• Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    But what does he mean? That the public sector workers should rebel and guillotine the president and kraznov?

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Hitler did nothing wrong, he was just misunderstood! I was just following orders! I had no choice! I didn’t know! I’m the victim here, not those millions killed! I had the best intensions! I am just a small gear in a very large system! Yeah, but they did stuff too!

    Aaaand scene

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Everyone knows that armies are just a loose collection of undisciplined psychopaths that are basically left to their own devices.

  • BobTheDestroyer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I read this as a call to action for the people Musk/Trump are ordering around. If everyone just said “no, I won’t to do what you tell me” then we might avoid the collapse of the government/economy/country.

    • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I think the person who originally posted it may have had that intent. I don’t know anything about them. But I’m skeptical that Musk’s retweet was for the same intent. 😀

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 days ago

      Isn’t it kind of the opposite though? As in the gun would be analogous to the worker carrying out the order, and the shooter would be Hitler.

      Not that they’d ever give a shit about consistency or hypocrisy.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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      5 days ago

      I have always thought you could make that point with something like a knife. It is a tool made to assist in chores. You can use the knife to feed your family or kill your family. The knife is just a knife.

      But a gun is specifically designed to kill. There is literally no other purpose for the gun. You can’t use it in a kitchen. You can’t use it to carve tools. Its only use it to take life.

      That’s why the guns don’t kill people mantra rings endlessly hollow to me.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        That is a valid argument. However, conservatives refuse to make any connection between the tool, the wielder, and the fact that the tool is designed to make the job easier. Whether it be hammering a nail or killing people as quickly as possible. Usually followed by taking the absurd and hyperbolic argument that baseball bats or cars kill people too while ignoring that cars are specifically designed to avoid causing death and baseball bats are for sport with no intent to maximize harm like bullets or blades.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    This adds to an ever-growing list of things.

    • He created a safe space for Nazis on his platform

    • He amplified pro-Nazi content on his platform

    • He offered support for Germany’s far-right AfD party, which uses Nazi symbolism in its posters.

    • He did not one, but two Nazi salutes during Trump’s inauguration.

    • He’s endorsed established antisemetic conspiracy theories such as the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.

    • After receiving backlash for the two Nazi salutes that he did at Trump’s inauguration, instead of apologizing, he posted Nazi puns.

    All the gaslighting from his supporters with “you can’t read his mind” “he’s autistic” and “it was a Roman salute/my heart goes out to you” is quite frankly an insult to people’s intelligence.

    • loomi@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Three salutes. Two to the podium, he then turned and did 1 more to the people behind and above him.

      Most video only showed the first 2

      • mmddmm@lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        And the public (selected as partisan people) immediately cheered, without any confusion or protest.

        People don’t show that enough. The public reaction is more important than the original gesture.

      • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Does that list include the same political posts that have infested damn near every other sub in existence? I go to shitpost subs for silliness, not more of the same crap we get everywhere.

        • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I think you’ll need to apply to be a mod of the sub so you can change the rules and sidebar then.

          Anything and everything goes.

          • ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.eeEnglish
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            6 days ago

            Fair enough. People are fatigued by the constant barrage of political posts, I just figured there were rules against this sort of thing. I’m new to Lemmy and still figuring out how to even view the rules in the voyager app.

  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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    6 days ago

    Well, if he wants to follow that logic: Tesla’s CEO didn’t make billions of dollars, his workers did.