After rallying behind Trump, the tech billionaire supports AfD and other anti-immigration parties.

174 points

One of AfD’s posters theyre not even trying to hide it

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Bruh wow. I’m pretty white, like sandals and socks white, but this is levels of whiteness that shouldn’t even be possible. We’re really gonna have to do this shit again, huh?

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This is not whiteness it’s racism of the worst kind, and unfortunately most countries have it disregarding color or race.

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No, I mean apart from the obvious fucking Nazi bullshit, these people are in daylight and still glowing like exposed reactor cores. Gawd dayum.

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19 points

Also a pretty suspicious arm angle they got going on there

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Every single day he whines about European population decline. Guess what? He is actually having problems with non white/non Christian population share decline.

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38 points

I thought displaying Nazi salutes was illegal in Germany? How the hell do they get away with this?

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Zey are just making an innocent pantomime house shape… vat is sie probolem?

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32 points

That’s so blatant what the hell?

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33 points

They’re Nazis and proud of it. So is Elon Musk.

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23 points

No kidding, it’s just, Jesus Christ it’s not even a dog whistle at this point it’s just barely masked. It’s about as subtle as an incorrectly drawn swastika

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Well, hiding it behind “protecting your children (as a roof would)”.

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Isn’t the Hitler Salute literally illegal in Germany?

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Yes, very much so. But this is supposed to be a roof that is protecting the children. Nothing to see here

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That’s clearly a Nazi Salute though. I mean fuck, why do I get the feeling the phone number to their head quarters ends in “1488”

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The swoosh is also the path a hand makes when it does the Nazi salute.

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At this point in time Musk has been rather explicit about his far-right politics, therefore this is just a continuation. A continuation with terrible consequences.

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77 points

This goddamned cartoon character is gonna get a lot of people killed.

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I am half convinced he’s not even gonna last till inauguration. Him and Trump are going to bump heads.

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That’s been on my mind for a while now. They’re both assholes who can’t listen to “no” without throwing a fit. They’re eventually going to disagree on something, and it’s going to turn nasty.

So I’ll be ready with popcorn for when it eventually happens. Fascism always destroys itself, just not before killing everything it can.

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I think they’re generally just capable enough to not casually make enemies of each other, as they’re both very influential people. They do speak the language of power and money.

But also they are both egomaniacs that choose strange hills to die on. So I could see an ill-advised falling-out.

Side note, I hate that as a society we’re forced to waste any degree of attention on these thoroughly awful people.

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The other option is 4 yrs Trump followed by 2x4yrs Musk, and I think this is possible.

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You know, the last time fascism got a big foothold in the world, many tens of millions of people died, but then it was stopped because there were still powerful opponents of fascism who eventually managed to stamp it out. This time around, it seems all the world’s most powerful governments are going to be fascist. Russia will be fascist, France, Germany and Italy will be fascist, the USA will be fascist, Canada is about to lurch to the far right, and Nigel Farage is taking Musk’s dollars to fund a fascist takeover in the UK. Now is the time to organize an international popular resistance and start properly fighting against these fascists. We have to get serious about actually stopping it. What organizations are at the vanguard of this today?

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it was stopped because there were still powerful opponents of fascism who eventually managed to stamp it out

Of the western countries that fought fascism, most were flirting with it before the war. Certainly the UK, US and France had their fascist sympathizers. Germany just went a little too fast and the frog jumped out of the boiling water.

Hopefully it’ll go similarly this time: one nation goes full nazi and the rest pull the breaks.

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If Japan hadn’t attacked Pearl Harbor there was a depressingly real chance America would have joined the Axis…

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Yup, America was content to sit back and quietly support the allied forces with lend-lease, but the nazis were increasingly popular in America at the time. But then Pearl Harbor happened, and gave the country a nice big target to focus on.

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It turns out that history has a way of repeating itself.

https://youtu.be/NC1MNGFHR58?si=8MZpX8wuWQA608SH

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How many dudes ya know fight fascists?// Naht many iffany, naht many iffany// How many dudes ya know got the skills to go ‘n’ r-rebel-resist? uh ah, uh ah, I don’t know anybody

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Large industrial bosses loved Hitler and his policies. It isn’t very different from Elon. He is trying to be Krupp of today.

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2 points

China perhaps?

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There is an opportunity for China to support fascism’s opponents overseas. But as long as the fascists are destroying their own countries’ economies and weakening their defenses and alliances, China might prefer to sit back and enjoy the show.

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32 points

Musk is basically a super villain.

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He thinks he is Ironman, he is just Lex Luther with hair plugs.

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He’s Ironmonger. He wants to be Iron Man so fucking bad. Bezos is Lex Luthor

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Wait, why didn’t Lex Luther ever get hair plugs? He was rich! 🤔

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He’s real life Dorktor Evil.

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Well now, let’s not get carried away, I don’t think he even owns a hollowed out volcanic island…yet.

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