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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by FranzFerdiNaN on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:01AM (#43010572)
Guy who talks like a nazi, supports nazi parties, boosts nazis on his social media platform does a nazi salute and you still doubt what he meant?
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by 01jonny01 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:18AM (#43010667)
0 evidence to support these nonsense claims.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by motorest on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:44AM (#43010825)
> 0 evidence to support these nonsense claims.

Either you've been living under a rock or you're trolling. In the very least, beyond the very public way he repeatedly did the Nazi salute and was very unapologetic about it, you can't ignore away how Musk went way out of his way to support a neoNazi party from Germany.

Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by 01jonny01 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:14AM (#43011013)
You are claiming your bias perception is fact with no evidence that he is a neoNazi. This is why the left lost. They are so sensitive to any form of perceived injustice, regardless of the truth.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by cma on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:43AM (#43012626)
"You have said the actual truth" ?
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by shmeeed on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:56AM (#43012745)
On the other hand, neonazis and their enablers are united in the inevitable cry for proof and "truth", and then looking the other way when it's delivered. Obviously this is a very efficient tactic, and I agree with you it's why the left lost.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by the-chitmonger on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:24AM (#43013004)
Hey, I agree that he probably would never identify as a neo-Nazi. I think he thought he was being really cool and edgy throwing out the salute that was co-opted/adjusted by the Nazi party. The company he keeps still informs us on what he's willing to tolerate, and as I've laid out in your parent comment, he's chosen time and time again to endorse some pretty problematic ideas.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by 01jonny01 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:05PM (#43018964)
I dont know what even going through his mind, but I very much doubt it was Hitler.

Pound your heart and give it to an imaginary audience...suddenly it begins to resemble the salute.

Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI by the-chitmonger on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:22AM (#43012990)
Here's an example of Elon Musk agreeing with a man who repeated an antisemitic belief that the Jewish community is inviting immigrants to further racism against the white population (also alluding to the Great Replacement theory - and if you want to claim that it isn't explicitly being stated, implicit nods are inherent to most political statements)[0].

Elon Musk also endorsed and spoke at an AfD event[1], which comprises members that are 7.5X more likely to participate in Holocaust denialism: believing that the Holocaust is Allied propaganda[2]. Multiple former leaders (including a co-founder) of the AfD describe the party as extremely far-right and authoritarian[3][4]. Elected members of the AfD have been found on a Facebook group sharing memes about baking Anne Frank in a pizza oven and insulting interracial couples[5]. Maybe you could claim that these are past events, but the frequency of these issues are alarming. Even so, we have a more recent example: in 2024, a leading member of the AfD was fined for using a slogan that was used by the Nazi military[6].

At best, you could call Elon Musk an absolutely bone-headed moron who has no idea who he chooses to support or where he chooses to attend. With Occam's razor it seems like he has embraced a lot of hateful ideology.

Oh, and also, it was a Nazi salute.

[0] https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299 [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/25/elon-musk... [2] https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/meron-mendel-ueber-israel-re... [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230604004557/https://www.tages... [4] https://www.fr.de/politik/lucke-verlaesst-seine-11155453.htm... [5] https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.angst-vor-scha... [6] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/german...