I believe this was one of his “jokes.”

      • Kroxx@lemm.ee
        232·
        2 months ago

        Hugo Boss

        Is that the Guy who designed the Nazi uniform?

        Why do I know this? Did Alex Jones and Kayne West talk about him maybe? I am now concerned for myself.

        • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          2 months ago

          Eh, it’s one of those brands that has weird Nazi associations that still exists. It’s fine to have it as one of those “things” that you have in your head as a “hmm” mark around companies.

          • IBM helped make the bureaucracy of genocide more efficient.
          • Fanta is Coca-Cola for Nazis.
          • Hugo Boss made their uniforms.
          • Volkswagen was the Nazi-mobile.
            • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
              12·
              2 months ago

              I didn’t know about that one, so I looked it up.

              I’ll actually give Goodyear a pass. My reasoning is that the partnership was to allow a German company, zeppelin, to produce and sell blimps in the US.
              They never produced aircraft for the Nazis, and they actually brought German engineers and researchers out of Germany.
              When the war broke out the partnership dissolved and Goodyear started producing aircraft and synthetic rubber for the allies. They never reformed the partnership, so no laundering the business like coke and Fanta.

              Beyond that, the zeppelin company and leadership was about as anti Nazi as you could be. The leadership at the time of their rise to power ended up being forced to share control with a fascist and was censored because he spoke against them.
              Less relevant but still an interesting bit of trivia

                • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
                  6·
                  2 months ago

                  Yup, and there are so many companies where they did the shitty thing.

                  In this case Goodyear was founded in Ohio, and Zeppelin by Count Zeppelin. (Weirdly, Goodyear wasn’t founded by Goodyear, just named after him because he invented vulcanized rubber).

                  The Goodyear-zeppelin partnership turned into Goodyear aerospace before the war, then severed ties with Zeppelin when the war started, and eventually got purchased by Lockheed Martin, which doesn’t make blimps, so it kinda just went away.

          • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            Leica and Zeiss making the cameras used for propaganda

    • GraniteM@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      I heard a Trump ad where they were talking about Kamala enacting gun control laws, socializing medicine, abolishing ICE, and defunding the police. Don’t you threaten me with a good time!

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    121·
    2 months ago

    Projection once again. Only one of them actually vowed to be a dictator on day one. And it ain’t Kamala.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Not projection in this case.

      Notice that trump already says he will be a dictator on the first day. There’s already video of him saying that, and it is kind of hard to debt it and claim he meant something else.

      MAGAts have no good defense for it either.

      Muskow is using obvious AI created picture, to dillute how damming is trump’s statement. He essentially says “oh you have video of trump saying he will be a dictator? That’s AI! I can make Kamala also say something like that”

      And at this point the attention is diverted, that trump literally wants to be a dictator and no longer is even trying to hide it and everyone is arguing what’s real what’s not.

  • gencha@lemm.ee
    98·
    2 months ago

    I’m having such a fucking hard time accepting that I ever thought Elol was smart

    • mke@lemmy.world
      56·
      2 months ago

      Everyone makes mistakes. You’ve grown, rejoice.

      It’s also a reminder that many may still learn who he really is.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 months ago

      Well he had millions in a PR fund before, and likely still does now. He’s a real moron for fucking it all up. When he was made to step down as chairman on Space X for one of his dumb ass statements, investors threatened to pull out of he wasn’t still on the board, he was supposed to be this sure thing. He burned a whole image as an stock market winner to be king shit of Twitter.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      19·
      2 months ago

      I was just talking about this with a friend. Remember back when he seemed like a neat guy? Quirky and kind of a dick sometimes but maybe an actual good rich guy with interesting ideas. He was even on Rick and Morty!

      It turns out that was all bullshit. What a disappointment he turned out to be.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          He misjudged the time ghost. But also he fired the woman who kept his image and behavior under control, and lost his mind over unions. I imagine he thought he’d be like Walt Disney, but aforementioned zeitgeist made him look like Henry Ford with less competence and sanity.

          I know he always had tumultuous relations with Grimes, the two of them both seem to have a lot of issues both separately and together. But also Naziism is meant to appeal to people like him. He is rich, powerful, and emotionally insecure. He must hear that he is special and better and that he should be having a ton of sex. He parrots eugenics that flatters him because it tells him what he needs to hear.

          He refuses therapy because what he needs to hear to be healthy is the opposite, that he needs positive interactions with those around him and that that comes from genuine humility. That Twitter is terrible for him and that psychedelics clearly haven’t helped him fill the emptiness inside and so he’d be better served by something like volunteering. Not by giving some huge extravagant shit to show he’s the best, or some partisan thing. Something like swinging a hammer for habitat for humanity or stocking a food pantry. Something painfully ordinary that does direct good, allows him to be taught or guided and corrected, and puts him in community with strangers for a common goal. But he’s not going to do that. The emptiness in his soul is like an irrational phobia, it drives him away from the solution and towards behavior that makes him into a weirder and less likable person. If he hollows his soul out enough he’ll feel less empty right?

    • Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      2 months ago

      I knew about Elon from some very lengthy posts on a blog called waitbutwhy that made him look like some very rad dude.

      I loved that blog because it was informative and funny and it had a very hopeful view on future technologies, it all sounded incredibly exciting.

      Then they made a post taking cryonics seriously and I was like “huh?”. And then I started learning who Elon really was and now I can’t trust that blog anymore.

      • I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        I mean people also admired Hitler for being such a great politician before he set the world on fire.

        People are idiots.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I was always aware he existed, but didn’t know much about him. I just had the general sense that he was an eccentric billionaire that seemed like an okay guy overall, which is the image he cultivated. As someone who’s been disappointed by people I admire revealing themselves to be pieces of shit before, I can empathize with previous Musk fans who aren’t right-wing shitheads.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      151·
      2 months ago

      The more public-facing a person you are, the harder it is to sue for libel. Suing for libel as a presidential candidate is a catastrophically stupid decision. Not only are you subject to discovery (in this case, Kamala would have to submit her entire wardrobe to the public record to prove she doesn’t own a red Stalinist-chik pantsuit), and she would lose the lawsuit anyway because presidential candidates are about as “public figure” as you can get.

      It would be the worst possible fight to pick right now. Could you imagine the field-day the right would have if her entire wardrobe were to be made public?

  • Kuvwert@lemm.ee
    81·
    2 months ago

    Dude how is he not being detained for election interference? Somebody who knows about laws and stuff tell me how the fuck he’s allowed to do this?

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
    74·
    2 months ago

    Just a harmless joke. I am certain all of Twitter users will understand it’s just for fun. Not a single one of them will take it 1st degree and repost this, outraged, as if it was a fact. /s

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    68·
    2 months ago

    This is precisely the type of hollow and blunt, unfunny and dishonest garbage a goebbels-wannabe edgelord manchild would push, the stench is unmistakable.

  • pastabatman@lemmy.world
    65·
    2 months ago

    So he’s trying to post images made by grok so people will want to pay for it, but he’s using it to create false and inflammatory political images and suggesting that they are real. He’s jumping straight to one of the most problematic consequences of AI like it’s a selling point.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 months ago

      The goal was always to muddy the waters for people who already can’t see when its crystal clear.

    • Veddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I thought he was worried about AI and wrote a letter telling everyone to stop 🙃

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    571·
    2 months ago

    I didn’t believe it. The owner of a major social media organization publishing out right propaganda. Is he trying to get their non-publisher protections cancelled?

    So I did the dirty.

    And Ya’ll… This is tame compared to the rest of his feed for the last couple days.

  • kazaika@lemmy.world
    43·
    2 months ago

    What is this shit? This feels unreal… I’m feeling like this is a joke but everyone just takes the joke further and further and i would like for it to be the case but the fact that it keeps going has me genuinely confused. Are people believing this ? This feels like a joke at a party but 15 people repeat it in the exact same way.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
      16·
      2 months ago

      It fits to this old quote, just not with words but everything they do:

      Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

      Jean-Paul Sartre