[drew-y]

You don't think the literal nazi salute elon gave at a rally, twice, warrants any comparisons? Or that the administration flirts with annexing Canada, Greenland, and Palestine? Or that their support is driven through prejudice against migrants?

Ok.

[AlecSchueler]

Don't forget opening camps for undesireables or ending recognition of trans people.

[AlecSchueler]

And referring to people receiving welfare as "parasites."

[chillingeffect]

The reopening of Guantanamo Bay as a concentration camp, at a cost of over $1 Billion, while elon musk's minion yank money from farmers and poor Alabamans $100 and $80,000 at a time, while tauting their own success on fox news...

[AlecSchueler]

He gave the salute. Your attempt to re-write reality will not work.

[ndsipa_pomu]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." (George Orwell, 1984)

[zfg]

> I don't think Elon gave a Nazi salute

He gave two fascist salutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

> I think that comparison is based on superficial mechanistic similarities

It looks exactly the same. These guys think so: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

This guy too: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_l...

Sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be.

[Volundr]

> You don't think the literal nazi salute elon gave at a rally, twice, warrants any comparisons?

Honestly? I was on team "he's a clueless weirdo" and was mostly amused by watching his supporters cortort themselves to avoid saying that... But he somehow managed to fish out and hire not one but two engineers with a history of blatant racism, and even decided to rehire the one that resigned once it became public.

I generally think the whole "Nazi" thing is easy and reductive, but what the fuck?