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Miles Archer

(19,843 posts)
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:19 PM May 20

Lemme get this straight, Elon. If a guy throws TWO Nazi salutes and is then called a Nazi, that's "propaganda?"

In a Tuesday interview with CNBC, Musk accused the mainstream media of propaganda.

"What would an example of that be?" CNBC's David Faber wondered.

"That I'm a Nazi, for example," Musk replied. "And how many legacy media publications, talk shows, whatever, try to claim that I was a Nazi because of some random hand gesture at a rally where all I said was that my heart goes out to you and I was talking about space travel."

"And yet, the legacy of media promoted that as though that was a deliberate Nazi gesture, when in fact, every politician, any public speaker who's spoken for any length of the time has made the exact same gesture," he added. "And I've never harmed, I've never harmed a single person."

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-nazi-hand-gesture/

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Lemme get this straight, Elon. If a guy throws TWO Nazi salutes and is then called a Nazi, that's "propaganda?" (Original Post) Miles Archer May 20 OP
Oh My Elon BOSSHOG May 20 #1
He clearly did not get the MAGAt menu on their aversion to "SNOWFLAKES"... Miles Archer May 20 #3
NAZI propaganda got a bunch of NAZIs out of South Africa just the other day. Kid Berwyn May 20 #2
I was Just going to say... Gotta make room Cha May 20 #6
"Lebensraum" is how Herr Doktor Karl Haushofer put it visiting Adolph in prison. Kid Berwyn May 20 #9
NO.. Mump is "Propaganda". Cha May 20 #4
Hey Elon, I know you can't relate to this, but putting somebody out of their job is harming someone Walleye May 20 #5
He might not be a Nazi, but he certaily conducts himself as one. marble falls May 20 #7
The pressure is clearly getting to this nasty Nazi so keep it up! Find a Tesla takedown and make some noise! Blues Heron May 20 #8
Elon supports Far Right organizations in the UK, Germany and Italy PurgedVoter May 20 #10
Yep! and Double-Yep!!! BurnDoubt May 21 #13
So... Not a Nazi... But love those Nazi Notions. Izz you izz... or izz you ain't? BurnDoubt May 21 #11
Works for me. calimary May 21 #18
Why was CNBC even interviewing him? Figarosmom May 21 #12
Random hand gesture, Elon? yorkster May 21 #14
He brought all of this on himself. Quiet Em May 21 #15
If it looks like a duck, mwooldri May 21 #16
Poor, poor Elon. Go away and take your Flying Monkey Incels with you. Snort some ketamine... Hekate May 21 #17

BOSSHOG

(43,145 posts)
1. Oh My Elon
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:31 PM
May 20

Such an injustice. How do you survive amongst such cruelty? I guess you weren’t subject to doge. Then you’d know what cruelty is?

I’m an obnoxious Philly Fan. People say I’m an obnoxious Philly Fan. Please Elon give me information on the location of your support group.

Miles Archer

(19,843 posts)
3. He clearly did not get the MAGAt menu on their aversion to "SNOWFLAKES"...
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:37 PM
May 20

...although Republicans' frequent, vocal, vehement expressions of "righteous indignation" seem to point to the exact opposite.

I think it took repetition, reinforcement, and frequency, but sometime between the Nazi salute and the cheese head hat in Wisconsin, Musk seems to have understood that people just don't like him, so he's playing the "That's not FAIR" whining card.

He's "never hurt anyone." As you said, ask some of the people who lost their jobs due to "DOGE."

He's never missed a meal, thanks to daddy's blood emeralds and government grants.

Kid Berwyn

(21,102 posts)
2. NAZI propaganda got a bunch of NAZIs out of South Africa just the other day.
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:33 PM
May 20

Trump even got 'em housing and health care.

Kid Berwyn

(21,102 posts)
9. "Lebensraum" is how Herr Doktor Karl Haushofer put it visiting Adolph in prison.
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:59 PM
May 20

In all seriousness: Rudolf Hess personally sought and brought the University of Munich meistermind to Landsberg Prison.

Geostrategy with Germany at the center of the Octopus, a BFEE Realpolitik kind of guy.

Walleye

(41,304 posts)
5. Hey Elon, I know you can't relate to this, but putting somebody out of their job is harming someone
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:42 PM
May 20

Some people got those jobs, and moved and reenrolled their kids in school, and you just pulled the rug out from under them. Glad you think it’s not harming anybody because you’ve never had a job.

Blues Heron

(7,157 posts)
8. The pressure is clearly getting to this nasty Nazi so keep it up! Find a Tesla takedown and make some noise!
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:59 PM
May 20

PurgedVoter

(2,534 posts)
10. Elon supports Far Right organizations in the UK, Germany and Italy
Tue May 20, 2025, 11:54 PM
May 20

He tends to twist around on the Hitler thing, saying Hitler was a communist, and not a conservative, but in the final analysis, Fascists, self declared Nazis and white supremacists all share support for the same race hating organizations that Elon supports. The Nazi thing is an Elon thing even without the salutes. He supports organizations that support racial hatred and the overthrow of their government.

When the tides turn, I hope Elon faces a direct and personal clawback of all the money he got, directly or indirectly from our government while he disrupted investigations into his dealings.

BurnDoubt

(772 posts)
13. Yep! and Double-Yep!!!
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:05 AM
May 21

I want to see him selling singles in front of a bodega and sleeping in a card-board box and needing subsidized Health Care, and sharing a bottle of wine with the Orange Felon.

BurnDoubt

(772 posts)
11. So... Not a Nazi... But love those Nazi Notions. Izz you izz... or izz you ain't?
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:01 AM
May 21

Whatever you call it, it is Deplorable. Deport Him.

calimary

(86,943 posts)
18. Works for me.
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:39 AM
May 21

But not without a fine! A big one, too.

How much you got, Elon?

HAND IT OVER.

Figarosmom

(6,650 posts)
12. Why was CNBC even interviewing him?
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:03 AM
May 21

If they want to be taken seriously as a finance channel why are they interviewing him? He's proven he's really an idiot who made some decent investments but terrible at actually managing anything.

yorkster

(3,241 posts)
14. Random hand gesture, Elon?
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:11 AM
May 21

Oh, have I got one for you. Me and millions
who are disgusted and furious at what you and your technothugs have wrought.

Quiet Em

(2,072 posts)
15. He brought all of this on himself.
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:12 AM
May 21

He willingly and purposely behaved like an ahole.

Now he's being held accountable for it and he doesn't like it.

To effin' bad.

mwooldri

(10,656 posts)
16. If it looks like a duck,
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:13 AM
May 21

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....

Chances are it's a duck.

Guy on stage throwing special salutes? Hmm. Lemme think about it for a while... Nope Elon ain't no Charlie Chaplin.

Hekate

(98,440 posts)
17. Poor, poor Elon. Go away and take your Flying Monkey Incels with you. Snort some ketamine...
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:13 AM
May 21

You’ll feel better, or so I’m told.

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