Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy
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Musk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an inaugural event in January.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This would have interesting implications if he came to Germany again. Stating the Holocaust did not happen (and claims similar to that like his) counts as a felony here.

  • charade_you_are@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    What happened, was he out of the news cycle for 10 seconds and his disgustingly insecure self needed a little attention like the toddler he is?

    • Xatolos@reddthat.comOP
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      3 days ago

      More likely he feels emboldened. After the whole saluting thing, so many jumped to his defense that he most likely feels that he doesn’t need to hide it as much anymore.

  • martin4598@lemm.eeFrançais
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    4 days ago

    And these agents “just followed orders”, so I guess all those millions deaths were just an unlucky accident…

  • belastend@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    Hey, i also think that Elon is a fascist but did anyone read the tweet? It also implied that Stalin and Mao didnt kill Millions.

    It said: “Hitler, Stalin and Mao did not kill millions. Their Public Service Agents did.”

      • belastend@slrpnk.net
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        3 days ago

        Debateable, the Red Fascism theory is kinda wonky.

        I am against the idea that people who adhere to my preferred mode of production (socialism) can’t be genocidal or bad.

        • Naich@lemmings.world
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          3 days ago

          I actually looked up the definition of “fascism” in order to check before I posted. Regardless of any politics, they were fascists.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      this is on point for his demographic, “rich white dudes with power that refuse to take responsibility for their actions”

      • gabbath@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Only the good actions. It’s how they justify keeping all the profits. The bad actions are never their fault though.

  • Helvetica@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Even if you want to play Musk’s little “technically correct” game (and you probably don’t) it wasn’t public sector workers that ran the death camps and slaughtered villagers, it was the military. The military that was, you know, under Hitler’s direct command.

    • metaldream@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      And it was AFTER they purged the civil service of the Weimar Republic, which is exactly what this terrorist is doing right now.

    • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      “Death is the most reliable form of sterilization”. An except from Conspiracy, a movie showing how the top level bureaucrats and SS officers arrived at the “Final Solution” based on the secret notes from the actual conference on the shore of a picturesque lake near Berlin.

      also this excerpt in which they discuss the mechanics of mass euthanasia. This shit should be the hardest stuff you watch all week. THIS is the kind of shit we’re fighting to prevent from ever happening again. THIS shit HAPPENED and it CAN happen again. To you. Your spouse. Your parents. Your children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren. The ONLY thing keeping it from boiling back up is our collective societal prohibition against it, whereby we surgically excise the malignant tumors and dissolve the cultural cancer cells clamoring for another genocide.

      “An assembly line”. If this excerpt doesn’t chill your marrow, please DM me because I want to study your mind. Imagine these cold, unfeeling men talking about the demographic housing your mother or daughter or spouse or you. Imagine the collective life experience, number of childhood smiles, acts of kindness, and raw tears disappearing at a rate of 2,500 per hour, with lungs and throats afire in a remote gray building under a dark sky.

      I would love to see him watch and then tell us again how Hitler didn’t “murder” anyone. He may not have personally pulled a trigger, thrown a switch, or pushed a button, but he’s still drenched in the victims’ blood. Musk will be, too, if he keeps strolling this path.

      Edit: I’m using the royal ‘you’ here and not explicitly referring to the commenter to which I’m attaching my comment.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and heils like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Sure, Hitler only gave the orders to exterminate millions. That’s totally different…

    “I didn’t shoot that guy, I ‘only’ pulled the trigger! The hammer, firing pin, primer, gunpowder, and bullet all acted on their own.”

  • the_wise_wolf@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    It’s about responsibility. According to Musk the ruling class cannot be made responsible for anything. Not even Mao, Stalin and Hitler for murdering millions. Also the workers are the bad guys, not the leaders.

  • mspencer712@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Wait, so what are they doing that they want us not paying attention to? You don’t burn a controversy like this unless you really want peoples’ eyes off of something big.

  • lydon_feen@lemm.eePortuguês
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    4 days ago

    Good One, Muskrat!

    Double down on the nazi rhetoric. It’s been working great for your businesses, hasn’t it?

    What a dumb, pathetic little fucker.