Well, if he wants to follow that logic: Tesla’s CEO didn’t make billions of dollars, his workers did.
He's totally not a Nazi tho
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BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yea, the fact that any CEO would take a stance like this just shines on his hypocrisy. If leadership bears no responsibility, they also shouldn’t be taking home any of a company’s profit.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
True True
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why the fuck is this fascist posting under the black flag? Does he consider himself an anarchist?
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Symbolic appropriation is the modus operandi of fascism. That’s why the swastika, a former symbol of peace, is now one of the most widely known symbols of hate on the planet.
balssh@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
At this point I don’t think he considers himself anything other than entitled to put US and the world in his pocket =))
Corno@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This adds to an ever-growing list of things.
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He created a safe space for Nazis on his platform
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He amplified pro-Nazi content on his platform
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He offered support for Germany’s far-right AfD party, which uses Nazi symbolism in its posters.
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He did not one, but two Nazi salutes during Trump’s inauguration.
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He’s endorsed established antisemetic conspiracy theories such as the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.
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After receiving backlash for the two Nazi salutes that he did at Trump’s inauguration, instead of apologizing, he posted Nazi puns.
All the gaslighting from his supporters with “you can’t read his mind” “he’s autistic” and “it was a Roman salute/my heart goes out to you” is quite frankly an insult to people’s intelligence.
loomi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Three salutes. Two to the podium, he then turned and did 1 more to the people behind and above him.
Most video only showed the first 2
mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
And the public (selected as partisan people) immediately cheered, without any confusion or protest.
People don’t show that enough. The public reaction is more important than the original gesture.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
If he just made a mistake with the salute, surely he’d apologize and say it wasn’t intended, right? Right??
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kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
“Workers” is (intentionally) obtuse.
They were paramilitary — private militant groups elevated to public status based on their allegiance, and plugged into the existing military apparatuses.
So like J6ers on the low end, or Blackwater on the high end.
Speaking of Blackwater, what is “Echo Papa” up to these days?
Prince had struck up a working relationship with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, which not everyone at the meeting knew. … Prince eventually excused himself from the group, telling those gathered that he planned to pitch the detention idea directly to Bukele.
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Not only would El Salvador accept and jail potentially hundreds of thousands of violent undocumented immigrants currently in the US, it would also take in “dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents.”
Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
The holocaust had civilian participants as well. The Nazis recruited normal people to form a police force in the occupied territories, and then told them to execute these jews over there and they did
mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
to form a police force in the occupied territories
So, not civilians then.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, he’s one of the soft targets that should be hiding in a bunker if Trump decides to invade Canada. Not because it would save him, but it saves time on burial if he’s already underground.
HonorableScythe@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
People who hire hitmen aren’t murderers. The hitmen are.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Billionaire seal of approval
daannii@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Should we start a Kickstarter or a GoFundMe,?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
More right wing “guns don’t kill people” bullshit logic.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“the gun helps.”
Eddie Izzard
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The gun is “just following orders.”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Isn’t it kind of the opposite though? As in the gun would be analogous to the worker carrying out the order, and the shooter would be Hitler.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I get what you’re saying and you’re correct, but my comment was an attempt to point out that republicans use bullshit logical arguments to divorce cause and effect, the tool and the user. Yes, people kill people, but the gun is the tool specifically used to make it easier and faster. No, Mao didn’t personally kill millions, but he used the tool of ignorance and populism to accomplish it. It’s like if Mao said “I didn’t starve people, they starved themselves.”
Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
I have always thought you could make that point with something like a knife. It is a tool made to assist in chores. You can use the knife to feed your family or kill your family. The knife is just a knife.
But a gun is specifically designed to kill. There is literally no other purpose for the gun. You can’t use it in a kitchen. You can’t use it to carve tools. Its only use it to take life.
That’s why the guns don’t kill people mantra rings endlessly hollow to me.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That is a valid argument. However, conservatives refuse to make any connection between the tool, the wielder, and the fact that the tool is designed to make the job easier. Whether it be hammering a nail or killing people as quickly as possible. Usually followed by taking the absurd and hyperbolic argument that baseball bats or cars kill people too while ignoring that cars are specifically designed to avoid causing death and baseball bats are for sport with no intent to maximize harm like bullets or blades.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Guns don’t….rappers do. I saw it on a documentary on BBC2.
/s
cogman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ADL? Hello? You going to talk about this? No?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“I didnt kill antone, i was just goving the orders”
renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
can’t tell if it’s a tankie take or a fascist take… not that any option makes it less terrible
Dimmer@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
It’s a ketamine take.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
It’s an authoritarian take
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
“guys is it tankie to compare communists with hitler?”
renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I’ve seen tankies defending trump so I’ll believe anything
BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I read this as a call to action for the people Musk/Trump are ordering around. If everyone just said “no, I won’t to do what you tell me” then we might avoid the collapse of the government/economy/country.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You tell them no, you get replaced with a yes man. That’s been the pattern.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I think the person who originally posted it may have had that intent. I don’t know anything about them. But I’m skeptical that Musk’s retweet was for the same intent. 😀
sowitzer@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This was my first reaction to him posting this. We know Leon hates a large portion of people, calling most parasites and such. He also does not think he is ever wrong and wouldn’t feel the need to defend himself by shifting blame, he would want the praise of ridding the world of people. He also fancies himself “clever” by saying things that mean something else and can then defect criticism with his great intellect and silly arguments. So this seems to be him telling people it would be ok to kill on his behalf and they need to be ready to do it. Of course he probably loves the idea of defending Nazis for funsies too.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hitler did nothing wrong, he was just misunderstood! I was just following orders! I had no choice! I didn’t know! I’m the victim here, not those millions killed! I had the best intensions! I am just a small gear in a very large system! Yeah, but they did stuff too!
Aaaand scene
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
pyre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve been saying the reason he’s obsessed with the letter is its resemblance to the swastika.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nice.
Literally 2 days ago I was thinking of photoshopping the X logo as a swastika, but I’m on holiday so I had put that idea on hold.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Daelsky@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Reposted by Musk Jesus fucking Christ.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
So if I would order a hit on Elon, I would have no consequences? Sweet.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Hitler didn’t murder Tesla. Elon did.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But what does he mean? That the public sector workers should rebel and guillotine the president and kraznov?
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s more of a im14andthisisdeep kind of feel
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Everyone knows that armies are just a loose collection of undisciplined psychopaths that are basically left to their own devices.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Musk, Zuckerberg, and CEOs don’t make social value. The workers do.
BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
MAGA come get yo boy, he’s d̶r̶u̶n̶k̶ in a K hole and still out there doing Nazi shit and defending Hitler…
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Musk = POS Nazi.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
KILL ALL NAZIS!
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This does NOT belong in the sub.
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Does that list include the same political posts that have infested damn near every other sub in existence? I go to shitpost subs for silliness, not more of the same crap we get everywhere.
Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
“I didn’t kill them, my gun did.”
Same logic
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Only difference being a gun can’t say no. The complicity of grunt gives them a portion of the responsibility.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agreed. I blame those who voted them into power and I blame those who haven’t taken out the garbage, by any means necessary.
TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I suppose the military and police are public sector workers, but doesn’t that imply that he should be focusing on dismantling the defense department and like FBI, DHS, etc?
paultimate14@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So these people are advocating for defending the police and military then, right?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Ahh, so he actually admit he achieve nothing and don’t deserve the billions he own, his worker did.
Which one is it, melon husk?