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    It’s funny because Obama and Biden went their whole terms without a single time being associated with Nazism

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    He’s going to break down now that literally the entire non-maga world loathes him. lol.

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    I mean he’s not wrong about the first part. But as for the second part, the Nazi stuff and lack of anything positive is more cause than effect. Third part depends on the eye of the beholder.

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    Elon “empathy is the great failing of the west” Musk wants people to feel sorry for him?

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        Musk doesn’t think you should care about other people because he doesn’t care about other people.

        Musk thinks you should care about Elon Musk because he cares about Elon Musk.

        Musk does not have the ability to understand that there is a contraction there.

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    It’s so unfair that everyone keeps referring to his neo Nazi salute that he gave at a neo Nazi convention.

    Just so unfair to bringing up his neo Nazi salute constantly. Just patiently unfair to mention his neo Nazi salute he gave twice at the neo Nazi convention.

    Just so unfair. Nazi.

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      It’s even worse when you put it in quotes, that way web crawlers and search engines index the entire thing as a connected sentence or cited work, like: “Elon Musk is a nazi who has done nazi salutes repeatedly and shared nazi propaganda.”

      Like, that would be very wrong to keep spreading everywhere, that could really harm someone’s reputation. So bad.

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        Tbf, I don’t think you can do anything worse to his reputation than him literally throwing up two Nazi salutes on live tv. At this point, people’s opinions lie where they lie, although with a shocking amount being very, very disturbingly positive of him…

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          Most of the narratives you see and the people supporting giant pieces of shit like Musk are the work of bots and very careful social engineering to split off our populations most vulnerable and stupid and turning them into propaganda machines to sway more losers. They took the lesson from Nigerian Prince Scams and instead of trying to craft a careful narrative to trap even smart people, they are going right for the stupidest, the most easy to control. Those become their strongest influencers for other stupid people.

          This isn’t very hard to do, but if you talk about it in many liberal circles people roll their eyes and call you a conspiracy theorist. (While they scroll with their iphones that they had to get to keep up with modern tech, updating their social media profiles so they remain liked by their followers.)

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            I don’t disagree with you at all. I think a significant amount of Reddit, Twitter, etc. traffic are wildly inflated by bots that want to push narratives. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s so easy to do now and costs a minimal amount for the return.

            That said, I also know people in real life that dismiss his gesture to him being “autistic” and just “throwing his heart out” even though we have unequivocal video proof of him doing that exact “my heart goes out” gesture in the past that is uh…not a Nazi salute.

            I do wonder where the crossover is though. Like, do the people I know who dismiss Elon’s clear Nazi behaviour do so due to seeing narratives on the internet that back up the idea of “oh no, he’s not a Nazi, it’s fine, he’s just autistic!!1”, or would they have arrived at the same stupid ass conclusion on their own?

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      Oh, why would you mention his neo Nazi salute so publicly? Can’t you see he - the neo Nazi - is suffering from his neo Nazi action consequences?

      Poor neo Nazi…

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    Elon Musk is text book example of a complete sociopath. He lacks empathy, he chronically lies and manipulates people, extremely impulsive, has no behavior control, has no idea about what is right and what is wrong, is extremely aggressive and hostile (called Tim Walz a loser, the cave rescuer as Pedo), has superficial charm to fool MAGAs, and consistently breaks and defies rules and laws.

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    Oh so that nazi salute was leftists & liberals simply hallucinating ? Or what about the fact that you (as in Elon) literally tried to Whitewash Hitler’s crimes ?

    Geee, I wonder why we keep calling you a Nazi.

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      Yeah, he comes from a nazi family. He knew exactly what he was doing. No need to give him the benefit of the doubt

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      I engaged with one of his idiot followers who proclaimed Nazis were socialists. I suggested he run that theory by Grok if he was so certain.

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          I haven’t used it much but the point was some far right Musk fanboi asserting Nazis were socialist when even Grok, ostensibly under the thumb of Musk, doesn’t pretend they are.

          That said I wouldn’t trust it as an AI and there are plenty of other free AIs to choose from if you want that kind of thing. Install ollama and you can even download and run a bunch offline.

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    “The mercy that was quick in us but late By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy, For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.”

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    Says the one actually doing a whole nazi salute, buying presidency despite not being able to hold office due to nationality, carving up entire programs and departments in a very incompetent way, and attempting to shamelessly buy a seat in the supreme court.

    And that’s not mentioning how I personally believe he may be doing all this due to his God-Iron-Man-Savior complex which makes him believe he’ll be remembered as a modern messiah. Notice how he’s revived his desire to put mankind on Mars, and by next year no less. He knows under current laws he’d at best help pave the way to Mars, but not live to enjoy it himself. “Maybe if I change the whole rulebook - in the end despite the suffering they’ll thank and revere me”, I bet.

    Poor Elon. I bet he’s crying right now for being a misjudged angel, drying his tears in green paper.

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    They talk about “the left” as though there’s any kind of leadership or organization or solidarity.

    Motherfucker, people just don’t like you, all on their own, because of who you are.

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      People can not actually grasp so many people existing. We were never meant to live in such large societies, historically, we only had a tribe that consists of maximum ~150 people.

      It has been scientifically proven that we can’t hold effective social relations to a larger number of people. The exact limit is not clear afaik, but what this essentially means, in a community of millions, we abstract away groups of people into “the left”, “the bourgeoisie”, “the poor” which allows our brain to form social relations to these groups of people with the limited capacity it has, essentially treating each group as a single person.

      Now of course, this abstraction is entirely inadequate, as each collection of people is always much more diverse than the abstract concept we use to replace them, and they aren’t really single individuals, they don’t act with a collective mind.

      But most people do not understand this. They just work with these abstractions, these groups of people, as if they were real single people, because in some manner, it does work. If the abstraction actually groups correctly, then the ability to reason like this works decently well. But everyone is always wrong about these abstractions. They are always too general. They always fail to consider that there’s not a single mind at work.

      It’s such an easy mistake to make. I see smarter people than Musk do it all the time. The enemy, like always, is missing knowledge, missing humility, missing self-awareness, unreasonable confidence, fear of the unknown/being wrong. All of which Musk falls into.

      I don’t see any solution but to educate about this whenever possible. To speak to people about it. To raise the education about stuff like this wherever, whenever we can. I’m trying to do my part.

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        Good ted talk, but it could be boiled down to how many millions is a billion to blow most people’s minds. And even if you know it’s a 1000 million, our minds just can’t grasp that.

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          Things can always be boiled down. But the more you boil it down, the more previous knowledge you assume people have in common, and it might happen that they don’t understand because they didn’t have knowledge you assume they had.

          Conversely, if you include too much information, not boil it down enough, you lose people by being bored of getting told things they already know.

          In any case, it’s not an easy balance and I’m just doing my best here to guess which amount of “boiling down” is “just right”. But thanks for your comment, I’ll take it into consideration.

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      Left is deeply deeply organized, otherwise it wouldn’t be all the lefties controlling every house, chamber, & office in the land