In a conversation with AfD leader Alice Weidel on X, Musk concurred with her assertion that Adolf Hitler was a communist and pushed disinformation about migrants coming into the US.
  • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    And what are they trying to get at? Communism good? Hitler good?

    Do they understand what each thing means?

    • SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de
      11·
      5 hours ago

      “Nazis are communists (and communists are bad) + We’re not communists = We’re not Nazis (and not bad)” maybe, same stupid “logic” as “the Nazis were actually socialists, they even had it in their party name!”

  • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    7 hours ago

    This is madness. I read a lot of 20th century history and it almost feel likes we are in 1913 or 1937 (or a strange combination of both).

      • taguebbe@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        48 minutes ago

        Not to worry, there are enough nukes in the world to make sure that there will be an end…

      • devfuuu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 hours ago

        It is. Once the generation that lived the highlight of the bad times (in this case the last great war) die, then we keep repeating the same thing.

  • muelltonne@feddit.orgEnglish
    29·
    8 hours ago

    Both of them are idiots. Both are spreading lies and propaganda. It’s totally obvious that Hitler was not a communist. He murdered thousands of german communists. He campaigned during the elections of the 20s against them. He waged war against the USSR. Musk and Weidel are dangerous idiots.

    • gondwana@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      I think they are both very smart and see the opportunity social platforms and hate speech gives them to ride on human basic emotions toware power.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      You’ll be hard-pressed to find any conservative that will admit that Fascism is a far-right reactionary ideology (at least here in the US where I am, I’m really curious about European conservatives too).

      Many of them are just playing games, but a fair number really just think fascism = bad = communism.

      For what it’s worth, I think Musk is playing cryptofascist games, but it really doesn’t matter much which one is true. This is a fairly common thing in US rhetoric, but I don’t know if it’ll play in Europe.

    • SierpinskiDreieck@feddit.orgEnglish
      16·
      8 hours ago

      Elon is an idiot with too much power. Weidel is dangerous. She purposefully and strategically deploys this rethoric. The nazis weren’t stupid, they were really smart in how they achieved some of their goals. They were evil.

      She got everyone to talk about this, even tough the substance was basically zero. This will get amplified to everyone, the poeple who know this is bullshit knew beforehand but it shifts the overtone window ever so slightly

      That is important.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    I’m starting to wonder if they actually think Hitler was a communist to their idea of fascism.

    Hitler instituted policies that at least got the Aryan German people to favor him - I don’t see Elon or Trump even going that far.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    It’s easy for Elon Musk to confuse communism and the ultra-capitalism that made him nauseatingly rich: under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s the opposite.

    As a token minority with a Stockholm syndrome, Alice Weidel should know the difference though.