Do you really need to scrape the bottom of the barrel like this for dumb Musk things?
after coming under fire for a gesture he made at a Trump inaugural event that was likened to a Nazi salute by foreign leaders and Democrats.
Oh get the fuck out of here forbes, you’re part of the fucking problem. That was a full on sieg heil, and the piece of shit did it twice. It was not a likeness to it, the oligarch fuckwit was unequivocally heiling.
The 2nd one was even more clearer & Europeans are the authority on what’s is a Sieg Heil & what is not, Americans don’t get to decide that
the billionaire has denied he made a Nazi salute and played off backlash with Nazi puns
Another claim that he actually denied doing it. Can anyone point to the quote of his denying it was a Nazi salute? Lots of publications speaking for him.
I don’t recall him saying “it wasn’t a nazi salute, I apologize for the confusion, my absolute bad, naziism is wrong and abhorrent” anything short of that isn’t denying it
I keep seeing the claim that he has refuted it without evidence of such. Trying to rewrite history.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Feels appropriate here
Anyone who calls it a “gesture” should be made to do it in a public setting on camera.
“Do the gesture”
Hitler was unquestionably bad. There’s no nuance about it. Stop pretending there’s nuance.
Dude can’t really hold himself.
Good.
Musk, who has over 219 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, retweeted a post saying Soviet revolutionary Joseph Stalin, former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong and Hitler—whose regime under his direction orchestrated the Holocaust—did not murder millions of people, “Their public sector workers did.”
A good CEO will take responsibility for failings within their company even if they had nothing to do with it, because their job is to lead and to chose the right people.
Musk could shit his pants and would still try to find someone else to blame it on.
Musk could shit his pants and would still try to find someone else to blame it on.
Just like my grandpa.
Really cementing his place as a skidmark on the pages of history.
Musk got the point. I mean if you follow the leaders blindly without questioning if it’s right or wrong…
More worrying is that it had 14000 likes
Bots, hopefully
No, he murdered tens of millions. 21m is more precise.
We need to deal with these traitors-in-power soon.
In other news, it’s guns that kill people.
What I see every waking day?
Musk, Trump said Truth is truthn’t.
Woah
Just like… woah. This is fucking wild to live through :(
Yeah. “It wasn’t a Nazi salute, but if it was then Hitler wasn’t that bad.”
I want them off this planet, though I’d also settle for them being deep inside it.
Want C.H.U.D.s in reality and not just as a name to call dumbasses? Cos that’s how you get C.H.U.D.s.
So says left wing rag…checks notes Forbes.com!
Inb4 musk accuses Forbes of being radical left Marxists
Joseph Stalin, former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong and Hitler—whose regime under his direction orchestrated the Holocaust—did not murder millions of people, “Their public sector workers did.”
Zero responsibility from those in charge is his thinking here.
Wouldn’t that exonerated Charles Manson if it actually worked like that?
It’s also part of the antagonism towards the federal workforce and an extension of the “deep state” conspiracy theory.
I can’t remember what this specific rhetorical device is called, but he’s luring people in with something that appears true at face value so that they arrive at a conclusion they wouldn’t logically arrive at otherwise: Hitler personally didn’t kill millions of people, but the Nazi bureaucracy and military did. Therefore, Hitler isn’t to blame for all the Nazi atrocities, the bureaucracy was.
Musk is redirecting blame, like you pointed out, away from leadership and instead leading people to the conclusion that if government were smaller, then evil wouldn’t have happened. What is especially stupid about this line of reasoning is that it will eventually lead to ideas like, “if we give the president more power and consolidate all decision making to a small group, then public servants won’t mindlessly perpetuate evil,” as if this isn’t exactly what happened in every authoritarian regime right before they started doing real evil.
Oh now he’s gonna get it.
Get what?
X is coming with it. Won’t be long now.
Deez Nuts?
Bofa?
Yeah totally! … what?
Bofa deez nuts!
