I am writing this question because Musk did a Nazi salute, and after asking lemmy about it, and seeing the side by side video, and his seemingly mild response to people notixing it, I belive it was a Nazi salute.

So the “now what?” is in response to what seems like a tepid reaction from society.

Will Ameeica become even more unsafe for even more minorities?

Are people organizing or have they lost hope? should there be an organized boycott on Teslas or companies that spend money on twitter? Would it even matter?

Is this unstoppable and it actually makes more sense to flee?

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Nazi. The word is Nazi. White Supremacist is sane-washed and clinical. Believe people when they tell you who they are, with words or actions.

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    The “tepid” reaction is because there’s zero surprise here. A giant swath of the maga base is made up of white supremacists, and I don’t think there’s even debate about that. Lots of people voted for Trump specifically because he said he’d do mass deportations, get rid of LGBTQ protections, etc. We’ve literally been screaming that people were voting for a bunch of Nazis. So now, on inauguration day, someone gets up and does a Nazi salute - what do you want us to say?

    And as for “now what,” the best we can do is fight where we can and make sure the mid terms are different, though after this last election my hopes are low. People knew what they were voting for, and he didn’t win by cheating. It’s gross, but that’s where we are.

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    Did you think he wasn’t a white supremacist before then, when the n word became trending the day he bought Twitter, advertisers backed out after having their products next to Holocaust denial and hate speech, and literal neonazis are free to post hate slop but writing cisgender is a bannable offense?

    Honestly everyone should have boycotted it the second he bought it and every other tweet was the n word spammed, or when you could no longer view replies without making an account.

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      elmo is just a symptom, there’s no deficit in nazi clowns out there. What you need is a society that would be on the streets in 24h after a stunt like this.

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              I think killing Elon Musk isn’t going to solve anything but either way I don’t care about calling for violence against him. I only care about making the name Luigi and the game character dog whistles. Let’s not turn random people and the game character into the next Pepe.

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                Fascists coopting a meme to spread racism and overall bigotry is not at all the same as leftists using Luigi as a dog whistle to signal violence towards oppressors. Its like equating the far right and the far left. The far left want equality for all, and the far right want to fucking commit genocide. They are not equivocal at all.

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                  Bold of people to call Brian Thompson, and by extension anyone who leans politically towards money, oppressors.

                  In my whole adult life, on either side of the political spectrum, I haven’t seen any major figure in power in the US ever imply anything about wanting to commit genocide.

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            “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

            Go right on ahead and achieve a peaceful revolution to abate the suffering of the masses at the hands of malicious powers. A great many are waiting.

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        How about “eat the rich”? “The French solution”? “2A?” It’s all the same.

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        I second this question. It went from “we should do something about all the greedy billionaires” to “we should eliminate all the greedy billionaires” to “they’re all greedy” to now “let’s lump them and fascists and fascism together” when Luigi’s intent wasn’t actually noble in the first place.

        I’m surprised nobody sees the irony in criticizing one such invocation with another.

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    Now what indeed. AOC and B.Sanders are sending good examples.

    Stay informed. Don’t forget to give yourself some breathing room from the daily onslaught.

    Fuck every business that has any attachment with these people.

    Do Not Give Up Hope

    If you have the opportunity, fuck them up. Any way possible.

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    should there be an organized boycott on Teslas

    why you would even buy elmo shitbox, garbage assembly quality and QC in general.

    Is this unstoppable and it actually makes more sense to flee?

    Kinda early, I’d say. Get out of big tech services, protest, spread the awareness, find like-minded individuals, call and write your politicians, volunteer for voting campaigns (voter turnout during US elections was so shit it’s not even funny and out of touch dem party didn’t help). I’ve spent most of my life living in the actual dictatorship, and lemme tell ya, getting out and protesting without getting your limbs broken in police station and getting thrown into prison for 6-10 years after is a fucking luxury. So do it while you can do it.

    While I have my doubts about the state of general american public (normie response outside of reddit/fediverse echo chambers was mostly ‘that’s our boy Elon, he’s quirky like that and didn’t mean it’) and levels of apathy in society I feel like it’s still salvageable.

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    You’re calling the guy who recently advocated for replacing white people with Indians a white supremacist?

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        Right, gottcha. So Current Year politics states that those who advocate for replacing white people are white supremacists.

        And you actually expect anyone to take you seriously?

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          No, current year politics says that ernestly using universal symbolism of white supremacists makes you a white supremacist.

          In case you are being serious: He can have disdain for non-whites and disdain for the poor, but especially disdain for the poor non-whites while still believing in white supremacy. He sees employees as expenses and seeks a larger profit margin by unethical means.

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            No, you see, it’s like how the Southern slave owners loved black people. That must be why they owned so many of them. Because of their deep concern and appreciation. They gave them their own quarters and later their own restrooms and drinking fountains.