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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?
Could someone post that here: https://lemmy.world/comment/20093614 I got banned from that comm for calling the azovstal defenders nazis
Okay that's the 3rd account using that logic to argue it's fine he had the deaths head for almost 20years.
There a how to defend nazi tattoos guide somewhere?
I think these are really sheltered people who genuinely didn't know about the SS deaths head and desperately clinging to the democrats against all hope need to rationalize it somehow because in their world if the dems aren't the good guys then there simply aren't any.
They also can't seem to be able to work out if was done by dnc or Collins even though it happened to come out right after the dnc backed one announced coming in.
By end of next week probably will be blaming Russians for people saying it and the other baggage is too much
Keep in mind that this crowd has increasingly jumped onto the rhetoric that originated from some segments of the radical left over the past couple of years when they started using "tankie" as a bogeyman term and they very often accuse tankies of supporting anyone who flies the red flag. I know that there are also a lot of SocDem/DemSocs and adjacent people who are defending Platner right now too and they make the same accusations.
One day it's "You guys will support anyone who claims they are communist, disgusting!!" and the next day it's "No but we need to support the guy who calls himself a communist, despite significant evidence that he has fascist sympathies, so therefore any criticism of him is purity politicking."
I'm loath to invoke this hackneyed term but it's a legit case Schrödinger's Socialist: we get attacked for supporting anyone and everyone who uses a label like socialist and yet the minute we say that a person who claims to be socialist doesn't pass the sniff test then suddenly we're gatekeeping the left etc. etc.