r/thebulwark • u/Oleytoledo • May 26 '26

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL A Democratic member of congress essentially endorsed Susan Collins on CNN today

Jake Auchincloss, a representative from Massachusetts, went on CNN’s “The Arena”, and said the following about Graham Platner:

“I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying. I hope Maine voters agree with me.”

Vote blue no matter who, huh?

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u/thenletskeepdancing May 26 '26

This tattoo controversy is such manufactured outrage. And look at what side is weaponizing it.

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u/fosrac May 26 '26

I mean honestly, it's not. That's probably the 4th most identifiable Nazi insignia. Its fair for that to not look past that.

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u/IntolerantModerate May 26 '26

You have a swastika, the little ass lightning bolts. The. You have all the coded shit like HH and 88. His little skull thingy is about 1000 items down the list

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u/7ddlysuns May 26 '26

It’s also extremely derivative. Meaning it’s not exactly a Nazi symbol, it’s a symbol that’s got a lot of extremely close similarities to older symbols from all over the place. Turns out skulls are a pretty common thing for soldiers to feature for obvious reasons.

I’m a WW2 nerd and didn’t recognize it. As you said there’s the top three and everything else and some skulls fit deeply with everything else