If he didn’t want to be labeled a Nazi maaaaybe he shouldn’t have made a Nazi salute twice during a speech on live national tv.
Stupid games, stupid prizes. He gets everything that’s coming to him.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by krystaal@lemmy.wtf to [deleted]
If he didn’t want to be labeled a Nazi maaaaybe he shouldn’t have made a Nazi salute twice during a speech on live national tv.
Stupid games, stupid prizes. He gets everything that’s coming to him.
The extra nail in the coffin is that he didn’t apologize or show concern at all. He deflected with a bullshit comment about it being a roman salute even though that’s nonsense. Any sensible person in his shoes would have immediately said fuck nazis, that was dumb, I fucked up, not what I meant etc.
Then he goes and speaks at an AfD rally and says germany should move on from its embarrassing past or some nonsense. So if there weren’t already 5 nails in the coffin, he just filled it with c4 and blew it up.
It’s called nazism. People who defend nazis are almost certainly nazis themselves. People who claim the nazi salute was used by Romans are wrong or lying, and also probably nazis; the earliest known record of the salute in a Roman context was created a millennium after the end of the Roman empire.
Still a nazi. You can say you hate tall people and want them all to be shot, that won’t stop you being tall. Same thing.
Nazy sympathizers.
The best way to burn off bad faith is to ask them to apply their “standard” to a different scenario. “What do you mean video games have a woke agenda? You can’t know the intentions of game designers”. “How do you know that the media is biased against Trump”? “You can’t read their minds”.
Victim of Lead Poisoning
Wait actually, Philly has a lot of lead poisoning but most Philadelphians aren’t nazis.
So just nazis then. There is zero excuse.
I’ve had a coworker argue that he’s not a nazi, despite doing all the nazi shit and saying all the nazi stuff, because he does it only for the money.
bad deontology
The comeback is easy: Intent doesn’t matter, actions do.
Intent could matter, if they addressed their actions after the fact. Acknowledging that it looks bad and affirming your position to the contrary is the minimum. He has not done that.
Basic psychology.
Anyone who has already decided that they like Elon (or MAGA) do not want to believe that they are the bad guy. So they will reach for even the worst of arguments to make themselves believe they aren’t the bad guy.
Remember: Nazis themselves refuse to believe the Holocaust happened. Same same really. No one wants to think of themselves as the bad guy.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
gaslighting. it’s just gaslighting
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Gaslighting with the overpowering stench of Nazi sympathy