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Summary

Elon Musk rejected accusations of Nazi sympathies in a Fox News interview, calling it “outrageous” and blaming media propaganda.

Critics point to his straight-arm salute at Trump’s rally, endorsement of a German far-right party, and reinstating white supremacist accounts on X.

His cuts to federal agencies under DOGE have sparked protests and vandalism, including nicknaming Teslas “swasticars.”

Musk claims he's targeted for character assassination and receives daily death threats. He and Lara Trump compared the attacks to those against Donald Trump, accusing mainstream media of spreading lies.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

Shut up nazi

[–] AlexLost@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

He's right, he doesn't belong to the Nazi party. He sure is a white nationalist though, with some very authoritarian views on what a country should be.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

shut the fuck up, you nazi piece of shit

[–] DexiMachina@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Play Nazi games win Nazi prizes.

[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

He's right. It is. It is outrageous to say the obvious truth about billionaires and corporations. Has been for many years now. A lot of people went bankrupt due to fines or to jail for precisely this.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

Yes Elon! My heart goes out to you...

/s to make sure... I am mocking this imbecile and his statement.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Well, have you tried not acting like one?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Well that would involve empathy, and as you know, it is a flaw and a weakness...

God I fucking hate Elon.

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He thought it was opposites day

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago

Opposites year.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

He has not.

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well to help convince us you could denounce all Nazis and racial hatred, especially on your social platform.

We’re still waiting.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That's the most telling bit about his state of mind that day.

If you did a gesture on national TV that lots of people misinterpret as a nazi salute, and you didn't mean to do a nazi salute, what would you do? What would any person with a public platform in that situation immediately do?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's because you did the nazi salute. Do you remember that you did the nazi salute when the faschist government took over?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Nhaaa.... Just because you do the nazi salute position yourself in a place of authority inside our current fascist government and support it's politics and agendas even make Buddy buddy with its leader doesn't necessarily make you a fascist yourself... Right?

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not necessarily, maybe he is trying to hint that he is a kind of mole inside man that wants to secretly save some of the immigrants and go down in history as a hero? Sigh.. But then why the chainsaw... Unless? Yeah. That's my new cope

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Ewww sounds gross when you say it like that.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Shouldn't have made that salute then, nor throw your support and your weird fans behind the AfD and Tommy Robinson.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Or keep suspiciously quiet when asked about the Nazi salute. I still have yet to hear him denounce the Nazis.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It's because he prefers NaXi

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I spit out my drink

I have been searching for weeks for the right name.

Here it is:

Naxis!

Thank you friend!!!!!

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I came up with it on the fly, but I'm sure someone on the Internet beat me to it. It's been too long for that to have been an original thought.

It’s good I’m replacing magazi with naxi moving forward

[–] Liberteez@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Well to be fair, he's certainly obNaXious

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 16 hours ago

Hear me out, he is preparing ground for media reform.

[–] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 31 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Well elon a start would be saying on live tv

"I am not a nazi. I detest everything nazis stand for. White supremacy is bad"

That would be a start

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

A start would have been not throwing a nazi salute.

[–] jorymo@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

twice in a row.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

Nazi says what?

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 29 points 22 hours ago

Don't want to be accused of being a Nazi, then don't fucking act like one you stupid cunt.

If you're looking for sympathy you can look elsewhere.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 15 points 21 hours ago

Condemn white supremacy then

[–] Guidy@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I will stop calling him a Nazi the moment he takes his ass to Mars and stays there forever.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

He doesn’t want to go to Mars himself. He wants to get all the undesirables to go there.

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Then he'd just be a Martian nazi.

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bro literally intentionally does a Nazi salute on TV and then whines when people say he's a Nazi...

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's because he doesn't understand consequences

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

Oh, he understands the consequences. Everything he's saying now is an act. He's lying now, he lies constantly, and he relies on people not pointing it out.

[–] WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

He's starting to experience them at least.

[–] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

No because in his deluded mind he believes he's the target of harassment.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago
[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago

straight-arm salute

It's called a nazi salute. Don't spread doubt on what it was. He did it twice in close succession. The only other reason for holding your arm up like that is when you explain how high Blondie, Hitler's dog, could jump.

'Nazi' isn't a preferable pronounce, it's what you're called when you act like a nazi, talk like a nazi and salute like a fucking nazi.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

He's had ample time to apologize, still hasn't.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

It's outrageous to claim he isn't a nazi

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 147 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ignoring the fact that he did what was probably the most vigorous Nazi salute in existence...

It's not just not outrageous to call him a Nazi, it's a perfectly normal and reasonable thing to conclude especially when you consider his other behaviour and the kinds of things he supports

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look guys, just because he bought Twitter and reinstated all the Nazi accounts, and thinks and says Nazi things, and and performed an obvious Nazi salute not once, but twice in a live broadcast to millions of homes, that doesn't mean he's a Nazi!

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

"How dare you say I'm a Nazi" ... but has never said he wasnt.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 25 points 1 day ago
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