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Neither Musk nor China are fascist, it's a shame to see this sort of hyperbole take over HackerNews too.
by GardenLetter27 1y ago
Neither Musk nor China are fascist, it's a shame to see this sort of hyperbole take over HackerNews too.
- kreetx 1y agoYup. I would assume people in Europe have a good idea on what it looks like from memories passed on from grandparents. I guess the losing chunk of US population can't stop shaming the other party.
- f33d5173 1y agoChina is facially a fascist state. Fascism isn't a simple pejorative, its a category of political ideologies that can and have been implemented. There's no hyperbole in stating that.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoMusk deliberately and publicly made two Nazi salutes - it's certainly not hyperbole to refer to him as a fascist
- mcv 1y agoMusk absolutely is. He has made that abundantly clear. His support for antisemitism and other forms of racism, his embrace of extremists, his support for AfD and Trump, his Nazi salute. He has very clearly shown us who he is. China is something else. Not entirely sure what; possible entirely its own thing, but definitely totalitarian.
- Zigurd 1y agoWould it be an appeal to authority to point to the Germans' reaction to Elon's salute and say "They might know?"