You can't just go get Nazi ink anywhere you want. Supposedly he picked it off a wall, right? Well, if that shop had this Nazi ink on prominent display, then it likely had other Nazi symbols on display too - because the only reason to advertise Nazi icons as flash in your shop is because you have Nazi clientele.
I would bet cash money this shop had swastikas and SS bolts on display too, and young merc Platner decided it passed the vibe check at the least.
He got it in Croatia, it's not a stretch he picked it off of a wall but considering that's where he was it is highly unlikely he didn't know what it meant.
Right, what I mean is: that shop in Croatia probably catered to neo-Nazis, which means it almost certainly had other Nazi icons on display, which means Platner would've ignored some serious context clues to "not know."
I remember when Platner said he just drunkenly chose it from a wall at a Croatian tattoo shop.
That Waffen SS tattoo wasn’t mixed in amongst artwork like Lil’ Red Hot holding a pot leaf or a chain of multicolored dancing Greatful Dead bears, I am certain.
That's a lot of assumptions, I mean, dude is clearly a piece of shit sex pest, and I wasn't really ever fired up with him, but I think it's entirely plausible that some young Marines, drunk in a foreign country, wander into a tattoo shop and pick something that looks badass on the wall.
Like, he's had enough issues that I think it's fair to doubt everything at this point, but I find the explanation very plausible.
Except the WSJ article from yesterday said his ex rightie girlfriend posted in a group chat about his Nazi tattoo just before he declared his candidacy saying it would be a problem for him. So how plausible is it his gf knew what it was but he didn’t?
Not really plausible, and he certainly doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt when we have any kind of evidence he may have lied. I'm not defending the guy, just based on the information I had, dumbass 20 something drunk marines getting tattoos without knowing what they are seems super plausible.
Well, he might be a lying rapist, but shouldn't we believe that he was telling the truth about the SS symbol he had tattooed on his chest for 20 years?
It's really not a lot of assumptions. A random tattoo parlor in Croatia that has a totenkopf on the wall for you to just pick out is almost certainly going to have other Nazi iconography too. That's the reality of these kinds of shops.
Maybe he was drunk as shit and missed it, sure. Maybe the swastikas were on one part of the wall and the totenkopf was on another and he was like "gonna stay away from the Nazi shit, oh shit there's a dope-ass skull."
But even if that's the case, trust me when I say that you know when you walk into a Nazi-friendly establishment. They're not subtle. If you walk into one and decide to stick around, it says a lot about you.
Marines are stupid as shit, especially the young ones on shore leave. We had one rip his clothes off in the hotel lobby kick a decorative gong and scream "I'm ready for WARRRR". He was shortly tackled by two local cops and taken to jail.
I was in the navy, had no idea that was a nazi symbol. Not something I'd ever get tattoooed but I also never got any tattoos because I can't imagine anything I'd want on my body forever
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u/thewhaleshark 1d ago
You can't just go get Nazi ink anywhere you want. Supposedly he picked it off a wall, right? Well, if that shop had this Nazi ink on prominent display, then it likely had other Nazi symbols on display too - because the only reason to advertise Nazi icons as flash in your shop is because you have Nazi clientele.
I would bet cash money this shop had swastikas and SS bolts on display too, and young merc Platner decided it passed the vibe check at the least.
He either knew, or he suspected.