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Musk, who has over 219 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, retweeted a post saying Soviet revolutionary Joseph Stalin, former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong and Hitler—whose regime under his direction orchestrated the Holocaust—did not murder millions of people, “Their public sector workers did.”

The post had 1 million views and 14,000 likes as of Thursday evening.

Musk has faced antisemitism allegations since 2023, when the billionaire openly agreed with a post that claimed “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post also said the western Jewish population was “coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much,” to which Musk said, “You have said the actual truth.”

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[–] dzso@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago (1 children)

a gesture he made at a Trump inaugural event that was likened to a Nazi salute

Journalism is dead.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Why are they so afraid to say he did a nazi salute

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Probably so they won't get sued.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago

They're all cowards afraid of losing access (they booted AP from the White House Press Pool as an example).

[–] inamorta345@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

It's exactly because he did

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I did not change the title as per community rules. But the title is misleading.

The full quote was disparaging the public sector employees, suggesting it was "the public sector employees" who perpetrated the Holocaust. You want a quick debunk?

  • The Holocaust was decided by the higher echelons of the Nazi party, including Hitler.
  • Goebbels has written about it in his diaries.
  • Hoess was supervisor in Auschwitz II, and has written extensively about the daily murders in the gas chambers.
  • Himmler gave an infamous speech to raise the morale of the SS who had PTSD from the massacres in the Eastern Front.

From Wikipedia:

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler became the chief architect of a new plan, which came to be called The Final Solution to the Jewish question.[20] On 31 July 1941, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring wrote to Reinhard Heydrich (Himmler's deputy and chief of the RSHA),[21][22] authorising him to make the "necessary preparations" for a "total solution of the Jewish question" and coordinate with all affected organizations. Göring also instructed Heydrich to submit concrete proposals for the implementation of the new projected goal.[23][24]

The plans to exterminate all the Jews of Europe were formalized at the Wannsee Conference, held at an SS guesthouse near Berlin,[28] on 20 January 1942. The conference was chaired by Heydrich and attended by 15 senior officials of the Nazi Party and the German government. Most of those attending were representatives of the Interior Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, and the Justice Ministry, including Ministers for the Eastern Territories.

After all, I have zero fucks left for Musk: he hates blacks, women, and trans people to a degree comparable to how Hitler hated Jewish people, that his actual antisemitic sentiment would not change a thing. Whether he starts revisiting or denying the death camps tomorrow will surprise exactly zero people. We are past that point.

There is no ongoing discussion about him being a Nazi or not. He fucking is. As a major propagandist of this despicable operation he will have the same fate as the original Nazi leaders, and that is for sure.

The tweet in question is to interpreted as vilification of the administrative branch, and serve as positional defense at a moment where he risks being held accountable for DOGE cuts. This is how it should be interpreted.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If Musk hates women so much, then why does he send women his sperm so he can have kids without being near them? Oh no wait, that just proves it even more.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago

While simultaneously crying that no one wants to buy his cars.

Competent people have a firm grasp of cause and effect.

[–] supernight52@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

God, I wish so much that this Nazi shit stain would suffer a PE and just fall over dead.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

Every moment that he lives moving forward is evidence that there is no god.

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

Nah, the dude who bought a giant social network platform and posted a bunch of antisemitism, promoted antisemitism, let nazi organizations buy ads on the platform, banned users complaining about naziism on the platform, associated himself with nazis, promotes and encourages nazi parties in Europe, does nazi salutes in front of the entire world and defends it, would never do something like OP says. He isn’t a nazi 4 sure!…

[–] eric5949@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Headline is vastly underselling it, as usual.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

He is a Nazi.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"Death is the most reliable form of sterilization"

An except from Conspiracy, a movie showing how the top level bureaucrats and SS officers arrived at the "Final Solution" based on the notes from the actual conference.

Edit: also this excerpt in which they discuss the mechanics of mass euthanasia. This shit should be the hardest stuff you watch all week. THIS is the kind of shit we're fighting to prevent from ever happening again. THIS shit HAPPENED and it CAN happen again. To you. Your spouse. Your parents. Your children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren. The ONLY thing keeping it from boiling back up is our collective societal prohibition against it, whereby we surgically excise the malignant tumors and dissolve the cultural cancer cells clamoring for another genocide.

"An assembly line". If this excerpt doesn't chill your marrow, please DM me because I want to study your mind. Imagine these cold, unfeeling men talking about the demographic housing your mother or daughter or spouse or you. Imagine the collective life experience, number of childhood smiles, acts of kindness, and raw tears disappearing at a rate of 2,500 per hour, with lungs and throats afire in a remote gray building under a dark sky.

Tell me again how Hitler didn't "murder" anyone. Just because he may not have personally pulled a trigger, thrown a switch, or pushed a button doesn't mean he's not drenched in victims' blood.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

The ONLY thing keeping it from boiling back up is our collective societal prohibition against it, whereby we surgically excise the malignant tumors and dissolve the cultural cancer cells clamoring for another genocide.

And that's not happening.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago
[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago

It's about responsibility. According to Musk the ruling class cannot be made responsible for anything. Not even Mao, Stalin and Hitler for murdering millions. Also the workers are the bad guys, not the leaders.

[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Jesus ABC softballs for that nazi so hard