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Musk / Tesla = Nazi?
I often miss background information that explain cultural phenomena.
This might be the case with the “Elon Musk is Nazi” and its derivative “Tesla cars are Nazi” ideas that seem to permeate large segments of American society.
So perhaps the Ricochetti can explain this to me.
Where did the association of Elon Musk and Nazis come from? What is the basis? What did Elon Musk do (or is he doing) that represents Nazi philosophy or practice?
Is it because he grew up in South Africa? And apartheid is supposedly just like Naziism?
Or is it based on the assumption that making government operations more efficient (DOGE) is akin to creating the Third Reich? If so, how?
The simplistic (but impolite) answer is that leftists don’t engage in rational thought, and that “Nazi” is just the universal term of hate to direct toward anyone you don’t like, now that “racist” has lost its sting.
But perhaps I missed something.
What makes Mr. Musk a Nazi?
Help me understand.
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The left calls everything they do not like “Nazi”.
Not quite the same but it reminds of the times when if the communists did something “icky” like massacre protestors the liberals would be label them conservative hard-liners.
We don’t have enough nuclear or renewable power for this to work even if people were patient enough to charge up batteries all the time. Furthermore, I’m highly doubtful that making and throwing away electric cars is going to net out compared to internal combustion.
Maybe with “Milano” being Italian, she’s okay with Mussolini.
Agreed …..
A couple more not well thought out unintended consequences to all electric fleet are:
It may not be much of a disruption if people just don’t buy them.
I can show it to my SIL.
Also fits the “Trump is Nazi” concept. President Trump seems quite fond of his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner and converted-to-Judaism daughter Ivanka and their raised-in-Judaism children.
Meanwhile, the Woke don keffiyehs and sqee “Free Palestine” while they abuse every Jew they see.
So far, the only concrete evidence identified here for the “Musk is Nazi” thesis is one arm and hand gesture in one speech. But, since as has also been pointed out, similar arm and hand gestures have been given by many Democrat Party politicians and officials without a similar “Nazi” charge, the arm and hand gesture can’t be the basis for the “Musk is Nazi” thesis.
Which leaves me in the unpleasant position that the most likely explanation is that “anyone we don’t like is ‘Nazi.'”
Which conclusion I had been hoping to avoid because I keep trying not to believe that leftists are that hateful, bigoted, and free of logical thought.
How depressing.
This is exactly my experience with my brother-in-law. Leads a very conservative lifestyle. Practical helpful job even though he has a PhD. He literally cannot explain public policy or debate it and he gets very worked up on everything. He just can’t explain anything. If he can’t turn it into a scandal, it goes nowhere. They just love government force, and they think it should work and we need more of it.
This is from Michael Brendan Dougherty.
The fundamental way they think is, if everybody isn’t equal, it’s fascist.
I don’t know what they thought like 40 years ago.
They like government force, and if things aren’t working, i.e. everybody isn’t getting equal, we need more government force.
Inflation is stupid. It doesn’t work and it makes everything worse. It gives the Democrats an excuse to deploy more government force.
Global warming is the universal communist bludgeoning tool.
Maybe it’s best not to think.
Sorry, all I can come up with.
The left calls any forceful executive action they don’t like fascism even if it’s perfectly legal and arrived at through fair elections and the like. Nazis are the fascists the leftists are familiar with, so naturally Trump and Musk are called Nazis.