Opinion Elon Musk shares post absolving dictators of genocide with his millions of followers

[fedoriswar37]

It’s not sarcasm, it’s a conditioning technique.
It wasn’t that long ago that if a POTUS shared anti-LGBTQ rhetoric while invoking the Nazis’ upside down pink triangle symbol, or if they called their political opponents vermin and the enemy within, or did a Nazi salute, that would be viewed as terrible and unacceptable and would have no place in our government.

But all of that has become acceptable, because “they don’t really mean it.”

Now if we point this out, that must mean we’re “literally shaking,” should “cry more,” “cope and seethe,” blah blah blah. If Trump started an actual holocaust tomorrow, the country would be full of people saying, “oh, libs are scared of trains now??”

By cloaking their agenda in trolls, memes, and irony, they’ve gotten you guys to accept all manner of despicable things.

Dude he's a troll. He's trolling . It's a tounge and cheek comment . No different then referring to social services as communism. Tale the goddamn stick out of your ass .

 

[Rational Poster]

Dude he's a troll. He's trolling . It's a tounge and cheek comment . No different then referring to social services as communism. Tale the goddamn stick out of your ass .

I don't think you're smart enough to differentiate.

 

[Zazen]

Lol at the "it's just a joke" crowd.

How many times have these retards been proven wrong lately? Tariffs were suppose to be a joke too and used for leverage and here we are in a trade war.

Biden is a socialist to these guys but Elon isn't a Nazi despite.....

- Responding "you have said the actual truth" to a White Replacement Theory post

- Giving multiple Nazi salutes

- Saying Hitler is not responsible for killing millions of people

- Boosting Nazi accounts on X

- Having grandparents that moved to South Africa because they love Hitler and apartheid regimes

- Backing far right parties in Europe that downplay Hitler's evils

 

[PEB]

Lol at the "it's just a joke" crowd.

How many times have these retards been proven wrong lately? Tariffs were suppose to be a joke too and used for leverage and here we are in a trade war.

Biden is a socialist to these guys but Elon isn't a Nazi despite.....

- Responding "you have said the actual truth" to a White Replacement Theory post

- Giving multiple Nazi salutes

- Saying Hitler is not responsible for killing millions of people

- Boosting Nazi accounts on X

- Having grandparents that moved to South Africa because they love Hitler and apartheid regimes

- Backing far right parties in Europe that downplay Hitler's evils

My father served in Germany during WW2 and he took these photos so Elon can eat sh$t. I have likely the largest private collection of photos never been seen by anyone. My father never cashed in on his history and I own tons of stuff he never sold. My father was with troops to free Jews from Dachau and I have photos of them been fed milk because they could not eat solid food.

 

[BFoe]

Dude he's a troll. He's trolling . It's a tounge and cheek comment . No different then referring to social services as communism. Tale the goddamn stick out of your ass .

I know, I’m so uncool because I don’t think their Nazi “humor” is funny.
Sorry bud, I have a zero tolerance policy on people in my government appropriating mazi symbols, salutes, and making “jokes” that excuse Hitler.

“Nazi salutes and “not see” jokes, har-dee-har-har!”
“Upside down pink triangles, tee hee!”

You guys are literally the dumbest motherfuckers in the known universe.
Imagine voting for a bunch of wannabe authoritarians who do Nazi shit and being ok with it because “it’s a joke and they don’t really mean it.” JFC.

 

[nixkid]

Dude he's a troll. He's trolling . It's a tounge and cheek comment . No different then referring to social services as communism. Tale the goddamn stick out of your ass .

A 55 year old troll who likes to share edgelord shit online like he's 15 but I guess defending that type of behavior is the hill you're wanting to die on.

 

[Phlog]

It’s not sarcasm, it’s a conditioning technique.
It wasn’t that long ago that if a POTUS shared anti-LGBTQ rhetoric while invoking the Nazis’ upside down pink triangle symbol, or if they called their political opponents vermin and the enemy within, or did a Nazi salute, that would be viewed as terrible and unacceptable and would have no place in our government.

But all of that has become acceptable, because “they don’t really mean it.”

Now if we point this out, that must mean we’re “literally shaking,” should “cry more,” “cope and seethe,” blah blah blah. If Trump started an actual holocaust tomorrow, the country would be full of people saying, “oh, libs are scared of trains now??”

By cloaking their agenda in trolls, memes, and irony, they’ve gotten you guys to accept all manner of despicable things.

Well, when there is anything of substance to complain about rather than hypotheticals I guess we will find out.

Iirc Trump was supposed to be a dictator and would destroy America, yet here he is voted in for a second term.

Funny how you see this they're Nazis thing in various places in the world used against anti status quo candidates. Said about Ukraine and Zelenski by Putin, by the press about Jeremy Corbyn (lol, the leftist of left), about Elon and Trump.

Almost as if it's a calling card of some group.

 

[GreatSaintGuillotine]

"Its fine because he's trolling"

I miss it when hating Nazi shit was what tied the American people together. The good old days when they were the bad guys in every video game. When Captain American could be on the front cover punching Hitler.

But now we have people in mass saying shit like this. What sad fucking times we live in.

 

[BFoe]

Well, when there is anything of substance to complain about rather than hypotheticals I guess we will find out.

Iirc Trump was supposed to be a dictator and would destroy America, yet here he is voted in for a second term.

Funny how you see this they're Nazis thing in various places in the world used against anti status quo candidates. Said about Ukraine and Zelenski by Putin, by the press about Jeremy Corbyn (lol, the leftist of left), about Elon and Trump.

Almost as if it's a calling card of some group.

Trump is acting like a dictator. Unilaterally freezing funds allocated by Congress or shutting down agencies created by Congress is acting like a dictator. Only allowing friendly media to cover the POTUS is acting like a dictator. Destroying America? He’s purposely crashing the economy my right in front of our faces.

I’ll provide something “of substance” to complain about—Trump defying a court order to not deport people under the Alien Enemies Act. Trump did it anyway, sarcastically tweeting “Too Late!”
Now, the White House is trying to pretend they complied the whole time:

Timeline: Trump's race against courts to deport alleged gang members under Alien Enemies Act

While the White House insists it has complied with a recent court order temporarily blocking the president from invoking a rarely used wartime authority, ABC News' review of flight data and court documents suggests the Trump administration ignored the court's ruling. The dispute came after...

www.yahoo.com

Each of these things—each salute, each “joke,” each defied court order—is a thermometer up America’s ass. He’s taking the temperature to see what we’ll accept and what we won’t.

If the People took to the streets with torches and pitchforks and Congress was in an uproar, he’d back off. When that doesn’t happen, expect him to defy another judge’s order before too long. Maybe he’ll make an excuse again, like the judge was so radical and unconstitutional he “had” to defy it or some flimsy excuse… but once it’s clear that Americans will accept it, defying court orders will become routine.

Let’s just keep our eye on that and see what happens.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

"Its fine because he's trolling"

I miss it when hating Nazi shit was what tied the American people together. The good old days when they were the bad guys in every video game. When Captain American could be on the front cover punching Hitler.

But now we have people in mass saying shit like this. What sad fucking times we live in.

People would probably call Wolfenstein woke nowadays lol

 

[nixkid]

People would probably call Wolfenstein woke nowadays lol

That already happened in 2017.

Watching internet Nazis get mad at Wolfenstein II is sadder than the game’s actual dystopia

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[avenue94]

I don't get the arguments about him trolling insinuating that it's acceptable for somebody in the position that he's in right now to be doing that.

Like I can't think of any other point in modern history where somebody in that position would be allowed to troll the public and people would think it was cool.

I wish more of the idiots defending this kind of rhetoric as just harmless trolling would remember Kurt Vonnegut.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

 

[BFoe]

Trump is acting like a dictator. Unilaterally freezing funds allocated by Congress or shutting down agencies created by Congress is acting like a dictator. Only allowing friendly media to cover the POTUS is acting like a dictator. Destroying America? He’s purposely crashing the economy my right in front of our faces.

I’ll provide something “of substance” to complain about—Trump defying a court order to not deport people under the Alien Enemies Act. Trump did it anyway, sarcastically tweeting “Too Late!”
Now, the White House is trying to pretend they complied the whole time:

Timeline: Trump's race against courts to deport alleged gang members under Alien Enemies Act

While the White House insists it has complied with a recent court order temporarily blocking the president from invoking a rarely used wartime authority, ABC News' review of flight data and court documents suggests the Trump administration ignored the court's ruling. The dispute came after...

www.yahoo.com

Each of these things—each salute, each “joke,” each defied court order—is a thermometer up America’s ass. He’s taking the temperature to see what we’ll accept and what we won’t.

If the People took to the streets with torches and pitchforks and Congress was in an uproar, he’d back off. When that doesn’t happen, expect him to defy another judge’s order before too long. Maybe he’ll make an excuse again, like the judge was so radical and unconstitutional he “had” to defy it or some flimsy excuse… but once it’s clear that Americans will accept it, defying court orders will become routine.

Let’s just keep our eye on that and see what happens.

Adding on to my post above— this didn’t take long at all.

US judge questions Trump's deportation of Venezuelans

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend and potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president and the federal judiciary. The White...

www.yahoo.com

These remarks are from Trump’s border czar Tom Holman:

Asked what was next, Homan said: "Another flight, another flight every day."

"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.

 

[Andy Capp]

Adding on to my post above— this didn’t take long at all.

US judge questions Trump's deportation of Venezuelans

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend and potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president and the federal judiciary. The White...

www.yahoo.com

These remarks are from Trump’s border czar Tom Holman:

Asked what was next, Homan said: "Another flight, another flight every day."

"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.

FUBAR

 

[fedoriswar37]

A 55 year old troll who likes to share edgelord shit online like he's 15 but I guess defending that type of behavior is the hill you're wanting to die on.

I don't defend it. I dont like how involved Elon is in politics and would prefer he sat out. But this post is such a non issue. There's valid criticisms, this isn't one.

 

[fedoriswar37]

I don't think you're smart enough to differentiate.

Smart people don't typically argue politics on karate forums so join the club.

 

[fedoriswar37]

Adding on to my post above— this didn’t take long at all.

US judge questions Trump's deportation of Venezuelans

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend and potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president and the federal judiciary. The White...

www.yahoo.com

These remarks are from Trump’s border czar Tom Holman:

Asked what was next, Homan said: "Another flight, another flight every day."

"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.

Let the gang members be man. For the safety of the country let's give them respect.

You people think you'd all be the people fighting the Nazis but you'd be too fucking blind and cowardice to go against them if it interfered with what you believed was right.

 

[avenue94]

Let the gang members be man. For the safety of the country let's give them respect.

You people think you'd all be the people fighting the Nazis but you'd be too fucking blind and cowardice to go against them if it interfered with what you believed was right.

The issue isn't deporting gang members, it's the collateral damage that comes from curtailing civil rights.

The last time we employed the this presidential powers, did it go well in your opinion?

 

[fedoriswar37]

The issue isn't deporting gang members, it's the collateral damage that comes from curtailing civil rights.

The last time we employed the this presidential powers, did it go well in your opinion?

It comes down to did they commit a crime or not. Suspicion of terrorism and actively planning it were 2 different things that they wrongly grouped together and targeted minority groups for . That's not okay.

 

[BFoe]

FUBAR

He’s totally not a wannabe dictator though.

Let the gang members be man. For the safety of the country let's give them respect.

You people think you'd all be the people fighting the Nazis but you'd be too fucking blind and cowardice to go against them if it interfered with what you believed was right.

You’d be the one voting them into power and making excuses for every horrible thing they did. I know this because that’s what you’re doing now.

This isn’t about whether these Venezuelans are gang members or not or good people or not or whatever. This is about whether the POTUS is going to apply the law correctly and respect the judiciary if he applies the law incorrectly. Trump is misapplying a law to justify these deportations, and the misapplication needs to be stopped. The Alien Enemies Act cannot be applied to this situation, so Trump needs to figure out a different, legal; way. Period.

This is the problem with the Right, it’s all “ends justify the means” politics. If you think what you’re doing is good or the right thing to do, you’ll excuse whatever means are used to do it.