This is why allowing random clowns high on entitled self-importance, like @timfullerton.bsky.social to have a platform is a laughable mistake. This idiot has spent DAYS defending his choice to glaze a Nazi running for US Senate, and he doesn’t know who else is in the race they’re talking about.

In closing, I'll go back to what I said last night: bsky.app/profile/char...

Instead, he and/or his advisors decided to go the exasperated, "Fine, if it's SUCH a big deal I'll cover it up, SATISFIED NOW?" route, like a teenager who blows off putting dishes in the dishwasher & finally does so after being nagged while rolling their eyes & making a big show of doing so.

If he had STARTED his campaign playing the "I used to be a complete dick, then I changed, here's my journey from asshole to decent person" narrative, including "I even got a fucking Nazi tattoo because I was a naive moron in my youth" I'd be a LOT more sympathetic. But he didn't.

5. Finally: I believe him when he says that he's a different person now. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that the person he's changed into is much better, seeing how the person he is NOW is a wannabe national-level politician trying to gaslight people AFTER being busted for being an asshole in his past.

4. I think that he made cutesy references to it being "my Totenkopf" around friends/family years ago, as several people who knew him have claimed, but honestly thought it was No Big Whup. He STILL doesn't seem to grasp how Big of a Whup it is even now. He's STILL treating it like a mere annoyance.

He might've even thought he, who has "hated Nazis since he was 12" was getting the tattoo "ironically" like Matthew Modine wearing both a peace symbol button & "Born to Kill" on his helmet in Full Metal Jacket. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEV...

3. I personally think that he knew damned well what it was when he got it but didn't give a shit at the time because at that time he was a shitposting edgelord type who thought it was "cool" & "macho" & "alpha male" & "edgy" to get a Nazi tattoo at the time.

So, here's my own take: 1. No, I don't think he's a "secret Nazi" or even an open one. 2. He absolutely *is* either a blatant liar & gaslighter (if he knew) or a blithering idiot (if he didn't). At a BARE minimum, he's the least intellectually curious "military history" buff in the world.

They then turn to a brief discussion about outreach to the Maine Jewish community, Israel/Gaza & the distinction between being Jewish and the Netanyahu government, which was...fine, I suppose. But you know what I never once heard? An actual apology.

He then says something very weird: "I've taken my shirt off in front of other people who were antifacist organizing." Once again: WHY DO YOU KEEP TAKING YOUR SHIRT OFF IN THESE INAPPROPRIATE PUBLIC SETTINGS?

Platner then, to my astonishment, actually says "I KNOW THAT NEONAZIS USE A SIMILAR THING" but that he "always thought of it as just something I got with some guys in Croatia." CROATIA. www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-r...

Next, a different host (Kris Goldsmith) does call him out on that by saying Platner "knew damned well what NSC-131, Blood Tribe, etc" are and that he finds it difficult to believe that Platner somehow didn't know the tattoo's significance. Platner keeps saying that he "never made the connection."

He says that he *thought about covering it up* for years because it's a part of his life he's no longer associated with--fair enough--but again, HE NEVER ONCE THOUGHT TO ACTUALLY LOOK IT UP TO SEE WHETHER THIS PERMANENT SCARRING OF HIS CHEST MEANT ANYTHING MORE THAN A SKULL & CROSSBONES? 10/

As an aside: He keeps talking about how he supposedly was constantly "taking his shirt off at the bar" when he was a bartender. Why was he taking his shirt off at the bar? I suppose if he was changing into/out of a uniform before/after work, maybe, but it's a weird thing to constantly reference.

He then says "If I thought it was widely recognized as being affiliated with white supremacism or Nazis I wouldn't have taken my shirt off" He does NOT ever say "If I thought it was affiliated w/Nazism I would have had it removed immediately," just that he "wouldn't have taken his shirt off. 8/

NOT ONCE in this interview does he address the claims by two different people, one of whom was his own political director, that he knew EXACTLY what it was and what it meant YEARS ago. NOT ONCE does he address the Reddit thread he participated in years ago which DIRECTLY DISCUSSED the Totenkopf. 7/

Next we get into the timeline of him "finding out" what it meant: He claims he "first found out" about it "a couple of weeks ago" (basically a few days before the Pod Save America podcast, where he tried to get ahead of the story). 6/

As a retired Marine I can tell you straight up that he's full of it. It was also a tattoo *on his chest* that he presumably saw every single day before he got in/out of the shower. And he never once looked it up? He's lying to you and you are getting rolled.

He repeatedly insists that he "never thought about it in anything other than a military context" which...I mean, ok, but you're saying that you didn't ONCE in 18 years ever think to look it up even out of idle curiosity, given that you're not only a soldier but also supposedly a military buff? 5/

Platner then again airily shrugs it off as being just "a skull & crossbones," chuckling slightly about it. He again reiterates that "skull & crossbones" logos have been "popular since the Romans" (not the greatest reference if you're trying to win over Jews, btw). 4/

--you refer to the tattoo as "resembling" an insignia which "some" SS Nazis used. It didn't just "resemble" the Totenkopf insignia, it WAS that SPECIFIC insignia, used by the SS Death's Head Units to administer the Nazi death camps. The fact that you can't even admit what it was is...troubling.

--You refer to his ugly/nasty Reddit comments as happening "years ago" which is technically true...the most recent shitpost was June 2021, which was indeed "years ago" but was also just 22 months before he appears to have registered his campaign domain name in April 2023. 2/

OK, I listened to the last 20 minutes of the episode (the whole section about the tattoo). Here's what i heard: 1/

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

What’s that, all those folks out there who say Mamdani didn’t use Lander as a token and then cast him aside once his value had been spent?

QUESTION: Who is your political inspiration? SCHLOSBERG: “In the modern era, I love Nancy Pelosi… the most important female political figure in American history… the backbone of the Democratic Party… the reason we have the Affordable Care Act… she deserves a lot of credit for the example she set.”

When I need the wiring in my apartment repaired, I don’t want to hire a “career electrician” to fix it. I want the guy who *least* wants to work with electrical wiring, and I’ll just pay him a little extra afterwards. I’m sure he can figure it out, how difficult could it possibly be?

my dad got so mad that he had to explain to me what oral sex was when the first Clinton blowjob scandal happened. this is now a cross generational experience

I am just infinitely infuriated by "loving our community for who we are [sex workers]" like, I'm not being puritanical here! I just... I do not know what the proper, nice way to say "I don't appreciate being told I am intrinsically a prostitute" is, but I do not in fact appreciate that!

"Preserving our culture" is easily the biggest signifier of reactionary thinking across virtually all categories. Culture changes. It melds and evolves with its environment. And while some aspects are worth remembering and even bringing into the future, the majority is just the vibes of the time.

I know I go pretty intense on this, but I'm just deeply offended by people who think that there's something meritorious about forcing people who share an arbitrary demographic category with them to be part of an anti-authoritarian counterculture with weird practices when they don't want to be

sincerely, the maladjusted misfits who are obsessed with "preserving trans culture" do harm to young people who just want to be themselves. and, like, middle-aged and old people who just want to be themselves. they play into our enemies' beliefs. the loss of this "culture" should be celebrated.

the "trans culture" that Nicole calls "we" is based around reifying oppression and suffering and a refusal to participate in mainstream society. that culture absolutely is going to die out, and future generations of trans women will be like Sarah McBride and not like what Nicole imagines she is.

I mean, they can't and it doesn't. don't print lies in the newspaper.

Happy 74th Birthday to 🇺🇸American theatre, film and television actress and producer Beverly D'Angelo born #OnThisDay in Columbus, Ohio

"ChatGPT is my friend, ChatGPT is my therapist" Wow that's cool have you ever asked ChatGPT about of the myths of Narcissus and Pandora

Rats will always try to flee the ship before it sinks. None of these people think he (or they) did anything wrong, this is entirely about the avoidance of consequences.

Jesus Christ.

i would like to move to the society from Orson Scott Card’s EMPIRE, where all libs are issued a mechaspider

The twenty-first #JamesBond film "CASINO ROYALE" directed by Martin Campbell, starring Daniel Craig in his first appearance as secret agent 007 with Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen and Judi Dench, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London #OnThisDay in 2006 🎬 Eon Productions

Celebrating Gerty Cori on #WorldDiabetesDay. Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM

I kinda hate the whole "Trump blew Bill" joke meme 1. because people keep wanting to drag Clinton into Epstein they're doing theater of the absurd, which doesn't bode well for people keeping their heads with the Bondi investigation 2. it just distracts from all the real Trump Epstein stuff.

Sad but true.

Good fucking riddance, though it’s not nearly enough. Deport this Stalinist cunt back to Russia where she belongs, and send Nick Fuentes with her.

All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.

I'm sure it's sheer coincidence that the graphics are shaped like...sperm?

Shocking: Another antisemitic KKKunt who claims Epstein was really part of Mossad, as if having a pedophile on the payroll is somehow helpful in intelligence gathering. These Israel-obsessed leftists like @judi999.bsky.social are truly the scum of the earth.

“Ready, the Amelia Earhart document dump. Friday, 6PM Eastern time. That’ll keep the libs busy all weekend, no time for Epstein at all!” “Go ahead and get the Jimmy Hoffa packet ready and sent to LibsofTikTok for proofreading ahead of a Monday dropzone.” 😂🤣 can’t make this 💩 up.

you: it probably is not actually true that donald trump blew bill clinton me: it depends on what your definition of is is