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Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 190 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Most Powerful Man in America is a Nazi ~~Sympathizer~~

Fixed it for you

[–] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Came here to fix the headline, glad someone beat me to it! Stop coddling and start calling people out for who they are. If it walks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But not in the ways that matter to them. Fascism was characterized by nationalizing private enterprises to transfer wealth and power from the government to the chosen elite. They want to privatize government enterprises to transfer wealth and power from the government to the chosen elite. Totally different, you see?

[–] HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nazi Germany privatized a lot of government services and industries from the Weimar Republic.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Indeed, because the fucking Nazi bastards needed the industrialists to rebuild the German economy and more importantly, the war machine.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It took me a while but I got there in the end.

Sings

She taught me to walk this way Talk this way

And you don't know which of the two in the pic they're referring to without reading the article.