| ▲ | CamperBob2 a day ago |
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| ▲ | s1artibartfast a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Under this analysis, what was the short term motive? How does that pay off? |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 a day ago | parent [-] | | Ingratiating himself with Trump, I imagine. It certainly paid off in the short term, since he was given a golden ticket to sack the government. A lot of tech execs successfully brown-nosed Trump, which (unfortunately) is understandable to some extent given what was at stake with his tariffs and other assorted threats. But Musk is the only one who evidently enjoyed it. |
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| ▲ | Rover222 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| it's so weird and kinda disturbing how many people really believe that was a Nazi salute. It's so easy shape public opinion with media and algorithms. Same thing happening with "datacenters will destory the world because of their water use" BS |
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| ▲ | Larrikin a day ago | parent | next [-] | | It was a Nazi salute. | | | |
| ▲ | dofm a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | chuckadams a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I personally think he really is a fascist, but I still don't think he was deliberately throwing out a Nazi salute. Just naive about waving to a crowd in front of a camera, which is very on-brand for him. | | |
| ▲ | CamperBob2 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | See the .gifs I posted below. There is no way to spin that as naivete. | |
| ▲ | dofm a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | He's naïve about many things but I don't believe any of these people are ignorant of fascist imagery or its trollish power, even if only in some bullshit recycled bad-sci-fi trope sense. He may be more ignorant than he portrays but he is a malignant narcissist — guys like him don't even think fascism is a bad idea. |
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| ▲ | Rover222 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
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