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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Everyone knows it was a Nazi Salute.

Nazi's just denying it because 1) they are not quite at the point where they can sieg heil while marching down mainstreet just yet and 2) because it amuses them to see the left try to desperately convince them it was a nazi salute.

All your desperate justification, facts, evidence, etc?

It wont make a nazi not a nazi.

but it will amuse them, and exhaust you.

Its time to stop using words against nazis, and go back to using forms are communication that carry a more physical finality to their arguments.

[–] bradd@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Can someone, who believes this is a Nazi salute, explain to me what his motivation would be? I see what I see but I can't see it as a nazi thing unless he was intentionally sabotaging or trolling but it doesn't make sense contextually, unless I need to watch the whole damn thing to get it.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

Musk has been Nazi friendly for years now. Including some pretty antisemitic shit he's boosted.

Then there were the swastikas in the SpaceX and Tesla breakrooms.

Add to that, the fact the Musk is a dumbass who only thinks he's smart... And yeah. He thought he could get away with it.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They are not the baddies because of a Nazi salute. They are baddies because of shitload of other things. Which I'm starting to think the Nazi solute is a distraction from. I see so many posts about the salute and the "Gulf of America" and about assigned-at-conception gendering, and almost nothing about the executive order that actually have implications.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago) (1 children)

Finally, someone who gets it. I've been documenting all of this outrage on Lemmy over the last week and I'm gonna blog about how much real things we missed in the meantime.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 6 minutes ago

Gish Gallop.

The opposition can't get anything done if you produce an unending stream of nonsense for them to counter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Wrote up a summary months ago (with reputable sources!) and warned about Nazis too and was permabanned from Lemmy news and politics for it.

Idk man, you can tell people stuff, but it's so hard for them to access what's real right now. There's a concerted online effort to suppress factual info.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13431373

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 3 hours ago

Someone who doesn't pick as many internet fights as me needs to post that to BestOfLemmy

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 29 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

He's basically an edge lord 4-channer, Nazi saluting to: "own the libs" is sort of on brand.

I don't think he's a dyed in the wool Führer-lover. I do think he's a hyper insecure, spoiled, man-child with enough ties to the far right to idolize "anti-social behavior" and think he's the hottest shit ever to pull off such a "based" stunt.

A poser; doing loser shit opening the door for someone/something much worse because his idiot brain thinks he's being cute.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

You basically just described every fascist/Nazi ever while arguing that he's not really a Nazi just "edgy." Let's not make this same mistake again, hyper insecure spoiled man-children with enough ties to the far right to idolize anti-social behavior ARE NAZIS.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I don’t think he’s a dyed in the wool Führer-lover.

No, of course not. He's a dyed-in-the-wool Afrikkkaner. It's a Dutch/English strain of Fascism far more in line with the American brand than the German/Nordic Central European brand.

A poser; doing loser shit opening the door for someone/something much worse because his idiot brain thinks he’s being cute.

A professional sycophant and corrupt corporate hack who has made a cool trillion selling exploding cars, crashing spaceships, and non-existent subway systems. He's anything but a loser, as he's perfectly hacked the modern capitalist system.

The Nazi pastiche he's adopted is intended to keep those super-sized government contracts and cheap private loans coming. Same reason he pays teams of pro-gamers to run his video game accounts and throws the biggest, most debauched orgies in Silicon Valley or Austin, TX. Same reason he nearly killed himself and Peter Thiel doing burnouts in a brand new McLauren.

TrueAnon Podcast has a great three-part series "The Lamest Show On Earth" that takes a deep dive into Musk's background. Does a great job of laying out who this guy is and how he's successfully grifted his way to the pinnacle of the western business ziggurat. The most that can be said of him is that he loves to dominate other people. The explicit flavor of fascism is secondary.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm starting to think that doing enough Ketamine to take down a racehorse just before giving a speech to the entire world's media, was probably not a good idea...

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 hours ago

Being a Nazi doesn't help either.

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