Gonna be really interesting to see how this guy turns out. A nazi that Lemmys love?
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2025
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I honestly can't tell smear campaigns from fact from opinion from truth... anymore. I'm just tried. Y'all win.
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The outrage over Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo is the same tired playbook the DNC used against Bernie and Mamdani. When someone refuses to toe the corporate line, they reach for the smear file. This time they are pretending a centuries-old military emblem is proof of fascist sympathies. It is lazy, ahistorical, and typical of a leadership class that thrives on cultural panic instead of context.
The Totenkopf, or “death’s head,” has a long military lineage that predates the Nazis by more than a hundred years. Prussian cavalry first used it in the 18th century, and the Brunswick Hussars under Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick wore it during the Seven Years’ War as a symbol of fearlessness and a reminder of mortality. It was never political. It was about the reality that soldiers live with death close by and fight in spite of it.
By the Napoleonic era, both Prussian and Brunswick forces kept the tradition alive. The Brunswick “Black Brunswickers” who fought against Napoleon wore black uniforms with silver skulls on their shakos. For them the skull meant defiance and the willingness to die for their homeland, not devotion to ideology.
In World War I, the Totenkopf appeared again among elite German units such as the 17th and 92nd Hussars. It stood for camaraderie, courage, and readiness to face death. The Nazis later stole and corrupted it for the SS and concentration camp guards, but that does not erase its earlier meaning.
The skull also appeared in the British Army. The 17th Lancers adopted the skull-and-crossbones in 1759 after the Battle of Warburg, pairing it with the motto “Death or Glory.” It became famous during the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854. For them, the image carried the same memento mori message that European soldiers had shared for centuries: remember death, and live with courage.
To those of us who study and reenact military history, the Totenkopf is not inherently fascist. It is part of a broader European tradition where the skull reminds soldiers that life is fragile and valor is not eternal. It is a symbol of mortality and defiance, not hate. History deserves context before condemnation.
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If he actually thinks Nazism is repulsive he can live stream the removal.
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Oh, I love this game:
Nazis were incredibly interested in tattoos.
OP is incredibly interested in tattoos.
Therefore OP is a Nazi.
Reality is irrelevant if you're just willing to engage in ad hominem, fallacies and motivated reasoning.
That this story needs deep investigation is illogical. The man has had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years, and said he never knew. There are 2 reasonable possibilities:
Either he is extremely dull -- a disqualification from office
or
He is a liar
also a disqualification from office.
To dive into the story, is an effort to support what? a person who's behavior has disqualified him. Or else, he is undisqualifiable, and that's a interesting point.
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