• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Imagine how minimally functional your brain has to be to think this is anything other than a blatant sieg heil.

    Now wrap your mind around the majority of voting Americans voting for this future.

    The only advice I can give anyone at this point is to not hold too much hope for the future of this nation. Lower your expectations. It’ll help you get through what’s coming.

  • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    I kinda get the feeling that part of this was a loyalty test for main stream media to see how they were going to report on something that was obviously a nazi salute.

    Was it going to be “Musk is swatting at fly, the liberal media goes off the rails with crazy nazi conspiracies.” Or “Musk is a fucking nazi, he needs to be deported”

    Which is going to get the “love” of this administration?

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      Fuck the ADL

      I was on the fence about them for past shenanigans but this is the final nail in the coffin. My friends are now telling me that musk did not, in fact do a Nazi salute because his fingers weren’t pointed the right way

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      the ADL is a zionist organization that supports genocide. they’re not bootlickers. they’re the sole of the boot itself.

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        ADL do not care about anti semitism at all. Their only concern is anti zionism.

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          Zionism is the same kind of ideology as Nazis, just with different “superior races” (“the chosen people”) whom they claim to represent and sub-humans (“human animals”) whom they claim to be both inferior and a danger to them.

          So it’s absolutely natural for a pro-Zionist organization to side with other Nazi-like ideologies as long as the “superior” and “subhuman” ethnicities of both do not collide, and in this case they both share the view of the Northern African Islamic people as subhumans and they probably see their own “superior” races as being a kind of White - so White Jews and White Christians (if you have any doubt of this for the Zionist side, go check out how Israel treats Ethiopian Jews).

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            just to give historical context, Germany, Japan and Italy supported each other in their nazi-fascism for the exatc reason you already said. So there is no surprise that it is happening again with America and Israel

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      Just when I thought the ADL couldn’t be anymore useless, here’s REAL Anti-Semitism and they’re not doing anything about it.

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      You guys are lucky to have AOC. I’m a non-American that only knows her from memes and screenshots like this but I’m a fan. Especially compared to all the other dead fish.

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        If she isn’t the next Dem presidential candidate, then they might as well shut their fucking doors right now.

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          I’m not an American, but isn’t the problem not just the presidency? Like, even if she becomes president if the supreme court, congress, senate are republican controlled she’d be kneecapped.

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            Yes, but none of that other stuff will be possible without somebody worth voting for.

            The choice will say a lot about the party. Change it from the “more of the same” party to the “let’s fix this shit” party.

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      the ADL

      Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish non-governmental organization based in the USA

      … will now be known as the “Advanced Defamations League”

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      Same ADL that says anti-genocide protests are categorically foreign agents funded by Iran and Hamas.

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          Same here, AIPAC lobbied against a locally popular Rep after they criticized Israel though. It worked and they lost their seat to a more friendly Rep.

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      Are their last words going to be “see? You were overreacting.” right before someone pushes a button on their gas chamber?

      Or have they already booked their tickets to some recently-confiscated house in the West Bank?

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        Neither. They have money. They will not be subjected to the gas chambers and will live their lives free of consequences.

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      these gas lights aren’t even lit. why are you making such a big deal?

      this is obviously sarcasm

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    anyone still using x is either a nazi or okay with nazis. the time for excuses is over.

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      Wait, are we allowed to call them Nazis yet? Or is it still unnecessary vitriol?

        • Could people please just read a little bit of history before commenting on it? Please?

          Yes, the full formal name of the Nazi party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party). Yes that name has “socialist” in it.

          But you know what? North Korea is the 조선민주주의인민공화국 (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). Are we to take it as read, then, that you think North Korea is democratic? (Or that it gives a shit about the People?) No?

          Extrapolate that to the Nazis.

          It’s well known in history circles that extend one micro-step away from simplistic high school history that the word “socialist” was put into the Nazi Party’s name because they were trying, in their early days, to siphon members from other socialist groups. This is called “branding”. You label yourself in ways that makes you sound like what people want, get them on your side, then turn into what you want. Do you want another example for a political party instead of a nation? Canada’s old “Progressive Conservative Party of Canada” would be a case in point. I mean the name is a literal contradiction in terms, but I guess because it says “progressive” they must have been a progressive party, right? RIGHT!?

          Here are a few more names that are flat-out lies:

          • Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (neither liberal, nor democratic)
          • Democratic Republic of the Congo (just like the DPRK, this place isn’t even remotely democratic)
          • The United States Taxpayers Party (now Constitution Party, was never about Taxpayers and always about what would now be alt-right policies)
          • The Sustainable Australia Party (named like it’s about the environment, is really anti-immigration)
          • The American Independent Party (named to fool people into thinking they’re registering as independents, but is really a far right party)
          • The Social Democratic Party (sounds left-wing, but is really centrists who broke off from the UK’s Labour Party)

          That list could go on for a very long time, but I hope by now you can understand how anybody who actually opened a history book would laugh at “the socialist part”.

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        It used to be okay to kill Nazi’s on sight, as they are not only a threat to National Security, but a threat to humane values itself. Our grandfathers watched people die in droves for the chance to kill a Nazi. Now? You’ll probably be shot or arrested by police for killing a Nazi.

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      If he has any sense that overcomes his pride, he should be grateful that someone else is taking some flak for him.

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        Well, we know he doesn’t have any sense, but if he did, it would most certainly be overcome by his need to be the center of attention.

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    Wow. I was willing to believe that the still pictures were just perfectly timed to make it look like something it wasn’t. But it totally is a Nazi salute.

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      Yeah, this was the first time I saw it in motion. How anyone could try to spin this as anything else is wild. We’re to the part in 1984 where we’re told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears…

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    Wow. That’s bad.

    E: Musk is such an ass that I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest he did it deliberately to troll liberals and press. Not because he holds any actual nazi beliefs (though he absolutely could) but because he just wanted to stir the shit in the news.

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    How did he make the Nazi salute look somehow even MORE uncool than the -9999999999999999999999 it was already at.

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    So he literally turns around and does it a 2nd time.

    How can anyone deny it now? There’s no way this is coincidence, like he’s just really awkward with gestures and was bad at throwing his hand in the air to the crowd. This can’t be explained away.

    Wtf bullshit argument or defense is he and his supporters going to spew out?

    They all say he’s such a genius, but he’s unaware of how close this gesture is to a nazi salute? There’s no way this can be defended. It’s just too obvious.