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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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Musk and Tesla are Nazis because the Left doesn't like him any more. Simple as that. Nazi is what they use.
Trump wasn't a Nazi either, when the Left liked him. Now they don't, and so he's a Nazi.
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The trope really took off when, in expressing gratitude to his audience at some speech he gave, saying "my heart goes out to you," Musk waved his right arm upright at the crowd, which of course immediately translated into a thousand memes of his "Nazi salute."
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Like Tim Walz and so many others have done.
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Bonus Beto!
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