Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hey Lemm.ee admins just wanted to ping you to let you know that there’s seemingly a person on your instance acting as a mod in communities and using their mod abilities to promote Nazi apologia. Just thought you guys should know this because they are a member of your server.
lemm.ee admin ping
@EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee @Matt_Glan@lemm.ee @sunaurus@lemm.ee @beneeney@lemm.ee @Aris@lemm.ee
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Saying Musk may not have intended his gesture to come off how it did =/= promoting any racist or murderous group or agenda
You can literally see in the very conversations he redirects to that I condemn both Nazism and Elon Musk.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A nazi did a nazi salute. He might or might not intended to do it. Semantics are irrelevant.
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 week ago
How can anyone suggest he didn’t intend to do it? M-fer put more heart and back into it than Hitler ever did and then he clicked heel, did an about face, and doubled down with as much or more enthusiasm. There was nothing accidental about it. He’s an Afrikaner apartheid loving Nazi. I know everyone knows this but you all don’t have to waste your time arguing about what the entire world saw televised.
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What he “may have intended” is irrelevant. He knew what he did. He did it twice. Elon Musk is an idiot but even he isn’t so stupid as to not realize what he was doing. Having the absolute thinnest veil of plausible deniability isn’t an excuse.
Your defense would be equally as applicable, and just as stupid, if he started requiring all Tesla cars to have a Swastika prominently displayed at all times, claiming “Well it was an ancient Buddhist symbol first, Maybe that’s what he meant!”
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Agreed. The end result doesn’t give a shit about the initial intent.
“Your honor, it wasn’t my intent to wash a fifth of gin down with an ounce of ket and then drive through a school playground during recess.”
“Oh, you didn’t mean it? Free to go!”
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Not really what we were talking about, but alright.
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 week ago
Fucker did it twice
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Both accidents, duh.
Seleni@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Go bark somewhere else, sealion
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If that is your counter, maybe it would please you to know that, as per the wishes of those enforcing the rules, I have obliged a while ago, and now we’re just waiting for things to die down on the side of the charger, who are why any of us ever showed up.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
See, if I had done something so boneheadingly stupid as an accident, I would immediately be putting out statements clarifying that it wasn’t a Nazi salute. It’s what we would expect any reasonable person to do.
Elon Musk himself has not denied that it was a Nazi salute.
Why do you think he’s refused to clarify?
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t know, but inspired by one of the mods getting to me, I’m conceding defeat.
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Typically, if you’ve been told to avoid going down a path, that usually means not commenting on it further, and also not constantly linking to the same place where you were told to avoid going down a path.