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‘This is oligarchy’: Nearly 100 billionaires are funding Susan Collins’ reelection bid (www.commondreams.org)
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“While Susan Collins’ campaign is backed by billionaire donors, our campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average donation of $26,” said Graham Platner’s campaign manager.

A new analysis of campaign finance data shows that nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ reelection bid so far, funneling nearly $10 million to the incumbent’s campaign committee and PACs supporting her effort to fend off progressive challenger Graham Platner.

The Maine Monitor on Thursday published a list of billionaires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his Republican opponent a “corrupt” protector and beneficiary of an oligarchic political system.

The outlet noted that Collins’ billionaire donation total “stands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent... whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.”

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

I mean if you've ever covered nazi Germany in a history class you've seen the totenkop

That's a stretch. I don't recall ever seeing a totenkopf in a history textbook. Maybe if you majored in history with a focus in WWII, but that's not the majority of people.

If you've seen popular media featuring Nazis you've seen the totenkopf.

I don't think I've ever noticed one portrayed in any media depicting nazis either. Inglorious Bastards? Sound of Music? The Pianist? It's a Beautiful Life? Schindler's List? Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Show me a screenshot from any of those movies that has a totenkopf.

If you've played the wolfenstein remake [...]

How many people is that? Oh, not the majority. Great.

Yeah, if you're totally unaware that the totenkopf is well known and exclusively Nazi symbol

I wasn't aware of that until I read about it in the context of Platner.

and you tattoo it on yourself

I wouldn't have anyway because I think it looks stupid.

at a tattoo parlor willing to give Nazi tattoos

I don't think those kinds of parlors exactly advertise themselves as such.

and everyone in your life that sees it for the decade plus you are displaying it

You still haven't convinced me that the majority of people even know what it is.

then absolutely you and all those people that saw and also didn't know are stupid.

I guess I'm stupid then.

You cannot get a Nazi tattoo by accident unless you're really really really fucking dumb.

I don't have any tattoos, but I can still see how someone might have walked into a tattoo shop, picked something out of their catalog and gotten it without researching the history or symbolism behind it. It's not that crazy to believe.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I learned about the fuckin thing in grade school history in the goddamn rural Midwest. You're just saying that most people are really stupid. You've got a big fuckin blind spot for fascist imagery and it's got you doing nazi apologism. Ignorance isn't a goddamn excuse in a lot of situations and this is one of them. Nobody accidentally gets a nazi tattoo because it's not fuckin easy to find a tattoo shop that tolerates nazi imagery in the first place and the ones that do are fuckin nazi shops. Ignorance does not get to be an excuse for tattooing a goddamn death's head on you. No. If you knew anything about tattoo culture you'd know him getting in the first place very nearly guarantees he knew what it was. I'd still prefer him over Susan Collins but he's either lying or really fucking dumb and these are the only two options. Or he was forced to join a prison gang, so I guess three options but I'm pretty sure it's not the third. It is impossible to accidentally get a nazi tattoo.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Woopdie friggin doo, you learned something so that must mean everyone knows it, right? I learned lots of shit in grade school that I found out later not everyone knows. People thought I was arrogant for assuming they all know the same shit as me. That's what you're doing now.

    You've got a big fuckin blind spot for fascist imagery and it's got you doing nazi apologism

    Nothing I've said was nazi apologism, get the fuck outta here with that strawman. He says he didn't know what it was when he got it, and I believe that's a reasonable explanation. Maybe you don't, that's fine, whatever, but that doesn't make me a nazi apologist.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You're making excuses for an explicitly exclusively nazi tattoo. That's apologism buddy.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm saying he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo. That's not apologism.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    And I'm saying that's bullshit because he would have to be one step above totally fucking braindead to unknowingly get a nazi tattoo at a nazi tattoo shop. So is he lying or pants-shittingly fucking dumb? Both are serious concerns that should be absolutely disqualifying under any normal circumstances but he can't be worse than Collins so here we are.

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