Seriously. I had never even heard of a totenkopf until it came out he had one. To me it just looks like a skull n bones variant. I might’ve gotten one myself in complete ignorance. If he’d gotten a swastika, that would be an entirely different matter.
Just consider though; he could have been driving a Volkswagen, using an IBM computer, wearing Chanel cologne, while draped in Hugo Boss. Imagine that. Why do esoteric symbols matter, while the corporations that participated in the genocide still get a pass?
Yeah, it’s so bad faith it’s comical. It’s ridiculously transparent. You could create a police line up of various deaths head iconography, from pirate flags to black death symbolism to US military units, with a few Nazi ones thrown in. Then ask these mosquitos sliming about Platner if they can identify the Nazi ones. I imagine 90% of them would fail that test.
Frankly, unless they’re an anti-fascist activist or a historian, anyone with that level of encyclopedic knowledge of SS symbols is a little sus. If someone told me they had that level of knowledge of Nazi symbolism, I would ask them if they also have that level of knowledge of other famous military or authoritarian movements. Do they also have such knowledge of Soviet, Chinese, Roman, or ancient Egyptian military symbolism? Do they study military iconography of all sorts? Or just the SS stuff? Honestly, I think anyone with that level of SS knowledge is telling on themselves.
The totenkopf is not an obscure thing, it’s literally like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol after the nazi swastika and the SS runes. Even if you manage to have that massive blind spot, the totenkopf does not look like a jolly roger or any other pirate imagery so that excuse falls flat. Dude knew the whole time it was a nazi tattoo. All that is to say nearly anyone is better than Collins and till he shows he hasn’t I’m willing to believe he’s changed.
Lmao, people are known to be impulsive in their 20s when drunk. Not to mention the fact he got the tattoo at a time when we weren’t walking around with smart phones in our pockets.
So yeah it’s not hard to believe that a 40 yr old has better decision making skills than their 20 yr old self
Plus they have an encyclopedic knowledge of Nazi symbology and expect everyone should as well
Seriously. I had never even heard of a totenkopf until it came out he had one. To me it just looks like a skull n bones variant. I might’ve gotten one myself in complete ignorance. If he’d gotten a swastika, that would be an entirely different matter.
Just consider though; he could have been driving a Volkswagen, using an IBM computer, wearing Chanel cologne, while draped in Hugo Boss. Imagine that. Why do esoteric symbols matter, while the corporations that participated in the genocide still get a pass?
Yeah, it’s so bad faith it’s comical. It’s ridiculously transparent. You could create a police line up of various deaths head iconography, from pirate flags to black death symbolism to US military units, with a few Nazi ones thrown in. Then ask these mosquitos sliming about Platner if they can identify the Nazi ones. I imagine 90% of them would fail that test.
Frankly, unless they’re an anti-fascist activist or a historian, anyone with that level of encyclopedic knowledge of SS symbols is a little sus. If someone told me they had that level of knowledge of Nazi symbolism, I would ask them if they also have that level of knowledge of other famous military or authoritarian movements. Do they also have such knowledge of Soviet, Chinese, Roman, or ancient Egyptian military symbolism? Do they study military iconography of all sorts? Or just the SS stuff? Honestly, I think anyone with that level of SS knowledge is telling on themselves.
The totenkopf is not an obscure thing, it’s literally like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol after the nazi swastika and the SS runes. Even if you manage to have that massive blind spot, the totenkopf does not look like a jolly roger or any other pirate imagery so that excuse falls flat. Dude knew the whole time it was a nazi tattoo. All that is to say nearly anyone is better than Collins and till he shows he hasn’t I’m willing to believe he’s changed.
This the game you want to play?
Lmao, people are known to be impulsive in their 20s when drunk. Not to mention the fact he got the tattoo at a time when we weren’t walking around with smart phones in our pockets.
So yeah it’s not hard to believe that a 40 yr old has better decision making skills than their 20 yr old self