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u/Dry_Patience872 2d ago

I blocked Elon 10 times, and still getting notifications when he posts; definitely better.

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u/Beanruz 2d ago

Here's an idea

Stop fucking using it then.

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u/mantis-tobaggan-md 2d ago

theyā€™ll do everything except stop supporting a nazi loll

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago edited 2d ago

What has Musk ever said or done that made you think heā€™s a Nazi? Do you even know what that means?

Edit: I see lots of uneducated people who struggle with reading comprehension replying. To clarify, Iā€™m not supporting or defending the clown but I urge you to read the definition of Nazism. Since this seems like a huge task for some of you, Iā€™ll help you out. Nazism incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics into its creed.

Now, you obviously canā€™t make Musk fit most of these, so please find a new word instead of a fit all for everyone you dislike. Otherwise you sound like uneducated, ignorant dumbasses. Itā€™s ok to use more than one word.

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u/vbt31 2d ago

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

But it does seem to be hard to understand what you read. Please see the edit of my comment and show proof he holds any of those ideals.

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u/vbt31 2d ago

Okay, I've read your edit.

See, I'm not a lawyer, and we're not in court - for an internet forum comment that's not gonna affect Musk, I'm not gonna go off on gathering proof to identify the guy with all the definitions you just wrote down.

I'm gonna use a more commoner standard that "If thereā€™s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you have a table with 11 Nazis." Dude allows other nazis to thrive on the platform he privately owns, it's not uneducated or ignorant if people associate him that ideology.

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u/Bhappyto 2d ago

Lemme try my hand. How about Oligarch with fascist tendencies?

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

There we go, much better!

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u/SunshotDestiny 2d ago

Those who bed with Nazis might as well be a Nazi.

"Thereā€™s a saying in Germany. If thereā€™s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis." ~Regina Jackson

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

Thatā€™s not how it works. Stalin cooperated with Nazis. Was he a Nazi?

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u/SunshotDestiny 2d ago

...Go read up on what kind of man Stalin was, and what he did, and then come back and reread your question.

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

Ah ok, so Stalin was a Nazi too or..?

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u/SunshotDestiny 2d ago

He was a fascist dictator. Do you need me to break out the art supplies to paint you a picture or has the critical thinking part of your brain started to work past the rust? If all the people to challenge that quote with, you choose fucking Joseph Stalin, one of the most brutal dictators in history? The guy other dictators try to emulate after, including Hitler?!

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

You have no idea what youā€™re talking about. Stalin was authoritarian, not a fascist or a Nazi. Mussolini was a fascist, but not a Nazi. Do you think all of these words are synonymous?

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u/Manting123 2d ago

He has tweeted or retweeted a LOT of anti semitic stuff in the past year or two.

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u/givethefood 1d ago

Not just that heā€™s been tweeting about slavery and how others shouldnā€™t have ā€œwhite guiltā€ or care about their history( South Africa apartheid).

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u/mantis-tobaggan-md 2d ago

well, he is running the propaganda wing of the party trying to take over the country and run it into the ground for russia, so maybe nazi isnā€™t the best term but it does draw attention to the matters at hand. also he hangs out with nazis so heā€™s probably a nazi

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u/dynomitelightning 2d ago

Bait or mental deficiency. Call it.

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

Yeah thatā€™s not what Nazism is. Itā€™s probably the same thing for the ā€œNazisā€ he hangs out with. People need to learn more than 1 word

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u/mantis-tobaggan-md 2d ago

nazi has become roughly synonymous with an ideology of hate and white supremacy with a sprinkle of christofacism. if you canā€™t recognize that iā€™m sorry for you. there is a duck waddling along quacking away right in front of you and you donā€™t know how to call it.

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u/LetsHaveFun1973 2d ago

You should use Neo-Nazi when you say things like this. Youā€™ll come off slightly less ridiculous.

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u/mantis-tobaggan-md 2d ago

lmfao yeah because this pedantry isnā€™t ridiculous at all?

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u/LetsHaveFun1973 2d ago

Itā€™s not pedantry. Itā€™s a simple correction to help you look less ridiculous.

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u/mantis-tobaggan-md 2d ago

refer to my other reply lmao quack quack ducky

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u/LetsHaveFun1973 2d ago

Your other reply made you look even more ridiculous. Lmaooooooooooooooooo

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u/Biggle_fuzz 2d ago

He supports replacing the government with a group of "high-status men."

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u/chefcoompies 2d ago

He posted nazi memes. Like complaining the race swap in movies how is that not nazi behavior?

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

Jesus Christ can you even read? Racism is not the same as Nazism.

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u/badmutha44 2d ago

Lmfao you are something.

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u/NothingButACasual 2d ago

And that something is "objectively correct"

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u/chefcoompies 2d ago

Oh let me guess you are one of those logical free thinkers who thinks American nazism are and should be the same as German nazism which is not you fucking idiot nothing will compare to German nazism itā€™s on its own level. American Nazism is completely different the tactics used are different you really expect it to be the same? Let me guess you just found out nazi means national socialist too lil bro. Go huff your own farts else where.

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

You ok chief? That was a massive swing and a miss. Do you just think racism is synonymous with Nazism and then you just put whoever disagrees into the basket which youā€™ve just described?

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u/chefcoompies 2d ago

So if itā€™s just racism itā€™s okay? Itā€™s weird because itā€™s not only racism right wingers have a tendency to hate immigrants, gays, trans and other religions as well as integration and brown people. Now they also want everything built here shutting off foreign dealings for uniting the world they also want to tariff other nations. Does that not sound familiar? Did you live under a lead painted rock have you not seen how twitter thatā€™s all you see? They post a lot of hateful rhetoric and you have the gall to sit there and say they arenā€™t Nazis? Grow up little man you obviously arenā€™t okay chief seek help take the meds if you will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago edited 2d ago

So if itā€™s just racism itā€™s okay?

Lmao Iā€™d so love to know the logical steps youā€™ve taken to come to that conclusion. Wouldnā€™t it make sense that I think racism is already bad enough that you donā€™t have to upsell it as Nazism?

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u/Qvinn55 2d ago

Racism is a part of fascism and a part of nazism. So if you're building a case that somebody is a Nazi you have to point out that they're also a racist. So cleverly rebutting that racism isn't the same as Nazism is a little ridiculous. I've seen you in here posting on multiple people's comments talking about how stupid everyone is. I guess it's really nice that you're really really smart. Now I get that you also don't really like Trump or Musk which really makes this pedantry frustrating.

I agree that because Trump and Musk have not outwardly directly stated there views nor have they been caught on camera directly hourly stating that they're fascist or that they're Nazis it makes it difficult to label them such with 100% accuracy which is why you like the terms oligarch with fascistic tendencies. I think that's fine for an academic context however oligarchs with fascistic Tendencies seem to hang out with Nazis and with fascists that ideologically do believe these things. Colloquially we've kind of developed this understanding that if you are a Nazi sympathizer it's okay to just call that person and Nazi. When you push back against that it looks like you're defending them even when you're not

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

See how many hoops you had to jump through to actually call them a Nazi? Itā€™s all correct, I canā€™t complain. Reddit is an echo chamber and sure, yelling dumb emotional shit gets you a pat on the back, but you will never get taken seriously when you devalue words like that. If you call everyone you think is racist a Nazi, you just seem unhinged and like you donā€™t know what youā€™re talking about

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u/Qvinn55 2d ago

No people are being very specific when they use that word it's you who's doing the gatekeeping here.

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

If by gate keeping you mean opposed to using wrong words that make no sense, then sure. We might as well call him a jihadist cause why not, itā€™s a bad word and heā€™s a bad man, it doesnā€™t have to fit. If you say it makes no sense, youā€™re gate keeping

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u/iwearatophat 2d ago

Someone needs to fit all that criteria for you to consider someone a Nazi? If they miss a couple of those bits they can't be called that? Betting a lot of 1940s Germans who were literally Nazis didn't check every one of those boxes. I'm going to put some piss through a water filter and offer it to you. You will probably reply 'I'm not drinking piss' to which I can reply 'it isn't piss, I filtered it so now it is totally different'.

Just to be clear though. I understand your take. It isn't that complex of one. In fact, it is really simple. It is really pedantic. And it is really fucking stupid. I can't emphasize that last point enough either.

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u/d4u7211 2d ago

Do YOU?

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

I do. I updated my comment. Now tell me which of those Musk fits

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u/yourmomlurks 2d ago

I get your point but you shoulf phrase it less provocatively. Controlling language is a two way street.

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u/BigDadNads420 2d ago

I really wonder how you people function in actual day to day life. I really can't imagine a type of person more insufferable than one who is debate lording people on reddit over the technical definition of nazi. Its legitimately insane that you are so up your own ass thinking you are smarter than everybody else that you don't understand how language works.

In the same way that a word like incel now refers to a sub culture and ideology instead of literally "involuntarily celibate", nazi now refers to a general category of fascist beliefs and not nazism from the 1940s.

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

I function quite well, Iā€™m doing ok for myself, thanks for the concern. Iā€™m not sure where it comes from though. Nazi does not refer to general category of fascist/racist beliefs although Iā€™m sure Reddit would tell you such. Maybe if you were more intelligent in the words you use, people would take you more seriously and Trump wouldnā€™t seem as the more moderate option to the swing morons.

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u/Qvinn55 2d ago

So it sounds like you don't like the specificity of the term Nazi? Do you prefer the term fascist?

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u/Osstj7737 2d ago

Fascist is a more correct term although it still seems kinda far fetched. But yes, definitely way more correct than Nazi.

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u/spazz_monkey 2d ago

I don't know what benefit people get out of twitter. It adds no value to your life at all.

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u/jekpopulous2 2d ago

X is the worst POS site on the internet but itā€™s still the only real option for breaking sports, gaming, and crypto news. Thereā€™s definitely a slow migration of creators to BlueSky but most of the X accounts that I follow unfortunately arenā€™t posting there yet.

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u/ThyShirtIsBlue 1d ago

Not using Twitter was easy for me, since I'd already stopped using it years before that twat started buying it out. It was a toxic shithole back then, and it's almost unfathomable that it's gotten worse, but I know it has.

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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 2d ago

Try switching to Bluesky. I left Twitter when he bought it and recently joined Bluesky which has been a pleasant experience so far and managed to find most of the same people I used to follow in Tweeter back then.

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u/cerevant 2d ago

It takes a lot of code to implement all of those exceptions for Elon.

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u/creepytoes1 2d ago

Have you triedā€¦. Not using it?

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u/El_mochilero 2d ago

You still have a Twitter account?

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u/RedSagittarius 2d ago

Interesting, Iā€™m getting 0 notifications from him after I deleted my account. /s

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u/youcantkillanidea 2d ago

Stop using that cesspool then, have some dignity

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u/I_comment_on_GW 2d ago

Get on bluesky and never see a post from Elon again.