This would have interesting implications if he came to Germany again. Stating the Holocaust did not happen (and claims similar to that like his) counts as a felony here.
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What happened, was he out of the news cycle for 10 seconds and his disgustingly insecure self needed a little attention like the toddler he is?
More likely he feels emboldened. After the whole saluting thing, so many jumped to his defense that he most likely feels that he doesn't need to hide it as much anymore.
According to this reasoning CEOs don't create value.
Truuuuue
Well, he's sure lowering the value of Tesla, so maybe you're right.
And these agents "just followed orders", so I guess all those millions deaths were just an unlucky accident..
Hey, i also think that Elon is a fascist but did anyone read the tweet? It also implied that Stalin and Mao didnt kill Millions.
It said: "Hitler, Stalin and Mao did not kill millions. Their Public Service Agents did."
Stalin and Mao were also fascist dictators.
Debateable, the Red Fascism theory is kinda wonky.
I am against the idea that people who adhere to my preferred mode of production (socialism) can't be genocidal or bad.
I actually looked up the definition of "fascism" in order to check before I posted. Regardless of any politics, they were fascists.
this is on point for his demographic, "rich white dudes with power that refuse to take responsibility for their actions"
Only the good actions. It's how they justify keeping all the profits. The bad actions are never their fault though.
Even if you want to play Musk's little "technically correct" game (and you probably don't) it wasn't public sector workers that ran the death camps and slaughtered villagers, it was the military. The military that was, you know, under Hitler's direct command.
And it was AFTER they purged the civil service of the Weimar Republic, which is exactly what this terrorist is doing right now.
"Death is the most reliable form of sterilization". An except from Conspiracy, a movie showing how the top level bureaucrats and SS officers arrived at the "Final Solution" based on the secret notes from the actual conference on the shore of a picturesque lake near Berlin.
also this excerpt in which they discuss the mechanics of mass euthanasia. This shit should be the hardest stuff you watch all week. THIS is the kind of shit we're fighting to prevent from ever happening again. THIS shit HAPPENED and it CAN happen again. To you. Your spouse. Your parents. Your children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren. The ONLY thing keeping it from boiling back up is our collective societal prohibition against it, whereby we surgically excise the malignant tumors and dissolve the cultural cancer cells clamoring for another genocide.
"An assembly line". If this excerpt doesn't chill your marrow, please DM me because I want to study your mind. Imagine these cold, unfeeling men talking about the demographic housing your mother or daughter or spouse or you. Imagine the collective life experience, number of childhood smiles, acts of kindness, and raw tears disappearing at a rate of 2,500 per hour, with lungs and throats afire in a remote gray building under a dark sky.
I would love to see him watch and then tell us again how Hitler didn't "murder" anyone. He may not have personally pulled a trigger, thrown a switch, or pushed a button, but he's still drenched in the victims' blood. Musk will be, too, if he keeps strolling this path.
Edit: I'm using the royal 'you' here and not explicitly referring to the commenter to which I'm attaching my comment.
Next up: a tweet claiming that Hunter's laptop caused the Shoah.
If it walks like a Nazi, talks like a Nazi, and heils like a Nazi, it's a Nazi.
Sure, Hitler only gave the orders to exterminate millions. That's totally different...
"I didn't shoot that guy, I 'only' pulled the trigger! The hammer, firing pin, primer, gunpowder, and bullet all acted on their own."
I've heard of just following orders before, but just issuing orders is a new one.
It is one of the many harebrained postulates with which fascist apologists and holocaust deniers throughout the years have attempted to use to retroactively weasel parts of the Reich out of responsibility for the murder of several million people, or usually just Hitler in particular.
The logic is obviously completely spurious, but the argument generally goes along the lines of, "Hitler told his subordinates to 'get rid of' the Jews and he probably just meant deporting them or something, but instead his underlings decided to murder everybody instead. Besides, even if he said 'kill em all,' Hitler has no blood on his hands since everyone else did all the dirty work for him!!!"
And he did say kill 'em all, repeatedly. I'll leave you with a quote from the asshole himself, spoken to journalist Joseph Hell (what a name) in 1922 (i.e. well before the war):
Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows — at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example — as many as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.
I mean, with how explicit that is, it's pretty damn tough to dodge responsibility.
Furthermore, there is a sliding scale of increasingly insane claims from holocaust deniers ranging from, "Hitler only meant to deport the Jews and his subordinates decided to kill them all instead," to, "The Final Solution was dreamed up by Goebbels/Himmler/Eichmann/whoever without Hitler's explicit approval and he had no knowledge of the true scope and nature of it," all the way down to, "He was whacked out of his gourd on amphetamines by the end of the war and gibbering nonsense, so it was actually the responsibility of his generals and staff to ignore all of it, but they didn't." All of which is all quite demonstrably bullshit (see above).
It's about responsibility. According to Musk the ruling class cannot be made responsible for anything. Not even Mao, Stalin and Hitler for murdering millions. Also the workers are the bad guys, not the leaders.
Man, I can't wait for somebody to
Provide a public service?
Fix some leaky pipes, the water pressure has been getting low seems like
Fix those streets before motorcycle season starts.
Right?
Trying to incite violence on public workers.
Wait, so what are they doing that they want us not paying attention to? You don’t burn a controversy like this unless you really want peoples’ eyes off of something big.
Pfft. Take your pick.
Good One, Muskrat!
Double down on the nazi rhetoric. It's been working great for your businesses, hasn't it?
What a dumb, pathetic little fucker.
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