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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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Well, have you tried not acting like one?
He thought it was opposites day
Opposites year.
Well that would involve empathy, and as you know, it is a flaw and a weakness…
God I fucking hate Elon.
He has not.
shut the fuck up, you nazi piece of shit
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.
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
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
Shut up nazi
Play Nazi games win Nazi prizes.
It’s because you did the nazi salute. Do you remember that you did the nazi salute when the faschist government took over?
Nhaaa… Just because you do the nazi salute position yourself in a place of authority inside our current fascist government and support it’s politics and agendas even make Buddy buddy with its leader doesn’t necessarily make you a fascist yourself… Right?
Not necessarily, maybe he is trying to hint that he is a kind of mole inside man that wants to secretly save some of the immigrants and go down in history as a hero? Sigh… But then why the chainsaw… Unless? Yeah. That’s my new cope
Elon’s list?
Ewww sounds gross when you say it like that.
I don’t think there’s a clean way of saying that name much like several other names that was killed by a guy that was fascist.
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.
But like that’s really hard.
ORLY?
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
Shouldn’t have made that salute then, nor throw your support and your weird fans behind the AfD and Tommy Robinson.
Or keep suspiciously quiet when asked about the Nazi salute. I still have yet to hear him denounce the Nazis.
He’s one of them, why would he denounce them?
Don’t want to be accused of being a Nazi, then don’t fucking act like one you stupid cunt.
If you’re looking for sympathy you can look elsewhere.
straight-arm salute
It’s called a nazi salute. Don’t spread doubt on what it was. He did it twice in close succession. The only other reason for holding your arm up like that is when you explain how high Blondie, Hitler’s dog, could jump.
‘Nazi’ isn’t a preferable pronounce, it’s what you’re called when you act like a nazi, talk like a nazi and salute like a fucking nazi.
Bro literally intentionally does a Nazi salute on TV and then whines when people say he’s a Nazi…
That’s because he doesn’t understand consequences
Oh, he understands the consequences. Everything he’s saying now is an act. He’s lying now, he lies constantly, and he relies on people not pointing it out.
He’s starting to experience them at least.
No because in his deluded mind he believes he’s the target of harassment.
Unfortunately I don’t think a lot of people in my country do…
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!
