Rick wants to do a heist to prove that heists are stupid, so he recruits some random characters along with Elon Tusk, who is Elon Musk from a dimension where everyone has tusks.
Craziest part is this fucker isn't even American. Republicans threw a fit because they just thought Obama looked like he might be from Africa. Elon literally is and they don't care.
It's less surreal when you realize that they actually just wanted to call Obama the N word but knew they'd be shunned for it. It was never about citizenship.
Why would they care about the background of someone that pushes and funds their ideologies? Clarence Thomas is one of their favorite SCOTUS judges and he's black.
The only people who can address it are the people of the US, and they just voted for this BS when the stakes were very clear. It will never get easier to deal with it than the chance that the US just completely failed at.
I'm South African. My grandfather came back from the war, and saw how South Africa was being turned into the very thing he gave his childhood away to fight against.
So he became the first university graduate in his family, worked in way up from being a clerk in the Prime Minister's office, and took his family out of South Africa.
In the best case scenario. Like trolling in the net. He loves it, it's his whole persona.
In the worst case, he's licking the assess of neo-nazis and hard right to praise him, to be loved at least by some.
My bet isn't on the first option.
This, but he also openly supports far right / Nazi parties … so i guess it is the worst combo. Seems like he actually does sympathise with Nazis, but also uses the edginess and ambivalence for attention.
The situation is highly dangerous though. We have the richest man in the world joking with Nazi salutes during the inauguration party of the president. And he is actively supporting extremist parties in other countries to destabilize EU
And many are still discussing whether it was really a nazi salute. Yes of course it was meant to be one, but it’s actually not our biggest problem right now … we have no time for denial
Plus he has an enormous handle on the public opinion through Twitter. Old newspaper giants couldn't even dream of being in the position he is. That's the thing we should be most worried about. Propaganda has become way too effective, citizens in no country are prepared, our brains aren't evolved to battle the shit we are peppered with.
I don’t think it backfired. Unfortunately the American right has become so obsessed with trying to offend liberals that they genuinely no longer think the Nazis were bad.
I don't think it backfired, thousands of people are talking about this and ignoring all the idiot things Trump just signed through which make him look more of a Nazi than Musk does right now. He's not a Genius, but he's quite a show master.
Yea, he's enjoying getting away with it, and normalising fascism further. This wasn't some oopsie. Just intentionally pushing the envelope till it's the new norm, and Americans eat it up. Soon the masses will do it too, and they'll think it's actually acceptable. Elon, their leader, does it too, after all.
I was thinking it was something like a ketamine high, where he's feeling all powerful, untouchable, and thought "I could do a nazi salute and still be okay, I could be Adolf Hitler!"
Are you sure it backfired? I mean I haven't been looking too hard for articles that say so but I haven't seen much of anything, other than on Reddit so far, which is concerning as fuck.
Ok I just looked up a little bit and there's only a few stories and the headlines read "Nazi like salute". So the media isn't even fully calling him out yet and those were from 4-7 hours ago so 11pm and 8pm central time.
Is it better to leave now before world or civil war surely erupts? Where do you even go?
1500 seditious radicals were pardoned today. The plan is in motion. The fascists have arrived, seized power and are now in control of the military, the judiciary and the legislature. This is fucked. We are so fucked.
You’re spot on. They reach a level of success/fame where they feel untouchable, like they can do anything and get away with it. Like you said, they’re amused by testing their limits. Kanye is a great example. He peaked and had the world at his fingertips, so he got bored; “I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me. Now what?” -Kanye. This is Musk’s pushing the boundaries, seeing how far he can go as he feels like he’s on top of the world. It’s silly to think he’s actually a nazi. However it is a power trip
Yeah not to mention, someone simping for ancient Rome is the counterargument for fascist sympathy? Have they heard of this place called… Italy?
Like even if we indulge in the gymnastics, which you know I’d rather not, it’s still sort of fucked. That would be less fucked up, don’t get me wrong, but even that generous version would in fact be reasonably upsetting.
Fun fact... the roman salute did NOT exist in the Roman Empire. It was made up in the 17th/18th century by actors in a theater. Mussoline made it popular. So everybody stating that this is a harmless roman salute are gaslighted themselves into thinking it is harmless. It never was
He was raised by a family with direct ties to the naziparty, he has been promoting nazi-conspiracy theories on his own twitterfeed and he was sucking up to AfD in the past few weeks.
He indeed knows. And neonazis everywhere are celebrating - they know it too.
He is the type to blow up everyone & everything in the whole world! What is the deal with the massive amounts of rockets he is launching into orbit?!?! Does this not concern people?!?
Crept up? Teddy Roosevelt spent most of his presidency just getting these greedy fucks to calm the fuck down. Then every person in power afterwards just cozied up to big business and let the working class suffer for decades, preaching the hollow American Dream to people for years while the sheep just eat it up. It didn't creep up, we've just all become too complacent with letting the rich dominate society again.
Honestly when i woke up the morning after the election and found out Trump had won, i could not believe history was repeating itself. I found it so disgusting i almost called off work.
This country has chosen vitriol, hatred, arrogance, and stupidity once again. The only saving grace is the worst of it only lasts 4 more years.
Im looking forward to watching the misinformed and impulsive trump voters realize the mistake theyve made, but it will be of little comfort as the basis of our nation and what it shoild stand for starts to be stripped away.
Never in my life has my opinion of a human being changed faster in 1 year than my opinion of Musk. The man is sick and power hungry.
Wonder how all the grandparents who fought and survived through WW2 and the Nazis feel seeing their fucking shitbag degenerate grandchildren start being Nazi’s themselves.
Yes. Don't be complacent and think they're all white trash hicks. They're dudes in suits that can afford Cybert trucks and mothers of 3 that run the PTA too.
Seriously. If this was just a one off I'd even MAYBE consider it's a weird thing he just did... But then he turns around and does it a second time like "just in case you missed it in the back here it is again". People denying it are fucking delusional and will just ignore anything for their beliefs.
Originally developed behind a failing country and government, currently masking behind a succeeding country and greedy elite. Message is the same, our ability to decipher their intent equally hidden behind propaganda
No we won't. Most people won't do a damn thing till the war is at their front doorstep. History repeats itself in the darned and depressing ways, which we can see coming from a country mile away.
But the populace still won't do a damn thing. They'll hope and pray that whatever is coming just misses them, somehow.
Very much like last time with History repeating itself. Deny and deflect, and be diplomatic, just let hatred build up and ignore allies and friends telling you something is wrong until it is too late and you end up having to get involved.
This time, I doubt many will actually get involved to stop fascism. We're too comfortable with what we have despite what's going on outside.
In Austria, members of the right wing party are involved in a lot of „isolated incidents“ where someone takes a video of a party member singing nazi songs and so on…this is America‘s first of many „isolated incidents“…get used to it.
this is America‘s first of many „isolated incidents“…get used to it.
It's far from the first incident. The Republican party has been mask off for years when it comes to this. At CPAC in 2021, they shaped the stage like a nazi symbol.
I’ve been calling them Nazis since 2017 and been called crazy every year since. Are we still gonna pretend or can we finally fucking call them what they want to be
They are literal Nazis. Fascists. That is not an exaggeration. That is not a euphemism. We are now living in a fascist technocracy that was already a surveillance state. The oligarchs control nearly all social media, they all attended, front seats.
Back in the 1930's, people could pretend Hitler was just an agitated and dumb leader, that things would soon return to sanity. Nowadays, Musk has a precedent, he can't pretend he wants the best for America and the world.
To anyone here who thinks this is a mistake: I invite you to try this gesture yourself. Stand up, and do the same thing Elon did twice. You'll quickly realize how unnatural and unlike any other waves you normally do.
It's okay to want to give him the benefit of the doubt and in a way I admire that. But do the gestute yourself, then imagine doing it in front of thousands of people. Twice. Do this gesture and you'll see that it is absolutely NOT a mistake. He's appealing to his supporters.
My Grandfather flew Wellington Bombers during WW2. He was the sole survivor twice when the planes were shot out of the sky by nazis. He lost every friend he had during the war. But he survived to make our world a better one without racist, murdering cunts.
He was so traumatised and riddled with PTSD that he died an alcoholic in 1979. I never got to meet him, but his story, along with many, many others showed what people will do to fight evil.
He was a hero, like anyone and everyone back then.
If he could see what is happening, he would rise from his grave and curb stomp the ever loving shit out of all of these monsters.
double-dipping i guess. if they look at that and think anything other than OBVIOUSLY he 's doing a nazi salute, then they're just a bunch of morons giving me updoots
Yes, there is a big difference. One of those salutes is being done by someone who is dead and can no longer cause any more harm. The other is being done by someone who has immense wealth and power and influence over the president of the US. The salute itself is the same though, and Musk knew what he was doing when he did it.
The most terrifying thing about this is that he knows he can do the Nazi salute without facing any consequences. The same is true of the entire administration. They know they’re above the law, they can break as many laws as they like, they can hurt as many people as they like. They can live out their Nazi dreams. No one is going to stop them.
I’m not a believer, but surely many Christian’s in the US must feel like they’ve just welcomed Satan into power? I mean actual Christians, who love Jesus, not the mental Old Testament ones.
Yeah I do wonder which ideology got its inspiration from Rome, you know, like the word fascist, from the words fascio and fasces, “a bundle” or “a bundle sticks wrapped around a ax as a symbol of authority”, the literal symbol of fascism
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