Summary

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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    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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      That’s the most telling bit about his state of mind that day.

      If you did a gesture on national TV that lots of people misinterpret as a nazi salute, and you didn’t mean to do a nazi salute, what would you do? What would any person with a public platform in that situation immediately do?

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    It’s because you did the nazi salute. Do you remember that you did the nazi salute when the faschist government took over?

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      Nhaaa… Just because you do the nazi salute position yourself in a place of authority inside our current fascist government and support it’s politics and agendas even make Buddy buddy with its leader doesn’t necessarily make you a fascist yourself… Right?

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        Not necessarily, maybe he is trying to hint that he is a kind of mole inside man that wants to secretly save some of the immigrants and go down in history as a hero? Sigh… But then why the chainsaw… Unless? Yeah. That’s my new cope

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    Shouldn’t have made that salute then, nor throw your support and your weird fans behind the AfD and Tommy Robinson.

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    He’s right, he doesn’t belong to the Nazi party. He sure is a white nationalist though, with some very authoritarian views on what a country should be.

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    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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      Supporting the AfD party, an openly neo-nazi party, and appearing in their events, days after the “roman salute” removed any kind of ambiguity that could exist. He’s a nazi, period. And the only good nazis are dead nazis.

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        The Roman salute excuse that many of his supporters promoted irks me because of how dishonest it is from the get go. There’s not a single Roman work of art that depicts the salute and it actually originated fairly recently under Mussolini’s National Fascist Party.

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          Additionally, the Nazis on 4chan et. al. had no problem recognizing the symbol for what it was. It was the pearl-clutching lib enablers who had trouble recognizing it

          This post does not mean “voting is useless”, tankies fuck off

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          It wasn’t, a few years before Mussolini came to power a film came out depicting the Roman Empire, nothing political, but it was known to have inspired Mussolini’s character and public image, and was the first instance of what was known to be the “Roman salute” from which Mussolini borrowed as he was so inspired by the film, it was never historically used by Romans. Ordinary things made an amazing doc on Mussolini and his rise to power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xhwx8z8mJc

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    Don’t want to be accused of being a Nazi, then don’t fucking act like one you stupid cunt.

    If you’re looking for sympathy you can look elsewhere.

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    He’s right. It is. It is outrageous to say the obvious truth about billionaires and corporations. Has been for many years now. A lot of people went bankrupt due to fines or to jail for precisely this.

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    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.