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I never said that. I don’t think they are all Nazis, although some are, while others are sympathetic or simply understand that Musk is moving in the right direc
by Rzor 2y ago
I never said that. I don’t think they are all Nazis, although some are, while others are sympathetic or simply understand that Musk is moving in the right direction (in a way that doesn’t make him a Nazi because he’s just "joking"). Do I have to draw a Venn diagram of all possible cases? Have you seen replies to Musk lately? The people who criticized Musk—a particular subset of them—are the ones Musk was signaling to, in his own misguided way. Or maybe he was signaling to all of them, and this is how he thinks he can win them by throwing a bone.
There’s some kayfabe here. To his audience, or at least some of them, he can do this without being a Nazi, much like how Trump can promise to defend America abroad, but take back Panama or Greenland, or whatever (even though he says he doesn’t actually like or want war), or how Christian he is. It’s just theatrics in a certain direction. For those who care, it’s there; for others, it’s nothing, and they just rationalize it as some kind of performance, but still remain loyal.
My point is that this is how Musk thought he could win some people back, perhaps impulsively—not as a ploy to shift public perception or signal an incoming Fourth Reich.
This is obviously bad and it just stains Musk's increasingly poor reputation even more.
- freejazz 2y ago>I never said that. It's the inevitable result of you having politically triangulated things.