Democracy has already ceased to function if such people can get into power (remember Musk wasn't elected or anything). Of course now the propaganda is starting to tell the people they ought not to have oppositional thoughts...
We also can't have a functioning democracy if we excuse away every sign of fascism these chucklefucks show us. Other countries have a zero tolerance policy, but we have to check with our oligarchs first to see if it's bad enough to condemn or not.
Someone should ask McArdle what specifically she would need to see in order for her to recognize the fascism & white supremacy that drive the Trump administration? (She wouldn't answer because she already knows it. But she approves or doesn't care, so she argues in bad faith that it isn't true.)
It’s like we all didn’t just watch a twice impeached rapist felon, who staged what Ted Cruz called a “terrorist attack,” use rancid lies to squeak into the presidency
Oh there’s context for the salute all right. It’s Elon’s support for German neo-Nazi party AfD and other fascists globally, his support of white nationalist “replacement theory”, his enabling of neo-Nazi accounts on Twitter, his anti-Semitic attacks on Soros, and much more.
Here's a thought problem: If an obscure politician or a past-his-prime entertainer had done what Musk did, would anyone question for even a moment that it was a Nazi salute? Or are people making excuses simply because he's worth a bazillion dollars? If it's the latter, we know the answer.
Am I crazy to believe that there is a possibility this person, Michelle Goldberg and Azeen Ghorayshi are all just pseudonyms/alts used by Pamela Paul to spread her venom?
I see they’re still wasting whole bytes of space on their web servers continuing to publish McArdle. That space could be better utilized as more ad space for Google.
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Our opponents are objectively evil 🤷🏾♂️
JFC
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/musk-german-afd-rally-weidel-00200620
Is it 100% hard and fast? No. But that's the entire point of a dog whistle.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/megan-mcardle
Like yeah, that was a good point, way way way back then, where do you think we are now?!
-Criticism of Elon Musk
-Criticism of Nazis
-Grenfell Tower
https://youtu.be/xDyPSKLy5E4?si=vjwVAqadF-eJuwqy
nice work.
on the other hand, this seems to be a feature, not a bug...