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[–] 254 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Genuinely fuck Musk. Cries he's being called a Nazi while doing everything in his power to act like one.

Nobody does a Nazi salute by accident Elon... And especially not with a face looking like he just bust a nut while doing it.

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  • [–] 108 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    You’re not wrong, but this article is more about Netanyahu’s flexibility around ‘antisemitism.’

    You know, how it’s now considered antisemitic to criticize Israel’s war crimes, but it’s totally not antisemitic to do a Nazi salute and joke about the holocaust as long as you support Israel’s war crimes?

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  • [–] 121 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Nazis siding with Israel against Jews is no great surprise at this point.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    The KKK supported black separatists in the US in their goal of creating an independent state in Africa. It's almost like you can hate a group of people AND support their right to live on the other side of the world from you.

    I think benji sees the utility there, and is also a fascist

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  • [–] 104 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He's pretty clearly intentionally taunting everyone who opposes him, just demonstrating what he can get away with. That's what all of this has been about. He might not be anti-Semitic (please don't at me -- he likely is -- I said might) and rather is just a pure troll dickhead.

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  • [–] 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Just like with some of the 4chan idiots though, there is little functional difference between being a true believer nazi and merely pretending to be one.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly.

    “Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.” - Jason Garrett-Glaser

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Tbh, he's a massive douchebag on a power trip. It wouldn't shock me at all if he wasn't anti-Semitic and is just trying to push people's buttons. At the same time, if this is true, he's also shifting the Overton window and showing what true Nazis can safely get away with in the public eye.

    That said, there's a good chance he's also just an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi piece of shit...and still doing the latter part of that.

    Regardless, he's a fascist either way, so fuck him.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    he’s also shifting the Overton window and showing what true Nazis can safely get away with in the public eye.

    This is the major fucking problem. The fat orange diaper sponge already fucked up the "what's acceptable in public" perception 8 years ago - and now we have the Apartheid-dipshit one-upping his rimjob buddy.

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    [–] 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    These headlines are getting way out of hand.

    If this goes on the ADL will be denying the holocaust be the end of the week.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago

    Translating a comment by a Norwegian author:

    as someone who once put in a lot of effort to excuse the far right etc when they maybe cross the line a little bit but probably don't really mean it so let's all calm down a bit, I've learned one thing:

    the only reward you get for doing this is that they the next day bombastically step over that same line to show that they don't feel bound by your wimpy sense of decency

    because the fight is against what they perceive as a wimpy, castrated centrist decency is one of the central driving forces in such groups

    More people who have tried to explain away the nazi salute could probably stand to learn the same lesson ASAP. The only thing they're really communicating is that the rich & powerful can do what they want and the excusers will stay their loyal lapdogs.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 58 points 2 years ago

    Being a great friend of netanyahu is yet more evidence that you are a fascist

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    Basically Homelander-Syndrome?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The tweet for those curious

    Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,”

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why are we letting these kinds of people rule us?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    They manufacture consent, couple that with the extreme oppression and destruction of the middle class since the nixon administration and neo liberal right wing policies that doubled down on these awful ideas while actively working to subvert and undermine any movement left on meaningful social issues. We didn't let this happen so much as we were conditioned to allow it and be too exhausted just barely surviving that we would not have any energy to actively fight and thwart a blatant class war waged against the working class and poor right in front of our eyes,

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I saw someone on Lemmy post that exact comment yesterday. Either the lemming copied it from elsewhere, or musk is in the building.

    Elon if you see this: you are a bad person and a bad father.

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  • [+] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why does it say "accused" of doing a nazi salute?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Corporate news media is terrified of being sued for libel by Musk, even though it was obviously a Nazi salute. So they use words like "seemed" and "appeared" to avoid saying the obvious.

    But the problem is, if you want to be taken seriously as a "news" organization, then you have to speak truth to power and that's going to make you a lot of enemies. Companys have legal departments to minimize their risk, but in the case of journalism, that department exists to get you OUT of trouble not to keep you from ever getting into it.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    I had a discussion on an industry Slack yesterday with a guy because I called Elon a nazi.

    The guy brought immediately the discussion in DM and there I noticed he was wearing a kippa in his profile picture so I asked where was he from...

    And he snapped and started to call me a jew hater and telling me that I wanted to bring him to the gas chambers and all the usual bullying.

    Turns out the term they are using to make this connection is called Holocaust Trivialization.

    I screenshot the whole discussion, blocked him everywhere I could find him (as I am doing with all Israeli people and businesses to be fair) and kept going with my life while he was still spewing insults at me.

    This guy is the frontman of the most important conference in my industry.

    Keep ready.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    He's literally bragging about how he will never be questioned

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    One of these people is basically Hitler, and the other wishes he was hitler

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know this isn't the point, but they're not even good jokes? On a technical level. Forget the subject matter for a moment, they're just bad puns that aren't very funny or creative.

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