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I wouldn't, but then again I'm not a drunk Marine.
Like the other user above, I've also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don't recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I'm not saying it isn't a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.
Yeah, I'm more inclined to believe that he was drunk, and a foreigner wasn't a fan of American Marines in his country, and branded him with a well known nazi symbol on his chest just to fuck with him.
Right. And you can blame bad decisions on being drunk. It's ridiculous but whatever. And then the next few decades when you ... checks notes ... don't actually look up the tattoo and ... checks notes ... actively ignore people who told you it was Nazi shit ... those years involved plenty of sober incidents.
Also, if you're going into national politics, you have to know that people will look into your past. So you ask your supporters to do it first, to deal with the rough stuff before it's trending around the globe. Every single politician in the world understands this basic point.
Would you look up something if you didn't suspect it was anything more than a random skull and crossbones? Why do you think people told him it was a nazi thing? I dunno this actually seems like a totally feasible story to me, especially when you see how shitty the thing looks.
People are acting like this is a well known symbol but I didn't know it nor has anyone in real life I've talked to about this
I would have assumed this was just a skull and crossbones design, not a specific Nazi symbol. Maybe some 40k shit.