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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.

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[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Well, have you tried not acting like one?

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He thought it was opposites day

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

Opposites year.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

Well that would involve empathy, and as you know, it is a flaw and a weakness...

God I fucking hate Elon.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He has not.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well to help convince us you could denounce all Nazis and racial hatred, especially on your social platform.

We’re still waiting.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's the most telling bit about his state of mind that day.

If you did a gesture on national TV that lots of people misinterpret as a nazi salute, and you didn't mean to do a nazi salute, what would you do? What would any person with a public platform in that situation immediately do?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

shut the fuck up, you nazi piece of shit

[–] DexiMachina@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Play Nazi games win Nazi prizes.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

Shut up nazi

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

He's right, he doesn't belong to the Nazi party. He sure is a white nationalist though, with some very authoritarian views on what a country should be.

[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

He's right. It is. It is outrageous to say the obvious truth about billionaires and corporations. Has been for many years now. A lot of people went bankrupt due to fines or to jail for precisely this.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Yes Elon! My heart goes out to you...

/s to make sure... I am mocking this imbecile and his statement.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 254 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean that's certainly outrageous

But it also certainly tells me he's a nazi

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 162 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's a Nazi from Nazi family, fuck him

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

He's just a Nazi boy from a Nazi family

Spare us a trial from this monstrosity

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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 154 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ignoring the fact that he did what was probably the most vigorous Nazi salute in existence...

It's not just not outrageous to call him a Nazi, it's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to conclude especially when you consider his other behaviour and the kinds of things he supports

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Supporting the AfD party, an openly neo-nazi party, and appearing in their events, days after the "roman salute" removed any kind of ambiguity that could exist. He's a nazi, period. And the only good nazis are dead nazis.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Roman salute excuse that many of his supporters promoted irks me because of how dishonest it is from the get go. There's not a single Roman work of art that depicts the salute and it actually originated fairly recently under Mussolini's National Fascist Party.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago

Seigheiling nazi piece of shit

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • 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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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week 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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago
[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Elon Musk's grandfather was critical of the Nazis for not being anti-semitic enough.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 week ago

Looks like a duck, acts like a duck, quacks like a duck, even rapes like a duck. Why is everyone calling me a duck?

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Bro literally intentionally does a Nazi salute on TV and then whines when people say he's a Nazi...

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Nazi works, but if he'd prefer something else, "technofascist" and "neo-feudalist" are both arguably even more accurate.

Or we could go a different way - "psychopathic douchebag" has a nice ring to it, or maybe "delusional fuckhead."

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago

He behaves like a Nazi so he's a Nazi. And clearly calling him that is getting under his skin, so it's working. I don't think using a different word will have the same effect. Heck, he might even latch onto neo-feudalist thinking it's cool or something.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's exactly what a Nazi would say

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look guys, just because he bought Twitter and reinstated all the Nazi accounts, and thinks and says Nazi things, and and performed an obvious Nazi salute not once, but twice in a live broadcast to millions of homes, that doesn't mean he's a Nazi!

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[–] miseducator@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Musk claims he's targeted for character assassination

Seem to remember him character assassinating a dude who helped save some Thai children a decade or so ago, except that was false and him acting real Nazi makes me think he prolly a real Nazi.

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[–] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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