dude literally has a nazi tattoo...
Which people are still defending!
Fuck it's one of the emblems of the SS, 2nd to their lightning bolts, and people are excusing it even in this thread.
this one really stumps me. libs, man.
I really can't decide what's worse. Those defending the tattoo or those saying they had no idea what the symbol was.
Here's what he has to say about the tattoo
so, excuses? "something that represented our jobs as machine gunners"
yeah, fucking fascist. dude is making a mockery of his electorate.
Still waiting on the evidence of white nationalism and violent rhetoric in his platform. It's clear the establishment is scared of him and is trying to use the common concerns of leftists to attack him, but it's just kind of silly to call him a secret cryptofascist white supremacist when there are openly unapologetic ones already in government.
the evidence is tattooed right on his damn chest. and his proud work as a jackboot of fascism.
cmon man are you guys really gonna be finessed by another nazi?
So he's talked about gassing people in private chats? Has he said he loves Hitler?
Is there evidence of him using race or ethnicity as a bogeyman "other" to persecute and exile people?
Has he advocated for violence or extreme "solutions" to perceived problems in the country?
Frankly, nothing on his platform comes close to what is already happening in plain sight. Platner has stated he's anti-billionaire and that's clear enough a reason why all of this muck is getting raked. If you're going to do their work for them, I hope you're at least getting paid for it.
so now we are lesser eviling the more charismatic nazis?
you guys have your overton window way out there in the us. i keep wondering when democrats will notice what is happening here....
Apparently we're at the we're all too dumb to know a nazi symbol was a nazi symbol mark.
Like I said before, symbols don't make the Nazi. What makes someone a Nazi is their beliefs in authoritarianism, white supremacy, violence as a solution and the persecution of ethnic and LGBT minorities. Without any evidence of that, this is all hot air.
please listen to yourself man. stop believing and justifying nazis.
authoritarianism, white supremacy, violence as a solution and the persecution of ethnic and LGBT minorities.
So, his military career.
Have you met literally anyone from the military? Get out and talk to some real people some time. If you're in the US especially. As I've said before, some vets are more disillusioned on a visceral level with the establishment than any armchair intellectual can manage because they've seen the bullshit first hand.
Yeah, I have met people from the military, and none of them signed up with mercenary death squads or were guards at fucking Abu ghraib
He was in Blackwater and is a Nazi. And he did not apologize for his war crimes.
How the hell are people falling for this
So he's talked about gassing people in private chats? Has he said he loves Hitler?
Is there evidence of him using race or ethnicity as a bogeyman "other" to persecute and exile people?
Has he advocated for violence or extreme "solutions" to perceived problems in the country?
Frankly, nothing on his platform comes close to what is already happening in plain sight. Platner has stated he's anti-billionaire and that's clear enough a reason why all of this muck is getting raked. If you're going to do their work for them, I hope you're at least getting paid for it.
He was a concentration camp guard at Abu Graib, has a Nazi tattoo and is still advocating for the mass murder of brown people abroad so yes to probably all of the above.
...is still advocating for the mass murder of brown people abroad
Source?
Also, the military vets in my life are some of the most disillusioned people with the establishment, because they've seen the effects of imperialist bullshit up close.
Literally any article about him starts with how proud he is to be a combat vet and wants to run the military more efficiently.
proud to be a combat vet can easily just be marketing… imagine where you’d get in the US if you said you were ashamed of your military service… you’d get eviscerated
He's saying he wants to run the military better.
do you think the US military needs all the funding it has?
if you think it could do with less, then perhaps you and he agree: that there could be some places to make the US military reduce waste for example
making it “run better” doesn’t necessarily mean expanding it and giving it more
Stop coping already. He doesn't want to defund it.
His platform is to take money from pmcs, good, but instead of using it to improve citizens lives use it to expand the military...
You mean like his claim he didn't know what his Nazi tattoo meant?
He did an interview on Pod Save America where he talks about the tattoo, and I think he did really well answering all the questions.
I don't need him to do well. I need him to do good.
I mean, gotta get elected for that.
I'd say cautiously optimistic, hadnt seen the tattoo stuff before but doesn't look too bad, on surface reading of articles I could believe he legit didn't realize it looked like a Nazi thing, especially having taken it though army screening.
Honestly if anything some of the reddit posts that were found make me like him more and believe he might be an actual progressive
The fact that there was oppo ready to go on him like that leads me to believe he's a progressive.
The party didn't try to ratfuck fetterman.
EDIT: Just looked into the tattoo thing. Ratfuckery or no, this doesn't look good.
I'm still unsure what his progressive ideas are though.
The Reddit posts were taken out of context. He was reiterating what another poster had said so he wasn't the one to bring it up initially.
After seeing the media blitz about the tattoo I decided to check out his website
https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform
while my platform spans many issues, I view most of my job as a US Senator as to do two things: one, to ban billionaires buying elections; two, to dismantle the “billionaire economy”, in favor of an economy that works for the American worker, for small business, for the vast majority of Americans. I will be a Senator for all those who can’t buy Senators.
Sounds like a legit progressive to me, anti-establishment and populist in the good way. I like his platform and I hope all of this attention does him more good than harm. Hard to be bothered by decades old tattoos when there are congresspeople with actual swastikas in their office.
the problem is no one can really know what his stance is because it's not beneath a person to lie to gain power. seems too risky and an easy way to end up with another Sinema/Fetterman type that blocks votes while claiming to be a Democrat/Progressive. i don't think now is the time to take chances and they need to find a better candidate to run while there still some time, because even if he's telling the truth this will be a non-starter for many voters.
That's a good point and a valid concern. I know I'll be doing more research into him and seeing what he has to say. I'll also look into his record of the work he's done in his hometown, if he's in local town government there will be public documents and meeting minutes that show how he handles governance.
Between the tattoo and working for mercenaries, I think he is a non-starter.
Edit: apparently there is a second tattoo
Seems like a pretty easy option to not support the guy who went on 4 tours in the Middle East killing brown people and getting Nazi tattoos. Good luck liberals 🤣
Gonna need a source on that tattoo claim before I take it seriously.
The source is literally a picture of the guy with a Nazi tattoo…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/maine-graham-platner-tattoo-democrat-senate
He got a large deaths head (totemkoph) on his chest
And it's already gone. He just covered it up with some kind of celtic knot with dogs on it the other day. I'm inclined to believe he's sincere about his beliefs here.
He did the classic abuser routine when apologizing.
I'm sorry it made others feel upset that I had a nazi symbol tattoo
With that red flag coming to light I think progressives need to pivot to supporting Jordan Wood running for Democratic Senate in Maine.
Anyone willing to tell AIPAC to go fuck themselves is on my permanent good list. Even better if they can make a menu to use when we eat the rich.
the sentiment is good, but also i think most people with a nazi tattoo would be willing to tell AIPAC to go fuck themselves
Considering many of them in the government are still actively protecting Israel, I think not.
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