"In the afternoon, Elon Musk spoke to the crowd, throwing two salutes that right-wing extremists, including neo-Nazis, interpreted as Nazi salutes."
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Icare4Americareplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Such Bull Shit!!! He did no such thing!
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RealGravitasreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy I do think that branding is going to play a big role in the new regime, and we have to counter it, both by rejecting their brand and by coming up with some brands of our own. This is one of the core principles in Snyder's book (On Tyranny) and it can be very effective in bullying the rest of us into complying.
Therefore, (1) we cannot succumb to fear, which leads to pre-obeying, and (2) we must counter the behavior. -
@wdlindsy it is as clear as ever: MAGA = Nazi.
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Glitzersachenreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Well, I am German, not a Nazi, but a lay student of history with a bit of a focus on the Third Reich.
I also very much think it was a nazi salute ...
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@wdlindsy
Absolutely obscene. A complete perversion of our democratic symbols by an illegal immigrant White Supremacist scumbag. That is what MAGAt exults. Violent scumbags. 🤬
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Icare4America last edited by
@icare4america If you say so, then I'm quite sure it's true — and damn all the neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists who know a Nazi salute better than anyone and celebrated the Nazi salute that they saw.
But if you say so, then what you say has to be true….
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@Subterfuge Please do you, and I'll keep doing me and listeniing to sound advice and totally ignoring unsound and absurd advice.
Agreed?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"We're living in a media environment where the truth has become nearly impossible to state directly. A billionaire can make a gesture that neo-Nazis celebrate as explicitly supporting their cause, and major news organizations feel compelled to describe it as 'exuberant' rather than risk saying what it actually appeared to be."
~ Parker Molloy
#ElonMusk #Trump #Nazis #media #CorporateMedia
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News Organizations Are Tiptoeing Around What We All Saw
How fear of litigation shapes coverage of influential figures
(www.readtpa.com)
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@wdlindsy That kind of aggressive gesture plus the teeth-grabbing of lower lip fools no one. That’s a bully and a thug.
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@wdlindsy “Why are mainstream outlets so reluctant to state the obvious? The answer lies in our broken defamation laws and the way wealthy individuals can weaponize them against critics. This is a legitimate free speech crisis." >
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@wdlindsy welcome to all out fascism. And this is only the beginning.
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@wdlindsy (cont) "Remember what happened to Media Matters? As Andy Craig points out, they 'simply shared screenshots of major corporate ads running next to literally Hitler stuff and he sued them into mass layoffs and got two states to open criminal investigations of them.’ The chilling effect was immediate.” // Now see, that I did not know.
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@wdlindsy They are trying to make you doubt what you see.
This is all textbook fascism.
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@androcat Yes, you're right.
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@MoiraEve Yes, very valuable commentary.
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@benny Definitely only the beginning. It will get worse.
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@MoiraEve Absolutely. Well-stated.
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@lin11c I agree.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Glitzersachen last edited by
@glitzersachen Thank you for that testimony. Anyone with eyes open who knows anything at all about the history of Nazism knows exactly what he intended to signal.
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@timo21 Yes.
