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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 34 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

As much as "I was just following orders" is not enough to excuse someone of their responsibility in atrocities, "I was just issuing orders" will not excuse anyone either.

Anyone who thinks that just because someone didn't pull the trigger, that means they're not guilty, you can get your ass back in line to lick elons boots.

This is in the same vein as "Hitler did some good things" kind of cognitive dissonance. While the statement may not be wholly false, the fact that anyone could overlook everything he did that was bad, to find some small piece of something he did that can be construed as "good" is simply trying to put an objectively evil person into a better light, when they do not deserve it.

There are plenty of misunderstood people in history that did very good things, and were killed/maimed/murdered/imprisoned/tarred/feathered/whatever, because they did something that the wrong people saw as bad.

Nobody should ever try to find a shining light of good deep down in the black abyss of Hitler's life.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 18 hours ago

Reminds me of a Brazilian advert for a magazine in the 90s. It started with some large black and white dots, slowly zooming out, and the narration went something like:

"This man was an artist. When he took power, his country was in a deep economic recession, but he brought prosperity back and made it home to some of the most important industrial companies still functioning today. To this day, many people look up to him. This man... (zoom out finishes) was Adolf Hitler.

It's possible to tell a lie telling only truths."

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You see my honor i didnt shoot the man i just held the gun that decided to kill him.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You couldn't have shot him. You were having coffee with me at the time... :)

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

"Sir, we talked about this. After having a wave mistaken for a 'heil', our press guide says we wait at least a year before mentioning 'Hitler'."

"But I can still goose step, right?"

Is how I assume the conversation with his press agent went...

I've tried to keep an open mind that he might just be the "worlds stupidest man", and not a full Nazi, but this is pushing it.

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[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Where is the jfk killer when we need him?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 55 points 22 hours ago

Oh of course, if you fire all your public workers, you can't have a genocide because there's nobody to carry out your orders.

Silly fucking me.

I'm assuming we can look forward to all those cops and ICE agents being fired then.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

Not really relevant to the POS Musk, but: it is interesting how few people were actually involved in murdering such a massive number of victims. The Treblinka death camp by itself, for example, was operated for 18 months by a staff that consisted at any one time of around 25 German officers and soldiers and around 100 local workers. Using only a salvaged diesel engine from a Soviet tank, they murdered approximately 900,000 people. Had German defeated the Soviet Union, they could certainly have exterminated the entire country had they so chosen (though the long-term plan was geared more towards enslavement).

[–] beccar0ze@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

He really wants to see what happens to Tesla when it drops below that magic number where they are going to want some REAL money for Twitter. Not fake made up money... Not the Saudis money who really paid the capitol for pathetic little muskrat .... Real money he claimed he had in Tesla stock but never did because the points are made up and the numbers mean morning. Over valued bullshit stock ..

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 201 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

I was taught to have zero tolerance when it comes to Nazism. If you don't deal with them, they'll deal with you...

There is an unmarked ditch/grave for all the nazi soldiers and sympathizers from WWII near where I live. There is always room for more.

ZERO TOLERANCE, motherfuckers!

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[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 243 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In the same vein, Musk didn't make billions. Tesla workers did.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Elmo is a chinless, balding and dickless wonder boy. (Dickless because he had failed penis vanity surgery which broke his penis. That's why all his kids are IVF). I truly wonder where and how he got the idea his genes must be propagated. Intellectually, he is also defective....

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can we agree to this and not the Hitler thing ?

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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 61 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Haha "The Onion", you almost got me... OH GOOD GOD

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

Just keeeeeep digging that hole Musky boi. Might as well upgrade to a backhoe at this point.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Musk needs to be strapped into a chair, "Clockwork Orange" style and forced to watch all 9 hours of "Shoah."

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[–] DTguess@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It speaks volumes when you tote your child around as a human shield.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago

Probably irrelevant, but if you were to make an omelette, it would be nearly impossible not to break a few eggs. I struggle to see how this would be pertinent though.

[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 260 points 1 day ago (16 children)

For a while I was holding on to sanity thinking "he's an idiot and he's just drawing attention to himself." But now, to anyone that was still thinking "maybe he really is that clumsy, maybe he didn't really mean it", this is it. If you're not getting it now you never will. He's literally, in the literal sense of literally, a Nazi.

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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

"Mr. Musk, you recently shared a post that mentioned the workers were the ones who killed people and not Hitler without elaboration. Do you believe that Hitler bears no responsibility?"

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 38 points 23 hours ago

It sounds like a pretty good argument for pushing back against the administration and not following orders.

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (14 children)
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[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 7 points 17 hours ago

OMG what a fuckwad!

[–] PearOfDees69@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (7 children)

These CEOs always claim they can't do good for workers, because they need to please the shareholders. So now that the CEO of Tesla is sinking the company, where are these supposed all powerful merciless shareholders at? If I was a shareholder of Tesla I'd demand felon's head for doing all this damn to my investment.

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I keep screaming this to my friends and family.

WHERE ARE THE DERIVATIVE LAWSUITS!?

To be fair, there is a derivative law suit still working and it’s around the excessive bonus they granted musk and then retracted and then re-granted atter reincorporating TESLA in Texas. I’m pretty sure I have this right

I have read that many who would be able to bring suit are in Musk’s pocket. Like his brother, for example.

I really would love to see some derivative suits going though.

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[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 day ago

Mussolini didn't string himself up from the service station, the enraged masses did.

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

Good thing they are arresting those scary antisemitic campus protesters.

Has the ADL responded to Elon yet?

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