None of those amount to Nazism. You know what does? Throwing out a couple of Hitler salutes. But that didn’t happen until later.
Idk, the first cyber trucks delivered nov 30 2023.
His takeover of Twitter was 2022, with plenty of bright red flags The “pedo guy” thing was 2019 All of his COVID violations were extremely public in 2020 and 2021
I think you’d have to be living under a rock to be completely unaware of what he was by the time preorders were locked in
FishFace@piefed.social 12 hours ago
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Strong disagree. Buying Twitter to amplify the voices of Nazis is pretty straightforward actions of a Nazi
FishFace@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Ok, I agree that if musk’s objective in buying twitter was to amplify nazi voices, that confirms him as a nazi.
Do you have convincing proof that that was his objective? Convincing enough that some random guy buying a car who “doesn’t care about politics” would immediately believe he’s a nazi? I don’t think so.
He stated his aim was to remove barriers to free speech. People disagree over what speech should be protected as a matter of principle, so our hypothetical buyer may very well have thought that that was a good idea.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Views_of_Elon_…
Though it’s worth noting that for all of his claims of supporting free speech broadly, he only ever acted in support of the freedom of certain kinds of speech
nomy@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
It’s just a convenient loophole for fascists to pretend they’re not fascists.
“Oh no I gave them a fully refundable $100 to pre-order it, guess I’m locked into giving this seig heiling, election interfering, pedophilic elite illegal immigrant $100k.”
There’s a bunch of defenders in this very thread.