Man. I fucking hate how atomized the online media landscape. I’m a fucking Zeteo patreon. But because I’m not a YT subscriber or a substack follower I can’t read this. Like bruh. I pay you. Can I read this shit?
I don’t subscribe to anything, but it let me read it.
‘I Hate Nazis’: Graham Platner Is Defiantly Still Running for Senate – and Leading in the Polls EXCLUSIVE: The Maine oysterman sits down with Zeteo to talk about his controversial tattoo and the Democratic establishment’s ‘continuous’ attacks on his campaign. Andrew Perez Oct 23, 2025 ∙ Paid Hundreds of Mainers attend a Platner town hall in Ogunquit on Oct. 22, 2025. Photo by Sophie Park/Getty Images
OGUNQUIT, Maine – “I hate Nazis, and I think far-right extremism is a cancer that needs to be excised from our politics,” Graham Platner tells Zeteo in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. These are important sentiments to hear from any politician, perhaps especially so from Platner, who is running in the Democratic primary to face longtime Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins.
The anti-establishment oyster farmer had just spent the last 48 hours explaining that he never realized the skull-and-crossbones tattoo he got during his time in the Marines resembled a Nazi SS Totenkopf symbol.
Speaking with Zeteo, Platner denies a report that he knew about the tattoo’s meaning a decade earlier. Responding to his former staffer’s claim that he told her a month ago his tattoo “could be problematic,” Platner says his campaign had heard several weeks ago that rumors were going around about his tattoo, and he dismissed it as “insane.” He says he only discovered the meaning last week when his team was contacted by a news outlet.
“That’s when I was like, ‘We’re going to schedule a tattoo appointment, because I don’t want this thing on my body,’” he says, adding: “I have been an avowed anti-fascist my entire life.”
Yeah I think this is only the lead in. There is probably a whole interview behind the paywall.
Shit, sorry, I wondered if I was seeing it all.
Yeah no worries, the bug in my bonnet is being a Zeteo supporter but not having access to their content.
I really just want to pay people for their content, and then make it available to EVERYONE. I hate the segmentation/ fragmentation of access that liberalism demands.
Huh that’s annoying - can you get the same article through their patreon?
Good.
“I hate Nazis”, but had a prime Nazi tattoo and claims he did not know about it’s meaning.
If I ever heard something fishy, this is.
I know quite a few marines. Drunkenly getting a random cool looking tattoo on deployment and then basically never thinking about it again is the least fishy story I’ve ever heard.
Someone who does this is already mentally disqualified from any job with responsibility.
Maybe, but considering the landscape I’ll take what I can get.
There must be something better. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel for quite a while.
Managing to go two decades without anyone pointing out you literally have the Nazi skull from the “are we the bad guys” sketch on your chest seems implausible
and covered it up with a nazi-adjacent tatoo, from what ive read its a norse wolf icon.
I would love to see an 8 hour live stream of him getting the tattoo removed or covered up.
It’s really sus he had a literal Nazi tatto front and center on his chest, and worked for a mercenary org…
Hopefully this white man who gives off every indication of being a white supremacist is actually a nice progressive once he gains power…
