Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word.

Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
    4·
    7 days ago

    9 ppl sit at a table. comes a nazi and sits down with them. nobody stands up. bam:10 nazis sit at the table.

    the american voter has already taken half of those seats.

  • mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    7 days ago

    His political power is premised in large part on the supposition that his following on X is authentic. Given his interests in AI, self-professed belief that Twitter, as it used to be called, is overrun by bots, and ownership and control of X, is there any reason to believe that this is true? How do we know that his human following hasn’t declined precipitously since his hard-right turn and been steadily replaced by bot accounts?

    I know, you’ll say “but–richest man–can buy politicians” and I say yes, but only on credit which could get yanked away at any time, should his following be revealed as inauthentic. His net worth is premised mostly on stock shares in a company with serious problems (which he is doing nothing to solve) facing stiff competition in a troubled niche industry (the electric car market). He had to borrow huge amounts of money in order to buy Twitter because he does not have the cash and if he were to sell that much money in Tesla shares it would cause an investor panic and precipitous decline in his net worth.

    And so now we can see why he likely had to buy Twitter; he probably had no choice: the company was likely about to expose or tamp down on his fraudulent and bot-driven following, which would create loss of investor confidence in his brands, which is the only thing propping them up given their weak fundamentals. The Emperor has no clothes, folks.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 days ago

    if only Dem neolib leadership had taken “the most important election of our lifetimes” a tad more seriously…

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        Kind of is, yeah. As folks never tire of pointing out, the American electoral system only permits two major parties. As a basic principle, they’re occupying one of those slots, so it is their job to stop the other party. If they lack the juice to do it, then they should step aside and let somebody else have a crack at it. It’s part of the bargain that if they want to hold onto the power, they’ve gotta take some blame.

    • ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
      40·
      8 days ago

      Came here to fix the headline, glad someone beat me to it! Stop coddling and start calling people out for who they are. If it walks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi

      • hissing meerkat@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        8 days ago

        But not in the ways that matter to them. Fascism was characterized by nationalizing private enterprises to transfer wealth and power from the government to the chosen elite. They want to privatize government enterprises to transfer wealth and power from the government to the chosen elite. Totally different, you see?

          • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
            1·
            7 days ago

            Indeed, because the fucking Nazi bastards needed the industrialists to rebuild the German economy and more importantly, the war machine.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    59·
    8 days ago

    His grandparents were Nazis. His parents intentionally moved to Apartheid South Africa where they ran illegal emerald mines. He’s said he needs H1B visas because he wants to drastically overwork his “employees” and if they’re not on H1B visas they’ll leave. Is anyone at all surprised by this?

  • I Cast Fist
    26·
    8 days ago

    The Most Powerful Man in America is a Nazi Sympathizer

    So is their newly elected president. What’s new?

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    101·
    8 days ago

    Wouldn’t be the first time. But it ought to be the last.

    Unfortunately people weren’t convinced to get the fuck out and vote so. Y’know.