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.

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/10/graham-platner-ss-tattoo-maine-senate/

politicians who compromise with fascists are still miles better than just uncompromised fascism

the paradox of tolerance, ever heard of it?

That’s the dream, but a lot of ‘leftists’ aren’t always quite fully anti-capitalist yet. They can get there, but it takes time and learning/unlearning. I’ve started just calling myself a socialist because it is more direct. Leftist is more vibes based for a lot of people.

Handwaving fascist tattoos is ceding too much in my opinion. This should be a moment where liberals have some self awareness and grapple with the use of state power to service the whims of capital, but history doesn’t provide a hopeful forecast in that regard.

There are witnesses to him jokingly referring to it as his ‘totenkopf’ like 8 years ago when he worked at a bar. Anyone interested in military history should probably be aware of it as well.

LMAO LOL even

this is some “Blue MAGA or Nazi Veteran, no other choice can exist” right here

DNC plant

Graham Platner >> reg haram plant

Vote PSL, death to IDF, free Palestine, recognize Nazi tattoos, it’s socialism or barbarism y’all

The reality all leftists/socialists must confront is that the only way forward might require the window to be broken.

US politics is filled with so damn many overt and explicit racists and Nazis that are so damn comfortable being mask off

Ya, let’s not make a big deal out of this tattoo, seems like that will really help with this situation.

Just amazing response.

punched in the face and thrown into a cage

people like you have fucked everything up

ya, don’t mention the Dems support for drone killings and genocide, that has no relation to anything that is currently happening

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang

tfw you are trying to make a dumb comparison between Hitler and a socialist leader in South America

Indian Wars

This was quite literally one of the inspirations for Nazi ideology of settler-colonialism in Eastern Europe.

Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to 1,033,000 excess deaths (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey). Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study). Body counts counted at least 110,600 violent deaths as of April 2009 (Associated Press). The Iraq Body Count project documents 186,901–210,296 violent civilian deaths in their table.

Nazi tattoo

Enjoys imperialist wars against native populations with less capacity to fight back

hmmmm

Well they did lose on the battlefield eventually, mostly thanks to the USSR.

Let me know when he expresses any intent about decreasing US militarism/imperialism.

Small wars are pretty enjoyable.

Just a lot of killing civilians in the globe south for this guy.

LMAO

You think Ukraine is “left”? You think Venezuela is “right”?

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner said Wednesday he has covered up a controversial tattoo that appeared to have a resemblance to a Nazi symbol.

Platner, a U.S. military veteran and oyster farmer who is running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine, said in an Instagram video that he got his “skull and crossbones” tattoo covered on Tuesday.

It was a SS-style totenkopf tattoo. He knew what is was for years.

The same symbol is used often in Ukraine military.

It also appears in this skit.

lmao

Tankies attempts at humour are worse than the GOP’s. Do better.

same vibe