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[-] Daerm@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

You know that Elon was already a Nazi right

[-] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

He wasn't acting like a nazi. He was acting like a neurodiverse nerd with a rocket company

He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)

No one had a clue that he'd embrace the nutter right wing

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 months ago
[-] Killer@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

"There weren't any signs"

The signs.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Now try before he bought Twitter. Through his ownership of Twitter we got to see what he was like out of the context of Tim Dodd's interviews with Musk at SpaceX

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

from 2022:

https://paywallbuster.com/articles/?article=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fnews%2F2022%2F04%2Felon-musk-twitter-terrible-things-hes-said-and-done

Why are you so hell-bent on defending the Nazi?

(PS: is this paywall blocker good? is there a better resource? this is the first time I used it 🥺)

[-] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

I'm not saying he isn't terrible. I'm saying he didn't show that he was until recently. The first I think we saw of it was the Thai cave rescue crap in 2018. All I'm seeing is replies saying "here he is acting bad 4 years later"

[-] 9bananas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

there's evidence of his views going waaay back, they just rarely reached the mainstream...and now it's just obvious, so there's a lot of people genuinely surprised because he used to at least thinly veil his awful views.

but it was always there...

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He was involved with paypal, that's how you know he's been pos for a long time.

[-] princessnorah 2 points 2 months ago

What was historically that wrong with paypal? /gen

[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

It's not a bank so they don't have to follow banking rules. Historically businesses and sellers have had a hard tome with paypal locking their accounts and refusing to release them. They've put countless people out of business because of this.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)

It's pretty clear to me that Elon's never read a Culture novel, they're antithetical to him.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

He read the first one, that's why he sides with the protagonist against those Culture villains.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Love when ableist Nazis pretend being a high functioning autistic person means you don't understand why Nazi salutes are bad.

[-] snowsynth 3 points 2 months ago

Not trying to defend him, I do think he’s a Nazi and a fucking idiot but also just because ChatGPT doesn’t say so doesn’t mean it’s propaganda or whatever

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