“NS” Culture Makes Headlines

October 27, 2025 Hunter Wallace Culture, Neo-Nazis, NS, Wignatism 0

“NS” found its way into the news cycle last week in two hilarious stories.

CNN:

“Deleted social media comments and an interview with an acquaintance undercut Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s claims this week that he only recently learned that a tattoo on his chest had Nazi origins.

A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.

In one thread from 2019, Platner weighed in on a conversation about the “Totenkopf” — the skull-and-crossbones emblem worn by Nazi SS units that his own tattoo would later draw scrutiny for resembling — to note that many US service members had adopted similar imagery, such as the Punisher skull used by some Navy SEALs. …

Following a wave of news coverage this week, Platner has had the tattoo covered up. …

His campaign has since fielded questions about whether Platner was aware of the tattoo’s resemblance earlier than he has said. Jewish Insider first reported about the former acquaintance, who recalled Platner referring to the image as “my Totenkopf” in a joking way more than a decade ago. CNN spoke with that same acquaintance, who reiterated the recollection. …”

First, the revelation that Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner had a Totenkopf tattoo for nearly twenty years has raised questions about whether Planter is a secret Nazi. In deleted Reddit posts, Platner has dismissed rural Whites as racist and stupid, called himself a communist and an Antifa supersoldier and was a member of Maine’s Socialist Rifle Association where he provided tactical firearms training to violent leftists. He is probably telling the truth that he got the skull and crossbones tattoo as a drunk Marine in Croatia in 2007 as there is nothing about his paper trail of internet posts that otherwise suggests he has any sympathy for National Socialism. The most charitable explanation of this is that he saw the symbol and just thought the tattoo looked cool.

Alternatively, maybe Graham Platner really is a deep undercover wignat with a salad bowl ideology who is trying to infiltrate the Democratic Party. “NS” culture is incoherent. There are plenty of Third Worldists like “110 Times” who claim to be “NS” who say they hate White people and Christianity, who rant and rave about “rightoids” and “whiteoids,” who sympathize with Antifa out of anti-Zionism, who want to destroy America, liberate non-Whites and who are loyal to international socialism. It has no connection to historic National Socialism, but these people exist and I wrote about them this morning.

I tend to believe Platner’s story. He is not a secret wignat. If that were true, he would not be running for office and polling ahead of the sitting governor in the Democratic primary because “NS” rejects political activity. The authentic “NS” position is that “there is no political solution.”

Second, in this separate, unrelated story, a man got into a fight and was arrested in Athens, GA after dressing up in a Halloween costume as a Nazi SS officer to trigger the libs at a college bar.

New York Post:

“A bozo dressed as a Nazi was arrested Friday after he allegedly smashed a glass beer pitcher in a woman’s face and broke her nose outside a Georgia bar.

Kenneth Leland Morgan allegedly tried to enter Cutters Pub late Thursday dressed as a Nazi Gestapo officer when he was confronted and prevented from entering by multiple outraged patrons, cops confirmed. …”

Of the two stories, this one is more classic “NS.”

In liberal societies, National Socialism is coded as evil, so people who are sociopathic or seeking attention will dress up in period costumes purely for the sake of trolling and provoking a reaction from their target audience, not to accomplish anything in politics. It is all a joke.

The thing that Platner and Morgan have in common is using symbols and artifacts of a defunct foreign regime for their own purposes whether it is to look cool and menacing or to provoke other people to generate a reaction. Neither Platner or Morgan are doing anything that is authentic “National Socialism.” Americans, however, are prone to reacting to these people as if they were real “Nazis.”

There are no real Nazis anymore. They are all dead. There are just LARPers, fans and artifacts.

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