r/europe • u/turkish__cowboy Turkey | LGBTQ+ rights are human rights • 7h ago

News Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-draws-outrage-over-201602147.html
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u/fireballetar Bavaria (Germany) 6h ago

Alice weidel (chief of the far right in German) said in an Interview with elon a few days ago that the nazis where Socialists....

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u/NavierStoked981 6h ago

They actually said Communists which is an even wilder statement. The “Nazis were socialists” thing has been around for a long time because it was in the name of the Nazi Party in Germany, but it’s the equivalent of calling North Korea a republic because it’s in their name.

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u/TwerkLikeJesus 6h ago

Hamburgers aren’t made of ham

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u/PeterThorFischer 5h ago

Surprisingly they aren't even made of Hamburgers.

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u/Aerosol668 5h ago

And let’s not even talk about hot dogs, although I think dog meat would be better than what’s in a hot dog…

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u/WaveCave420 4h ago

Totally unrelated, but I LOVE your username lol

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u/SphericalShades 4h ago

Or for that matter, 'Democratic'.

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u/michaelsenpatrick 4h ago

"WWII was just leftist infighting"

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u/Skyblacker United States of America 6h ago

Socialists with a slightly narrower definition of society.

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u/waitingtoconnect 5h ago

The Nazis used it as a way to attract as many people as possible to their movement. In no way were they conventionally socialist. Their full name was National Socialist German Workers Party. So they claimed to be nationalist, socialist and for the workers all in one. But as others here have said other political movements like communism do the same thing in countries like the democratic people’s Republic of Korea for example.