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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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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (4 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

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months 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...

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months 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.

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[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If not Nazi, why Sieg Heil-shaped? 🙄

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's a Nazi from Nazi family, fuck him

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

He's just a Nazi boy from a Nazi family

Spare us a trial from this monstrosity

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[–] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How is that even possible? I mean Nazis have got to be at the tippy top of the Jew-hating hierarchy, right?

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Just because you're the best at something doesn't mean you should stop trying to improve.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 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.

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He even publicly called the AFD "centrist"

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[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Seigheiling nazi piece of shit

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 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?"

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I mean I guess this might be conspiracy territory (although at this point I feel he's pretty much completely admitted as much through his whole "I am become meme" cringe persona) but I feel like it's pretty clear he knew exactly what he was doing at the inauguration and just did it as a "lol watch what edgy thing I'm gonna do... and they won't do a thing about it" and he was 8 billion percent right. Nobody did a damn thing.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Airowird@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Like he can do more than 3 steps of Goose Step!

But he does talk like a nazi, except for replacing the "lazy jews/communists" with migrants/poors/democrats

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Consequences for being a Nazi piece of shit suck don't they Elon.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

Sieg Heiling Space Karen Elon Musk, to be certain, is a Nazi.

It would appear her snowflake feelings are hurt, because we're holding her accountable for her Sieg Heil salutes.

But she brought that on to herself.

[–] don@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

It’s outrageous for him to claim it’s outrageous for us to properly identify him as Nazi, his being Nazi and all.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 0 points 11 months ago

Musk claims he's targeted for character assassination

Only character?

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Just have the balls to admit it you bloated sack of shit.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

If he cheers on the neo Nazis, salutes like a Nazi, and tries to set up a government program to start gathering information about everyone (like Nazis did), he must be a duck!

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If Tesla's robot taxis ever make it to market, you'd Sieg heil a cab for a special discount.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Where have I seen this lower face before? Ughhh... I can't quite put my finger on it.

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I read the article, looking for Musk to explain more and all I got is that he can't be a Nazi because he has never personally killed anyone.

No, seriously, that's the clever defense of Mr. Geniusman.

I’ve not harmed anyone in my life, so it’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Nazi, because the issue with Nazis was not their mannerisms or their, you know, choice of dress, but the fact that they killed millions of people

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And even that falls short on many deaths his chainsaw government cuts will result in.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yep. Also, going by that measure, Hitler was a vegetarian and lover of animals who never personally killed anyone

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[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

If someone destroys your reputation with lies, that is character assassination.

If your reputation is destroyed by people stating facts, you're just getting your comeuppance.

[–] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not only is he a Nazi he’s also a fat retard

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Hey, HEY, that's not fair! He's not a naz...{checks his behaviour}
I see. Ok, I mean he's not fa...{checks pictures}
Riiiight. Wel, he's not a retar...{checks behaviour again}

No, you're correct. Carry on.

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[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 0 points 11 months ago

It’s 100% okay to kill a real Nazi. Moderate that if you are a Nazi loving fuck.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly what a Nazi would say

[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Calling the press propaganda was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press

"Lying press" (German: Lügenpresse, lit. 'press of lies' [ˈlyːɡn̩ˌpʁɛsə] ⓘ) is a pejorative and disparaging political epithet used largely for the printed press and the mass media at large.

The Nazis adopted the term for their propaganda against the Jewish, communist, and later the foreign press. In 1922 Adolf Hitler used the accusation of the "lying press" for the Marxist press.[citation needed] In the Mein Kampf chapter on war propaganda, he described what he saw as the extraordinary effect of enemy propaganda in the First World War. He criticized German propaganda as ineffective and called for 'better' propaganda, which, allegedly like that of the English, French or Americans, was to be oriented towards psychological effectiveness.[6] Accusations of "lying" against domestic journalism can be found in his speeches, for example against the "social democratic press", Jewish liberals, etc.

Hermann Göring used the expression on 23 March 1933 in his speech during the debate on the Enabling Act of 1933 in the Reichstag.[8] In the same speech he denied attacks on Jewish shops and desecrations of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries.

In December 1937, Manfred Pechau summarized parts of his dissertation ("National Socialism and German Language", Greifswald 1935) in the National Socialist monthly and listed synonyms for what he called "Jewish-Marxist lying press", including "Jewish journals".[9] The party's official educational and speaker information material, published in 1938 by the Reich Propaganda Management of the NSDAP, includes comments on the anti-Semitic November pogroms in 1938 by foreign media as reactions of the "propaganda and lying press" which allegedly represented a new field of slander against the Reich.[10]

In several speeches by Joseph Goebbels from the first half of 1939, "Lügenpresse" is used to characterize the media abroad, especially in the future World War II opponents, the United States, France, and Great Britain.[11] At this point in time, the German domestic press had been "synchronized" (controlled) and a critical domestic press that the National Socialists referred to as the "Lügenpresse" no longer existed. The Nazi propaganda reacted to the false report of Max Schmeling's death with an attack on the "foreign lying press".[12] There were also variations in this terminology; the Völkischer Beobachter, for example, referred to the "emigrant and international lying press" to deny reports about the poor health of the imprisoned Carl von Ossietzky, [13] and in 1932, it rejected criticism of Rosenberg using the formula "Marxist lying press".[14]

In 1942, Baldur von Schirach described the French journalist Geneviève Tabouis, who published reports on the expansion plans of National Socialism, as "the embodiment of this nifty lying press that was available to anyone who knew how to pay"; in the same context he claimed that "90 percent of all Paris newspapers" were under "Jewish influence" and that the newspaper editorial offices were staffed by "over 70 percent" Jews.[15]

The expression was also used in speeches at carnival events that were used to bolster the party.[16]

After the National Socialist Condor Legion bombed the city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War and this led to appalled reactions in the world, General Franco's propaganda accused the "Jewish lying press" of disinformation, claiming that this was a press maneuver by the Bolsheviks; this happened in harmony with the Nazi propaganda.[17][18]

In 1948, Walter Hagemann analyzed how the Nazi press used the accusation of the "lying press" against the foreign press. He observed that readers should be made aware of how vigilant and reliable German journalism and politics are on this point. The rejection of the Allied "horror reports" as products of the "Jewish journal" was part of this Nazi strategy.[19]

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah well that's just from Wikipedia which is a lefty non source that anyone can edit!

-Republicans probably

[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago
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