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Okay, what are his behaviors?
I know, let's judge him on getting a god damned SS skull tattooed on his chest 20 years ago? No? Okay.
Let's judge him based on having confirmed he knows the heritage of said tattoo 5 years ago and STILL not getting it removed? No?
Can we judge him based on actively lying to the people he is trying to convince to vote for him about said tattoo? With the dumbest fucking excuse ever of him being a terminally online military history buff who was completely unaware of the fucking totenkopf? No? Damn, you got some real high standards.
I know! We can judge him based on his long history of homophobic slurs and really shitty views on sexual assault? No? Well, this IS America, women and gays don't matter. Moving on.
OOH OOOH! Can we judge him on having fucking joined Blackwater as a PMC? Still no? Damn.
Okay, fine. Let's judge him based on his long history of community service and political activism. ERROR: FILE NOT FOUND.
Okay, fine. We'll judge him based on a few things he said over the past couple months and a long history of internet shitposting. Platner For President!!!!
Honestly? To acknowledge he lied to his potential constituents and the American people. And to probably step down on this cycle because his very existence undermines every single "trump et al are fucking nazis" campaign.
I would also genuinely love for him to talk about how he was peer pressured into it in the military and that he was too ashamed to stand up. And then I want him to spend the next seven-ish years actually showing he has changed. Get those community service hours. Engage in political activism. Show us he is worth something.
Wait, why did I say seven years? Isn't a senate term six?
No. I want people to fucking realize it is over a year until the actual election and there is still PLENTY of time to continue this primary. And... maybe they can consider that Smith-Rodriguez was ALSO a veteran who ALSO had a demsoc platform
Literally your only argument is around a tattoo. Seriously. ? You literally have nothing else.
Nothing.
Yup. Nothing other than a guy lying about his two decades of repping the SS. Oh, that and the whole Blackwater mercenary thing. And the lack of any kind of political record. And the homophobic comments. And the shitty stance on sexual assault.
But yeah, aside from all that, we have nothing. I guess he really is all white.
You're just lying though. None of his posts confirmed he knew what it was.
In the thread in question
https://web.archive.org/web/20190226141422/https:/www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/auy0bi/battleweary_ss/
And, reproduced without edits, Lil Skorzeny himself
Confirming he understands that the punisher skull usage is in the same vein as the totenkopf. And considering his tattoo is much closer to the latter and he outright mocks the former?
So... try again. Maybe argue that him knowing how stupid it looks is an indicator that he always hated the nazi tattoo he had for 20 years and is thus a hero. Or just scream "fake news" until you go blue in the face.
Being downstream in a thread that mentioned totenkopf and then veered into Punisher skulls is not the same thing as "of hey, I've got one of those on my body". His reply is about Punisher skulls and in response to someone who was talking about Punisher skulls, who was themselves responding to a comment about Punisher skulls. There wasn't a picture posted and the comment immediately under it called it a "skull". He jumped in two replies deep into a conversation on the use of Punisher skulls in the military and if he wondered what the German word was 4 comments up, he already saw that it was "a skull", which him and others already saw as a pretty widely used icon.
Surely you've never seen someone join into a conversation in a child comment who obviously didn't think deeply about a comment 4 levels upstream. Not on our Internet.
You're lying about facts.