Submitted 1 month ago by DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
You know what the worst part of this is? This run of western fascism doesn’t even have the aesthetics to make it palatable. That “seig heil” was so fucking uncoordinated it made the Australian break dancing lady look like a prima ballerina.
We’re gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭
I feel like the worst part of this was the ADL defended him.
The ADL calling the keffiyeh a symbol for antisemitism while defending Elon “throwing his heart to the audience” solidifies what many progressives have already known about them.
Lol, of course they did.
We’re gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭
Specifically because they have accumulated so much wealth that they can pay people to do terrible things in seemingly unterrible ways.
People forget that a large portion of the original Nazis were hardened WWI vets, not soft plutocrat tech bros.
Nah, there’s gonna be bodies on both sides if they think they’re gonna try any of that shit.
Better for someone to finally snap, than for everyone to keep going along with it?
I think the cheap decorations were on purpose. All that money for his inauguration and he’s going to pocket as much as possible. So Tim Cook, Schmuckerburg, and whoever else that donated $1 million EACH to his fund, and they’re going to skimp on as much as possible and cut as many corners as possible so he can put that money in the bank. Don’t forget there are several cities and organizations that he still hasn’t paid for his rallies.
He pocketed $170 million today
Schmuckerburg is a great name omg
TBH they will probably send their murder drones to do the dirty work.
We’re going to have to develop anti-drone tactics.
Unless it’s set to shoot at anything moving it’s going to be pretty shit. And once the targeting is that wide open you just get a tennis ball machine and waste it’s ammo.
Hugo Boss is still around, I’m sure they would be willing to reprise their previous role 👍🏻
Fashion 2: Electric Boogaloo
Palatable fascism based on looks?
Yeah. Fuck you.
Art and Aesthetics are a big part Hitler’s plans to make fascism palatable in Germany and Italy, if you take one art history course you’d know this. Many public works you can tour to this day in those countries come from that era.
He did a second one that seemed far more coordinated.
Is this supposed to be funny, or are you a bot trying to normalize how fucked up this is?
Calling me a bot for a dark observation when I’m clearly state I’m one of the people slated to be in line for the ethnic cleansing sure is a choice. But I’ll explain my reasoning and give you the good faith you didn’t give me.
Art and aesthetics were a big part of Nazi Germany. Many Nazi Party Germans got to look at beautiful works of art and enjoy public works in the Greco-Roman style as they were supporting shipping of Jewish people and minorities to concentration camps. The technocrats this time around haven’t even given their supporters that. Instead we get infighting and outrage on social media.
That’s what my comment was making fun of.
Looked this up as I optimistically thought it might be an unfortunate still that looked nothing like a nazi salute on video, but nope.
He must have fallen out of the headlines for a day.
I’m calling it, to keep outdoing himself he’s going to openly and seriously start suggesting nuking things.
“Mr. President, there was a nuclear detonation over Kiev”
“Did we do it?”
“No Sir, it seem to have been the Americans”
(obviously this conversation would be in Russian, but most of us here don’t speak/read Russian so here’s the English version)
Elon: If I can’t nuke Mars, I will order Trump to nuke Earth instead.
I am actually speechless.
he adds “my heart goes out to you”, so it was actually just Elon being really fucking stupid again
I litterly followed the same train But bro it’s undeniable
Gotta love the Murdoch media…
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If he did it once, sure could be argued to be accidental, but he did it pretty forcefully, multiple times, and he baaaaarely has plausible deniability that he didn’t mean this as a wink wink to the neo-nazis.
Holy hell what even is this? Are they really comparing those photos of Biden and Harris to what Elon did?
Just… blatant. Plenty of time lingering on it. No cute pretending-to-fix-the-hair. Just an obvious, blatant nazi salute.
what was he saluting when he turned around? Trump? I cant find a better angle.
He’s saluting the crowd for their support
Some of the audience was behind him. He just really wanted to get the message across 😒
I wish. 😞
What was the context, in terms of his speech? Did he say something right before this or after it?
“Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured, thanks to you.” - Elon Musk
Then he did the seig heil salute. Just in case people are still confused, here’s Hitler’s own words from Mein Kampf on saving civilization.
“All the great civilizations of the past became decadent because the originally creative race died out, as a result of contamination of the blood.” - Hitler
What a dumb fucking cunt. I hope he dies a terrible death. Rather sooner than later.
Let’s hope somebody pulls a Luigi one.
The world would be an objectively better place if someone took this subhuman scum out. Half a fucking trillion dollars and it’s still not enough for him. These scumbags always need more and more.
I’m betting on an overdose. Ketamine, cocaine, amphetamine… whatever the shit is, I’m not an expert.
Can we get him to hire Micheal Jackson’s old doctor?
Ideally in his malfunctioning Tesla for chefs kiss
Remember when everyone hated on regular Russian citizens for not forming a rebellious revolution against Putin and assassinating him in his sleep? For not shooting every Russian oligarch and everyone who rubber stamped the invasion of Ukraine? Remember when people called them cowards and “as good as nazis” for being complacent and not getting up and doing something about it?
Where are you keyboard warriors now that the USA needs you?
Just sayin’
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The same people did nothing as the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and enabled Israel. They were never consistent.
With how .ml is fanboying Trump for saving TikTok right now, you lot would bitch if somebody assassinated the president anyway.
Living in a country that did something against putins predacessor and are now enjoying democracy as a result.
Shouldn’t be just saying, morons need harsh realities shoved in their face.
Being the best armed country in the world, the US is even worse for not following through
The only good nazis are dead nazis.
The 1911 is still a fully functional and useful weapon, just sayin.
One Nazi did not like your comment.
So people told me I was being an overdramatic dick when I pointed the multiple similarities between the rise of Hitler and Trump and how the Nazis are coming back.
They’re back, out and disgustingly proud.
I’ll be showing them the footage and awaiting their bullshittery gymnastics. Wonder how they will spin it.
In the meantime while everyone is looking at Elon Donald is signing executive orders to
What’s funny (not really) it’s the media calling it a “nazi style salute” or “a gesture that looked like a nazi salute”.
Their head is so far up their asses that they can’t even call it what it was.
not mildly infuriating. it’s very infuriating
Frustrating but predictable.
Personally I’m pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.
Ever think about what’s in the middle of a swastika?
Real talk.
The richest men on the planet Earth are surrounding and and giving gifts/favors to a man who holds the highest position in a World Superpower with one of the largest militaries on the planet.
What can we realistically do to fight a possible incoming Nazi regime?
Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our times to the Henry Ford of our times.
I watched the clip assuming this was taken way out of context, nope, he did it twice…
Wher are all the people that said calling them NAZIs was disregarding history of “real NAZIs” ?
Where are all those MFers now ?
A 14 years old edgelord who also happens to be the richest man in the world, to own a social network with which to manipulate public opinion. He has just bought the US presidency.
He probably didnt mean it as a nazi salute,its not as if he openly supports the German far right party AfD…oops
I was under the impression maybe a mistake but dude did it twice.
Ngl, I was sceptical since still images are not a good representation of what’s really going on when people are moving around, but then I checked out the video. Good lord, he even did it twice.
It’s so fucking cringe the way he’s biting his lip and does that little grunt. He was really sitting there amping himself up for this moment. “That’s it I’m going to sieg hail!!!”
What a fucking loser. No friends unlikeable moron.
He once were in Poland visiting the concentration camp Ausschwitz with his son. He has nothing learned about this visit. It’s a disgusting man. And it’s high time to arrest him. Ban him. Take all his money and assets and put it for good use. Or send him to mars. Immediately. Solo mission.
The rise of fascism call it what it is.
I think this was a distraction. Trump already started the policies.
This and what Putin’s presidency turned out to become in the long run is what I now happen to imagine largely felt like to witness the Nazis rise to power.
You just don’t know what’s coming before it’s actually there. The historical evidence even shows that the Nazis weren’t that out-of-touch with reality at first, at least in terms of what was largely acceptable back in their day - like rights to land, borders, with many countries and nations being in a very turbulent state after the first World War. It’s only after they got the power and set up the frameworks, like gradually oppressive laws and manipulating opinions and values through propaganda, that they went to do what we ultimately associate them with.
Putin spoke very high of “the west” and democracy and such at first, but quickly showed his true self when the Kursk sank, then with Beslan (the Nord Ost), then many more times, but back in the day, without today’s hindsight, it seemed so… plausibly deniable? Like people could just vote him out the next time or excuse some things with the same traumas and biases that still brewed in the generations born in or shorty after the USSR. Now a full-blown tyrant, modernized to dictate through deceit, looking wild compared to his first days - a proper example of boiling the proverbial frog; turning the dial little by little, either compounding into some greater evil or simply revealing its true self, both equally inconsequential in the end.
Trump and Musk, similarly, have for the most part been interesting characters, so bizarre that excepting anything more felt naive, beyond the realm of possible. And yet again, unless there is enough backlash early on, people like this will keep pushing, until they lead us to the edge.
I never wanted to see for myself how something so terrible can rise to power, seemingly past everyone’s attention. It’s dreadful to think that the lessons of history are bets learned on one’s own mistakes, that the Germany’s experience is not enough to generate the unrest that keeps such people out of power.
I’m not even on the same continent as these two, but I know they’ll be influencing a whole lot of change around the world, change that will never benefit any way.
The more things change…
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“MildlyInfuriating”
Nah, this belongs in “ActuallyHorrifying”
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah I figured we had a year or two at least before slowly taking off the mask and showing the true fascism. This was just right out of the gate.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The mask has been slowly coming off for at least 15 years. If you haven’t noticed and this seems like a surprise, I honestly don’t know what to say.
sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
The nazis are wasting no time gloating.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Why not? There’s been no penalty. No widespread social ostracizing, no legal justice, no political punishment… This is who they are, and enough Americans are okay with that.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 month ago
I guess don’t visit the new www.whitehouse.gov then.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Is that a fucking movie trailer? Wtaf
techwithjake@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I wish I could say we just gotta wait 4 years but I wouldn’t believe if I said it. The US is past a fucking joke. Just… Fucking dammit…
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Jebus.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Can we just go to the old whitehouse.com?