Yeah, it’s far more likely that he wanted a cool tattoo, went to a tattoo place, saw a cool skull, and said “yeah, that one” without knowing that there was lore behind it. And he had it removed. People are allowed to not know everything, people are allowed to make mistakes, and I applaud people who admit their mistakes and seek to correct them.
Platner had a ton of baggage, some more warranted than others. This one was a nothing burger. But he’s dropped out for a maybe credible real problem, so we let that play out while looking for somebody else to run for Senate. It can’t be that hard to find somebody with a similar message and less baggage. Just somebody who will fight this class war for us, who can reach conservatives with that message, and who hasn’t done any raping. Is that such a high bar?
Any tattoo place displaying a totenkopf is displaying ss runes and swastikas right next to it. Because only Nazi tattoo shops give Nazi tattoos. Anyone that knows anything about tattoo culture knows this. Nobody accidentally gets a Nazi tattoo.
You’re forgetting “who can beat the establishment at the media game.” That’s the real bottleneck here, and either way grassroots campaigns take time to get going. Save for a major upset occurring, this is now a tossup between the libs and the fascists.
I think that people are getting sick of fake bullshit artists like Jeffries. I’m optimistic that given a choice between a squeaky clean, media-trained establishment dem and a blue collar, bearded, confident guy preaching the blunt truth about how we’re all getting fucked by the oligarchs, most people pick the latter.
As the boomers die, the only people left will be the people who have seen only the failures of capitalism and none of the successes. In just the past 20 years, what wins can we point to? Because I can point out the 08 housing crisis recession, minimum wage stagnation, Citizens United in 2010, market monopolization, the European sovereign debt crisis, refusal to lockdown during COVID because of how it would affect the economy, the inflation and supply chain results of mishandling COVID (not to mention the absurd death toll), the current and future results of attacking Iran, and the imminent crash when the AI bubble pops while so much of the market “diversity” is attached to tech companies accruing insane debt for something yet to be proven profitable.
This shit just ain’t working, and I think that all it takes is a charismatic person pointing that out and then saying “here’s my solution for that…” and they win. Stop smiling. Be pissed. “They’re fucking us. Let me fight them for you. I’m tired of writing to Senators who autogenerate bullshit responses, I’m ready to be the Senator that fixes this shit. Let me represent how pissed off you are at this system that’s fucking the people of our state.”
Yeah, it’s far more likely that he wanted a cool tattoo, went to a tattoo place, saw a cool skull, and said “yeah, that one” without knowing that there was lore behind it. And he had it removed. People are allowed to not know everything, people are allowed to make mistakes, and I applaud people who admit their mistakes and seek to correct them.
Platner had a ton of baggage, some more warranted than others. This one was a nothing burger. But he’s dropped out for a maybe credible real problem, so we let that play out while looking for somebody else to run for Senate. It can’t be that hard to find somebody with a similar message and less baggage. Just somebody who will fight this class war for us, who can reach conservatives with that message, and who hasn’t done any raping. Is that such a high bar?
Any tattoo place displaying a totenkopf is displaying ss runes and swastikas right next to it. Because only Nazi tattoo shops give Nazi tattoos. Anyone that knows anything about tattoo culture knows this. Nobody accidentally gets a Nazi tattoo.
You’re forgetting “who can beat the establishment at the media game.” That’s the real bottleneck here, and either way grassroots campaigns take time to get going. Save for a major upset occurring, this is now a tossup between the libs and the fascists.
I think that people are getting sick of fake bullshit artists like Jeffries. I’m optimistic that given a choice between a squeaky clean, media-trained establishment dem and a blue collar, bearded, confident guy preaching the blunt truth about how we’re all getting fucked by the oligarchs, most people pick the latter.
As the boomers die, the only people left will be the people who have seen only the failures of capitalism and none of the successes. In just the past 20 years, what wins can we point to? Because I can point out the 08 housing crisis recession, minimum wage stagnation, Citizens United in 2010, market monopolization, the European sovereign debt crisis, refusal to lockdown during COVID because of how it would affect the economy, the inflation and supply chain results of mishandling COVID (not to mention the absurd death toll), the current and future results of attacking Iran, and the imminent crash when the AI bubble pops while so much of the market “diversity” is attached to tech companies accruing insane debt for something yet to be proven profitable.
This shit just ain’t working, and I think that all it takes is a charismatic person pointing that out and then saying “here’s my solution for that…” and they win. Stop smiling. Be pissed. “They’re fucking us. Let me fight them for you. I’m tired of writing to Senators who autogenerate bullshit responses, I’m ready to be the Senator that fixes this shit. Let me represent how pissed off you are at this system that’s fucking the people of our state.”
I’m not sure why you are catching strays for this. I think your comment brings up good points.