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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blaming the Jews for your problems, problems you yourself have caused and continue to cause, precisely what Musk is doing here, is the very dictionary definition of antisemitism

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. I don’t know why anyone listens to racists’ definition of racism, or antisemites’ definition of antisemitism.

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[–] Burn_The_Right 10 points 1 year ago

It's also a page out of the conservative playbook. A classic.

[–] Tugboater203 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We really, really need to be okay with punching nazis in the face again.

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

Also unrepentant Afrikaners and their descendants.

[–] Hackerman_uwu 6 points 1 year ago
[–] CharlesDarwin 24 points 1 year ago

And taxing the everloving jesus out of billionaires.

[–] xangadix 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait? When were we not ok with punching Nazis in the face?

[–] TheLastOfHisName 4 points 1 year ago

My great uncle shot Nazis during WW II, and didn't seem too broken up about it.

[–] reagansrottencorpse 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit will ban you for mearly suggesting it's an option

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 1 year ago

Because they don't want to be punched in the face.

[–] csgraves 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So pretty much blaming Jews for it.

Seems like he’s missing a little mustache and some nice high boots.

What an asshole.

[–] reagansrottencorpse 3 points 1 year ago

Desantis has a nice tall pair of white boots he could borrow. Although I'm not sure if it would clash with the Hugo Boss suit.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So is Elon just prepping Twitter to be the next hate based social media site? Looks like truth social might be out of money soon so I guess those folks need somewhere to go.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was always the point. This all started because he was trying to use his influence to shame Twitter into platforming the far-right and then accidentally ended up comitting to buy it.

Everything he has done since has either been to benefit far-right racists and reactionaries or try and mitigate the massive loss he is going to take with the purchase.

[–] assassin_aragorn 11 points 1 year ago

All at the expense of trashing a carefully cultivated image of a wise technocrat and revealing himself to instead be one of the largest idiots alive. Conservatism is a helluva drug.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of money soon on purpose. A bunch of people will take the loss, carry it forward on their taxes, and now that Trump is allowed back on Twitter, truth social has served its actual purpose.

[–] syllabic 3 points 1 year ago

those DWAC cultists are a whole other level of crazy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still convinced he's showing his true colours and tanking Twitter intentionally so that he and his buddies post multi-billion dollar losses on their investment and get tax free gains for years.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And his sycophants will still apologize for him.

[–] fubo 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(To the tune of "Nowhere Man")

He's a real Nazi dong
Even if he smokes the bong
Being Nazi still is wrong todaaay

Doesn't know what free speech is
Buys and trashes Twitter biz
Hates you if you're queer or trans or gaaaay

Elon Musk, stop sucking
We don't care who you're fucking
Elon Musk, I fear that your brain is merely a husk

[–] LEDZeppelin 14 points 1 year ago

Fuck mate. You’re the real John Lennon of Lemmy….John Lemmon

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Pointing out my antisemitism is making me more antisemitic! It's your fault!"

[–] HipHoboHarold 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny how he also said he's transphobic because his kid is trans. Seems like it's just everyone else making him a bigot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, if other people force you to be a bigot, aren't you the real victim?

Someone linked to a substack full of screenshots of antisemitism on Shitter from the weekend. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and I wasn't at the halfway point when I closed the tab. It was a bummer. A real lose-hope moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i think it shows a lot of weakness.. he's probably pretty worried about legal troubles.. maybe very worried, so naturally he lashes out at a legal organization..

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

it's an old tactic.. blame the victims for their oppression.. imply that if they would just behave, things wouldn't be so bad for them..

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

All the money in the world clearly can't buy class, 'cause all he'll ever be is pure fascist trash.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That is lyrical.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because obscenely rich people are experts on everything.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

his only defense is always just "no u"

[–] malloc 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon shows up at the “eugenics” conference in Austin, TX at this point.

Why does this city attract the worst Californians, smh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Because they hear "getting tech hub" and see dollar signs 🤑

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[–] CharlesDarwin 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's awfully interesting that so many members of the "liberal media" are still using that Nazi site.

....did I say "interesting"? I meant to say - predictable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The media isn’t liberal. They are capitalist. In a world where the Conservative Party wasn’t bonkers, they’d be center-right due to their for profit nature. People are still on Twitter so that’s where they engage. It’s as simple as that.

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[–] S_204 16 points 1 year ago

I feel like the ADL, a group of lawyers who come from a community of people who literally devote their lives to arguing over interpretations of texts, is pretty capable of defending themselves against this hairless apes attacks.

I really hope this goes to a trial LoL. Musk will continue to self own until he immolates.

[–] JustZ 13 points 1 year ago

How stupid.

[–] Cyberflunk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do you want lawsuits? Because this is how you get lawsuits!

[–] xc2215x 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)
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