Article: Musk aligning himself with global far-right, anti-immigration Neo-Fascists and using X to spread hate, says The Guardian
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38513355
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/08/elon-musk-global-far-right
If the bar is bought by a nazi, it's a nazi bar.
If you still use Twitter you are either stupid a nazi or both.
If you were looking for a choir to preach to, I imagine this is about as choir a choir as one could find. Where this image really needs to go is on Xitter. Not that anyone here is likely to go register a Xitter account to do so.
Fair, but I’m still amazed how many people - reasonable, rational people - continue to use it.
I think it's more productive to talk to people you know IRL who use it. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
Thanks for the reminder. Accidentally logged in with a Google account a while back and haven't deleted the account since because I forget to because I never use it. When I went to delete it today the first thing that I saw was some kind of anti-semitic bullshit.
Top.
Fucking.
Post.
I hadn't interacted with the platform and that's the first fucking thing I saw.
Nazi Bar.
Edit: just a friendly reminder to block and report.
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Also, maybe if you see him and get the chance... you could cause some inheritances to flow. Speed up that generational wealth transfer.
I’m still hoping it’s a Tesla on autopilot that runs him over. That would be the poorly written punchline this world deserves.
Anti immigration…. Musk is an immigrant… an immigrant to the states, an immigrant to South Africa. His decision totally makes sense… it’s self hatred.
The wealthy are effectively "outside" all norms and standards and sense of consistency. This is why they both get away with so much shit and why they're often utterly fucking insane.
Reminds me of Castlereigh trying to deal with Tsar Alexandar I at the The Congress of Vienna (1814)
https://youtu.be/QtOXq9SwarQ?t=1061
It's difficult to characterize Tsar Alexander, because it seems that most of his mental energy was caught up in creating narratives about what kind of person he was, and not so much on what he did or how he behaved. Alexander had 8 or 10 of these narratives going through his head at the same time, and wasn't particularly bothered when they contradicted each other.
Alexander considered himself a true "Enlightenment Monarch," and told anybody who would listen that he believed in a limited, constitutional monarchy, and wanted Russia to have elections, and a parliament, and independent courts. At the same time, he ruled Russia as a tyrannical dictator, which was justified in his mind because he believed that he was God's chosen instrument on Earth. These two thoughts are not compatible.
But Alexander did not see a contradiction. He would simply switch between these two modes of thought depending on who he was talking to and how he felt that day.
Alexander believed himself to be the most honourable man in Europe, a man who revered ritual, and tradition, and justice. Simultaneously, he believed that God made him Emperor of Russia for a reason, and if he needed to go back on his word and use brute force to implement his will, that was all part of God's plan.
These contradictory beliefs made Alexander impossible to deal with. His positions came off as utterly random, and they could change at any time depending on his mood.
K is helping a lot here…
No shit sherlock! Hasn't that be obvious for the last two years or more?
BREAKING! THING YOU ALREADY KNEW IS STILL A THING, PLEASE CLICK ANYWAY, PLEASE BRO JUST ONE MORE CLICK
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.
— Transcribed from a series of tweets by @IamRageSparkle, around 2020.
In interviews, he has said there is a “homeless industrial complex” of nonprofits ruining California
What is that even supposed to mean?
They really want to start introducing the idea of burning the homeless for fuel but are unsure how to broach it so they're working up to it.
Already done that 4 years ago, after reading 10 Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier.
Why is it that these rich fucks are so hateful? Man… I’d be blissful if I had a tiny fraction of what that shitbag makes in an hour.
Because it's a prerequisite. You need to seriously lack a lot of empathy to steal money from others and hoard it for yourself.
Our culture has cancer and it's metastasizing
The being a shitbag came first and it's what led to all the wealth (along with wealthy shitbag parents.)
See, the reason you're not going to make a trillion dollars is because you would be happy with some level of wealth, you're normal, you're probably also the kind of person who would feel bad about stealing the hard work and benefits from millions of people.
Not even tears of joy?
No. I am so fucking sick of hearing about this prick. I’ll cry tears of joy after I one day realize I haven’t heard about him for a couple of months.
He's anti-immigration but he also supported h1b visas hmmm...
He's anti immigration but he's literally an immigrant.
Miller likely wouldn't exist if the policies he is enforcing were employed to his grandparents.
Let's just call it what it is, he is anti-brown immigration.
Enough support to get his trillion $ pay package. He ain't the only nazi skulking around, now is he?
This goes for Meta too, whether you like it or not. Just because Fuckerberg isnt as outspoken doesnt mean he isnt actively part of the problem.
Image needs text alternative unless the idea is to exclude. Aren't Nazis exclusionary?
Is it a Nazi world or Nazi nation? Chicago let Nazis march: is that a Nazi city?
I'm not sure ceding "safe spaces" to Nazis is a great way to resist & denounce them. I doubt segregating ourselves into ideologically pure spaces challenges extremism or maintains deradicalizing influences that may change minds.
Is Chicago funded and run by a Nazi with the express purpose of creating more nazis?
No? Then no, it’s not a nazi city. X is a nazi platform. The End.
It's all 1st world culture.
Detox and return to humanity.
Didn’t we leave over a year ago? JFC are people slow.
3 years ago, he started faltering in the fall of '22
He started way before that.
People are inconvenienced, hence don't do it.
I can believe going through the account deletion is inconvenient.
But you cannot make me believe that just deleting the app is. Takes less than 5 seconds unless your shortcut is millions of homescreens deep.
I mean I got everything I use often on one screen, and everything I use occasionally is like 4 extra icons on the second. You cannot convince me that is inconvenient.
And even if you could, just ignoring it is even less inconvenient.
Then you have to decide how much effort it is to prevent their emails showing up. Either following them or going back and deleting the account are your choices. One is less convenient and more thorough. Decide between those.
I did it around the time he bought the place. I didn't even know anything about his politics at the time, but I barely used it and that picture of him with the funk with that shit eating grin and the general sentiment of everybody's else's feelings on it just pissed me off. Once the election started I was happy to be far away.