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Nanjeanne

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8. This is interesting for the Nazi to say back in 2021
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 11:00 PM
15 hrs ago

In April 2021, he fretted about the presence of American neo-Nazi group NSC-131 in the northeastern United States and rebuked other users for claiming its members were simply disingenuous trolls. “The energy these subreddits are putting into glossing over the fact we have organized Nazis in New England is pretty godd*mn concerning,” he wrote.

Months earlier, he chastised a user of a subreddit devoted to military gear for posting a picture of a tactical vest branded with the letters “AKP,” which Platner took as a reference to the Islamist party of Turkey’s authoritarian ruler, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Is this a f*cking joke? AKP patches just fly around here?” he wrote. “I’ll make sure to post kit with swastikas and then say ‘hey bro, it’s just gear’.”

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