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Pack it up, boys. This experiment is over.
Not a Nazi salute.
Any company advertising on X, buying Teslas, using SpaceX, etc is okay with working with Nazis.
That needs to be the message here. Make it clear to all his business associates that we will not forget how they react.
That was an accident you libtard!! He just did something that really looked like a nazi salute… twice… b-but it wasnt a nazi salute!! y’all be calling anyone a nazi nowadays…
And look!!! kamala also did a nazi salute!!
A-And she definitely wasnt just waving her hand… uhhmm…
/s
anyone still using x is either a nazi or okay with nazis. the time for excuses is over.
So…when do we send The Bastards?
Is he flexing his “shoot someone on 5th Ave” moment?
Imagine how minimally functional your brain has to be to think this is anything other than a blatant sieg heil.
Now wrap your mind around the majority of voting Americans voting for this future.
The only advice I can give anyone at this point is to not hold too much hope for the future of this nation. Lower your expectations. It’ll help you get through what’s coming.
Imagine how minimally functional your brain has to be to think this is a blatant sieg heil.
Context matters.
I speculated a short while back that with Musk’s true dream of immortality seeming less plausible every year, he has turned his sights on being remembered by history.
I think I was right, and some sort of drug fueled edgelord logic has led him to conclude that fear is strong and universal, and being a cacking villain gets your name to “stick” with people the most.
Or his ridiculous luck has given him the world’s worst case of Main Character syndrome, and the game play that amuses his fried brain involves griefing the NPCs.
hitler is widely regarded as the most influential person of the 20th century
He was Time’s person of the year too. Funny that you got a downvote for speaking this but it’s so important to remember.
All of this is correct, but people get really pissed at these facts because we live in a demented cartoon world where the majority of people run on reactions and feelings, so if they read anything other than emotional condemnations they lose their shit. Which is exactly why we have another set of Hitlers gaining power without resistance. Because you idiots out there can’t get it through your thick skulls that people like Hitler and the Nazis were PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME. Not monsters, not inhuman creatures, but idiots who thought they were doing the right thing because they let reactions and feelings guide them.
He was Time’s person of the year too. Funny that you got a downvote for speaking this but it’s so important to remember.
I’d say most people understood the historical context but rightly concluded that feeding Trump’s ego isn’t the smartest play. And sticking to traditions and conventions in the face of the fascist threat is clearly not working.
Or his ridiculous luck has given him the world’s worst case of Main Character syndrome
This is the answer.
A guy who grew up under apartheid in SA is racist and a fascist, who knew??
Guy who grew up in SA during apartheid is a fascist and racist. Who know?
Now he can use the government to make his financial empire/we-chat clone “x”.
I kinda get the feeling that part of this was a loyalty test for main stream media to see how they were going to report on something that was obviously a nazi salute.
Was it going to be “Musk is swatting at fly, the liberal media goes off the rails with crazy nazi conspiracies.” Or “Musk is a fucking nazi, he needs to be deported”
Which is going to get the “love” of this administration?
Currently seems to be explaining it away as not a nazi salute, pretty sure the only worse outcome would be yeah it was we don’t care. Which is what the actual nazis are going with but not the more mainstream view, yet.
If its going to go that way I hope we can get to the point of the nazis being shot in the head faster than last time.
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did… You deserved it.
Grug: Heh he made a from-the-heart gesture
Midwits: A NAZI salute, I cannot believe it, L~
i~t~e~r~a~l~l~y Hitler! Get the emigration papers I’m doing it this time, fuck / He totally did the salute brothers and sisters! 1488!Monk: Heh he made a from-the-heart gesture
(I cbf photoshopping it, it’s late🤌)
as you can read on al jazeera, not only Elon did something that clearly resembles the nazi salute but he also has ties with the nazi party.
There is no excuse or funny remark to be made about it AND there is nothing to defend Elon about it. THIS SHIT MUST BE CALLED OUT!
Also, being “anti-woke” is a dog whistle for nazis and we know that Elon claim to be anti-woke, anti-trans and anti-lgbt.
Also, for all the anti-wokes: WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CARE ABOUT THE PRIVATE SEX LIFE OF OTHERS INSTEAD OF MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS FOR FUCKS SAKE???
My guy, what reason do you have to defend this
I don’t have a reason to read anything into it. Public speaking is a nervewracking activity, and everyone who’s done it can recall one thing they did in the spotlight that they would never have done outside it - a certain turn of phrase, a verbal tic, a gesture, a tone. A man with a long track record of awkward public behaviour, and a bad public speaker at that, tells an audience his heart goes out to them, and then gestures emphatically to that effect. I know that calls for shit-flipping and general hysteria on Lemmy.World, but that’s because LW is for all intents and purposes the ‘Reddit instance’, not because Musk’s behaviour was inherently offensive.
It would have been so easy for the ADL to pile on and call it fascist, given its own backgound. Whether they are right or not isn’t important, what matters is they were slow to judge. Perhaps there’s some political calculus in that choice, perhaps not. We know who took the easy option though: Ocasio-Cortez, leading from behind (like all politicians do) by working out her constituency’s bias, then airing that bias publicly.
I can think of one reason right away.
Man, I still remember everyone telling me I was over reacting when the Republicans cOiNcIdEnTaLlY had an Odal rune for a stage and that they weren’t really Nazis.
