they've won. They don't even need to spend money on that race.
Good cop bad cop. I don’t believe they are as stupid as you think.
It's there any Nazi ideology you can quote? Or are we still talking about a covered up tattoo?
Yeah it seems like that's all they've got. There are 3-ish of these folks astroturfing up and down the entire thread.
Perhaps they're on someone's payroll, good to see no one's buying it except themselves. They're exceedingly good at wasting everyone's time and energy (including their own) with this weak af reasoning.
I'm not astroturfing shit, I'm just fucking pissed at all the "I refuse to vote for someone who supports genocide" people bending over backwards to avoid criticizing a man who has a Nazi tattoo and has openly talked about murdering Iraqis.
Apparently all you need to do is just say some socialist shit, and you're golden.
Have some fucking standards.
I hope all of this concern ends up being unwarranted, I really do. And I would hold my nose and vote for him in the general if I were in Maine.
But this "how dare you be at all skeptical of a man with a dark, murderous, past and a Nazi tattoo on his chest" shit is just too much.
Like that's really all it takes? Just pay some lip service to socialism, and you're willing to ignore the biggest red flag for a Democratic Senate candidate I can remember ever seeing?
What Nazi beliefs has he espoused so far on the campaign trail?
Politicians never lie, good point. And it's not like we have at least two examples of this exact thing happening before.
Alright well I guess we will see. Also fuck Susan Collins. I’m glad she’s outta there.
She's not out of there yet, Platner has only won the Democratic nomination. He still needs to run against her.