Sucks I will vote for the nazi tattoo guy

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I will concede that the overall silhouette could be interpreted as resembling a totenkopf. At the same time, Platner’s tatt is missing the nose hole, and the crossbones are very weak sauce.

IMHO, it looks like not resembling much of anything. Certainly not a “hey dude, check out my bad ass skull and cross bones tatt.” I certainly lean towards it was prolly originally a generic skull‑and‑crossbones flash design that looked a lot better in the flash, and that both the artist and the recipient were drunk off their asses.

Can we agree that, yes, the silhouette actually could be from a totenkopf? However, the actual execution sure is difficult to decipher what it is supposed to actually represent. Hell, personally, I wouldn’t call it a “pirate tattoo” simply because it doesn’t really look like anything readily recognizable. But if you squint really hard, you could maybe make the leap to some kind of skull and bones motif.

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He has said it was a totenkopf, this fact has not been disputed by absolutely anyone. There is no “could” here, it is a totenkopf.

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Well, it’s been disputed by a number of posters here on behalf of Platner, but it has not been disputed by him or anyone connected to his campaign.

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Cite? And, in keeping with the whole fighting ignorance thing, second hand or worse unattributable pontification is not a cite. Thanks for playing.

Please share a direct quote or real cite from “He”, Graham Parker, acknowledging that he knew it was a totenkopf or knew he had a Nazi symbol tattoo well before he started his Senate run.

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Hold up, that is a big change. You said it may or may not be a totenkopf, not that he may or may not have known. He has explicitly acknowledged the former and denied the latter.

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This is the best i could find. He says it looked like a Nazi symbol, i couldn’t find him saying it was a Nazi symbol

Years ago I got a skull and crossbones tattoo with my buddies in the Marine Corps.

I was appalled to learn it closely resembled a Nazi symbol. I altered it yesterday, into something that isn’t deeply offensive to my core beliefs.

I am very sorry to all of you who had to contemplate a symbol of hate over the past 48 hours.

Also, here’s a very friendly interview with Jon Stewart. At around 46 minutes he talks about having written stupid things on the Internet and why he didn’t join the alt right