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by gaganyaan 475 days ago
How can you possibly like someone throwing around literal Nazi salutes? Are you unaware of that?
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Believe it or not, tons of people don't care about that. It's something that I have to constantly remind myself of.

They either agree with it, don't care, or it isn't important enough.

It's good when people openly admit to it because then an actual conversation can take place. When people make up dumb reasons or just won't say the truth it leads to pointless discussion.

I find it shocking people wouldn’t care about someone in power throwing around Nazi salutes and making very Nazi-like comments.
One thing I've discovered is that capitalism has really beat many americans into submission. Add in the "American Individuality/Freedom" thinking and it's pretty toxic.

People have a million excuses for why they just can't be bothered to care about anything. We reinforce this mentality with the whole "you're doing your best, it's okay" mentality that many people have nowadays. "You're getting by in a hard time" type mentality.

People are "too tired" to give much of a crap about anything.

Now, whether they're actually all that tired or it's just a very convenient excuse I dont know, but that's the gist that I get from a large number of people. They don't want to care, capitalism offers them easy excuses to not care, so they don't care. Until it directly affects people's livelihood they just won't give much of a crap.

There are also many people who supply excuses too, such as "This is the way people are, don't try to change it" type stuff. We have a ton of excuses nowadays and it's really easy to take them.

Finally, a lot of younger people are simply burnt out on this stuff. People under the age of 30 don't see much of a future. It's not that they don't care that Elon and Co are parroting nazis, it's that there doesn't seem to be a point in caring when the environment is fucked.

Idk how much of this is true but I travel a lot and talk to a lot of people. This is the vibe I get when people finally open up and are honest with me about these things.

I think everyone are very aware of far left media trying to paint musk as nazi. It seems it finally worked.
That's like saying the "far left media" is trying to paint NBA players as tall.

People have eyes and anyone watching someone give two perfect nazi salutes and at the biggest political rally of our time that still denies someone is telling the world they are a nazi is denying reality.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
I will never understand how adults can feel fealty to powerful people like this. How does it even come about?
A guy who says empathy is our biggest flaw.
It’s never really been about whether he is one or not. It’s about his behavior.

If you don’t want people to think you’re a Nazi—whether you are one or not—don’t adopt their mannerisms.

We are way past the mannerism part.
What does that mean?
White supremacists worldwide recognized it as a Nazi salute (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-musk-salute-a...).
Have you seen Elon Musk's literal Nazi salute? This isn't anyone painting him as a Nazi but himself
oh stop it. quit trying to stir up this nonsense. who even cares if he IS a nazi? he's acting like one and encouraging them. i know you are trolling, so no need to ask if you are able to understand this or not.