Teacher teaching kids that slavery was bad=Woke anti-American propagandist who should be fired Richest man in the world with the ear of the President throws up Nazi salute at a political rally=Now THAT guy is a real patriot who loves America. - ThreadSky

sethcotlar.bsky.social • 33 days ago

Teacher teaching kids that slavery was bad=Woke anti-American propagandist who should be fired

Richest man in the world with the ear of the President throws up Nazi salute at a political rally=Now THAT guy is a real patriot who loves America.

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penkc.bsky.social•33 days ago

Please please please stop mentioning his money. He loves that.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•33 days ago

The question of whether Elon REALLY meant to throw up a Nazi salute is meaningless because Elon's entire persona is oriented around destroying the public's capacity for sense-making. He's always "just joking" or "triggering the libs." That's just how democracy-hating illiberals communicate.

susanwebb.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thanks for this brilliant insight from Sartre!

daytripper72.bsky.social•33 days ago

This is page one of the narcissist’s playbook: gaslighting. Eroding your ability to know what is real and what isn’t. We all know. The Germans for sure know. The fact that western media is pretending not to know is disgraceful.

rp-vb.bsky.social•32 days ago

alilnightmusing.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thanks for the ALT-text.

mul3.bsky.social•33 days ago

He did it twice! This was not a joke! He’s a Nazi!

mellynnfruit.bsky.social•31 days ago

Why did you stop talking about the election especially after this video?
Now you know "Elon is good with vote tabulators and then they won PA by a landslide"? https://youtu.be/of9OP_a6MNg?si=X9sX10-uP5cvr5aP

Have you no questions why Elon said he'd be arrested if Trump lost? All 7 swing states?
https://youtu.be/QDWwLDejg8Y?si=mmxEzyLtQLdKNloV

lisalisag1969.bsky.social•33 days ago

NYT The Daily & ABC Start Here podcasts claiming to sum up 1/20 failed to mention Nazi salutes (he gave it twice!) & reports say NBC cut out the footage. ADL denied it. Shouldn’t this be a huge story?

mat111.bsky.social•33 days ago

We are heading into “shouldland” with these newspapers 🤬

alexiepogue.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yeah. This can be condensed into - gaslighting. It's their MO.

sierranicole1426.bsky.social•32 days ago

I'm a liberal and I love democracy you're a lying sob

smitty3.bsky.social•32 days ago

I think he’s lying. It’s bravado and a huge lack of impulse control.

jibalt.bsky.social•32 days ago

I believe he practiced it.

brianvukadinovich.bsky.social•32 days ago

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article297599828.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawH9P1pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdWXgVGto5bVYKjGMCY_L9oKbWfGELVS7oqbP6ce1cpy_ihvbK4LC8Mn3w_aem_Y7LTpaGpEsqvv128CQatRg

lisedyckman.bsky.social•33 days ago

Classic gaslighting response (“just joking”. No, of course it’s not.

the-old-dog.bsky.social•33 days ago

The irony of this Sartre quote is how few "illiberals" have ever read him, much less know who he is

eawinick.bsky.social•33 days ago

Farting car? Why not!

kimmi1965.bsky.social•32 days ago

Similar to Washington press defending outrageous Trump statements, “he’s joking” they told us.

jeanmoulin4ever.bsky.social•33 days ago

He was raised in apartheid South Africa…. What do you think?

twainspatriot.bsky.social•33 days ago

Elon's mother's parents were antisemitic Canadian Nazi sympathizers; his grandfather belonged to "the quasi-fascistic Technocracy movement, whose proponents believed that scientists and engineers... should rule." They moved to SA in 1950 *because* of Apartheid.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-world-according-to-elon-musks-grandfather

monsieurmalhomme.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yeah. It’s not jokes it’s a nazi salute by the worlds richest person. His views are concerning.

wtafishappening.bsky.social•33 days ago

crankyoldman.bsky.social•33 days ago

WWII was just a group of German patriots on a guided tour!

wtafishappening.bsky.social•33 days ago

That's right!

dadjah.bsky.social•33 days ago

It was real and he knows exactly what it means. Can’t blame it on Asperger’s.

cdanny17.bsky.social•33 days ago

What I'm impressed is all those Hollywood liberals still buying Tesla cars, WTF is wrong with you idiots, STOP BUYING FUCKING Tesla cars you fucking idiots 🙄

rvinetworks.bsky.social•33 days ago

He’s a Nazi. Full stop. Which is weird because the Nazi’s 1.0 would have killed him due to his disability.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•33 days ago

Put yourself in Elon's place. Would you be able to stand in front of a big political rally, with cameras rolling, slap your hand to your heart and then extend it, four fingers pressed together, upwards at a 45 degree angle without getting a little queasy at the historical referent you just invoked?

justjen9899.bsky.social•33 days ago

No, of course not. But then again, I never earned the name Apartheid Clyde either.

steveclason.bsky.social•33 days ago

Muscle memory.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•33 days ago

Like, imagine yourself in a public setting where there are Jewish people present...and think to yourself, would you look out at them, slap your hand to your heart with a hearty grunt, and then extend your arm out towards them at a 45 degree angle? And then turn around and do it to more of them?

sethcotlar.bsky.social•33 days ago

If the answer to that question is "yes," then well...I don't know what to say other than you must be either an amoral asshole or a fascist.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•33 days ago

Remember this Richard Spencer moment from Trump's 2017 inaugural week? https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk?si=4eXLbBOY8-lUDpki

drewsteramp.bsky.social•33 days ago

And here we are back again, with a uber rich divorced mentally challenged man child nazi who spends most of his time on twitter doing that salute 2x on national tv. 🫠

cstew---1337.bsky.social•33 days ago

The most important thing he said was that the press is opening up the door for white supremacists. MSM is primarily maga news now. We need a new news network that isn’t owned by republicans and doesn’t cater to maga. Many people don’t use social media. They need a truthful tv news channel.

jonreilly1313.bsky.social•33 days ago

The fat fucker at the end really smacks of Supremacy...

sethcotlar.bsky.social•33 days ago

Dr. Strangelove tried to warn us about this sort of thing.

justine2inus.bsky.social•32 days ago

and trump's favorite minion stephen miller is connected to spencer via brimelow and his "revolution of common sense", which brings us right back to trump's carnival barking at his inauguration

the southern poverty law center pages on brimelow and VDare presage the Willard "War-Room" shenanigans...

appuhn.bsky.social•33 days ago

Both.

zulaqi.bsky.social•33 days ago

He wasn't just doing that to Jewish people. Nazi ideology dehumanizes Black people too. Hitler/Nazis admired and emulated the anti-Black racist culture and laws of the U.S. There is no way that a Nazi salute doesn't demean Black people too.

javaka75.bsky.social•33 days ago

Asshole

fatdonald.bsky.social•33 days ago

Not if you’re a real racist.

desarrayed.bsky.social•33 days ago

I would *love* to see any of his defenders go into their places of work and do this

because nbd, right?

planetgaia.bsky.social•32 days ago

Elon knew what he was doing 😡

nerdby.bsky.social•33 days ago

Once again, I am sharing this article about the Christchurch mosque shooting that details how fascists use memes and bullying tactics to discredit leftists and antifascists by painting us pearlclutching snowflakes who simply cannot take a joke.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/3/15/18267163/new-zealand-shooting-christchurch-white-nationalism-racism-language

davkbod.bsky.social•31 days ago

I've been really having a problem with the term "Semitic"

Anti-Semitic" is always used as "Anti-Jewish"

But the Jews were not the only Semites...

Seems the whole rest of the group as been sidelined, to ill effect.

barfae.bsky.social•33 days ago

But we can't forget that he backs the far right neo nazi party in Germany.

fatdonald.bsky.social•33 days ago

Can’t believe Rachel Maddow hasn’t done an expose on Musks parents and grandparents. They have been Nazi sympathizers for generations. Racist as hell. No one should be surprised. Just don’t be stupid. That’s what they are counting on.

packattack1.bsky.social•32 days ago

Elon Musk knows exactly what he did and why. Any other explanation is offensive. What is so disappointing is that Elon could be a force for good but he has chosen the opposite path. Another cruel power- hungry ugly man.

lgiveup.bsky.social•32 days ago

Let’s deport him back to South Africa; pre apartheid!

meadowsonh2o.bsky.social•32 days ago

…the super intelligent weirdo didn’t know what he was doing? HA!!!

caligreg.bsky.social•33 days ago

Echoes of Extremism

Elon Musk's gesture sparks dismay.
A Nazi-like salute, on inauguration day.
A billionaire's influence, on the nation's fate
Leaves many wondering, what's at stake.

jibalt.bsky.social•32 days ago

AND he really meant to do it ... in fact he practiced it. For a very awkward guy it wasn't awkward at all.

mcshine8.bsky.social•31 days ago

The Deutsche Museum in Munich removed Musk's portrait from their Aeronautics dept as a result of Musk's Nazi 'Hitler salute' during his celebration at Donald Trump's FFOTUS party.

kramerdgr8.bsky.social•33 days ago

Of fucking course he did!

dickmills.bsky.social•32 days ago

And, it's purposeful as a distraction. Liberals are the only ones who care / are triggered by it... MAGAs don't / won't care .. ever. The element of distraction, which Trump uses incessantly, is purely to dilute the coverage of the real and actual harms being perpetrated by the F(elon)POTUS...

pckak.bsky.social•32 days ago

I think he meant the Nazi Salute,
Heil Hitler/Trump.

squirrelquest.bsky.social•32 days ago

He’s South African at heart. Of course he knows what he was doing. He was raised that way.

amateur-philosophy.bsky.social•32 days ago

tru stuff. the fascists are not new, they are not clever, they are not good.

the are old timey evil foolishness, bad faith upon the world at large.

mathandstuff.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh, he _really_ meant to do it. Let's not cut him any slack on that particular issue.

In case there was any doubt about the first time, he did it twice.

rp-vb.bsky.social•32 days ago

📌

sailbarque.bsky.social•33 days ago

Someone needs to send that to the ADL.

pedinska.bsky.social•33 days ago

They know and are posting rationalizations because they can't quite afford to pretend it never happened like the rest of the MSM is doing.

sailbarque.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oops. How awkward of him.

pedinska.bsky.social•33 days ago

ikr?

justine2inus.bsky.social•32 days ago

trump's entire identity as well...

a hall of mirrors...

justine2inus.bsky.social•32 days ago

btw...saletan's satire is echoing sartre

the headline and the article are *mocking* trump and his mercenary spin-doctors

and, more importantly, highlighting trump's "advisors" like ed brookover who run interference under cover of their wealthy "client"s coat-tails, fouling the commons from a to z

justine2inus.bsky.social•32 days ago

and this isn't just "alternative facts", it runs from conway's egregiously two-faced muckeries all the way to the outright subterfuges of despicable men who fancy themselves "agents provacateurs"

-we all suffer from these bad actors acting in bad faith, but no one worse than so-called "minorities"

savaden.bsky.social•33 days ago

Roman salute? Really?

americaeagle.bsky.social•32 days ago

In America we are free to be Nazis. Just as we are free to be any other thing we want to be. His gesture is his personal business not public news. By the way Nazis been here for decades we ran into them like in the thirties. This time voters put them in charge.

jibalt.bsky.social•32 days ago

"His gesture is his personal business not public news. "

You can't be serious.

Anyone this foolish earns a mute.

americaeagle.bsky.social•32 days ago

Do what you need to do doesn't change the truth. Nazis have been here since the 30s. They have just as much right to express themselves as any of us do. When people show you who they are believe them.

gmadem.bsky.social•32 days ago

He knows what he is doing.

msmilack75.bsky.social•33 days ago

so important, please re-post

lollardfish.bsky.social•33 days ago

literally in the nazi website handbook

https://bsky.app/profile/lollardfish.bsky.social/post/3lg7kutwqbc2x

jathomas.bsky.social•33 days ago

What bothers me most seeing Musk's Nazi salute is the disrespect to many of us with uncles, cousins, grandparents killed by Nazis. I remember driving hours every Memorial Day to national cemeteries to visit graves of uncles I'd never met killed in France and pictures of grave of one buried in France

jasonleeguthrie.bsky.social•33 days ago

“Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death, is the man who deceives his neighbor, and says, ‘I was only joking!’” Prov.‬ ‭26‬:‭18‬-‭19‬

zavanova.bsky.social•33 days ago

"just joking" is one of the most common phrases used by abusers

tessa1963.bsky.social•33 days ago

He spews racist hate on X all of the time. He 100% meant it.

unitefordemocracy.bsky.social•33 days ago

It was a fucking NAZI SALUTE. Musk is a sicko scumbag Nazi. The question is not meaningless and what happened is not in question.
https://youtu.be/NLRKEM8K5Ts?si=f5RGvsgNUl3HY8ra

javaka75.bsky.social•33 days ago

Child of apartheid!

mdwth.bsky.social•33 days ago

It was without a doubt exactly what it looked like, a Nazi salute, not once but twice...

marcandrade.bsky.social•32 days ago

Don’t fall for the obfuscation.

ravenna321.bsky.social•33 days ago

That wasn't a Nazi salute like Hitler wasn't going to invade Poland

stellashuman.bsky.social•33 days ago

@maddow.msnbc.com the fact you didn't call this what it was last night on your show was disappointing considering you are 1 of the few left worth watching. Please do not hesitate calling a nazi a nazi. Make no mistake these ARE trump nazis. That WAS a nazi salute.

silkyweineck.bsky.social•33 days ago

I think this c+c is pretty conclusive
https://bsky.app/profile/january.6.was.a.failedcoup.com/post/3lg7me7zhx22c

mshanahan.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yes, but you have to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt; he might have been neurodivergent. 😐

Wow.

mzlinda252.bsky.social•31 days ago

When people show you who they are, believe them.

dinner8.bsky.social•32 days ago

He knew exactly what he was doing

slimeboss.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

backroomgear.bsky.social•31 days ago

Elon is 53 years old, he lived through the 80’s where the bad guy in every American movie was German or Russian. I find it hard to believe he didn’t know exactly what he was doing.

rdantzler.bsky.social•32 days ago

Had Musk been in Germany and raised his arm in salute of the Nazi party, he would have been arrested. They do not tolerate that over there!!

warriorone.bsky.social•32 days ago

Exactly. The nazi salute is not an isolated one-off, every word, every action, every gesture…all virulently ANTI-American from a power hungry hateful lunatic.

evolvegracefully.bsky.social•31 days ago

Everyone! 👇🏼

marilynari.bsky.social•33 days ago

That was a Nazi salute and Musk is a racist partied loving evil male. Head up Germany and the rest of the world, don't be as naive as our leaders of the past.

msmilack75.bsky.social•33 days ago

uh oh

pegbly-bsky1.bsky.social•29 days ago

Musk is scary

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