• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I mean…I can kinda get why he didn’t know. That looks like one of those blobs therapists use to figure out what you see.

    I don’t even see a skull and bones. I see a fish, with a railroad crossing sign on it’s belly.

    Even side by side, I barely see the resemblance. I guess that’s what it’s supposed to be, but I could easily be convinced if you show me a fish with a railroad sign on it’s belly.

    I can fully understand how he didn’t know. I don’t understand why he got a tattoo he had no strong attatchments to however. He should have at least known WHAT he was getting tattood in the first place.

    In any event, nazi affiliation, no nazi affiliation, can we all agree that it’s a shit tattoo either way?

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      6 months ago

      I too think the picture is uselessly bad, and that’s key to another part of the story in the comments. Basically an unnamed associate seemed to be in the same boat of not knowing what it was and the man himself described it by name.

      Now he didn’t explicitly say it was a Nazi symbol, but he allegedly used the specific German word for it instead of saying it’s some skull and crossbones.

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      6 months ago

      I also wanted to buy an Iron Cross necklace, but my mother wouldn’t let me. I didn’t know what it meant… Cause I was like 10 at the time. How old was he to not know what a Totenkopf is?

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        6 months ago

        I literally just learned what it is. I would have thought it was random pirate or metal shit

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          6 months ago

          OK, then look at it this way. Would you have gotten a tattoo on your chest of something you didn’t know the meaning of?

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            6 months ago

            I wouldn’t, but then again I’m not a drunk Marine.

            Like the other user above, I’ve also never heard of the Totenkopf and I don’t recognize the emblem. Looks like any other skull and crossbones to me. I’m not saying it isn’t a harmful symbol, but I can understand how a lot of people would be totally ignorant to its history like I am.

            • fodor@lemmy.zip
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              6 months ago

              Right. And you can blame bad decisions on being drunk. It’s ridiculous but whatever. And then the next few decades when you … checks notes … don’t actually look up the tattoo and … checks notes … actively ignore people who told you it was Nazi shit … those years involved plenty of sober incidents.

              Also, if you’re going into national politics, you have to know that people will look into your past. So you ask your supporters to do it first, to deal with the rough stuff before it’s trending around the globe. Every single politician in the world understands this basic point.