Elon Musk - news and discussion

[Zapp Brannigan]

aside from supporting actual neo-nazi party in Germany

Same plausible deniability. Depending on who you ask, you might get the answer "it's not nazi to have legitimate concerns about immigration and to have pro-German policies".

You and I both know that's bullshit, but enough people will say it and Musk gets to carry on with his pwning the libs for personal gain.

He's an absolute bell and far-right to the core, but he's not doing any of this out of ideological zeal. Via twitter he's played kingmaker in the US, and he'll try to do the same for Germany, France and the UK. His $44bn has (in his head) bought him the position of the man who every wannabe right-wing dictator wants to curry favour with, the man who can put anyone in power - in other words, the man of absolute power over all humanity.

 

[breadandcircuse]

my only question here, and it's the only important one, is: what will Trump make of this? will this in any way damage their relationship?

Why would it? Nazis together.

 

[Dog_Voodoo]

Well according to history most dictators end up on the end of a rope.
Unfortunately so do the innocent in vast numbers when cunts like this rise up.
Stay vigilant people.

 

[taperoo2k]

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

aye harmless gesture could be anything

If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and talks like a duck, and seig heils like a duck, it's a nazi.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Apols for the Twitter link - I'll replace it with Youtube/Bluesky if I can find it anywhere else, but it is worth seeing. Seriously. WTF?

Or then again, maybe he's spaced out from sleep deprivation, given how much time he spends online.



The irony of me posting this comment at nearly 3am isn't lost on me.

 

[Yossarian]

aye harmless gesture could be anything

Just "sending out his heart" - to heaven, where he believes Hitler is

 

[Artaxerxes]

my only question here, and it's the only important one, is: what will Trump make of this? will this in any way damage their relationship?

I think the question is why is an unelected sack of pig shit high on ket making a speech at the presidents inauguration

 

[Spymaster]

Same plausible deniability. Depending on who you ask, you might get the answer "it's not nazi to have legitimate concerns about immigration and to have pro-German policies".

You and I both know that's bullshit, but enough people will say it and Musk gets to carry on with his pwning the libs for personal gain.

He's an absolute bell and far-right to the core, but he's not doing any of this out of ideological zeal. Via twitter he's played kingmaker in the US, and he'll try to do the same for Germany, France and the UK. His $44bn has (in his head) bought him the position of the man who every wannabe right-wing dictator wants to curry favour with, the man who can put anyone in power - in other words, the man of absolute power over all humanity.

I agree that he's probably not an ideological Nazi, but he's going to have some explaining to do about the gesture if Tesla shares aren't going to take a hit. The Jewish lobbies are unlikely to be too chuffed either.

I reckon he was on drugs.

 

[Lord Camomile]

my only question here, and it's the only important one, is: what will Trump make of this? will this in any way damage their relationship?

I agree that he's probably not an ideological Nazi, but he's going to have some explaining to do about the gesture if Tesla shares aren't going to take a hit.

Similar situation, I figure. Trump won't care about the salute, only if he gets the feeling Musk is a liability.

The Jewish lobbies are unlikely to be too chuffed either.

Well, the ADL, at least, apparently don't think it's an issue.



Imagine others may take a slightly different view.

 

[BigMoaner]

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[seventh bullet]

Ordinary people can be arrested, harrassed, smeared, fired from their jobs, their careers put on hold or ruined for having their human decency in showing solidarity with the Palestinian people twisted into charges of anti-Semitism by Zionists and their supporters echoed in the mainstream media. When the richest man in the world (it's just luck being born with enough family money to fail without consequence until you make the right connections with other even wealthier people, not because he's a 'genius') performs a salute at an inauguration ceremony for the new US president, there's calls for nuance, nothing to see here, it's a misunderstanding.

Mind you, it reminds me of my school days beginning GCSE history and the sanitised way we were taught about Henry Ford. The great innovator of industrial production and of shaping 20th century modernity, but not the ruthless capitalist and vile anti-Semite who not only used his vast wealth to promote hate through publishing and political sponsorship but was also admired by a certain insecure Austrian painter. My mum was a communist though, so...

 

[ska invita]

Any particular reason why the Anti-Defamation League are defending Musk?

 

[Augie March]

Any particular reason why the Anti-Defamation League are defending Musk?

Sold out for a gold tick

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

He’s probably given them money.

 

[Augie March]

Anyway, it's just an awkward gesture. Like how he awkwardly tweets out support for far-right political movements at every opportunity he gets.

 

[teqniq]

NBC indulging in some censorship here:

 

[Yossarian]

Any particular reason why the Anti-Defamation League are defending Musk?

Musk threatened to sue the ADL in 2023, but its current CEO is pro-Musk - they've probably found some common ground in supporting Trump

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

On the head rolling, maybe off his head, but just a thought - has he had one of his own brain chips implanted? (Would explain the gamers saying he was online at the time)

 

[Augie March]

NBC indulging in some censorship here:

Absolutely fucked. Lots of other news outlets either too scared or refusing to call it out as well.

This is another test to see how far he can get away with this kind of shit.

 

[tommers]

On the head rolling, maybe off his head, but just a thought - has he had one of his own brain chips implanted? (Would explain the gamers saying he was online at the time)

That's not how they work and like he's going anywhere near the fucking things.

He was online at the time cos the people he pays to play games for him were online at the time.

 

[Augie March]

 

[ska invita]

Musk threatened to sue the ADL in 2023, but its current CEO is pro-Musk - they've probably found some common ground in supporting Trump

i think this is probably closer to the common ground - the genocide alliance

 

[klang]

Similar situation, I figure. Trump won't care about the salute, only if he gets the feeling Musk is a liability.


Well, the ADL, at least, apparently don't think it's an issue.

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Imagine others may take a slightly different view.

Esp that all sides should give one another a bit of grace bit

 

[brogdale]

Call me old-fashioned or naive but, on seeing those nazi salutes delivered at Trump's inauguration rally, my mind went straight to my late Grandfather, who survived, and the thousands of American troops who did not survive the landings on the Normandy beaches to defeat fascism. The US cemetery at Coleville-sur-Mer contains the remains and names of around 11,000 US dead, most of whom died during the D-day landings.



Musk's salutes crown a truly shameful day for the US.

 

[moochedit]

They look ridiculous anyway but fuck me they look even more ridiculous over here. Like a custom character in a cutscene.

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Illegal for more than 1 reason. You can't legally register them here so no doubt it's registered in another country and the owner is pretending to be a tourist. Unlikely to be legally insured either.

 

[BigMoaner]

all the Sun-reading tradesmen at work are talking about it this morning. i stfu, expecting the worst.

"nutter". "wants to take over the world". "weirdo." "what a fucking dickhead" was a personal fav.

 

[Kaka Tim]

fucking hell. The salute is absolutely not ambiguous - and the crowd cheering him on ... just wow.

And I think the ADL have just shat their own bed with that statement - I can see a huge number of jewish people (quite possibly within the ADL itself) been utterly outraged by that.

 

[moochedit]

aye harmless gesture could be anything

Wtaf

 

[BigMoaner]

Anyway, it's just an awkward gesture. Like how he awkwardly tweets out support for far-right political movements at every opportunity he gets.

Along with "interesting" and "look, I am just asking questions", this is classic far-right trolling, especially the non-ideological type that just sets itself up in absoloute contempt of anything left of the centre. The wiggle room allows a get out of jail free card, whilst causing as much "triggering" as possible to the otherside. Insert an element of doubt, and run for cover if need be. with JAQ, the trick is to see that the "questions" are always right wing ones, never ever left. The "interesting" response to a tweet is always on a right leaning tweet, never ever a left. It's a trick that's been around since the early internet. In a twisted sort of way I would have far more respect for him if he just bowled up to the podemium, unleashed some seig heils, said he believes in the supremacy of the white race, and walked off. cowardly 14 year old edgelord.