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PeaceWave

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You're blaming his wife? leftstreet Oct 2025 #1
its the LEAST nazi image of nazi images. pansypoo53219 Oct 2025 #2
Some Americans have interests in Nazi symbolism and memorabilia fujiyamasan Oct 2025 #3
Has anyone asked Graham Platner's art teacher wife, Amy Gertner, her opinion of Israel's GENOCIDE Jack Valentino Oct 2025 #4

leftstreet

(41,075 posts)
1. You're blaming his wife?
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 05:01 PM
Oct 2025

pansypoo53219

(23,104 posts)
2. its the LEAST nazi image of nazi images.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 02:01 AM
Oct 2025

its also the worst nazi look.

fujiyamasan

(1,895 posts)
3. Some Americans have interests in Nazi symbolism and memorabilia
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 03:55 AM
Oct 2025

It’s the kind of thing that would likely get you ostracized in Europe, or the stuff itself would likely be banned. It’s more peculiar to Americans I think.

I knew one guy I worked with years ago. He never struck me as racist (I’m not white), and we would have drinks and he seemed super funny and I honestly never felt any hostility.

I later had him as a friend on Facebook and he had a lot of stuff about German pride and everything short of screaming “Seig Heil”.

Some of it just seemed like more innocuous interests in German military planes and tanks, and I’m sure there was some genuine appreciation for German culture and heritage, but there was definitely something a little darker, even though it wasn’t overt.

I’m not excusing Platner’s tattoo (besides he has other baggage), but the reality is I don’t think most people would recognize Nazi symbols outside of the swastika. His wife probably just thought it was a strange and creepy skull. Sometimes people (epically when close) also put on blinders for these sorts of things. I see a certain senator from Vermont is doing the same.

Either way, I’m not sure I’d drag his wife into this.

Jack Valentino

(5,152 posts)
4. Has anyone asked Graham Platner's art teacher wife, Amy Gertner, her opinion of Israel's GENOCIDE
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 03:59 AM
Oct 2025

committed in GAZA ?


Hey, 'just asking the question' here, right?



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