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Why would this backfire? You think germans and their gigafactory subsidies are going to like the nazi salute so much it will increase his popularity?
the afd will, they will say it's okay because musk isn't a communist (unlike hitler, according to them)
I didn't realize it was getting subsidies. What for?
For making electric cars instead of diesel ones I suppose
Do you think there are no Nazi sympathizers in Germany? Don't you see AfD on the rise there?
Most of the people seeing this isn't going to know the context (i.e. this is a protest). If you strip away the context, this is just a blatant public display of the fascist salute, which many there have wanted to do for so long but couldn't because they feared the consequences. This could very well embolden them.
Like, if you just look at the photo, it even straight out says "heil Tesla", for crying out loud. If this is a protest, they did a piss poor job of it. At least put a clown makeup on Elon's face, what are they even doing.
Edit: some people can't even read it seems.
People can read. This is just one of the most moronic takes they've ever seen.
Have a lot of meetings with Germans. The morning after the inauguration, every one of them asked what the hell was wrong with us that we had a Nazi salute in our inauguration. The context is very very well known over there
You underestimate how much American news dominates the world news. Greetings from Mexico.
Why are you downvoted? I am from Germany and you are totally right. With a lot of people in Germany this will 100 percent backfire. The educated already knew that Elon is a garbage nazi, the others will more so believe how he is such a cool guy and the savior of the planet
Yeah, the average German won't have heard about Nazi space karen throwing the heil. Especially after he was just there defending Nazis. Who would even know about that, just because it's world wide news and involves something very poignant to the German people?
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Ok there, sources needed. It almost sounds like youre shilling for them. Next youre going to tell me he was just waving!
Let him be, he thinks Germans are as uneducated as Americans
Even german news are full of the orange idiot and his millionaire friends doing their escapades, and you seem to imagine most of the german population sitting there applauding him? "Blatant displays of the fascist salute" are NOT what many here want to do, but what most would like to do without consequences is punching a Nazi straight to their face.
If you haven't realized, many european governments shifted right because the populism of those parties exploited and used the political tensions and the accumulated anger for the past failures of many left and green hardliners very well.
Germans are not more right or have more Nazis than many other European states, and given the hereditary guilt, less than many.
I get his point, even if he didn't state it eloquently. There are photography elements here that look kind of cool. Yeah, most people will focus on memories of history and, you know, how Nazis are fucking bad. But the danger is if something like this recruits anyone. Some people fall for anything with a cool font, even if it tarnishes the font for a lot of others. If I see a swastika, I want to see it carved into a Nazi's forehead. I don't want to see a stylized swastika with cool lighting effects that might appeal to a small number of idiots.
It helps that Elon's face looks particularly stupid.
I don't know that I agree with his argument, but I can see a grain of truth in it.
"But the danger is if something like this recruits anyone"
What if calling out racists actually encourages people to become racist!! Better not mention racism at alll then amarite...
Also let's just stop arresting people for crimes completely, what if someone hears that this dude murdered his wife and then everyone starts murdering their wife?
/s obviously but this is what you sound like. You sound like a bot trying to discourage this from being seen by appealing to people's liberalism..
I think it's fine. I'm just tired of every issue being black and white and the need to shit on everyone who doesn't see everything exactly your way.
He has a point. I don't think it outweighs the greater point.
Whats more black and white than a nazi salute. Whats more black and white than a nazi salute proejcted onto a nazi's factory, in Germany, by a German activist group.
The statue reads: In honor of the dead, and a reminder to the living. I've been to Dachau in front of this very statue. It's a pretty black and white issue. Saying his salute shouldn't be shown, and that it might backfire is a stupid point that everyone was going to dislike. Giving him a clown face would alter the photo, taking away from the fact the photo is genuine..
Some people just slept in the day they were handing out common sense.
I envy you the beauty sleep.