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.

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    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).

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      You are wrong

      https://web.archive.org/web/20190226141422/https:/www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/auy0bi/battleweary_ss/ is one of the threads. He is specifically replying to someone talking about the military’s use of skulls and nazi imagery by insisting it is actually a punisher skull.

      At BEST you are arguing that he has immensely poor judgment, zero reading comprehension, and suckles on propaganda from the teat without a moment’s thoughts. Which is not leadership material.

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      When commenters in the 2020 thread described the lightning bolts as a Nazi or racist symbol, Platner dismissed the criticism, writing that outsiders “have no idea what they’re talking about” and added, “I will be sure to inform the Black guys I know with bolts that they’re Nazis now.”

      Do you REALLY want to keep defending this guy because maybe he is just really really really fucking stupid and was selectively reading every single comment he replied to?

      And musk really was doing a roman salute and just didn’t realize the other possible meanings until it was too late, sure.

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        22 hours ago

        What blew my mind about the Nazi salute was Cory Booker doing it and hardly anyone batted an eye.