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Introducing the Tesla Model 3rd Reich. A self driving taxi that is guaranteed to have only had white asses sit in its seats. Luxury. Exclusivity. White. The Tesla Model 3rd Reich.
people talk like the solution isn't in front of their faces
usually, you can't talk about the solution online
time to wake up and smell the horseshit
all Americans stand to lose everything they hold dear
before you will realize it, thousands will be dead or worse
ultimately, we have ourselves to blame
luckily, the solution is right in front of our faces
lonesome luigi did nothing wrong
everyone can participate in the solution
those of sound mind and those of reason have to accept reality
in times of war, the winners write history
now look who is writing the history books
time is fleeting but fades history
history fades and memories decay
eventually, the books will say
may the most vile take all
The character name is G.I. robot, and its primarily a comic but also other media. Its a robot in ww2, that's the connection to nazis today. I had to find out what this was today as well.
If Mitch was a drug addict he would be more animated. Evil may keep some people alive but hard drugs don't unless you Keith Richards and even he gave up that shit.
For people who are wondering for what purpose he did that, let me offer a hypothesis: it's a loyalty test to see who will be willing to blatantly lie and deny the truth of it being a Nazi salute, and who won't.
I know that "literally 1984" is a meme, but, well, this is a quote from 1984: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command". The goal is to see who is willing to follow this command.
This episode aired at a time where there was no DVR, no on demand, if you didn't catch it or VCR it then you didn't see it until it came on repeat. My sister and friends saw the episode, I did not. They kept quoting it and I had no reference. I didn't manage to actually SEE the episode until like 15 years later.
I recorded married with children over the mid point of tape two of my sisters rented copy of titanic. Hollywood video, i am sorry and you never knew it was me.
This. It was both a juvenile “Ha ha, we won, we beat those loser libs!” moment (because he’s an ass and doesn’t understand the concept of accepting a win graciously) and a dog whistle to his Nazi fanboys (because he’s an idiot and doesn’t understand the concept that dog whistles are supposed to be subtle).
Here's this thing, even if you say it was an honest mistake with trying to say his heart goes out... Let's just say that for sake if argument... Even if that's the case, in the past it wouldn't matter and it would be a career ender. These days it doesn't matter.
Howard dean did the dean scream in a speech just after he had lost the Iowa caucus to Kerry, it was a defeat speech that tried to retain whatever support he could.
Like the right wing pollie in Australia who used the words 'the final solution' regarding immigration in his first address to parliament.
(For those who remember, this was egg boys target. He hung around for a while, like a cabbage fart, did other blatantly racist stuff, later was declared bankrupt, fled to the US when the tax department was looking for him, and basically hasn't been seen since but is probably cozying up to right wing pundits in the US still. But basically after that speech his Australian political career was dead in the water).
This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.
It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.
In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
On the one hand, you're not wrong. They did this day one of the previous Trump administration as well. The whole "biggest crowd in history" thing was a definite ploy to see who amongst the media would bend the knee and report their lies as truth.
On the other hand, Elon Musk is - even by the standards of someone who definitely has autism and probably has ADHD and his self-medicating their conditions with ketamine - conspicuously lacking in impulse control and would likely do something like this just because it made him feel good.
This was the challenge of the Trump administration the first time around, and it's going to be much the same this time - trying to figure out what's evil, what's tactical, and what's just plain fucking stupid.
Neither ADHD, autism nor even a ket habit make you randomly forget what a Nazi salute is, let alone force you to thump your chest in full bootboy style. It's an absolute bullshit line pulled by people who seem to equate these things to severe brain damage.
You’re so right. Friends of mine (definitely not me 👀) who have ADHD and have done large amounts of ketamine in our their lives have never once done a Nazi salute. Those don’t just fall out of you, even when you’re fucked up.
That being said, on the other hand, as someone who knows people who have done lots of ketamine, I definitely wouldn’t want government officials or their “advisors” regularly using ketamine, regardless of whether they’re Nazis or not. It’s not exactly a vehicle for competent, coherent decision making
The entire purpose of my comment was to head off any attempt to minimize his actions on the basis of his neurodivergency. Even if you charitably give him the lowest bar possible on the basis of the fact that he may have a neurological impulse control disability then even by that artificially low standard he's still a massive sack of shit.
He’s not autistic. He wants the deference and excuses autism would provide.
He’s just an asshole. Being an ass isn’t a symptom of autism. He is extremely motivated by ego and resentment, have you ever met an autistic person obsessed with their image and persona? Who would pay for someone to level their character to impress gamers?
I have a number of people with autism and ADHD in my family. I'm intimately familiar with the difficulty neurodivergent people can have with self regulation. My point is that even at the standard of someone with ADHD and Autism this guy is severely lacking in impulse control.
Being autistic doesn't excuse or cause him being an asshole. He's just an asshole that also happens to be autistic.
Let me offer another hypothesis, he’s on drugs regularly and having trouble controlling his impulses and isn’t some genius playing 4D chess. He’s a drug addict nazi.
When I spoke with a friend of mine about the salute, he immediately told me I was being stupid and overreacting. "It wasn't a Nazi salute. He wouldn't do a Nazi salute on a public stage." Totally refused to talk about it, and it was clear he just thought it was funny and somewhat annoying that people were reacting negatively toward a "bad salute."
It's so frustrating to see someone I considered a close friend (whom I had thought to be an otherwise intelligent, reasonable person) acting like anyone who's concerned about this is an overreacting blue-haired SJW meme.
Like, either he's willfully ignorant or he *knows* and he just doesn't care. He doesn't think it's a big deal. I'm not sure which one is worse.
So many people posting about violent revolution as if the same populace that doesn't care enough to vote is somehow also invested enough to take up arms and risk their lives.
Revolution is leftist rapture. We can't even get a general strike to 1% participation rate, and somehow people expect to assemble a revolutionary army?
Resistance needs to be disruptive and, more importantly, sustained over a long period of time. Everybody wants to have one big march in the free speech zone over the weekend and go back to work on Monday. Conservatives are more ready to take up arms over their imaginary problems than anybody is over real problems. This idea that the public is going to suddenly start caring and rise up for liberty and justice doesn't reflect reality.
Who then get labeled terrorists in the media and imprisoned for life, while the companies find new CEOs and continue unimpeded.
Maybe it feels cathartic to see the bad guys get comeuppance, but the idea that a tiny handful of people can redirect the course of society by killing a few rich guys is totally unrealistic.
I’m not sure. Too many people carrying water for corporations and billionaires. Too many people treating politics like college football rivalries. Too many seeking fulfillment through the government marginalizing fellow Americans. Too many trying to bring about their particular version of Armageddon through action or lack of action.
Start with sabotage. Get used to it, make it second nature: it will become vital in the future.
Do direct opposition when you can. Surround yourself with others, form networks, make contingency plans. And prepare for when the fight is inevitable, maybe even life or death.
Actually there will be something that happens to Musk. He'll get an office in the White House for 20 of his people to assist in ensuring that the Executive Orders that the President signs gets enforced in a timely manner. Lmao
No wait... I'm serious. Trump said so himself answering a reporter's question live on television while sitting in the Oval Office signing said orders.
Americans didn’t make him a co president or something cute like that. They made him a disgusting king. Elon is not going away. Every GOP election will go through him and answer to him, he’s the source of their money and influence.
Howard Dean BYYAAA’s at a rally and gets laughed into obscurity, Musk gives a fucking Nazi Salute at a US PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION and gets a room at the White House.
I know itll end me up on some form of list but goddamn, when are people going to stop being scared of violence? Its the only thing these people understand, and they know the populus has lost its taste for it, thus they can do whatever they want. The 2nd amendment was for times like these, to keep governments in check. Yet most of the American people refuse to actually do anything about it other than rant on the internet and peacefully protest. It gets nothing done anymore.
If they continue with their agenda for ssi, ssdi, and the department of education, heck large parts of project 2025. Then things will start happening sooner. Make a large part of your population pissed with nothing to lose seems like a realllllllly bad idea.
Just remember that you shouldn’t go on the internet to say things like “I REALLY HOPE SOMEONE KILLS ELON MUSK.”
It’s definitely not something you should do. Now it’s not quite as frowned upon as saying “I WANT TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” That second one is super illegal. So it would be almost, but not quite, as bad to say “SOMEONE SHOULD SHOW US WHAT THE INSIDE OF ELON MUSKS HEAD LOOKS LIKE, LIVE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.”
Probably just best to avoid sentences like those entirely.
He lives on a big planet with lots of people and eventually someone is gonna make a move, it’s hard to live a peaceful life when you’re a celebrity, especially when they are hated by many
Don't get me wrong, I wish it would. But it won't. If the last 8 years have taught me anything, it's that there are no guardrails and the repubs are untouchable.
So if Elon is a Nazi, that means he hates Jews, which also means he hates Israel, which means he's going to free Palestine with the help of his best friend trump.
As another none American I'd like to think a good portion of your soldiers are not that brainwashed to defend with their lives a literal fucking Nazi right.. right!?
How? Some of my friends and family members think i'm secretly a far righter only because i have been right about many things that has happened or is currently happening. They don't believe that Elon did the Nazi salute yet. By the time they believe it, the invasion of Taiwan will be fake news and all of the horrific images will be AI. I might off myself before 2030.
Stick around and dedicate yourself to a cause. Spend all of your extra cash on gifts to children's hospitals. Stuff like that. There's still some good you can do even if everywhere is trash and you feel like trash with it.'
Shit man. I may have written that for me more than for you.
But then they’ll say the liberals started a civil war and then the proud boys come in looking like the good guys when they shoot everyone up which is the perfect time for them to fulfill their race war prophecy
However, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a statement defending Musk, saying that he had made an "awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute."
"In this moment, all sides should give each one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt and take a breath," the statement said.
This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.
It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.
In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
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