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[–] RadioFreeArabia 18 points 2 days ago

Nazi apartheid baby

[–] DicJacobus 19 points 2 days ago

The free world is being torn to peices by the Russian Mafia and its American Oligarch allies.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

I wonder if Musk's heavy right wing position is one of:

  • just him trying to sell more cars (to people who subscribe to right wing positions, as well as left wing people buying them for environmental reasons)
  • fun, seeing how much he personally can fuck things up
  • because Heinlein said in several books that authoritarianism is good for business
[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 8 hours ago

He was never really liberal, but he had a nasty divorce and went mask off because of it. Same thing happened to Scott Adams. Adams was never really pro worker. He just repeated the stories people would send him and kept doing it because he liked the attention, causing a feedback loop. Musk had that going with the EVs and Mars mission talks. But he kept getting criticism over dates being missed and the divorce cracked him. He then started seeking approval from a less scrupulous group.

[–] Snapz 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

He gathered the wealth and realized his life is empty and people still cringed when he walked in a room and left in disgust when he spoke. In general, folks on the left, who were more associated with tech until recently, are typically more educated and don't blindly cheer at catch phrases and bumper stickers without any depth in their support - The right wing does.

elon wants friends and a dad who will love him, the right wing will pretend as long as the money flows.

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[–] hernanca 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's really just that brain damaged. A couple of weeks ago I read a book about his takeover of Twitter and even his day-to-day behaviors are completely unhinged. He is surrounded by sycophants and weirdos and has lost touch with reality years ago.

The book is "Character Limit" by Conger and Mac.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wanted to read that book, so is it worth? Do you recommend it?

[–] hernanca 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it's really great journalistic work. The authors talked to a lot of people to get their side of what happened.

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[–] ZILtoid1991 12 points 3 days ago

Corporations are often the most authoritarian structures on the earth. We just tolerate them for dumb reasons (being told there's no alternative to capitalism).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I was in the market for a new car. And Tesla was not even on my long list of cars to consider, precisely because of Herr Sturmbahnführer Musk.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

While those might be reasons, he has claimed its because of his trans daughter. It's a pretty disgusting stance.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/09/elon-musks-journey-from-humanitarian-to-poster-of-rightwing-memes

Emphasis mine below

According to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, around this period Musk began sending “rightwing memes and conspiracy theories” to Grimes, who replied: “Is this from 4chan or something? You’re actually starting to sound like someone from the far right.”

At the same time, his daughter Vivian came out as transgender and changed her name, declaring that she no longer wanted to “be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”.

Musk himself has cited Vivian as a reason for his political shift, telling the pop psychologist Jordan Peterson that he had “lost [his] son [sic], essentially”, and concluding that his son “is dead, killed by the woke mind virus”.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 4 points 2 days ago

Tesla sales is down in Europe precisely because of Musk while competitors thrived.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Remember when Kanye "went away" after pro-Hitler comments?

Let's see if Musky goes all the way.

Edit: a ? mark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Did he really go away? Or was he just ignored enough?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The AfD ist a spark of hope for him, as they want to leave the EU so one less country he doesn't have to worry about EU rules and regulations.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And Germany is the most influential and richest EU country at the moment, so the loss of Germany will be a heavy blow for the EU.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not going to be a heavy blow, it's going to be disastrous. Not only because of the economy, but the infrastructure the country provides. A massive amount of goods is transported through germany on rails and on streets. If we have to start controlling borders and charging money (which is what will happen), it would hurt the entire european union. Now, if italy with it's rightoid government is having the same idea and leaves the EU (because that's kinda what rightoids do these days), europe is literally halved in the middle.

Idk why people think leaving the EU is going to solve our problems, it's going to literally fuck us in the ass. We can even see what happened with a country that left the EU not even 10 years ago.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 1 points 1 day ago

Idk why people think leaving the EU is going to solve our problems, it's going to literally fuck us in the ass.

These far right populist parties would probably leave the EU, if majority of Europeans want to leave. But the majority of Europeans want to remain. What the far-right European parties do instead is adopt the narrative of "fortress Europe", that immigration should be restrictive and Europe remain "largely European".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah the U.K is currently an Exhibit A for "See why this was a terrible idea?!"

It's amazing how these people repeatedly bark for their billionaire masters thinking one day they'll be worthy of scraps.

[–] WaxiestSteam69 68 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm exhausted from all of this and it's not even January. How have we reached a point where Nazism is back in vogue?

[–] kromem 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 16 points 3 days ago

And those who do get to watch dolefully.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The story of the 21st century has been the repeated and ongoing failure of the western political class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Early 20th century we had the influenza pandemic where a certain part of the population refused to wash hands and wear masks. It also saw the rise of Nazis.

Early 21th century we had a covid pandemic where a certain part of the population refused to wash hands and wear masks. It also saw the rise of Nazis.

History sure loves to repeat itself.

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[–] T00l_shed 111 points 3 days ago

I did nazi that coming

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 86 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The president is a Nazi. My grandpa would be rolling in his grave.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

My grandpa should be rolling in his recliner. Instead he's got fox news on all day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The sad thing is that your grandfathers were sent to fight and die in Europe only when it hurt America's economic interests.

This isn't a knock on your grandfather's legacy.

[–] Tyfud 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Why is this man being downvoted? He's correct. That is the historical reason America got involved.

There were tens of millions of Americans that supported the Germans/Nazi party, and the rest basically didn't want to get involved on the world stage again.

The real evils of the Nazi regime weren't realized until the last year or so of the war when we pushed in through the incursion areas and saw the camps and horrid treatment/deaths of the "undesirables". Then it became a true moral outrage that brokered no dissension. Until then, it was because we had 4billion+ in loans to Germany they were repaying us after our costs for WW1, among other financial incentives.

Claiming otherwise is whitewashing history.

America has never been a particularly great country. Don't let the school propaganda fool you. We've done things nearly as bad, and in some cases worse, than the Nazi party in our past. But nobody started a world war about it because we kept it within our borders (e.g. the Native American genocide, slavery, etc.).

I think the individual people who went to war from America in WW2 were doing the right thing, and believed in it for the right reasons. But the people at the top pulling the strings? Financial justifications all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Hitler literally modelled his policies after the American ones, but it's easier to talk about an absolute evil that sprouted out of nowhere.

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[–] boaratio 23 points 3 days ago

I won't be happy until every article headline written about space Karen refers to him as Adrian Dittmann.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Shocking.

Remember when he used to say he was a socialist? And literal morons believed him? It might have been when I realized how stupid and easily swayed most of the population is with obvious and blatant propaganda.

[–] FlyingSquid 62 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He also said he was a "free speech absolutist." Then he banned the guy who showed the publicly available info about the location of Elon's private plane. Then he banned the reporters who reported on that.

And that's how he started down the road to Twitter as it is now.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's even more tame, currently he was banning MAGA people for not agreeing with his stance on H1B.

[–] FlyingSquid 16 points 3 days ago

Yep, he's gotten more and more ban-happy over time.

[–] pivot_root 14 points 3 days ago

I still think he got the word "absolutist" mixed up with "abolitionist".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

He is a socialist! He supports the National Socialist German Workers Party!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

This article is still about the recent Welt op-ed. Just so nobody gets the impression, that Elon did something else yesterday.

Not that any of this excuses the opinions he shared with the world already.

[–] aggelalex 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

American spotted. Opinion rejected.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

I am doubling down on my dislike for this NAZI.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

It's kinda hard to dispel the richest man in the words narrative when he also owns a major social network

[–] Diplomjodler3 17 points 3 days ago

Fascists gonna fash.

[–] givesomefucks 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm not optimistic enough to count on it, but upcoming events might just show a lot of white rural voters that across the board the leaders of these racist movements mostly aren't even really racist, it's mostly a grift for profit/power and they're just exploiting the poor's ignorance

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd love to have your optimism.

There have been multiple investigations into finances and employees of high ranking party officials linking them to foreign influence. Changes in popularity? Niet.

It's the same as with Trump: "Yes, he us a crook, but he is MY crook"!

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[–] zarathustra0 6 points 3 days ago

Extremist's gonna extreme.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown 3 points 2 days ago

Done you mean adrian dittmann?

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