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Cirsium

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17. OK

Reply to quakerboy (Reply #15)

Mon Oct 27, 2025, 07:03 PM

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You aren't running for the US Senate. You probably don't claim to be a military historian, either. Nor have you been wearing it as a tattoo and displaying it in public. The Totenkopf is not just any skull and crossbones, it is specialized.

But most troubling for me is not that he had the tattoo, but his absolutely lame responses to questions about it.

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