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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 16h

When I'm drunk in Croatia I always tell the tattoo guy "slap one on me, bartender's choice"

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 16h

it's just a little drunken tattoo oopsie, what are you getting hysterical about

So almost as soon as Mills, the party establishment’s handpicked candidate, entered the race against Platner, he has all of a sudden been hit with a series of damaging stories about dumb things he said more than a decade ago on the internet: offensive statements about black Americans and women; his use of the words “retard” and “gay” as derogatory terms; his support for fighting tyranny with semiautomatic rifles, indistinguishable from any National Rifle Association ad in the past twenty years; and now a tattoo he drunkenly got with his military buddies in Croatia that he didn’t realize at the time was a Nazi symbol. (Platner has now apologized and had the tattoo redone.) One of the other controversies is that he wore an “antifa supersoldier” label on his military gear.

“I am not a secret Nazi. Actually, if you read through my Reddit comments, I think you can pretty much figure out where I stand on Nazism and antisemitism and racism in general,” said Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer in Maine who has faced scrutiny over past online posts. “I would say a lifelong opponent.”

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.

“He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.”

The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 22h

And if you’re thinking, wow, no legitimate regulatory agency would allow this to proliferate into the major financial institutions—you’re right. That’s why Big Crypto spent billions electing a criminal government.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 1d

Ok this is getting ridiculous bsky.app/profile/tire...

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

wait, is this guy just another trad larp funded by generational wealth

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

wait, graham platner's "oyster farm" _only_ supplies his mother's restaurant and two other places?

Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 1d

I tried to come up with a way to say this but here it is bsky.app/profile/smot...

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 1d

"My candidate is no Nazi and it's the Jews' fault for putting that out there" is a great approach

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 1d

At the same time, it's totally reasonable for voters to say "I don't want a guy with a Nazi tattoo representing me in the Senate", and saying "fuck you I'm a Marine, I'll do what I want" is a warning sign about what this guy would be like in office.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 1d

I think it's refreshing to see a politician say "I've grown, I've changed, there are problematic things I used to believe but don't anymore." You never get that.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

If they thought that any of this would stop us or deter us: they clearly don't understand our movement, and they don't understand Marines.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 1d

Mission Impossible shit.

13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 1d

Oh we demanded it. Demand got us nowhere.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 2d

"5D chess" and "1000 monkeys with typewriters" are uncomfortably similar

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 2d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 2d

Like, if you were going to move fast, and a genius real estate guy, you'd have trucks full of building supplies lined up on Pennsylvania Ave waiting to start construction first thing Monday morning, but they don't even have a plan filed and it's going to be a pile of ruin for the foreseeable future!

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 2d

Really striking there's a "we'll get it done by this weekend" zeal but like zero visible plan on what comes after that.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

In so many ways people are demanding you play stupid.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 2d

Hi this is your client. I'd like you to volunteer unbilled hours to getting us SOC-2 compliant. Also I'm storing all of our company documents in your QA environment for a little AI side project only I know about.

Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 2d

Ah yes "we take our enemy's symbols" that old saying that everyone is always saying

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 3d

This really is the likeliest scenario

Today would be a good day for impeachment @oaklandishdude.bsky.social · 3d

So what you're saying is that he's going to destroy this building and then it's going to just stay destroyed for the next three years.

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 3d

"We just need to win against Philly" bro you sell motorcycle insurance, settle down

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 4d

See a lot of "does it really make sense to put your infrastructure in a shack in Virginia" type posts and let me tell you friend, it makes more sense than shoving it all in a closet in San Bernardino like I used to do it

Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 5d

Imagine thinking this will stop the guy who deployed Marines to downtown LA

Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 5d

Whoever invented Kinetic Sand deserves at least some time behind bars.

Like maybe not breaking rocks but perhaps work release.

Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 5d

This is why the practice is moving towards spec-based TDD. It's hard to maintain a lot of code but maintaining a few hundred tests is definitely manageable.

Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 6d

Loving this energy. We're not trapped in here with you, fuckos, you're trapped in here with us.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

fucking millions hit the street today, we aren’t breaking for them, apes and frogs and tyrannosaurs and punks and normies and weirdos strong, we are going to fucking win

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 6d

You're being pretty hostile so I'm muting you

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Scott Burton @scottburton.me · 7d

Not recursive, iterative

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