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I get a twitch every time I hear this every day.

It should be “honest perspectives from the left and the right that simply DO not exist anywhere else.”

Hard to believe nobody has noticed this before.

https://www.smartwool.com/en-us/collections/mens-sale

I always keep tabs on Smartwool socks going on sale at various places but they rarely do, at least for the socks I like.

This current sale selection on their site is pretty good for basic socks that aren't rainbow striped or knee height like most of their sale socks have been in the past.

They don't have a lifetime warranty like Darn Tough does and, to be honest, their socks don't last as long as DT but I prefer Smartwool over DT for casual/gym socks. They do have a 2-year warranty so it's better than nothing.

If you're a fellow millennial and will be buried in no-show socks, I've found the Smartwool ones are better than any other brand I've tried.

Edit: also, sign up for text messaging from them and you’ll get a one-time 20% off code that will stack on top of the sale prices.

I don’t live in Maine and I don’t have any strong opinions on Platner in general so don’t accuse me of being some shill or Stan for him.

That being said, there’s obviously a lot of debate about whether or not he knew, or should have known, that his tattoo was related to nazi imagery.

I think that mostly boils down to what information was generally known in 2007 when he got it. When I saw photos of the tattoo, it reminded me of something 20 years ago in a former job I had that I think is relevant.

In 2006 I was working for a higher end clothing store that has been a household name in the US for decades.

One of the brands we sold that was big at the time was Obey Clothing. If you’re not familiar with Obey, they were popular for having prominent eye-catching “street art” designs on their shirts, with their logo added somewhere.

At the time in 2006, we had an Obey shirt with the same skull design largely printed on the front. You can see what the actual shirt looked like here if you scroll down a bit - https://art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

Our store was in a suburb of a major liberal city and hundreds of people a day would have walked by the shirt and seen it. The design was so large you would have easily been able to see it from 50+ feet away. Not a single person ever complained about it or even mentioned anything problematic with it.

This was not some local boutique brand either, that shirt would have been sold in malls all over the country.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that it was an obvious nazi image to people in 2007. The internet obviously existed then but there just wasn’t the same level of Nazi symbols floating around online then like there is now, unless you went to some dark corner of the internet for neo-Nazi groups.

I guess this is just a long winded example of my personal experience that the general public simply had no idea what that design was back in 2007.

Anyone have a different experience from that time frame?

Moved into a new place and need some furniture. I’ve scoured FB Marketplace, checked out What’s New Furniture, City Liquidators, Dania, etc. without much luck.

I stumbled upon Euroclassic’s website and found some sofas that look really nice and are pretty cheap.

I’m a native so I am familiar with the rumors about the store being a front but is the furniture actually decent?