Feel this is a good accompanying piece for all the folk insisting on caping for a Blackwater merc wth a nazi tattoo because he said something they liked.
I don’t see anything in the article that is a cause for concern
It’s just cause he said it didn’t know what it was until very recently, and this hints otherwise. I’ve also heard that he’s interested in war history as well, so I find it hard to believe that he wouldn’t know, likely the 3rd most known Nazi symbol. I still believe he’s changed, and grown, but this is a tough hole to dig yourself out of, especially if you’re not honest about it.
Yeah. There are a few ways to read this but what we know is:
- He had the tattoo for about 20 years until he finally removed it as part of his political campaign
- He insisted, as of even this week, that he had no idea about its meaning or the concept of an SS skull even though he is terminally online and a self proclaimed military history buff
- Apparently he DID know exactly what it was and defended it as just being a thing people in the army get as of 5 years ago
So… that means he was lying to voters AND had the tattoo for at least 5 years after knowing it was a nazi symbol. Maybe he changed… in the last week… which was like two and a half months into his political career. Or, you know, maybe he is lying about more than one thing.
To be clear. I think a VERY reasonable take is that he didn’t want to acknowledge the military was rotten back in 2020 because that would be acknowledging he was part of something evil. It happens.
But to not have gotten it removed/covered up the MOMENT he considered running for office? That is just immense stupidity.
And to continue to not want to acknowledge that “yeah… the US military has a hard-on for nazi imagery” as part of that campaign? Absolute best case scenario, that depicts someone who cares more about votes than truth which, again, raises the question of what else he is saying to get those votes.
If the election were next week? I mean… we all voted for Kamala, right? But it isn’t. This is pre-primaries. We got time to find a candidate who has progressive ideals but doesn’t have a fucking SS skull on their chest. And, preferably, someone who is actually a leader and isn’t afraid of addressing the wrongs of the world.
Apparently he DID know exactly what it was and defended it as just being a thing people in the army get as of 5 years ago
This is a bit of a nitpick, but he didn’t defend the totenkopf. He said SS bolts were common in the military and in his opinion not indicative of nazism. He commented in a thread that mentioned the totenkopf, but his comment was in reply to a message about the punisher skull and didn’t mention the totenkopf. It’s not inconceivable he didn’t read the parts about the totenkopf (though the root of the thread is a mention of it).