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Summary

Elon Musk rejected accusations of Nazi sympathies in a Fox News interview, calling it “outrageous” and blaming media propaganda.

Critics point to his straight-arm salute at Trump’s rally, endorsement of a German far-right party, and reinstating white supremacist accounts on X.

His cuts to federal agencies under DOGE have sparked protests and vandalism, including nicknaming Teslas “swasticars.”

Musk claims he's targeted for character assassination and receives daily death threats. He and Lara Trump compared the attacks to those against Donald Trump, accusing mainstream media of spreading lies.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

shut the fuck up, you nazi piece of shit

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago

Shut up nazi

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Well, have you tried not acting like one?

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He thought it was opposites day

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

Opposites year.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Well that would involve empathy, and as you know, it is a flaw and a weakness...

God I fucking hate Elon.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He has not.

[–] DexiMachina@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Play Nazi games win Nazi prizes.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well to help convince us you could denounce all Nazis and racial hatred, especially on your social platform.

We’re still waiting.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the most telling bit about his state of mind that day.

If you did a gesture on national TV that lots of people misinterpret as a nazi salute, and you didn't mean to do a nazi salute, what would you do? What would any person with a public platform in that situation immediately do?

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

He's right, he doesn't belong to the Nazi party. He sure is a white nationalist though, with some very authoritarian views on what a country should be.

[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

He's right. It is. It is outrageous to say the obvious truth about billionaires and corporations. Has been for many years now. A lot of people went bankrupt due to fines or to jail for precisely this.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Yes Elon! My heart goes out to you...

/s to make sure... I am mocking this imbecile and his statement.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's because you did the nazi salute. Do you remember that you did the nazi salute when the faschist government took over?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nhaaa.... Just because you do the nazi salute position yourself in a place of authority inside our current fascist government and support it's politics and agendas even make Buddy buddy with its leader doesn't necessarily make you a fascist yourself... Right?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, maybe he is trying to hint that he is a kind of mole inside man that wants to secretly save some of the immigrants and go down in history as a hero? Sigh.. But then why the chainsaw... Unless? Yeah. That's my new cope

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Ewww sounds gross when you say it like that.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 9 hours ago

I don't think there's a clean way of saying that name much like several other names that was killed by a guy that was fascist.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shouldn't have made that salute then, nor throw your support and your weird fans behind the AfD and Tommy Robinson.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or keep suspiciously quiet when asked about the Nazi salute. I still have yet to hear him denounce the Nazis.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 2 points 11 hours ago

He's one of them, why would he denounce them?

[–] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well elon a start would be saying on live tv

"I am not a nazi. I detest everything nazis stand for. White supremacy is bad"

That would be a start

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A start would have been not throwing a nazi salute.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

But like that's really hard.

[–] jorymo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

twice in a row.

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago

Don't want to be accused of being a Nazi, then don't fucking act like one you stupid cunt.

If you're looking for sympathy you can look elsewhere.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's because he prefers NaXi

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I spit out my drink

I have been searching for weeks for the right name.

Here it is:

Naxis!

Thank you friend!!!!!

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I came up with it on the fly, but I'm sure someone on the Internet beat me to it. It's been too long for that to have been an original thought.

It’s good I’m replacing magazi with naxi moving forward

[–] Liberteez@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well to be fair, he's certainly obNaXious

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Nazi says what?

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Hear me out, he is preparing ground for media reform.

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Bro literally intentionally does a Nazi salute on TV and then whines when people say he's a Nazi...

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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 151 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ignoring the fact that he did what was probably the most vigorous Nazi salute in existence...

It's not just not outrageous to call him a Nazi, it's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to conclude especially when you consider his other behaviour and the kinds of things he supports

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Supporting the AfD party, an openly neo-nazi party, and appearing in their events, days after the "roman salute" removed any kind of ambiguity that could exist. He's a nazi, period. And the only good nazis are dead nazis.

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[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 day ago

Mf's be like "this sandwich sucks'.

Bro you did the salute

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago
[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago

straight-arm salute

It's called a nazi salute. Don't spread doubt on what it was. He did it twice in close succession. The only other reason for holding your arm up like that is when you explain how high Blondie, Hitler's dog, could jump.

'Nazi' isn't a preferable pronounce, it's what you're called when you act like a nazi, talk like a nazi and salute like a fucking nazi.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

Condemn white supremacy then

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

He's had ample time to apologize, still hasn't.

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I will stop calling him a Nazi the moment he takes his ass to Mars and stays there forever.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

He doesn’t want to go to Mars himself. He wants to get all the undesirables to go there.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Then he'd just be a Martian nazi.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look guys, just because he bought Twitter and reinstated all the Nazi accounts, and thinks and says Nazi things, and and performed an obvious Nazi salute not once, but twice in a live broadcast to millions of homes, that doesn't mean he's a Nazi!

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 26 points 2 days ago
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