āWhile Susan Collinsā campaign is backed by billionaire donors, our campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average donation of $26,ā said Graham Platnerās campaign manager.
A new analysis of campaign finance data shows that nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican Sen. Susan Collinsā reelection bid so far, funneling nearly $10 million to the incumbentās campaign committee and PACs supporting her effort to fend off progressive challenger Graham Platner.
The Maine Monitor on Thursday published a list of billionaires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his Republican opponent a ācorruptā protector and beneficiary of an oligarchic political system.
The outlet noted that Collinsā billionaire donation total āstands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponentā¦ whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.ā
Careful with that nuance. People here donāt like measured criticism of Platner
Not all people here. Some of us want to get closer to the truth, no matter how pretty, or ugly, it is. Overall though, I agree.
My concerns are that heās either lying about knowing it was a totenkopf or if he isnāt that heās pretty stupid because a totenkopf isnāt subtle, itās like the third or fourth most recognizable nazi symbol, and any tattoo shop thatāll do a totenkopf is gonna have other nazi imagery around because thatās a nazi shop, so he would have had to miss that too. So yeah he was either nazi adjacent or really dumb. Neither are good, but he likely canāt be worse than Collins so he gets a benefit of the doubt. But Iām sorry if you get a totenkopf tattoo without somehow recognizing a prominent and exclusively nazi symbol then youāre pretty goddamn stupid. Itās not an obscure symbol, itās the goddamn deathās head. You shouldnāt even need history class, popular media should be enough.
Exactly. And the people here that are willing to say whatever they need to in order to deflect any criticism, regardless of how validā¦
Stop trying to fucking gaslight people into thinking this isnāt a blatant Nazi symbol.
I was literally told on here that Iām lying about knowing the symbol prior to the controversy. In their mind itās simply not possible for someone to be aware of the totenkopf. Unreal.