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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.

Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”

Musk later thanked Netanyahu.

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[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Calls everything antisemitism as a cudgel to defend themselves and their genocide

*sees a literal Nazi

Nah, not him, he’s cool

[-] runiq@feddit.org 59 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We shouldn't have killed the fucking gorilla, man.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Not everyone waved their dick in salute to our Gorilla friend.

[-] b161 39 points 6 days ago

Mussolini supports Hitler.

[-] Slwh47696@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago

This is essentially: "As a black man, those white hooded robes and burning cross definitely aren't racist imagery!"

[-] spooky2092 42 points 6 days ago

Israel is full of fascists, so no surprise they're carrying water for a Nazi.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 6 days ago

Nazi defends nazi

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh a member of the Likud party is good with Nazis. That tracks.

[-] m8052@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

He is a nazi without a foreskin.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Someone lost his job with that joke. Is that you Guillaume?

[-] m8052@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago
[-] ahumana@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

If the prime minister of Israel considers him a great friend.. that certainly seals the deal for me. He doesn't hate jews, therefore cant be a nazi.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

Hahaha, I could tell by the headline itself this was no Onion.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

So he can't watch a video? How the hell is a jew a nazi collaborator?

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

It's the new post Covid greeting

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 152 points 1 week ago
[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oligarchs are all in the same big mentally-ill sociopath club. They know they're the devil and they revel in being evil. They only care about wealth and power, and their only common goal is keeping the proles fighting each other, instead of dragging them into the street and making them pay for their crimes; for the irrevocable damage they've done to all of us, and our societies.

I'm not convinced most of them actually believe any of the horseshit they spout. Their words are just a means to achieving their goals.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Ah, the "better to reign in hell" type

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So... nazi salute in now welcome in israel?

🤨

[-] hungryphrog 24 points 6 days ago

Shit's getting reaaally absurd.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago

The simulation has gone off the rails, might need to reboot the server soon

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Someone loaded the nazi mod for funsies, but it turned out to be a virus.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

We have roughly a vigintillion years before the reboot

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You're right, so we'll probably see people around the streets of israel cities marching and saluting every night just to enjoy their lives

#Tourettessyndrome

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago

Billionaires are always welcome, I guess Elon could shit in his mouth and he'd say "Thank you may I please have another?"

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[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 79 points 1 week ago

That's telling us pretty much all we needed to know about the whole Gaza situation, if anyone still had doubts about it. Far right extremists, Nazis, fascists, whatever you want to call them.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 48 points 1 week ago

Oh wow, fascist 1 defends fascist 2 and says that they're not fascists... who woulda thunk it?

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Just FYI: Netanyahu's parents emigrated to Israel in the 1920s because they were as fervently Zionist as you can get. They even changed their name from something Polish to Netanyahu since that's a blatantly Semitic name.

In short- not only did he and his family not suffer from the Holocaust, they benefited from it because it furthered their own goals.

So this should not be in any way surprising even if the genocide of Palestinians had not started under his watch.

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

Well, time for everyone to put support for Israel in their bio and start sieg heiling around Jerusalem, see how long it takes before double standards are applied...

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