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The Most Powerful Man in America is a Nazi Sympathizer (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/usa@midwest.social

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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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[–] 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.