Anyone who says that he is a nazi is an idiot, frankly. You’re just dismissing someone with different ideas by calling them a name.

unfortunately even hackernews is no longer immune to odious political commentary these days

…have you seen his ideas? I think it’s fair to dismiss him based on his ideas on race

The guy literally tweets and retweets neo-nazis and white nationalist content on a regular basis. He celebrates an election win with a literal nazi salute. He openly supports fascist parties and politicians. Being aghast at someone calling him a nazi is ridiculous.

His brain is damaged from all the ketamine use

Do we let drunk drivers off the hook after killing a bunch of people due to their reckless behavior?

Yes, sometimes.

If someone’s “different ideas” involve literally praising hitler then it is logical to call them a nazi. The only way someone believe what you said is if they have not listened to a word Elon has uttered for the last 8 years.

He did a Nazi salute on national TV!? Three times!

The modern Democratic Party is more authoritarian than the Republicans. Neither are Nazis though and it's disheartening how far that term has been watered down. When the real Nazis show up, no one will listen.

I was one of the people who believed it was "just an awkward gesture". Egg on my face when a few days later he went and spoke at the far right German parties conference

You should have seen his Twitter feed. Just fuming, virulent white supremacy 24/7. (Of course, he wiped a lot of it after the election. Fucking coward.)

The AfD is not a Nazi party either. Jesus. People are completely unhinged.

Yes they are and even openly so.

Völkisch nationalist is an explicit ethno-nationalist ideology. What's the difference?

Bullshit. Like, you are just straight lying in both of your sentences.

We see what modern republican party does - literally last two years.

In what way is the Democratic party more authoritarian?

Republicans are the ones that insist on protecting police no matter how much they trample on people's rights.

- Deciding not to prosecute crimes they don't agree with / which are commonly committed by their base. Two ways to use the police against the people, you know.

- Speech controls (they wanted compelled speech, which is a line the Americans have so far managed not to cross - Biden managed to get it in to Title IX)

- Rabid, senseless, confusing opposition to gun rights, a civil right in the U.S. Gun ownership does not result in more or worse crime, it's very clear.

- Totally opposing widespread, bipartisan support for voter ID

Let me be clear, I'm no fan of either side.

> Deciding not to prosecute crimes they agree with / which are commonly committed by their base.

Like the Jan 6 pardons and Trump's immunity?

> Speech controls (they wanted compelled speech...)

https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/ooo-win-law...

"A federal court today ruled that the Trump-Vance administration unlawfully compelled civil servants at the U.S. Department of Education to transmit partisan political messaging from their government email accounts during the ongoing federal shutdown — violating core First Amendment protections."

> Rabid, senseless, confusing opposition to gun rights, a civil right in the U.S.

As is their First Amendment right. Do you oppose that civil right?

> Totally opposing widespread, bipartisan support for voter ID

Why not? When put to the people for a vote, it fails. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6178993-california-pro...

I can understand having strong feelings, but the question was about the Democrats so my answer was about the Democrats. The "what about"s aren't compelling.

> I can understand having strong feelings, but the question was about the Democrats so my answer was about the Democrats.

The question was actually, and I quote:

"In what way is the Democratic party more authoritarian?"

So I'm left wondering why these authoritarian acts don't count in a comparison between the two.

Fair

You can’t reason with OP because they don’t even know what “authoritarian” means. MAGA are a little sensitive this week.

Another propagandized fool who thinks they see the world for what it is and the rest of us don't. The real nazis did show up. They are wearing the same red hat you have in your closet.

You mean like creating an autonomous paramilitary force that operates masked agents across multiple state lines kidnapping people without due process or any regard to the constitution?

ICE, CBP, DHS, and their predecessor agencies, have been forcibly removing illegal immigrants for decades.

And in this iteration, they murdered, intentionally and proudly abused, treated whole cities as occupied territories, lied to courts, beated citizens (and murdered them) ....

... while republican party and administration openly supported it.

As Trump would say "this is the opinion of a very low IQ person"

Awww did your widdle downvote tantrum make you feel better?

Not really relevant to this conversation.

completely relevant.