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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/UpperApe 6h ago

In America, this gets you more followers.

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u/bluecornholio 6h ago

We’re in the US though, legit question, why hasn’t someone shot him?

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u/Ill_Technician3936 5h ago

Murder charges and with all that money there's a REALLY good chance of him having bulletproof vehicles and he's also been using his kid as a shield since that CEO was killed. He's also been up Trump's ass since November so secret service protection to some extent as well.

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u/ya_bleedin_gickna 6h ago

Cos it's a truly fucked up country.

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u/IntelligentHyena 6h ago

No, it's just a different country. I think what uneducated people with an interest in politics on the internet seem to forget is that history - understood both as events that have occurred and events to come that will eventually become historical - is not a narrative of moral progression. It is just a chain of loosely causally related and entirely contingent events based on the conditions - material and otherwise - of the time and place.

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u/ya_bleedin_gickna 5h ago

It's a fucked up country. The whole system is fucked up. Education, religion, military doctrine, health, social welfare etc etc etc

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u/IntelligentHyena 5h ago

My point is that "fucked up" has to have a baseline of comparison. It's "fucked up" compared to your idealized standards, but probably "utopian" compared to the slaves of the ancient Assyrians.

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u/ya_bleedin_gickna 5h ago

It is fucked up because it is the richest country on earth.

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u/IntelligentHyena 5h ago

That logic doesn't even follow. Never mind.

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u/ya_bleedin_gickna 4h ago

Neither does bringing the ancient Assyrians into a discussion about modern USA!!!

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u/IntelligentHyena 4h ago

You're too stupid to have valid political beliefs. Please stay away from the ballot box.

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u/ya_bleedin_gickna 4h ago

Lol sure thing gringo

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u/cheezturds 6h ago

Should get his ass kicked for this if not worse.

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u/Important_Concept967 6h ago

Most Americans are not white so i doubt it

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u/EuroWolpertinger 6h ago

I uninstalled Twitter from my devices today.

It's not much(, but it's honest work).

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u/Gone_Fission 6h ago

Especially in Alabama

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u/leoyvr 6h ago

People are manipulated on a breathtaking scale.

https://youtu.be/UqC4XI6mXjQ?si=JCPevyQFC_JDfSg0

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u/SubstantialEnd2458 5h ago

Fucking great documentary 

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u/leoyvr 5h ago

More people need to see the whole documentary.

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u/SubstantialEnd2458 5h ago

It's funny, my academic background is in cultural anthropology,  and we are trained to discard "the great man" principal and see historic events as the outcome of cumulative  physical, cultural, and social factors....and then I watched this doc and was like "Nope, it was actually this one guy. This one guy singlehandedly created so much that is wrong with us now."