20-01-2025. This is a real image

  • AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I dont think Elon Musk is a nazi. I’ve never seen any evidence that he is a nazi nor have I ever seen any presented. I think he is an asshole that harasses people for his personal satisfaction. He is so rich that no matter what happens he, his children, and all their children will all enjoy the highest quality lives available. There may also be some chemical addiction mixed in there as well as some mental illness.

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      2 hours ago

      If a four person table has three Nazis sitting at it, and a fourth person sits down with them, there are four Nazis at the table.

      Accordingly, if a public figure makes a Nazi salute (several times) in a public live recording, they are a Nazi.

      If it walks like a duck, etc.

      They may not claim Nazism, but fascism is fascism whatever flag you wave. The individual motivators behind it are not relevant.

      Both my grandfathers are rolling over in their graves as I watch fascism goose step into America.

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    14 hours ago

    The US didn’t even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it’s dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it’s a culture war.

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    1 day ago

    Ngl, I was sceptical since still images are not a good representation of what’s really going on when people are moving around, but then I checked out the video. Good lord, he even did it twice.

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    Next he’ll be wearing a swastika on his arm and claiming “oh this is just a whirling log, a symbol of prosperity and peace”. And also “oh this is just a very black uniform that Hugo Boss made for me”

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      9 hours ago

      Swastik is a sacred symbol for Hindus and Buddhists. Next you will call us -ists and -phobes.

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        6 hours ago

        Next he’ll be wearing a swastika on his arm and claiming “oh this is just a whirling log, a symbol of prosperity and peace”. And also “oh this is just a very black uniform that Hugo Boss made for me”

        It’s used by many cultures, e.g. my whirling log example. And the point is Elon would wear it as an Nazi emblem and then riff how it was a symbol of peace. Just like pretending his fascist salute was a Roman salute.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our times to the Henry Ford of our times.

  • DukeHawthorne@lemmy.world
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    And it’s day fucking 1! We still have (at least) four more YEARS of this!

    I’m reminded of Trump’s first term, when we all thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, and yet it always did keep getting worse.

      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 hours ago

        You think the social media propaganda machines all grinding into gear to pump out pro-trump propaganda isn’t going to help his popularity?

        I envy your positivity

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      18 hours ago

      I can’t wait until Canada joins the union and we go to war with Greenland as the new America.

  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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    I wondering if he did it to win a bet: “Hey man, we already get away with some fucken outlandish shit, and people ate that up. I bet you that you can’t get away with throwing out a nazi salute on live tv”

    fElon: hold my K…