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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

White rich emerald mine nepo-baby from South Africa... were we expecting a different endorsement from Musk?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Apartheid nepobaby likes nazis.

Shocker.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Time to block his ex-twitter propaganda network in countries that are still civilized.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Until the rich and opportunistic face consequences for their roles in the rise of fascism we will have to keep beating it back consistently at the cost of the lives or the common people.

In short, win or lose, when fascism falls and the bodies must be tallied, may Mr musk find himself intimately acquainted with the end of a rope.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Musk is basically a super villain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

He's real life Dorktor Evil.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"Please be satire, please be satire." HawlSera said to herself already knowing it wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

He wants to weaken the state... Our state, your state, it doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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

https://youtu.be/NC1MNGFHR58

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I can see some twitterbros defending him throwing a sieg hail as a roman salute and I don't like that.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I talk about this all the time.

Like how cant people see America is now totally fascist. This coup didn’t get squashed just postponed. One of the main architect’s sons and grandson were sitting presidents and the us is now completely controlled by corporate power at the intersection of wall street and military / prison industry. Its so obvious and so fucking enraging.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

America has been fascist for a long time. Since the continent is so big, there was little neee for 'lebensraum', but oil and other natural resources were always taken by force and subterfuge.

Gun culture, flag fetish, pledges of allegiance, dunking on the poor from every side, criminalizing homeless... the rights have been vanishing at an alarming speed WHILE being a democracy, so just pick one person to stop the elections and you won't notice otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I dont believe our presidential elections have even been legitimate for the last 50+ years. Of the 14 traits of fascism 13 are obviously present the 14th is fraudulent elections so if our society exhibits 92% of the indicators of fascism then its pretty logical conclusion that we are 100% of the way there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Nazis of a feather…

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