No, sorry, he's the one who mischaracterized his own growth. Or the lack of it.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
This guy ain't no Mamdani
Natanael
joined 10 months ago
He's currently lying about now having known, despite evidence now being out that he knew what kind of tattoo he had gotten. And he did nothing about it until now. And just replaced it with other norse mythology.
So no.
This guy is bad news unfortunately
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs
Platner had described it as a Nazi-style design.
This isn't a purity test. He knew
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
Sorry but no, he knew, that's disqualifying
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
Don't let the act fool you
By that measure everything ever is propaganda
Sometimes you can even close one
Again, you sound like an antivaxxer, and you're ignoring his history of failure, including SPECIFICALLY FAILING AT ENCRYPTED DM BEFORE
You're questioning experts with absolutely no justification other than your own animosity, assuming the experts too are driven by animosity instead of true concerns
Nothing is a cat's fault - cats
This is incoherent bullshit.
You're choosing to pretend it's nothing so you can dismiss legitimate criticism.
An engineer hearing about some novice trying to build a plane using difficult methods that only one or two companies with immense expertise has succeeded at would be correct to assume that plane would be unsafe.
A doctor hearing about a tiny clinic attempting treatments that only big medical research facilities have pulled off are correct to assume they're charlatans.
A cryptographer hearing about somebody attempting to build E2EE using methods that very few are capable of implementing correctly and without having the expertise on hand are correct to call that snakeoil.
Cryptography is INFAMOUSLY complex. E2EE is infamously difficult to make easy ("Johnny still can't encrypt"). The worst part is that cryptographic failures are almost always 100% silent!
There's a reason almost everybody copies Signal's protocol, and that everybody else who does it in-house keeps having vulnerabilities.
Multi user key management (PKI) specifically is wildly complex.
They're doing cryptography in the browser - famously difficult to make it work decently because there's no reliable code pinning solution, no reliable protected key storage (no TPM protected keystore) and absolutely no auditability. And that's on top of the risk of getting served malicious Javascript via XSS attacks, or by the host getting hacked, or by a maliciously issued certificate (there's 800+ certificate authorities, FYI, no cert pinning = easy for a state level actor to MITM)
They're not doing transparency logs of user keys. Even whatsapp has started doing that.
I haven't seen evidence of them attempting user key verification
Twitter/X has only displayed signs of LACKING the necessary expertise.
To pretend that's wishful thinking from me just reveals how little you care about expertise.
There's both similarities and differences, both Trumpism and nazis decided on several other groups as a scapegoat. Nazis started with people with disabilities and similar groups first and shifted to exploiting existing prejudice against Jewish people. Trump and much of GOP have been stupid racists from the start. Also, all of these types of fascist groups starts infighting eventually and fewer and fewer people are "pure enough"
The guy knew what his tattoo was
https://newrepublic.com/post/202083/graham-platner-knew-nazi-tattoo
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/graham-platner-nazi-tattoo-evidence-kfile-invs