Summary

Elon Musk rejected accusations of Nazi sympathies in a Fox News interview, calling it “outrageous” and blaming media propaganda.

Critics point to his straight-arm salute at Trump’s rally, endorsement of a German far-right party, and reinstating white supremacist accounts on X.

His cuts to federal agencies under DOGE have sparked protests and vandalism, including nicknaming Teslas “swasticars.”

Musk claims he’s targeted for character assassination and receives daily death threats. He and Lara Trump compared the attacks to those against Donald Trump, accusing mainstream media of spreading lies.

  • TrackinDaKraken
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    851 month ago

    If it walks like a Nazi, and salutes like a Nazi, then it’s a fucking Nazi.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      Like he can do more than 3 steps of Goose Step!

      But he does talk like a nazi, except for replacing the “lazy jews/communists” with migrants/poors/democrats

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Let’s look on the bright side. He is still reluctant to publicly acknowledge it, which means that even he knows it is a shameful thing to be. I would be more afraid if he said “Hell yeah, I am, what are you gonna do about it? Do you own a President like I do?”

    • @[email protected]
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      I mean I guess this might be conspiracy territory (although at this point I feel he’s pretty much completely admitted as much through his whole “I am become meme” cringe persona) but I feel like it’s pretty clear he knew exactly what he was doing at the inauguration and just did it as a “lol watch what edgy thing I’m gonna do… and they won’t do a thing about it” and he was 8 billion percent right. Nobody did a damn thing.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        Don’t say that on Lemmy. You’ll get a bunch of defensive milquetoast liberals demanding to hear know what YOU’VE done before you’re allowed to speak on the issue.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    541 month ago

    straight-arm salute

    It’s called a nazi salute. Don’t spread doubt on what it was. He did it twice in close succession. The only other reason for holding your arm up like that is when you explain how high Blondie, Hitler’s dog, could jump.

    ‘Nazi’ isn’t a preferable pronounce, it’s what you’re called when you act like a nazi, talk like a nazi and salute like a fucking nazi.

  • partial_accumen
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    741 month ago
    • re-instates white supremacists accounts on Twitter while also banning journalists accounts (so its clearly not a “free speech” excuse of for the re-instatements
    • backs the aFD whose party leader has been fined multiple times for using Nazi slogans
    • Musk personally performs two back-to-back Nazi salutes from a podium on national television in front of huge live audience

    For someone claiming to not be a Nazi he sure does Nazi things.

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        If you genocide enough people I’m sure you’re views will be more centered amongst the remaining people.

        Just gotta keep genociding until you get there.

  • @[email protected]
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    301 month ago

    “I don’t live in the 1930s - 1940s Nazi Germany region, so I’m just a sparkling fascist”

  • sircac
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    51 month ago

    …without specifying in which sense exactly, like, he is not precisely allegiant to Adolf