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[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Why are we letting these kinds of people rule us?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago

They manufacture consent, couple that with the extreme oppression and destruction of the middle class since the nixon administration and neo liberal right wing policies that doubled down on these awful ideas while actively working to subvert and undermine any movement left on meaningful social issues. We didn't let this happen so much as we were conditioned to allow it and be too exhausted just barely surviving that we would not have any energy to actively fight and thwart a blatant class war waged against the working class and poor right in front of our eyes,

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What are we supposed to do? Vote? Protest? I think you’ve seen how effective those are.

So do you have any proposals? What exactly are we supposed to do?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Well, I was thinking of growing a group that focuses on helping each other reach self-sustainability, which would make controlling them extremely difficult, and would erode the ability of TPTB to exploit them. But my cognitive abilities declined very suddenly, and I struggle to keep a clean stack of clothes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wild how the only people defending Musk making a Hitler salute are a war criminal who is committing genocide and his father, who impregnated his step daughter twice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Don’t forget there’s also the ADL, who want to equate those opposed to genocide as “anti-Semitic” and defend Musk who has been openly fascist and platforming Nazis for ages.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I know this isn't the point, but they're not even good jokes? On a technical level. Forget the subject matter for a moment, they're just bad puns that aren't very funny or creative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Most likely had the idea to make some puns. Asked Grok and posted the responses he got. Path of least effort.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Agree, but the point of these "jokes" isn't to be funny. The first objective is to offend and cause harm. The second is to phrase the offense in such a way that the offender has the option to say, "it was just a joke" when confronted by the offended. The guy has far more interest in causing harm to people than making them laugh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

It's extremely disheartening that people such as this are even given the time of day in the first place. It's even more disheartening when people are getting fired for pointing out the obvious. I couldn't be more glad to have deleted my Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is in no way a defense of Elon. He is a horrible Nazi and he hates Jews and I'm a Jew.

That said, I'm not seeing where he brought up the Holocaust. He made a bunch of very offensive puns regarding Nazi leadership, but unless I missed it, nothing about the Holocaust. All the critical responses seem to mention it so maybe I'm missing it?

I guess I feel like "makes Holocaust jokes" is just unnecessary hyperbole when what he said was awful enough.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Himmler was a German Nazi leader and the chief architect of the Holocaust

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler

His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!

-- Elmu

I think it's probably fair to call punning on the name "Himmler" to be a "Holocaust joke", but I can also understand if someone doesn't think it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

I guess. It feels like a bit of a stretch to me. If they said "Nazi Jokes" instead of "Holocaust Jokes," it's not like that's still not terrible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,” Musk posted Thursday, adding laughing-face emojis.

Being a dipshit Edge Lord all the time must be exhausting. Remember "Poochie" from "The Simpsons?" Yeah, that's Elon. To the X-treme.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Why does it say "accused" of doing a nazi salute?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Corporate news media is terrified of being sued for libel by Musk, even though it was obviously a Nazi salute. So they use words like "seemed" and "appeared" to avoid saying the obvious.

But the problem is, if you want to be taken seriously as a "news" organization, then you have to speak truth to power and that's going to make you a lot of enemies. Companys have legal departments to minimize their risk, but in the case of journalism, that department exists to get you OUT of trouble not to keep you from ever getting into it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

cause of corporate bootlickers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Pos nazi makes jokes a nazi would? Shocked Pikachu face.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

I had a discussion on an industry Slack yesterday with a guy because I called Elon a nazi.

The guy brought immediately the discussion in DM and there I noticed he was wearing a kippa in his profile picture so I asked where was he from...

And he snapped and started to call me a jew hater and telling me that I wanted to bring him to the gas chambers and all the usual bullying.

Turns out the term they are using to make this connection is called Holocaust Trivialization.

I screenshot the whole discussion, blocked him everywhere I could find him (as I am doing with all Israeli people and businesses to be fair) and kept going with my life while he was still spewing insults at me.

This guy is the frontman of the most important conference in my industry.

Keep ready.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

wow and is he an Elon fan too? or is he just one of those people who call everyone anti-semitist even those speaking against literal Nazi sympathisers lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

So, next time Leon Hitler visits Israel, he can walk around giving the Nazi salute to the fascist Ben and the Likud Party?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

L-MAO 🤣😂

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The tweet for those curious

Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,”

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago

As usual, he's not even funny.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Dollars to donuts he generated that entire tweet with AI.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

AI would have used the correct german ö

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I feel like AI would make something more coherent than that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

He's literally bragging about how he will never be questioned

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

And the stun lock continues. Kind of admirable

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These headlines are getting way out of hand.

If this goes on the ADL will be denying the holocaust be the end of the week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

The ADL has never not been a horrifically shitty organization and has probably done more damage to Jewish culture than any other group in the last 50 years. They're effectively a bunch of quisling fucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

"The real anti-semitism was when the allies attacked the camps on D-Day, the jews were just roasting s'mores we swear!" - The ADL

[–] [email protected] 253 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Genuinely fuck Musk. Cries he's being called a Nazi while doing everything in his power to act like one.

Nobody does a Nazi salute by accident Elon... And especially not with a face looking like he just bust a nut while doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago (4 children)

He's pretty clearly intentionally taunting everyone who opposes him, just demonstrating what he can get away with. That's what all of this has been about. He might not be anti-Semitic (please don't at me -- he likely is -- I said might) and rather is just a pure troll dickhead.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just like with some of the 4chan idiots though, there is little functional difference between being a true believer nazi and merely pretending to be one.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Exactly.

“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company.” - Jason Garrett-Glaser

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

One of these people is basically Hitler, and the other wishes he was hitler

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuck Netanyahu and Musk.

Also, fascists like Bibi speak on behalf of the whole country.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Including every Israeli protesting him? Then every American is maga. Fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Basically Homelander-Syndrome?

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