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.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipOP
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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.