• poo@lemmy.world
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    You Americans really need to do something about this clown coughluigicough

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Hitler was an environmentalist. Proof thaf clmate change is a hoax. Trust me bro, I own a social media.

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    The problem isn’t the Elon and co say this. It’s the middle ground people who, for the most part, are reasonable but have little education about politics, and don’t want to participate beyond soundbites.

    In this case, the phrase works on two levels.

    Most of these people would admit Hitler was bad. So, this reaffirms the statement Communism is bad. Even if they don’t know what Communism is.

    For others, Communism is bad. This allows them to hear “We’re not like Hitler” about Elon and Co. They have no idea how bad Elon and Co may be, but at least their not commie pinkos.

    The real genius of capitalists has been to persuade the electorate that there are no viable alternatives to capitalism.

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    Is this the whole “Nazis were socialists because it’s in the name” thing again? The far right love to pull this point out, ignoring the fact that as soon as he had power, Hitler had anyone remotely socialist in the Nazi party murdered so he could get on with the fascism. The name “National Socialist” was a trick to get people on board. Anyway, it figures that Musk thinks Hitler was too left wing, since Musk thinks the whole universe is too left wing. And it’s characteristic of Musk that being to the right of Hitler doesn’t even give him pause.

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    The Axis alliance between Italy Germany and Japan was literally formed as an anti-communist alliance.

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      I was looking for this comment. It just shows Elon’s lack of knowledge and the will to say anything for the sake o confirming your beliefs.

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        Ah just like dear Winnie The Pooh, who we swear is a good communist, and China is the greatest egalitarian state.

        (Ignore our billionaires and Uyghur genocide)

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    Yeah, all the comments he made about the secret agenda of European jews to spread “judeobolshevism” through communist organizations and annihilate the Aryan race were just jokes about his good friends the communists. Him and Stalin were actually best buddies.

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      It’s telling that it needs the second sentence you wrote for me to realize you were speaking about Hitler, not Elon. I don’t say he’s gone of that far, but it wouldn’t have supposed me at all.

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    Oh yes. In the early 1900s Nazis waged openly violent political gang war against the communists out of love and similar views.

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      I know this sarcastic, but conflict between various communist parties with slightly different views have been quite common in history

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        Pretty big difference though, the Nazis specifically targeted “Judeo-bolshevism” and were formed specifically to combat rising Communist sympathies and organization.

        Conflicts between Communist orgs usually arose from incompatible differences in principle, such as whether or not to support such and such Socialist org, and usually the fighting isn’t based on extermination like it was in Nazi Germany with the Night of Long Knives.

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    Which shows how much they don’t know about history. Given that Weidel talked about rather fictious versions of schools in Germany, I’d say that she did not spend enough time to learn anything worthwhile in there.

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    Communists were literally one of the first groups targeted for arrest when Hitler came to power in 1933. Like 10 seconds on google.