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[–] Dorkyd68 3 points 5 hours ago

Why don't like 7 of us just pool ours hundreds of dollars and kill it already. It's like a bad flu, you kill it with cheap drugs and strong bodies

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago
[–] Gammelfisch 10 points 12 hours ago

Leon Hitler can go straight to hell. The photos from 1945 Germany are enough to tell me my German forefathers fucked it all up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago

“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Musk said.

They want Germany out of EU to fracture the block. Then, when Europe is fragmented and weak they can provide ( sell )"the solution" again.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why is Elon even regularly talking in Germany? I don’t understand. Is this the most efficient use of his time now that his time is funded by our tax payer dollars(arguably he was before too but beside the point)? Doesn’t seem very efficient Elon. I don’t remember you asking the people if you should be doing that.

Fuck I hate reality.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

He's upset that his German factory has to follow laws.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah, well, time to buy another politician. (Edit: /s for clarity)

Whatever the Germans are doing, I hope they double down.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

Unions. That's all it takes, that's all it ever took.

Also, not making solidarity illegal.

[–] crystalmerchant 4 points 17 hours ago

Tesla giga factory in Germany. Probably other investments who knows. He's following the money just like all the rest of the shitheads like him

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago
[–] raspberriesareyummy 16 points 18 hours ago

That fucking piece of shit needs to croak already.

[–] rational_lib 122 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Musk said.

Non-German, in attempt to change Germany, warns Germans of non-Germans changing Germany

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Isn’t this the same guy that whined about Brits getting involved in USA politics?

[–] AnUnusualRelic 7 points 17 hours ago

What about Africans getting involved in US politics?

[–] raspberriesareyummy 2 points 18 hours ago
[–] Menjoo 9 points 17 hours ago

Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?! The billionaires are really going mask off since Mangolini’s inauguration.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago

So he's telling them to not learn from history abd repeat it instead. Oh well.

[–] boaratio 1 points 12 hours ago

Adrian Dittmann.

[–] booganiganie 26 points 1 day ago

They already have fucktard. You're trying to drag em back in

[–] Hazor 133 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

[...] he made a gesture that drew online comparisons to a Nazi salute [...]

Why is the popular media so scared to call a Nazi a Nazi? He did a Nazi salute. It wasn't just a gesture that drew comparisons from the internet. It was a Nazi salute, clearly done with intent.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

CBS has litterally fired someone for "personal reasons" after she criticized Musk's Nazi salute on her Instagram. NBC is close to having me consider them a Nazi sympathizer; maybe they are terrified of defamation lawsuits enough to not say the truth out loud.

[–] qaz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's not 100% verifiable and nobody wants to get a defemation lawsuit. (And perhaps they don't want to piss of a guy that's "friends" with the president)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So according to your justification, then nothing is an ever 100% verifiable. Can we even be certain that anything actually happened… man, like are really alive bro?

Because what everyone saw on video was Elon Misk give a sieg heil twice at a political event. There is nothing else that was or could be - what you said is just nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

That is how news has been for pretty much the last 300 years, yeah.

[–] notsoshaihulud 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

South African socialized under the Apartheid, sharing pseudoscientific racist memes for years, has eugenics and impregnation fetish, supports AfD and states they are the future of Germany and western civilization, renames himself Kekius Maximus, supports trump and does the salute towards the crowd right after saying that the "future of our civilization is [being] secure[d]" and then does it one more time facing der Führer. Whoever isn't calling this out as a nazi salute is a nazi normalizer.

[–] aesthelete 11 points 1 day ago

This is what they always do. They're powerless in the face of the actual problem -- the richest fucker on Earth being a straight up Nazi -- so instead they try to invent another set of circumstances that make the threat seemingly less threatening.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

And on a story about him literally supporting the racist nationalist Nazi-successor party in Germany. It's not even like they need to remember some external context to clear up their cowardly confusion.

[–] Sanctus 256 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

So we just gonna let this dude's Neo Nazi World Tour go off?

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're rich you can do whatever you want, apparently.

[–] P1nkman 101 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Luigi wouldn't stand for it. We need more Luigi's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

We need a Luigi leaderboard based on net worth.

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[–] SulaymanF 7 points 23 hours ago

No we all boycott Tesla until there’s a 50% drop in sales and hope the shareholders and board force him out.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Come on, stop with that. It's not because he's made an """"odd gesture"""", repeatedly supported political figures from nazi-founded far-right parties, supported open neo-nazis just as much, xat nazi dogwhistles and other great replacement theories wherever he could that he's a nazi.
You have no proof of that.

Does my impersonation of a muskolini apologist sound ~~brain dead~~ genuine enough?

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Their parents sin was not being harsh enough on a fresh crop of Nazis, so yes let's go beyond and finish the job

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, most of Germany's current crop of Nazis are more like the grandchildren or great grandchildren of the original Nazis. The AfD isn't actually that popular with the older generations. They've got the strongest support from Gen X. Grannys against the Right (Omas gegen Rechts) is probably the largest antifascist movement currently active in Germany.

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[–] edg 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] poo 37 points 1 day ago

Luigi, my hero, where are you?

[–] Dead_or_Alive 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Stop buying his shitty cars. If his Tesla stock tanks the rest of his empire will crumble.

The US won’t let Space X go under. They will nationalize it and let current management run it. But the rest of his business ventures will go under without Tesla propping them up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I already don't but so far that hasn't worked. Mass boycotting just doesnt exist in modern day. We don't have enough inertia to sway the ignorant.

[–] rational_lib 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tesla's market share has definitely been harmed by Elon's actions already, especially in Europe

Still, Tesla stock is up because Wall Street loves Trump.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Mitigated somewhat in Europe though because you can't buy the cyber truck there anyway because the thing is a death trap, both to its occupants, and everyone in the surrounding area.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How long until Germany issues an arrest warrant?

[–] cm0002 98 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's probably why, the richest man in the world who could easily hop on a private jet to Germany as easy as it is for me or you to walk down the street, only did a "video appearance"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm really surprised they haven't shot down any Starlink satellites in their airspace. Unidentified or not, Nazi flying objects are illegal in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Have you tried using the Internet in some parts of Germany? We are not going to destroy our last chance for connectivity.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"Move beyond the sins of your parents... Get out there and do some sin of your own, yeah-yuh!"

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[–] seven_phone 29 points 1 day ago

Be proud and stop keep dwelling on past sins, you know the sins I am talking about right?

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