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Graham Platner on Reddit 6 years ago commenting on a thread mentioning the totenkopf on a post discussing SS soldiers with a visible totenkopf in the photo
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Still think giving him the benefit of the doubt is cool?
"I wasn't being a nazi when I spray-painted a swastika on the grave, I'm a Buddhist actually"
"It's not a nazi swastika, it's wider than it is tall. The nazi swastika is square! It's a Buddhist symbol!"
"I'm comfortable around nazi imagery, that must mean everyone else is too"
what an obvious bad faith bullshit comment lol, reminds me of the company behind this poster claiming how it was totes a complete coincidence that it looks exactly like a nazi poster, you can tell because the guy on the right is wearing a hat, a key feature not present in the nazi version!!!:
I know it's very, very old news - but it remains amazing to me how so many people use the net as a tool to double down, triple down, and quadruple down on whatever they feel must be true. Reality and facts don't matter. Their unhinge net bubble is their happy place. I assume the majority of r/TheBulwark denizens decided that because Platner is a former Marine so he's a badass - he's just the kind of candidate they love and they'll support to matter what.
When it's clear he has a Tokenkof tattoo that's no biggie. They just create a reality in their mind where the tattoo is not really that.
It's missing the key feature of the SS skull! The cracks! Nobody really knew Totenkopf was a thing! It's a C tier Nazi emblem! You absolutely wouldn't look twice at it in 99% of real-world situations!
When it turns out he's been lying and he knew it was a Totenkopf - that's still no biggie. They simply ignore that until/unless they can figure out a way to show it's not really true.
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That redditor should try saying those things in public. People would look at him as though he was insane.
Nazi:
Not Nazi:
Know the difference! (/s)
If there were no cracks in the skull on Platner's tattoo then let's see a nice clear close-up of it.
Here's an image of the tattoo that I've enhanced. Notice how you can't see the fine line details of the teeth or where the crossbones are distinguished from the skull itself? But we're supposed to believe that there's enough clarity and resolution in the image that we can tell for certain that there's no crack in the skull? These people are deeply unserious.
did they use the reversed swastika as well? Not very informed on nazi symbology beyond the basics.
Yes, there's limited historical evidence of them using the reverse:
Prior to the Nazis seizing power there was fairly widespread use of the swastika, including in Germany, and its use was less codified so you can probably find pre-Nazi German swastikas being flown that are of the opposite orientation and it would take a real history buff (obviously not a Graham Platner-tier history buff) to be able to tell if that's a Weimar Republic era warship flying the reverse swastika or if the image was taken a few short years later under Nazi Germany. (Also anyone who can tell the difference immediately who isn't some dusty old academic in the history department of a university deserves a side eye.)
So yeah. It's complicated but it seems like it was used, albeit rarely.