• DFX4509B@lemmy.org
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    8 hours ago

    If Elon isn’t a full-blown Nazi, he’s at minimum a Nazi sympathizer. His actions at the inauguration proved where his allegiances lie.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I’d imagine Jeremy Clarkson might have said this on old top gear before he outed himself as a massive asshole.

  • soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml
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    19 hours ago

    One day he’s criticized for saying that Hitler was a communist, the other for apparently assuming his love of nazis.
    There’s an old series of books by Terry Goodkind, named the Sword of Truth, each book has a wizard’s rule, and here’s the first one :

    People are stupid. They believe things mainly because they either want them to be true or fear them to be true.

    If you’re political then you’re judging real political actions, such as enacted laws, like adult do. And not unfair little excerpts regretted afterwards by the one who did them, otherwise you have no respect for yourself.
    That’s just my two cents, thanks for reading my insults towards you, and let’s continue not changing.

      • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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        17 hours ago

        Nah, I’m sure Cybertruck was the example of him messing around in a 3d modeling software and then saying to Tesla engineers “make a car out of this”. There’s no other excuse for the lack of thought in its outer design.

        • Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org
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          16 hours ago

          I mean design aside, there is no reason to make it this shit, even if it looks bad. It’s just a rug pull but with cars. There is no way in hell you see one of these driving around in 10 years, except some rare cases of garage queens. The car had a pre-order system for fucks sake. The selling point of the car is that: “in an apocalypse, you can just drive over other cars.” Which says a lot about the clientele of that thing.

  • hedhoncho@lemm.eeEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Amazing that during bidens regime all i had to do was date a bdsm guy from austria and get labeled a nazi by even work. I dont know how they found out cause he was half a state away and it was a long distance relationship. I still get called it even with elon prancing about. IDGAF musk is a n*zi. Let those karens on toktok get fired.

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    The cybertruck is exactly the sort of thing Nazis would come up with. It’s the King Tiger of trucks - impressive specs and appeals to insecure men, but way the fuck too big and designed for unrealistic situations instead of practical reality.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Before King Tiger and Tiger they had a few very good tanks.

      Just when T-34 (which were clearly superior to German tanks once some bugs were ironed out, different class even) production went out of control, Hitler started making more decisions involved in what kind of machines is going to be developed and built.

    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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      12 hours ago

      I, as of recently, live in a place where I actually see those things driving around (and a lot of other trucks). They look like children’s toys compared to the absolute monster fords and some other trucks (not to mention they really do age like milk from what I’ve seen). Some of these behemoths can’t even fit in a single parking spot, it’s kind of insane. One of those would be more deserving of this title I think (I don’t know cars so I can’t say any specific models I’m afraid)

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      It can’t realistically tow heavy loads cause the hitch breaks off, and it can’t travel far with heavy loads. Definitely not the king tiger of trucks.

  • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Not apologizing and then immediately giving a speech to AfD about not being ashamed of “cultural purity” beg to differ. Either way, him being an actual Nazi is irrelevant. There are 2 options:

    1. He is an actual Nazi and believes in the ideology, which makes him a fucking Nazi. It should be noted that his grandfather was an extremely anti-semitic politician who moved to South Africa because he admired Apartheid…

    2. He did it as a troll. In which case, at a POTUS inauguration he decided to behave like a teenage boy as the richest man in the world and make light of something that saw 6 million Jews slaughtered and remains as a threat to the security of Jews around the world to this day. Which makes him a colossal piece of shit.

        • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world
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          20 hours ago

          He said sexual abuse victims should grow up and stop feeling sorry for themselves.

          He jumped on the "I’m a Jew " bandwagon, in order to deflect criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza.

          Anti trans JK Rowling supporter.

          • Victor@lemmy.world
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            7 hours ago

            Goddammit. Why is no celebrity available to like anymore? I guess it’s true, we should not idolize anyone. Everyone is a piece of shit in some way or another, and to some level.

            Except Keanu Reeves. He’s literally Jesus Christ. ❤️🔥😭

          • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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            20 hours ago

            To put the video in short: Essentially gets asked if he still supports Stonewall even though they support trans kids and speak out against TERFs (worded much differently) and he says no I don’t support them any more, calling it nonsensical, shameful, and sad.

          • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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            20 hours ago

            See what I enjoy about this comment is all things considered there’s a high likelihood you will live past the age of 60 at which point I hope younger people then call you a piece of shit on the daily simply because of your age. LOL

            • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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              14 hours ago

              The probability is that, as you age, your ability to change you attitudes in order to keep up will slow down to the point where you will seem regressive and problematic to 20yo children when you are 60.

              The era that my parents grew up in would seem awful to most people now, but my parents were unaware that there were problems, and they have a hard time seeing a lot of them now.

            • teslasaur@lemmy.world
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              19 hours ago

              I don’t know about you, but that sounds miserable. And what makes you think that you will be excluded?

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I would describe Elon Musk as an autistic adult whose weird behavior patterns and way too much money are dangerous in a system that gives money way too much power.

      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        I would say your friend’s actions need to be watched and controlled because they’re dangerous, and that the friend as a person needs help.

    • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Autism =/= fascism or even being an insensitive moron. Autistic people are often highly sensitive to such topics.

      You’re painting autistic people in a bad light. There is nothing about autism that excuses such behavior.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        23 hours ago

        I don’t think he’s trying to excuse it. I think he’s saying you’d view an autistic Nazi walmart greeter more differently than you’d view an autistic Nazi whose already the wealthiest man in the world, and society’s values are letting that wealth have a huge platform and allowing him to basically run the country unilaterally.

        An autistic Nazi plebian doesn’t have that kind of influence. Many people would probably pity them. An autistic Nazi being given the world is probably a bad thing.

        • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 day ago

          You want to argue that armchair psychology is more important in this situation than condemning doing a Nazi salute?

          • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            16 hours ago

            Armchair psychology and armchair political rants are both armchair activities., so neither is more important, and they can both happen at the same time.

            It’s just interesting that all statements about <bad guy du jour> are considered support if they aren’t condemnation. If you said Bill Cosby used to do funny standup for example, you would be flooded with hate because the only acceptable reason to mention Cosby is condemn him for being horrible. But understanding the psychology of horrible people is actually important. Think how it would be if you got a rectal disease and it turned out there was no cure because assholes are gross so nobody studies them and anybody who mentions them except to rant about how disgusting they are gets pounded with douchevotes and called a pervert. Objective talk about aspects of sociopaths should be okay. Don’t be the Christian who clutches their rosary every time somebody says “Satan”.

          • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            16 hours ago

            I think extreme wealth is a matter of luck. Lots of equally clever, equally hardworking people succeed moderately, but extreme wealth and success are a perfect storm of timing, economics, and a lot of other things that nobody controls.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Headlines are being headlines, I get it, but Fry was repeating a joke:

    “I heard a very good joke yesterday,” the QI host, 67, told Stig Abell on Times Radio on Thursday.

    “Someone said, ‘Musk is not a Nazi… Nazis made really good cars,’” he went on, before bursting out laughing.