If you watch the actual video, you’ll see Musk saying “my heart goes out to you all” as he waves his arm in the air. The Left would love us to imagine he’s saying “sieg heil” or “exterminate the j3ws” or some such, but that’s far from the truth. The media hoopla around a freeze frame of someone raising their arm is a desperate partisan attempt to smear a political rival.
If Elon hadn’t worked with Orange Man Bad, then the Left would still be in love with him for his massive former donations to the Democrat political machine, and his work against climate change.
The whole “he’s a nazi” accusation is banal, and people are seeing through it now. That’s why we’ve moved on.
People continually fall into the trap of pushing a false narrative because they are so blinded by their own agenda.
Like the whole pizza parlor pedo basement thing, people will death grip stupid stuff because they are so desperate to manifest the worst possible image of those unaligned with them.
The problem is that it blows up in their face and just makes them look unreliable, dumb, and lost.
Musk has done so many objectively bad things that there is no need for people to dilute their reputation on fringe theories and interpretations. Pushing the nazi thing just gives Musk ammo that his detractors are so desperate that they need freeze frames and hidden context to make him look bad.
The Democrats are not a left-wing party, I'm not sure why you think "the Left" would be in love with him after all the other horrible things he's done if he just gave money to a political party that is at best centrist.
If you want him to get the benefit of the doubt about his "hand gesture" then it would help if he wasn't promoting far-right parties all over Europe.
Poor Elon put in so much effort into his Nazi Salute, he'd be pretty upset about you downplaying his best attempt, if he could read what you wrote here about him.
It wasn't an accident. He did it deliberately. Twice. He enjoyed himself doing it.
There's no value in the mental gymnastics to invent excuses for his fascist salutes. The rational thing to do is to accept the objective reality of it.
If he wasn't supporting far right parties, including Trump's all over the world, you would have an argument. But you don't. It's not like he is going around supporting left leaning parties or centrists. It's all far-right for him.
What's silly is people like you defending the richest man in the world who cares nothing about you and your family. Why spend the effort? I don't think he needs your help. And you aren't even getting paid to do it. Sad.
No, we don’t have to ignore it completely. You might be unable to tolerate a company CEO having a different worldview to your own, but the rest of us don’t care, and we’ll use whatever online services we like, thank you very much
nope, not at present. The houses act as your "health" (once they're all gone, it's game over), so I'm minded to keep them as a finite resource. Always open to suggestions to improve the game dynamics though.
This is the left doing what they always do: finding supposed victims and oppressors, and acting (loudly and publicly) as white knight saviours.
Doesn't matter if the victims asked for their help or not, or even if the issue is real. This is a performative act of virtue by the left. Nothing more.
The UN is 1-country-1-vote, which means Western liberal market economies are in the minority. As an organisation it structurally favours the economic-distributional and collectivist economies.
The New International Economic Order (UNGA, 1974), the New World Information and Communication Order at UNESCO, the 2024 Global Principles for Information Integrity and the Global Digital Compact are ideological, and all about global redistribution of wealth and international control of media flows.
The UN is not an organisation that exists to promote the values of freedom and equality of opportunity that underpin constitutions like the US.
Caption.me owner here. Sincerely interested in any and all suggestions. I admit the landing page experience for non-signed-in users is pretty weak as it stands.
Yup, I was had by a malicious fake Homebrew site that had the #1 spot in Google thanks to it being an ad (a key fact that was very unclear at the time of browsing Google)
My Adsense account got automatically disabled years ago, allegedly for click fraud (no such behaviour on my part) and there was no effective way for me to appeal.
I'm now a huge supporter of any initiative or law that attempts to break Google's stranglehold on online advertising. They have placed too much responsibility in their broken automation, and they are a bad faith actor in the space.
Salaries alone were $106.9M last year (from the Foundation's own Form 990 FAQ). And it's not as if the money is needed: the Foundation holds $296M in assets, plus a further $169M in a separate endowment.
Wikipedia's own editors held an RfC in 2022 and found "broad, near-unanimous consensus" that the donation banners were misleading - the ones hinting the site might go dark without your £2.
If Elon hadn’t worked with Orange Man Bad, then the Left would still be in love with him for his massive former donations to the Democrat political machine, and his work against climate change.
The whole “he’s a nazi” accusation is banal, and people are seeing through it now. That’s why we’ve moved on.
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