Can we appeal the sentencing (or absolute lack of)?

It’s because they weren’t seen as being brutal enough. Things are about to get even worse.

It isn’t even an iq test, it’s a cognitive test. For dementia and stroke patients. Questions are things like ‘place the numbers where they go on an analog clock.’

Just a guess, and OP may correct me if I’m wrong, but it would probably be the nazi tattoo he has had on his chest for the past 20 years.

One interview, which I referenced and which he did not denounce the tattoo. So if you have any further examples, please point them out.

Where has he denounced it? In his rebuttal on Pod Save America he merely stated that he didn’t know what it was; which is obvious bullshit or he’s too much of an idiot to hold office. What I want is a candidate that doesn’t have a nazi tattoo on their chest, which somehow is not a dealbreaker for you. Be better.

Haha, right on, almost put that if it was sarcasm then you totally got me on it. After being called a puritan for taking issue with him having a nazi tattoo, I can’t tell who is being serious or not on this anymore.

I think my favorite lighthearted response (from bluesky) was- Never trust a man with frosted tips. Seems like a pretty good code to live by.

You do realize the election is a year away and the primaries haven’t happened yet, right? It is in no way a binary choice between those two candidates.

He has a nazi tattoo!! Wtf are you talking about? That is disqualifying, end of story.

It amazes me how many people on this site are still going to bat for Platner after this has come out. I think this post does a good job of pointing out why the defense I keep seeing on here about him not knowing what it meant falls flat. Dude is a military history buff and someone doesn’t know what that incredibly famous image means? I don’t buy it for a second. Maybe twenty years ago when he got it, but zero chance that hasn’t been brought to his attention by now. Especially with the report that he used to go around and tell people that that’s exactly what it was.

Jfc, are you serious? I’m a puritan because I take issue with someone having a literal nazi tattoo. The election is a year away, find a better candidate to get behind before then, it’s that simple. Do you also believe that Elon Musk was just reaching for his heart and waving during Trump’s inauguration? Do you think that Pete Hegseth got a Deus Vult tattoo because it looks cool?

Platner was a mercenary who served four tours in the middle east, has a tier-list of wars he would fight in, is into military history. Zero fucking chance he doesn’t know what that symbol is at this age.

It is ok that you supported him. He said a lot of things that are worth getting behind. There is now more than enough information out there to realize that he is, at best, a political liability.

Having a nazi tattoo is a non-starter for a political candidate. If you can’t see that, then I don’t know what to tell you. Just because you are able to look past that, which you absolutely should not, you need to realize that he is unelectable to the general public. There is no amount of rehab to his image that can be done for this.

He has a nazi tattoo on his chest. Not, he got a nazi tattoo when he was young and drunk and didn’t know and as soon as he found out he got that shit covered up. He, to this day, has a Totenkopf tattoo. For the people in the back:

ANY CANDIDATE WITH A NAZI TATTOO IS A NON-STARTER.

Edit: Robert Evans sums it up well on Bluesky

i liked how Platner was campaigning and I am prepared to believe a young marine could make literally any stupid mistake. but I don’t believe a guy could spend twenty years maturing politically the way he has and not know what a death’s head means

if his attitude from the jump has been “I did this as a kid and have been ashamed of it since, it was a terrible mistake” I don’t think I’d mind. but he’s just not being honest here and that’s suspicious as hell.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf,” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.

Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance.

The mixed accounts indicate that Platner has at least long been aware of the symbols’s connection to Nazism, even as he said in the podcast interview he was not familiar with any such association when he chose to get the tattoo.

The source for this is Jewish Insider, which I’m sure people will say whatever they are going to say about that, but at some point this guys multiple red flags need to be taken as a pattern.

Dude has a very clear pattern of making questionable choices in the most favorable reading of circumstances. His former campaign manager said this when resigning over Grahams past comments:

“The words we choose to use online reflect who we are and what we stand for. While I am empathetic to Graham’s experiences and respect his personal journey and growth, I cannot overlook the volume and nature of his past comments, many of which were made as an adult, not as a young man.” McDonald said in her resignation letter.

Y’all need to stop apologizing for this guy and start looking for a better candidate to get behind so it isn’t Janet Mills in the general.

I had dual boot with win10 for a while, but when they had that ‘bug’ that was wiping peoples linux partition I dropped Windows completely. As dar as I’m concerned Linux and other FOSS in general has reached a point where it meets the majority of my needs. Same goes for local storage vs needing anything through the cloud or streeaming.

27 years old, dude looks 50 in that photo.

I mean, the apostle Paul, who wrote like half of the New Testament, was a literal Pharisee. He ‘converted,’ and took over after the fact.

But here’s why MY use of ai is ok.

-OP throughout this thread

Only tangible thing it produces.

No clue, but its all from one account spamming all the replies, so probably a bot or someone trying to derail legitimate conversation since its taking over the thread. I had to pull it back up to see what you were talking about and have blocked that account now that you pointed it out. Modern social media, more blocks than follows.

Her response is fantastic and does not mince words. bluesky link