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.
That’s what a winner-take-all, two party system does to you.
It gets you talking in circles, fighting fellow leftists at the behest of think tanks to come to the defense of fascists because you can’t quite come to the conclusion the rest of us have: that it’s all stage-managed, astroturfed bullshit (these days being churned out by LLM’s posing as authentic accounts on Reddit and Lemmy and PieFED) to get legions of citizens to tacitly approve of their personal Manchurian candidate that will flip a switch when they get into office to funnel more money toward their true masters.