politics

Openly Nazi shit fuck does Nazi stuff news at 11

can we acknowledge how insane these things are in combination:

• the worlds richest man
• buys a large social media platform X, where most political conversations take place
• supports a presidential candidate with millions of dollars
• candidate gets elected
• starts doing a Hitler salute
• starts posting Nazi Names in a joking/meme manner

This is Keyne West story all over again, but with more money and more power & influence.

The problem with Nazi jokes is that Nazis don't think they are funny, and nobody else thinks they are jokes.

Non-Nazi response to someone asking why you did a Nazi salute: "What? I would never do that!"

Nazi response to someone asking why you did a Nazi salute: "Haha it was just a prank bro"

Never let the nazis gaslight you or certain american media channels try to pan away and deemphasise what he did in their footage. If anyone tries to claim this was not a nazi salute, just point them to this few-seconds-long comparison video, maybe download with yt-dlp (cw: nazis doing nazi stuff like chanting) nya.

Also I'm autistic and nazi salutes are not stimming or simple social difference or whatever.

Stims are usually repetitive and/or simple motions or behaviours or similar (e.g. I stim by jumping up and down or repeating phrases or spinning my arms in circles, sometimes from happiness and sometimes as a way to regulate emotions), and not a complex deliberate action. That salute was a deliberate and non-repetitive action. I could see the bit at the start where he walks around and moves his arms up and down repeatedly being a stim, but the other stuff? And specifically the nazi salute? No.

Plus autistic people are not on the whole less capable of understanding ethics^1 or empathising (though we may have trouble reading non-autistic social cues or emotional states and thought processes, but if we understand what someone is feeling we experience empathy, though of course there are variations on that just like with non-autistic people, if you want to know more just look up the double empathy problem :p). He knows what he was doing.

I'm sick of people (usually bad faith actors of course but still) blaming this shit on autisticness and autistic people. Its like people think that being autistic just means being a dick and not caring about other people (of course, there are plenty of dickish autistic people just like there are of any other group of people nya). And its especially disgusting given that Nazis attempted to genocide us.

I do understand that not everyone understands autism very well but come on.... its such bullshit <.<

1: some studies suggest autistic people are actually more likely to follow their own sense of ethics even without social pressure when it would benefit them to break it, though these kinds of tests are done in very limited circumstances and I've not really looked at them in that much detail

So the group that kept saying if you say "free palestanian" or "israel is bad" you are a nazi and antisemitic, suddenly had no issue with nazi marks by Musk?

if elon musk doesn't get sued for hate crime, while student protesting genocide do, then you know who is your enemies,,

His supporters have argued alternately that Musk’s autism affects how he behaves in public, and that the salute was nothing much out of the ordinary.

I'm on the spectrum. People, stop using neurodivergence as an excuse for someone being a shitty person. People like us can still tell good from evil even if we don't fully understand common social behaviors. The golden rule is easy enough to understand.