• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    11
    ·
    9 hours ago

    and a skull tattoo he got while in the Marines that some said resembled a Nazi symbol

    🙄

    it was one though, hard to say that someone has grown if they’re feigning ignorance about the entire thing.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      7 hours ago

      If you’ve ever been in or known anyone in the service, you would know that it’s massively overblown and doesn’t “mean” anything. There are thousands of different varieties of skull and crossbone out there, you would have to be really deep in the nazi sauce to use that particular design as a signal.

      This is pretty much a “hasan’s dog” thing, it’s being overblown because of the desperate need by media personalities, including youtube streamers, to harvest money from reaction content, driving up everyone’s black-and-white thinking.

      We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        10
        ·
        7 hours ago

        Honestly his military service is even more disqualifying as far as I’m concerned, but I guess spending years gunning down brown foreigners appeals to the median democrat.

        We have actual nazis in office and running for office, people who don’t even hide it. We have to stay focused on what the actual dangers are.

        It’s a year out, if it’s that serious surely someone without all this baggage could run for office.

        • ameancow@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          7 hours ago

          Being against military service is a far more honest criticism, but also utterly unrealistic. We just don’t live in that world.

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            5
            ·
            6 hours ago

            sadly we’re in the world where the bipartisan consensus is for endless warmongering and turning a blind eye to nazis

            • ameancow@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              5 hours ago

              That’s a pretty 1-dimensional perspective. If you understand both the shitty reality we live in AND that nothing is black-and-white, you will be a lot more effective at actually pushing the needle towards progress, like so many actual great activists have done which has gotten us to a world where your chances of being murdered and raped and eaten by bandits has fallen dramatically low.

                • Maeve@kbin.earth
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  2 hours ago

                  I understand that 100. People kept quiet about Fetterman and his worrying behavior before he was elected, then after his stroke when it was brought up repeatedly, people kept blaming the stroke.

                  Yes, people change and maybe Fetterman did and the stroke caused regression; and maybe he didn’t and it didn’t.

                • ameancow@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  5 hours ago

                  if it means supporting someone like this guy I’d rather be rotating on a spit tyvm

                  That’s just utterly insane hyperbole that most likely has the opposite effect as you might think. I hope you grow more.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        4 hours ago

        Details? You’re looking at a different picture than I am.

        I just see a black blob.

        Also, thanks for posting that. It’s the first time I’ve actually seen a picture of the tattoo and as someone who hasn’t engrossed themselves in white supremacist culture, wouldn’t immediately place that as being a Nazi symbol.