Elon Musk - news and discussion

[Ax^]

 

[Yossarian]

did we have the telsa one yet

 

[Kid_Eternity]

 

[Ming]

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.

100%. It's only a small test really. More of a troll or likely a public demonstration of their big win. Bit Nuremberg really.

 

[spring-peeper]

It's bonkers. It's unprecedented. But it fucking happened. I understand why it's so hard to accept but the quicker everyone does the better imo.

Yip, that basically sums up all of Trumps latest moves.

 

[BigMoaner]

Dozens of subreddits are banning links to X — The Verge

Communities are debating the change after Elon Musk’s gestures at a Trump rally were celebrated by neo-Nazis.

apple.news

Reddit I’ve always found left leaning, even on the main major subs. YouTube comments section however

 

[teuchter]

Was just discussing this with a real life non internet person, who said similar to what Spymaster wrote earlier - the idea that he intentionally went out on stage to do some Nazi salutes is way more bonkers than most other explanations of what happened.

I think this is one of those things where a certain portion of the internet gets over-excited and ends up arriving at some slightly bizzare conclusions with silly levels of certainty.

If you already strongly believe Musk is a wrongun (for the record, I believe he is a wrongun) then there's a quite powerful incentive to believe that he's done something that unambiguously proves that he's the worst type of wrongun that most people can think of. The more benign explanations are unappealing.

We see the same sort of thing here on urban quite often.

 

[Ax^]

1/10 for trying the same bait but with a shorter post

 

[Humberto]

I don't think it was an intentional fascist salute, nevertheless the guy's a menace and a serious baddie. I don't mind him copping flak to say the least, but I'd prefer it to be grounded in something more solid.

 

[Spymaster]

We see the same sort of thing here on urban quite often.

To be fair, he couldn't have given them a better case for confirmation bias!

Stepping back though, Musk is all kinds of wrong but he's definitely not a total idiot. The potential for the immeasurable damage that this could do his businesses alone, makes me question his chucking Nazi salutes on purpose and with malice aforethought, so to speak.

 

[Spymaster]

I don't think it was an intentional fascist salute, nevertheless the guy's a menace and a serious baddie. I don't mind him copping flak to say the least, but I'd prefer it to be grounded in something more solid.

Oh for sure. It's fucking brilliant entertainment on loads of levels.

 

[ska invita]

hes not a "wrongun" a "menace" or a "baddie" hes fash who likes to do fash stuff and repost fash shit and tell people to vote fash and wade in to a race pogrom with support for the fash and when he's not doing that he just generally likes to normalise the fash...oh and on sundays he updates his little emoji to a little fash caesar frog

 

[Ax^]

I don't think it was an intentional fascist salute, nevertheless the guy's a menace and a serious baddie. I don't mind him copping flak to say the least, but I'd prefer it to be grounded in something more solid.

rightio makes mental note of the people who would have to see Elon musk riding on top of a panzer into Warsaw before saying he was a bit of a fascist

 

[Elpenor]

Hitler was better at designing cars than Musk has proved to be so far

 

[teuchter]

Those of you who are absolutely convinced that Elon Musk stepped out on stage and deliberately performed two Nazi salutes: can you explain what you think his motivations were and why he decided to do this?

 

[ska invita]

I AM KEIKUS MAXIMUS! ALL BOW BEFORE ME AND BRING ME TP FOR MY BUMHOLE!

Those of you who are absolutely convinced that Elon Musk stepped out on stage and deliberately performed two Nazi salutes: can you explain what you think his motivations were and why he decided to do this?

where have you been the last year? why do you think he's telling germans to vote for neonazis? what are his motivations? maybe answer that first and come back to the thread

 

[Ax^]

Those of you who are absolutely convinced that Elon Musk stepped out on stage and deliberately performed two Nazi salutes: can you explain what you think his motivations were and why he decided to do this?

because you touch yourself at night...

 

[two sheds]

Those of you who are absolutely convinced that Elon Musk stepped out on stage and deliberately performed two Nazi salutes: can you explain what you think his motivations were and why he decided to do this?

I don't think he intended to do it when he went out there necessarily, looked to me like he was on something and got caught up in the moment.

 

[ska invita]

I don't think he intended to do it when he went out there necessarily, looked to me like he was on something and got caught up in the moment.

Looked pre planned to me... all the Keikus Maximus stuff ... he thinks hes a Roman Caesar now

 

[Yossarian]

I don't think he intended to do it when he went out there necessarily, looked to me like he was on something and got caught up in the moment.

He might not have been planning it but I bet he's spent some time in front of a mirror practicing sieg heils

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s a fascist administration. Musk is one of many fascists.

 

[Spymaster]

I don't think he intended to do it when he went out there necessarily, looked to me like he was on something and got caught up in the moment.

That's about as far as I'd go too.

The weird fucker's done a few lines and got carried away.

 

[two sheds]

He might not have been planning it but I bet he's spent some time in front of a mirror practicing sieg heils

yes that thought did occur to me, too

 

[Serge Forward]

That's about as far as I'd go too.

The weird fucker's done a few lines and got carried away.

Probably, but he is a fash cunt too.

 

[pesh]

Hitler was better at designing cars than Musk has proved to be so far

tbf, it took about 20 years to perfect his self driving car too.

 

[Humberto]

rightio makes mental note of the people who would have to see Elon musk riding on top of a panzer into Warsaw before saying he was a bit of a fascist

The guy is a fascist. 100%. He's dumb on some level carrying on like that and copping a load of flak because he's all bullied up on adrenaline. Anyway fuck him. Although as I say I'd prefer it not to be the focus because in the long haul it might not be a good exercise. But who knows it may haunt them and damage them straight out the gate. If you can look at that in the context of the speech and say it's unequivocal, I'll accept a different view. I'll say no more.

 

[Serge Forward]

Not wanting to delve too deeply into defining fascism as a political ideology but he's not really 100% fascist. The whole corporatist thing would be a bit of a turn off for him. He is most certainly a fash fellow traveller, promoter and enabler with a liking for fascist imagery though. He's also a massive fucking racist, and a complete scumbag who never met a fascist he didn't like or wouldn't want to promote on his personal far right megaphone.

80-90% fascist then.

 

[8ball]

I don't think he intended to do it when he went out there necessarily, looked to me like he was on something and got caught up in the moment.

Ketamine is usually more mellow than that imo.

 

[spitfire]

Hitler was better at designing cars than Musk has proved to be so far

Ferdinand Porsche has entered the chat.

 

[Maltin]

Was just discussing this with a real life non internet person, who said similar to what Spymaster wrote earlier - the idea that he intentionally went out on stage to do some Nazi salutes is way more bonkers than most other explanations of what happened.

I think this is one of those things where a certain portion of the internet gets over-excited and ends up arriving at some slightly bizzare conclusions with silly levels of certainty.

If you already strongly believe Musk is a wrongun (for the record, I believe he is a wrongun) then there's a quite powerful incentive to believe that he's done something that unambiguously proves that he's the worst type of wrongun that most people can think of. The more benign explanations are unappealing.

We see the same sort of thing here on urban quite often.

I think this is one of the reasons how we ended up at Trump 2. People just can’t believe the facts that face them and decide not to believe what they see and believe instead that people are misunderstood/look away.