Mikhail Gorbaechev

Cuomo is going on Fox News in order to court Sliwa voters that he needs to win the election, and they want, uh, red meat conservative politics so he's giving it to them

I would submit to New York City voters that the guy telling Republicans he'll be the mayor they want is probably telling the truth

"The guy is not a Nazi but is a huge piece of shit who would be better off having eaten a rifle" is, imo, correct.

I have family who are like this and I have had to compartmentalize my fury so as not to cause Issues.

Yeah pretty much. They're a real piece of shit.

But I guess we gotta presume the innocence of a rich kid who joined the army for adventure, loved killing people, and is noticeably a huge piece of shit.

Damn maybe that's strong evidence that he thought having a Nazi tattoo was a fun little provocation instead of something to blowtorch off his body if a coverup was unavailable.

Cool, maybe you're a fucking moron.

"That would have been catastrophically bad judgement, and this guy with the accidental Nazi tattoo has never shown that other than all the times he's shown that, so that can't possibly be the explanation."

Why would he release a video? IDK, because he's a fucking clown who didn't think it was such a big deal.

The fact that he's a military history buff who displays a detailed knowledge of other Nazi symbols and has posted in threads specifically talking about the totenkopf.

God, people and their special pleading. Either you have principles or you don't. Either you think racism is wrong or you don't. If you don't, fuck you, and frankly double-fuck you if you pretend to think it's wrong except for special birthday boy rabbis.

"waaah waaah we had to be vicious racist pustules, we were so sad about October 7" yeah do people who have watched Israel run an apartheid regime for 70 years and commit a genocide for two years straight get to be antisemites or do we rightfully condemn that?

The moment anybody gives this kind of grace to anybody Muslim or Arab, I'll bite.

No it isn't! There's a whole lot of evidence that he knew, and the only evidence against is a guy who seems oddly at peace with the fact that he's had a fucking Nazi symbol on his body for two decades.

To the extent denominational organizations exist, they're all controlled by the people I'm talking about

Not really no

Powerful people cloaking gutter racism in fighting bigotry, all of them deserve humiliation and penury.

They should go before some sort of committee. Maybe for protecting the safety of the public?

I'm not sad for them. I'm furious at them. Our community will be better when these people die off.

The way Jewish communal leadership other than the left, a handful of liberals, and the Satmars have behaved has genuinely been abominable. These people should not be forgiven.

It is astonishingly ugly. People I once thought were decent are spouting delusional, baseless, vile stuff about what they "know" Mamdani believes and about what he's going to do. In NYC, this has turned into a real "Well, now we all know who we are" election. There'll be no bridging that rift.

oh yeah the fact that multiple outlets have been able to confirm Platner is rather obviously lying about the tattoo has made me lose literally all respect for anyone left defending him because as a rule I don't respect people who like being lied to

Also we need to win the seat and "guy with Hitler tattoo on his chest" is probably a weak candidate

I don't think he's a Nazi, I do think he's a tremendous piece of shit who wanted to be edgy, is lying to everyone now, and has consistently shown enormously poor judgment

Damn if only he'd done that at any time in the preceding two fucking decades where he had a symbol of the SS on his chest

I've often said that in a political choice where one has to be perfect VS being human (mistakes, past transgressions) most people will choose being human and bristle at the idea you must be perfect. It's why the left loses. But on the substance, Platner passes the smell test.

What does it even mean to pass a smell test on the substance. Doesn’t getting to the substance of something by definition require more than a smell test.

Hey as a Jew shut the fuck up

No this would probably push me to vote for her unless Biss was polling ahead of her and consolidation was needed to stop Fine

We love left YIMBYism, don't we folks?

whose fucking nose, Franz von Papen's?