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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Say it with me: Elon Musk is a Nazi.

He bought Twitter so he could give a platform to literal Nazis and kick off anyone he deems too far to the left. You can tell because that's precisely what he did after buying it. Only the most gullible people ever thought his actions were about free speech for anyone but the far right.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nazi ~ adj -

  1. relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology and practice of Nazism or the Nazis
  2. relating to a form of socialism

Nazism ~ noun -

  1. a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader

๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nazi

1 : a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler 2 often not capitalized a : one who espouses the beliefs and policies of the German Nazis : fascist b : one who is likened to a German Nazi : a harshly domineering, dictatorial, or intolerant person a grammar nazi

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Socialism? Where'd you find a dictionary of right-wing lies?

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You mean to tell me the guy who's only rich because daddy ran a emerald slave mine in apartheid South Africa isn't a good person? Never.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I like that his rebuttal is, "He didn't operate the mine! He owned a majority stake, which I inherited!"

As if not being the one cracking the whips somehow makes profiting off misery better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Hey! The mine was in Kenya or something!

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"Free speech" has always been a right-wing dog whistle for about a decade now. It has nothing to do with anyone's legal right, it's a means to claim victimhood and justify attacking others as "defense".

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

When Musk says free speech is the bedrock of democracy he means wealthy people have the right to speak and those who can't out spend them should shut the hell up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

free speech purist (but don't say cisgender on his platform)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's whatever he wants, not just free speech, it's not coherent. He disagrees with having to cater to advertisers, but also wants to sue them for them not wanting to do business with him.

He's a child

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

it's a shame he doesn't agree with his first comment in practise, because I totally agree - free speech is essential for democracy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The thing I love about them is when you use your right to free speech to ridicule them, they have the biggest cry about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

2+2=5 , peace is war, etc

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If you want to discredit this guy the best thing you can do is to not repost his content. For each time he makes in to the frontpage a more useful post doesn't.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy: https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE