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.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    • 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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    3 months ago

    If not Nazi, why Sieg Heil-shaped? 🙄

    On a completely unrelated topic, just look at Hitler sending his heart out to his people, how heartwarming.

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      How is that even possible? I mean Nazis have got to be at the tippy top of the Jew-hating hierarchy, right?

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    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?”

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    Elon is a Cowardly Nazi Billionaire, which is somehow astronomically more pathetic than being just a Nazi, which is already one of the most pathetic things you can be…

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    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.

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    3 months ago

    Well elon a start would be saying on live tv

    “I am not a nazi. I detest everything nazis stand for. White supremacy is bad”

    That would be a start