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People are taking about graham and not Stewart.
For graham, I'm going to choose to answer this like you're actually not aware, but he has a history of having had a Nazi totenkopf tattoo that he said he covered up as soon as he realized it was a Nazi tattoo. Except his Reddit history and two acquaintances indicate that he knew for quite a while, for years even, that he had a Nazi tattoobefore covering it up. which also means he has probably lied about it.
Additionally, he willingly, after being a part of the military and being part of an invasion in the Middle East, chose to join Constellis (formerly blackwater). He was not in combat but still supporting a military mercenary group like this is super sketch.
Additionally, he has on his Reddit handle had comments in which he is very dismissive of rape and victim blamed quite heavily.
This is all quite a few years ago and he claims that he's changed a lot as a person, but he has a lot of controversy and a lot of red flags in his past.
I've seen no evidence of his reddit comments either acknowledging his tattoo as a hate symbol or victim blaming rape survivors. I have however seen people bring up a comment he made to a rape survivor which was in no way blaming her for what happened to her, instead he was trying to dispel any internal negative thoughts she might be having about her value as a person being diminished now... Seemed like a heartfelt genuine message, albeit risky. Almost like he was a dude who never expected to run for office.
I feel like we're just taking the Blackwater bit and extrapolating that he has to be a bad person for life now and reading between all the other lines to secure that conclusion. I don't buy it.
The interpretations of his reddit threads feel... Very generous.
Here is this thread as p-hustle about the totenkopf. He responds directly to a thread discussing the totenkopf as a Nazi symbol, but he does not mention it directly but instead talks about the punisher skull. But also he has an acquaintance who said he used to jokingly call the tatoo "my Totenkopf" over a decade ago and who had text receipts of talking about platners Nazi tattoo. plus planters political director, Genevieve McDonald, resigned and said that the campaign had been aware of the tattoo since she joined, and that Platner himself acknowledged it "could be problematic."
Then the rape threads. How does this sound like someone trying to "dispel any negative internal thoughts?"
And since were doing reddit threads, here's a bonus where he talks about urinating on dead bodies as only bad due to the current state of media??
Look, if I lived in Maine, which I don't so it doesn't really matter, I'd vote platner (even if what's her face democrat was still running in the primaries) because fuck the establishment dems and fuck Susan Collins. But I'm sick of pretending he has no red flags. Let's vote for him, but let's watch him like a hawk after.
Gotcha, I haven't seen the rape one you mentioned yet. That's a pretty dogshit take from him obviously. The one I saw was less than 13 years old and was as I described it. The other examples don't seem that smoking gun to me, but clearly 13 years ago he was a very different person.
I think that what I dont like about the situation currently is it feels quite obvious he lied about not knowing about the meaning behind his tattoo. I understand getting a stupid tatoo as a kid. I even understand putting off covering it cos you're lazy. But its pretty obvious he's lied about it when he's really pushing thats he's more honest than the establishment politicians he's running against.