His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring.
Tim Waltz did the exact same salute btw. The same Tim Waltz that says that Trump 100% did a nazi salute.
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAs a serious answer, Musk is into modern variants of eugenics and some scary techno-authoritarian stuff he shares with Peter Theil and other Silicon Valley royalty.
Maybe he’s a techno-neonazi? That’s just semantics.
His alleged Nazi salute is indeed kind of a red herring. But “Nazi” is an reasonable enough descriptor for his beliefs.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Here’s the full, non cropped video. It’s around the 1:15 mark.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
It’s not around the 1:15 mark, it’s around the 2min mark. Same “salute” as Musk.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It really isn’t. It’s not even close. You said I had gold medal mental gymnastics, but you’ve just done another gold medal performance.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tim Waltz does not have eugenics-adjacent beliefs.
Also, I think you may have missed what “red herring” means.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
I didn’t misinterpret that, I was simply pointing out that it wasn’t a nazi salute unless you also think Tim Waltz is a nazi.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And you are bringing up a red herring (salutes) that doesn’t matter, because, well, I don’t know. But that’s the whole point of the saying.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes notice the crisp snappy way waltz did it? With fingers together, and twice so there is no way to doubt what it was? Ohhh wait sorry that was elons.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One of these things is not like the other
Merva@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It is funny how the video clearly disproves your lying claim.
WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Note how Jin, the Nazi Defender (not a Nazi themselves, they just defend people who are justifiably called Nazis) won’t respond to your answer.
One feature from Reddit I liked was the ability to tag people. Or maybe that was the reddit enhancement suite. But Jin would’ve earned himself a big red “Nazi Defender” tag.
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the menu button on a user name/profile and “Add Tag”
WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hmm… I definitely don’t see an About user menu or Add Tag or Tag User on their profile. Maybe it has something to do with your lemmy browser.
Merva@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That must be specific to whatever app you are using. It isn’t in the default ones.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah its much simpler label than that.
“Troll”
The topic doesn’t matter, it more about fishing for provocation. In this case I couldn’t help myself, but… you know, don’t feed the trolls.