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[–] 116 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Wow. He’s really leaning into this crap full force, publicly. He’s giving a full demonstration of just how untouchable he feels.

Worse, he has that little boy with him all the time now, watching him do these things.

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  • He’s giving a full demonstration of just how untouchable he feels.

    This is such a huge part of the psychology behind authoritarianism. It's about harsh rules and repression, and the perverse enjoyment of the privileged few, that can be above the rules. It's like a schoolyard bully, really, beating you up but also snitching on you to the teachers, and then enjoying the teachers not believing you. The hypocrisy is not a fault within authoritarianism, it's an essential component, of how it functions ideologically.

    Taking away their feeling of being untouchable, is a massive part of how to combat it. That requires, at this point, revolutionary change, because damn, the foundations of property are all in their favour.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    What little boy? You aren't referring to that ambulatory kevlar vest with the overactive nasal mine, are you?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There's this UA drone video of a FPV drone swooping in to hit a squad of Russian soldiers hiking a treeline, and at the very last second you can suddenly see a puppy running between their feet.

    Every time I see that child, I think of that clip of the puppy :(

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

    A month max, and conservatives will claim Adolf Hitler as a "conservative patriot who wanted to restore Germany's place in the world".

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    after coming under fire for a gesture he made at a Trump inaugural event that was likened to a Nazi salute by foreign leaders and Democrats.

    Oh get the fuck out of here forbes, you're part of the fucking problem. That was a full on sieg heil, and the piece of shit did it twice. It was not a likeness to it, the oligarch fuckwit was unequivocally heiling.

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

    the billionaire has denied he made a Nazi salute and played off backlash with Nazi puns

    Another claim that he actually denied doing it. Can anyone point to the quote of his denying it was a Nazi salute? Lots of publications speaking for him.

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

    I don't recall him saying "it wasn't a nazi salute, I apologize for the confusion, my absolute bad, naziism is wrong and abhorrent" anything short of that isn't denying it

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

    Woah

    Just like… woah. This is fucking wild to live through :(

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    It’s also part of the antagonism towards the federal workforce and an extension of the “deep state” conspiracy theory.

    I can’t remember what this specific rhetorical device is called, but he’s luring people in with something that appears true at face value so that they arrive at a conclusion they wouldn’t logically arrive at otherwise: Hitler personally didn’t kill millions of people, but the Nazi bureaucracy and military did. Therefore, Hitler isn’t to blame for all the Nazi atrocities, the bureaucracy was.

    Musk is redirecting blame, like you pointed out, away from leadership and instead leading people to the conclusion that if government were smaller, then evil wouldn’t have happened. What is especially stupid about this line of reasoning is that it will eventually lead to ideas like, “if we give the president more power and consolidate all decision making to a small group, then public servants won’t mindlessly perpetuate evil,” as if this isn’t exactly what happened in every authoritarian regime right before they started doing real evil.

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

    He was only giving the orders?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    No, he murdered tens of millions. 21m is more precise.

    We need to deal with these traitors-in-power soon.

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    Context: He retweeted an image saying "Hitler, Mao and Stalin did not murder millions. Their Public Service Agents did."

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

    So says left wing rag.....checks notes Forbes.com!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    There is a valid argument to be made along these lines, but it leads to the conclusion that public sector workers should ignore doge if they want to do things that would cause harm. Like deleting the CDC website or leaving their jobs as air traffic controllers. Somehow I don’t think that’s how musk sees it.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Can someone just off him already?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Hitler was unquestionably bad. There’s no nuance about it. Stop pretending there’s nuance.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    When /r/technicallythetruth tries to do a Nazi salute...

    According to Musk's logic, Manson should be set free because he didn't actually participate in the slaughter of innocents in an insane attempt to start a race war. He just told his followers to do it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oh now he’s gonna get it.

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    Is there a link to the twit? Not that I doubt the message, but that article had no image or link to it even. Unless the basic uBlock from Firefox mobile blocked it of course.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Dude can't really hold himself.

    Good.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    In other news, it's guns that kill people.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The blame is equal and several imo. There can be no outs for that sorta atrocity.

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