"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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@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.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to RealGravitas last edited by
@CWilbur Yes. This is an uphill battle, when the means of communication is controlled by Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg. et al.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Kenneth M Sweeney last edited by
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast Because my father was a soldier who lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor, his brother assisted in the liberation of the Netherlands, my mother's brother saw the site of the massacre at Gardelegn and captured an SS officer, another uncle was in the landing at Anzio and marched into Russia, seeing death everywhere:
Because of all of this, I grew up knowing well the evil they risked their lives to defeat. I fear people younger than I am often know little history.
