Well put, I’m also a fellow self worker, and I don’t get my “bullshitter alarm bells” set off when he speaks. The campaign to discredit him, however, feels exactly like all the other political smear campaigns we’ve seen funded by the ultra wealthy and the establishment.
The main thing that disappoints me is how he handled the totenkopf thing. He claims not to know it was a nazi tattoo. I don’t think he is, or ever was a nazi, but he absolutely has known what the tattoo was since the day he got it.
The truth is probably just that he was a dumb kid who just saw it as a symbol of an “elite” military unit and just general rebelliousness, like the punk musicians who adopted nazi imagery. 20 years ago, nazis didn’t seem like a real threat; they seemed like history (to a lot of people). Like even though genghis khan committed a lot of atrocities, I wouldn’t think someone with a genghis tattoo is some kind of apologist.
He should have taken the opportunity to actually explain himself, cause I think it’s important to show that just because you were a dumbass doesn’t mean you need to keep being one. Instead, I’m sure he listened to campaign strategists yelling him to pretend he didn’t know what it was.
Well put, I’m also a fellow self worker, and I don’t get my “bullshitter alarm bells” set off when he speaks. The campaign to discredit him, however, feels exactly like all the other political smear campaigns we’ve seen funded by the ultra wealthy and the establishment.
The main thing that disappoints me is how he handled the totenkopf thing. He claims not to know it was a nazi tattoo. I don’t think he is, or ever was a nazi, but he absolutely has known what the tattoo was since the day he got it.
The truth is probably just that he was a dumb kid who just saw it as a symbol of an “elite” military unit and just general rebelliousness, like the punk musicians who adopted nazi imagery. 20 years ago, nazis didn’t seem like a real threat; they seemed like history (to a lot of people). Like even though genghis khan committed a lot of atrocities, I wouldn’t think someone with a genghis tattoo is some kind of apologist.
He should have taken the opportunity to actually explain himself, cause I think it’s important to show that just because you were a dumbass doesn’t mean you need to keep being one. Instead, I’m sure he listened to campaign strategists yelling him to pretend he didn’t know what it was.