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The subreddits I still read (because they don't have the population on Lemmy) have done this. Some had already done it by coincidence.
I've always hated Twitter links (I always preferred screenshots), but it got worse after Musk took over and locked everything behind accounts and phone numbers, lol
From TFA:
Elon Musk made a hand gesture Monday that many people said resembled a Nazi salute
Good grief... What is it with ALL media outlets tiptoeing around this?
Elon Musk made a fucking Nazi salute. Plain and simple. Just say it like it is already. Whether he didn't realize or he was overexcited and made a genuine mistake doesn't matter: it was factually a fucking Nazi salute.
Nobody can't possibly be sued for defamation over this: it's factually true! Are they so afraid to be on the first trains when the concentration camps open?
At this point, I suspect they're all either owned by oligarchs protecting one of their own, or afraid of President Musk having an executive order created to designate them a terrorist organization.
It is a real threat.
Maybe we should all start an online rag that re-words the articles to remove the fear in their voices.
The media outrage seems to be totally absent. Even in the EU every news outlet is failing to call it what it was
I think the sheer amout of egregious shit that Trump and his henchmen have spewed out for the past 9 years has desensitized everybody. At some point it's just too much, and the opposition has to choose the worst stuff to focus on at any particular moment - and amazingly, a high-ranking US official cracking a Nazi salute doesn't quite cut it anymore.
Almost all dictators have played the same score: overwhelm everybody with outrageous stuff until a critical majority is tired enough, or accepts the least terrible things on the table.
A good antidote for this is to imaging one of our former presidents doing, saying or accepting any of the things that are happening now. Even the worst president: can you imaging Nixon saying he's going to kill the 14th amendment, or sitting idly by while Kissinger makes Nazi salutes in GOP rallies, or picking Schlessinger if he was suspected of sexual misconduct or alcoholism? The press would have been all over him and people would have been in the street demanding his resignation.
Fucking good.
Punch a Nazi and burn that platform to the ground.
No, don’t punch a Nazi. Burn a Nazi to the ground as well.
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In the past we had communists to shoot Nazis, nowadays we make protests by boycotting social media links. That way their victory is inevitable
To be fair, a lot more than the communists were shooting Nazis.
Nowadays, the communists seem to be helping the Nazis.