Summary
Trump supporters are calling to defund PBS after it reported that Elon Musk’s post-inauguration gesture resembled a Nazi salute.
PBS described it as “similar to the ‘Sieg Heil’ used by Nazis,” sparking conservative backlash, with figures like Tomi Lahren and Rep. Andy Biggs accusing PBS of propaganda.
Musk denied the claim and criticized “legacy media” and Wikipedia for bias.
Calls to defund PBS align with longstanding conservative goals and plans like Project 2025, which includes eliminating public media funding under a new Trump administration.
“pure propaganda”
As in: “We want pure propaganda! We don’t want any media whatsoever to ever say anything that we don’t like or already agree with! You say Trump is God or you get defunded!!”
Now, i want to check them out and support them.
Cancel those Amazon memberships and set up annual donations to PBS instead!
The evidence is tweets coming from a platform that literally cannot be trusted. This is a click bait article.
And yet, it’s not whatsoever difficult to imagine the dictator in chief pulling their funding for this, and I won’t be surprised if it happens. I hope there’s something left of the country I grew up in four years from now. I think we’re at the start of a long, rough road.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-proposes-cutting-all-federal-funds-for-npr-pbs
From FOX News talking about how Trump wants to defund PBS.
this is a years-old article, not relevant to the current controversy
So, what you’re saying is that you personally did a big search yourself and couldn’t find anything that made you think Trump was thinking about doing this? Nothing at all from any reliable source?
Also, I didn’t use the newest article I could find, I picked the first I could find from a Right source so there’d be no possible bias.
what you’re saying is that you personally did a big search yourself and couldn’t find anything that made you think Trump was thinking about doing this
no. i said what i meant. your article is irrelevant to the current controversy. putting words in my mouth is the height of bad faith interaction, though.
It’s called ‘sarcasm.’ Obviously, I didn’t expect you to do any research whatever. I did expect you to ignore my explanation, so I’m two for two.
Ignore him. He’s sea lioning.
And not very well, either
your accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith.
LMFAO
PBS died the day Trump got elected. It just doesn’t know it yet.
Even if you think it wasn’t I’m going to keep saying it was. Know why?
If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do
Musk denied the claim
Did he? Can anyone find exactly what he said in this denial?
Interviewer: “Did you really do a Nazi Seig Heil?!”
Elon Musk: “Nein”Lugenpress
Just remember that every accusation is still a confession with nazis, even after they hijack the plane.
They’ve been after PBS pretty hard. It’s probably the one thing that stands between them owning all media in this country.
How do you defund something that runs on charity from the people who watch it (and also a large contribution from the Koch brothers)? Do these dumbfucks think PBS is paid for by tax money? Every single program I’ve ever seen on PBS explicitly states it’s paid for by viewers (and again, the Koch brothers).
PBS is also funded by a grant from the government.
It’s a small portion of their funding at this point but still essential.
Well, looks like I’ll be setting up monthly donations to PBS.
I remember a street interview while (least 10 years) back where elderly people said pbs was 5 to 25% of federal government budget. Like wtf you confuse question with military?
I also just sent them a 100 just to be sure. 🤘
this fuckers actually love cancel culture
PBS covered this subject from bais.
I can’t believe how far this has been taken…
As an extremely awkward autistic person, I commiserate with Elon…
Think whatever, Elon didn’t know what to do with his his hands, or limbs in general.
Nazi sympathizer is a bad look.
So, what you’re saying is that Elon is a Nazi?
Elon didn’t know what to do with his hands, or limbs in general
Lol. Elon’s alleged autism comes in handy whenever he pulls off something that would embarass a teenage edgelord
Alleged is the right word, especially because he keeps saying he has Asperger’s, which hasn’t been a medical diagnosis in years, and there’s no evidence he was ever evaluated.
Nazis pulled the whole Asperger thing out of thin air because certain deviants could still be useful workers
… what on earth are you talking about?
And if we help them [the abnormal children] with all our dedication, we also render the best service to our Volk; not only by avoiding that they burden the Volksgemeinschaft with their dissocial and criminal acts, but also by trying to ensure that they fulfill their duties as productive individuals in the living organism of the Volk. (Asperger H. Das psychisch abnorme Kind. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1938;49:1314–7.)
Dude was a Nazi, somehow people made up this story that saw him as a sort of good guy who wanted to protect children
Has musk said as much? Or is this just mental gymnastics making excuses for the guy?
Musk hasn’t tried to clarify anything, because he shouldn’t have to.
All those that honestly, sincerely believe that Musk was “sig hailing” are either full of shit, stupid, or lying.
These responses: It’s a little sad, a little funny, but fully expected. Most yall done gone full retard.
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Yeah, why would anyone think that someone endorsing the AfD is a Nazi?
I understand awkwardness and if that was the only thing he did i might sympathize, but does your autism also make you financially support far right candidates like the AfD and repost neo nazi talking points?
OP is in favor of racial segregation. Wtf.
Their whole post history is fascinating in a watching the aftermath of a violent car wreck sort of way.
Nazis don’t deserve to breathe.
A nazi would be proud of your absolutism, and cruelty.
As an autistic person, I have no sympathy for Elon. Nor do I have sympathy for anyone so blatantly refusing to call a spade a spade.
refusing to call a spade a spade
Ah. So this is actually a great point.
Do you honestly believe Elon acts or has views similar to a nazi? If so, in what way?
I’ll raise you one. If what he did isn’t a Nazi salute, try doing it at work and see how it goes.
Yuck… I torture myself… your public schooling stupidity is too much…
I don’t understand what sadistic pleasure I derive from this…
Well, I’m glad we’re on the same page in regard to continuing this discussion. Have a nice day!
Lulz… have a good one ol’ state education 👍.
As an extremely awkward autistic person, have you ever Sieg heiled?
You probably won’t believe me… but yes, I have accidently done a nazi type salute… unintentionally. I dare say it has happened more than once… I just don’t know what to do with my arms sometimes…
I have ADHD, Autism and god damn OCD. People are akward with me and I am with them. Never in my fucking life did I need to stim using a Sieg Heil. Never in my life felt I that my body, as motorically challenged as it is, that the thing it should be doing that motion bang on perfect. Twice. On TV.
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, Sieg Heils as a duck it is a nazi.
Never in my life felt I that my body, as motorically challenged as it is, that the thing it should be doing that motion bang on perfect. Twice.
Ok? Are you some poster boy of all awkward movements? I once flicked off a whole crowd after piano recital, unintentionally.
Yall are some kinda dumb around here… hypocritical. Shameful.
Once. You did it once. Without doubling down. And continue going on that same road.
So stop watering down what he did. I am not even hypocritical. At most it could be virtue signaling. But it is a virtue apparently to not make the god damn Sieg Heil on national television.
Yeah, people with autism are sieg heiling left and right, it’s a common symptom described in the DSMIV /s
Get fucked nazi apologist.
Are you really old or really young?
Neither
Aneurysm then?
Of course the party of free speech wants to defund… free speech. Lol
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yeah nothing new. they don’t like the post office, libraries, public media, public schools, public healthcare, public fire departments, pretty much anything public
