Summary
Elon Musk rejected accusations of Nazi sympathies in a Fox News interview, calling it “outrageous” and blaming media propaganda.
Critics point to his straight-arm salute at Trump’s rally, endorsement of a German far-right party, and reinstating white supremacist accounts on X.
His cuts to federal agencies under DOGE have sparked protests and vandalism, including nicknaming Teslas “swasticars.”
Musk claims he’s targeted for character assassination and receives daily death threats. He and Lara Trump compared the attacks to those against Donald Trump, accusing mainstream media of spreading lies.
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I mean that’s certainly outrageous
But it also certainly tells me he’s a nazi
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He never apologized for this or the confusion
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He’s mad, because he’s not getting credit for being worse than the Nazis
Not only did he not apologize, he doubled down with a string of extremely bad Nazi puns.
IIRC, even the ADL criticized it, which is hilarious, because it was RIGHT after they burned a ton of what credibility they had left to defend him.
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Absolutely he is a nazi
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fb0aab42-450c-4b89-85b0-592ea842b13e.gif
They, that is the tesla salute. When you see someone with a new tesla you ask if you are doing it right.
Autoparts
Well to help convince us you could denounce all Nazis and racial hatred, especially on your social platform.
We’re still waiting.
That’s the most telling bit about his state of mind that day.
If you did a gesture on national TV that lots of people misinterpret as a nazi salute, and you didn’t mean to do a nazi salute, what would you do? What would any person with a public platform in that situation immediately do?
Ignoring the fact that he did what was probably the most vigorous Nazi salute in existence…
- He agreed with a post on Twitter that promoted the antisemetic conspiracy theory that Jewish people “push hatred” against white people
- He doubled down on the great replacement conspiracy theory
- He supports the AfD party which has not-so-subtle Nazi themes in official posters
- He actively created a safe space for Neo Nazis on his platform
- He threatened to sue researchers documenting the rise in hateful tweets
- After the inauguration “gesture”, instead of apologizing he made Nazi-related puns
- He shared a post absolving Hitler of murdering millions of people
It’s not just not outrageous to call him a Nazi, it’s a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to conclude especially when you consider his other behaviour and the kinds of things he supports
Supporting the AfD party, an openly neo-nazi party, and appearing in their events, days after the “roman salute” removed any kind of ambiguity that could exist. He’s a nazi, period. And the only good nazis are dead nazis.
The Roman salute excuse that many of his supporters promoted irks me because of how dishonest it is from the get go. There’s not a single Roman work of art that depicts the salute and it actually originated fairly recently under Mussolini’s National Fascist Party.
It wasn’t, a few years before Mussolini came to power a film came out depicting the Roman Empire, nothing political, but it was known to have inspired Mussolini’s character and public image, and was the first instance of what was known to be the “Roman salute” from which Mussolini borrowed as he was so inspired by the film, it was never historically used by Romans. Ordinary things made an amazing doc on Mussolini and his rise to power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xhwx8z8mJc
Additionally, the Nazis on 4chan et. al. had no problem recognizing the symbol for what it was. It was the pearl-clutching lib enablers who had trouble recognizing it
This post does not mean “voting is useless”, tankies fuck off
Elon is a Cowardly Nazi Billionaire, which is somehow astronomically more pathetic than being just a Nazi, which is already one of the most pathetic things you can be…
Let’s look on the bright side. He is still reluctant to publicly acknowledge it, which means that even he knows it is a shameful thing to be. I would be more afraid if he said “Hell yeah, I am, what are you gonna do about it? Do you own a President like I do?”
I mean I guess this might be conspiracy territory (although at this point I feel he’s pretty much completely admitted as much through his whole “I am become meme” cringe persona) but I feel like it’s pretty clear he knew exactly what he was doing at the inauguration and just did it as a “lol watch what edgy thing I’m gonna do… and they won’t do a thing about it” and he was 8 billion percent right. Nobody did a damn thing.
Don’t say that on Lemmy. You’ll get a bunch of defensive milquetoast liberals demanding to hear know what YOU’VE done before you’re allowed to speak on the issue.
Don’t give him ideas
Everyone saw his Hitler salute.
Many people read his leaked 4Chan comments saying how great hitler was.
Fuck him and his Nazi ass car company.
Many people read his leaked 4Chan comments saying how great hitler was
Whoody wat now??? I feel like this needs to be more publicized, like posted everywhere right alongside his little saluting stunt.
There’s absolutely nothing actually proving it’s him. It’s as provably him, as I am Ryan Reynolds. Making Deadpool 3 was pretty amazing though!
That makes sense. I’m aware of 4chan’s anonymity system, but thought it might have to do with that massive user data leak that brought the site down, and thought he might have made an actual username lol.
If it was him, I wouldn’t put it past him to reuse emails for sockpuppets or other identities.
Maybe a Twitter leak one day will connect the dots if it really is him.
His 2 back to back hitler salutes.
Nazi works, but if he’d prefer something else, “technofascist” and “neo-feudalist” are both arguably even more accurate.
Or we could go a different way - “psychopathic douchebag” has a nice ring to it, or maybe “delusional fuckhead.”
He behaves like a Nazi so he’s a Nazi. And clearly calling him that is getting under his skin, so it’s working. I don’t think using a different word will have the same effect. Heck, he might even latch onto neo-feudalist thinking it’s cool or something.
Yeah, Nazi is too 1930’s. Technofascist, that’s what Elon Musk is.
interesting note: a flavor of techno fascism actually started in the 30s, it was called Technocracy, Inc.
The technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy […] a California engineer, invented the word technocracy in 1919 to describe “the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers”
here’s an article explaining how Musk, Thiel, and Andreessen (and other tech billionaires) have adopted a similar philosophy with the “Charter Cities” ancap utopianism they’re working to replace democracy with.
A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances
Huh, weird. From that article (I didn’t read the first link) it seems like that old movement wanted a techno-communism of sorts. No money, no markets, goods distributed according to need, etc. It does point out that the current administration wants to keep political control, unlike the old Technocracy, inc.
And really, I don’t see our current billionaires wanting any sort of wealth redistribution. They like it just like it is. Really interesting that a hundred year old idea is sort of resurfacing though.
Well elon a start would be saying on live tv
“I am not a nazi. I detest everything nazis stand for. White supremacy is bad”
That would be a start
A start would have been not throwing a nazi salute.
twice in a row.
He’s a Nazi from Nazi family, fuck him
He’s just a Nazi boy from a Nazi family
Spare us a trial from this monstrosity
Sleazy Musk, sleazy DOGE, will he let X go?
The SMELL, bra, NO he will not let it go!
He will sieg heil, tho!
Seigheiling nazi piece of shit
Musk claims he’s targeted for character assassination
Only character?
It’s outrageous for him to claim it’s outrageous for us to properly identify him as Nazi, his being Nazi and all.
If not Nazi, why Sieg Heil-shaped? 🙄
damn, even the timing is accurate… it is like he has been practising since young.
I would like his heart to be cold and stilled.
No, no, he’s not a Nazi because he’s not from the Champagne wine region in France. He’s a Sparkling Authoritarian.
Sieg Heiling Space Karen Elon Musk, to be certain, is a Nazi.
It would appear her snowflake feelings are hurt, because we’re holding her accountable for her Sieg Heil salutes.
But she brought that on to herself.
Musk claims he’s targeted for character assassination
Seem to remember him character assassinating a dude who helped save some Thai children a decade or so ago, except that was false and him acting real Nazi makes me think he prolly a real Nazi.
Also remember, every accusation from these people is an admission.
In case anyone has forgotten, the specific character assassination was: “Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue ‘pedo’ in baseless attack” (Guardian Website).
