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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody ever told him the large SS-Totenkopf tattoo he's had on his chest for the last 18 years is a Nazi symbol (www.notus.org)
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[–] kn33@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

“We got very inebriated, and we did what Marines on liberty do, and we decided to go get a tattoo. We went to a tattoo parlor in Split, Croatia. We chose a terrifying-looking skull and crossbones off the wall … a pretty standard military thing,”

and you did not, at any point in this "skull and crossbones" endeavor, have your "are we the baddies" moment?

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In fairness, that is asking a marine to have thought something through.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Too busy eating crayons.

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hey I've been informed that red is a tasty color.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

not enough jammed up the nose, into the brain, like Homer.

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 12 points 3 days ago

Did you miss the subtle subtext in the first sentence? Or do you not know anyone at all who was or is in the military? I only know two or three but still one of them cut off the top of his own head with a ceiling fan. Thats the level of decision making and impulse control you expect from sober young men in the military.

[–] discosnails@lemmy.wtf 8 points 3 days ago

Worth noting that the Croatians were and are often still super aligned with Nazi shit.