That’s the point of transforming, yeah? You get a wolf nose, wolf ears, wolf paws, and yes, all the rest of the anatomy.

Two story dungeon is great for some killer suspension work!

I thought it would be like a wiping rhythm minigame, where the rolls light up and you have to use the right one. Like dance dance toilet paper.

The first time, maybe. The second time, you knew exactly what you were getting and bought it anyway.

Of course.

My point here is that, you can determine your own message. You can choose what to focus on. Of course, we all know what racism is as American as AR15s and Apple pie. But, as a society, it’s a choice to communicate “racism is an American value” or, something else.

I’m strictly speaking about self-perception here.

We all know the many sins of the USA.

This, but unironically.

I will never understand how the United States, formerly supposedly the greatest democracy in the world (yea yeah, I know) is so eager to cede patriotism to the scummiest racists and lowlifes.

Punching Nazis is American. Welcoming immigrants with open arms is American. Fuck those inbred bastards who use the flag as a symbol of hate.

3/5ths

Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

First, a bit about me. I’m from a country that has been struggling with fascism in the political arena for well over a hundred years. I’ve seen the games they play, the way they signal to their base with one side of the mouth while pleading ignorance with the other. I have a simple rule: people talk, but when they show you who they are, believe them.

What this sums up to is that my priors for “is person with Nazi tattoo a Nazi” are pretty fucking high, and claims of ignorance do absolutely nothing for me, because they fall into the established pattern for cryptofascists evading accountability. That’s where I stood when the story broke, at least.

Right now, I think he’s something much better and much worse at the same time. I think he’s an impressionable idiot with a weak internal compass. He hangs around with his fascist military buddies, he gets a Nazi tattoo. He falls into some Reddit rabbit hole, he posts the crap he’s been posting. Then he falls in with the labor movement and now he’s an anti corporate champion for worker rights.

But who is he going to be tomorrow? Who is he going to be when lobbyists try and become his best friends? When machine politicians get all buddy buddy? Can we trust him to stay the course? Is there even a course to stay?

He’s probably not a Nazi. And the odds of him being better for not just Maine but the US and the world than the current office holder are pretty good (senators ratify international treaties, we all have a stake in this). But a term is six years, and I don’t know what he’s going to be like in six years. That’s true for everyone, but it feels more true for him.

That said, I’m looking forward to be proven wrong.

Then presumably you also wouldn’t have tattooed one on yourself.

It’s probably the third most recognizable Nazi symbol, after the swastika and the double lightning bolts. There’s even a comedy sketch about it. You might have seen it. The punch line is “are we the baddies?”.

They think we object to detention facilities because we object to foreigners?

That’s… revealing.

All I’m hearing is excuses. Does it come across like he’s really sorry he made his body a billboard for hate for two decades?

It sounds like he’s sorry he got found out.

But anyway, that’s where we are. The options for the citizens of Maine are Mr Nazi tattoo vs the perpetually concerned enabler. Either way they will have the representation they deserve.

This is the kind of thing that only became an issue at all because of a smear campaign by the Neoliberal party propaganda machine

And here is the tribalism death spiral at work.

You guys used to stand for something. And it sure as fuck wasn’t “Nazi tattoos are ok if they are on my guy”

Nah, you dialed me in wrong. You gotta hold your nose and vote for totenkopf man. I’m just sad you are this fucked up.

I’m all for giving people second chances and empathy and shit. But I’m not blind to the fact that the only time people really want me to forgive someone it’s when Nazi tattoo white boy wants to run for senate for the supposedly non-Nazi party.

I’m all for forgiving him as a person. Sure we all make mistakes. But that doesn’t mean I think someone who (in the very very very best case) got peer pressured by his military buddies into getting a fucking Nazi tattoo is a good choice for a senator.

Seriously, this is the kind of thing that, if you guys had not descended into a tribalism death spiral, would have been an instant political career ender.

I know what I wrote. Is nazism just a joke to you guys? That would explain the situation you’re in right now.

If it’s a Nazi tattoo, then yes, I’m dragging him until he’s dead and buried. Maybe I’m an old fashioned European, but there’s no coming back from a Nazi tattoo. We got a few million bodies, ours and yours, rotting in the ground because of that fucking shit.

He can cover it up. He can make up excuses. He can cry in the corner every night for all I care. He’s still a piece of shit with a Nazi tattoo.

I can’t understand how he’s getting a pass for this?

Can you really not do better than a guy with a Nazi tattoo?

Are we really dragging someone for not endorsing totenkopf man?

Is this in NL? It looks Dutch AF.