they know this isn't true but they also know it works to say it
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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"I am so far right that compared to me Hitler was a communist" FTFY Elon
Not like it really matters. A lot of self proclaimed communists on the fediverse actively supported Trump, such as ML and Hexbear.
If nobody agrees what or who communism is then it gets used to describe anything and everything.
I love it when folks are so stupid that they're ignorant of how stupid they are.
Some guy saying that in a pub is ignorant. The leader of a Nazi political party knows exactly what they're doing.
Musk is a pub bore
He may be as dumb as one, but he's more of an oligarch.
They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Americans: "Hitler was a communist."
They can agree as much as they want. They can agree to suck each other's cocks too.That doesn't change the facts. Stupid people remain stupid people.Populism remains populism Stop listening to them.
Yes because that's thing thing we care about, not that he was also a mass murdering fuckhead.
If Hitler is communist then the Nazi party is communist.
If the nazi party is communist then nazis and supporter of the nazi ideology are communists.
The far right is comprised majorly of nazis and supporters of nazi ideology, then the far right is communist.
The far right has Trump as a leader and have an ideology similar to their supporters, then… Trump is communist.
America, you know what to do with those commies.
Red scare, don't let me down now!
Just wait till you find out what color MAGA hats are!
Funniest are people quoting Goebbels who said something like that...
Like... Bruh.... You are falling for the tricks of the minister of propaganda of the Deutsches Reich of 1940 in 2025...
Breaking: self proclaimed genius is, in fact, an idiot.
Didn't his own dad say he was... the R word?
To be fair his dad's opinion isn't one that I respect.
But yes. The man has more money than God and basically his entire family has completely disowned him, with the exception of the baby he carries around as body armor because he isn't old enough to know what that is yet.
For anyone else in the world I would hope that would be something of a wake up call.
Is this the whole "Nazis were socialists because it's in the name" thing again? The far right love to pull this point out, ignoring the fact that as soon as he had power, Hitler had anyone remotely socialist in the Nazi party murdered so he could get on with the fascism. The name "National Socialist" was a trick to get people on board. Anyway, it figures that Musk thinks Hitler was too left wing, since Musk thinks the whole universe is too left wing. And it's characteristic of Musk that being to the right of Hitler doesn't even give him pause.
North Korea is a thriving democracy; it’s right in the name!
So Venezuela is in fact, Bolivia?
and Baathist Syria was totally a democratic republic
I don't believe Syria ever styled itself "Democratic". But the Syrian Republic was certainly a republic.
For that matter, so was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
A republic is simply a nation with no monarch. If you don't believe me ask any Canadian, as they are constantly debating whether to officially leave the British crown and become a republic.
Not as a title, but if i recall correctly, the first first article of the old constitution states that the Syrian Arab Republic is a Democracy. Also for what it's worth, the Baath party was also officially "socialist".
The lack of a monarchy isn't enough to qualify as a republic, the people need to also hold some sort of power.
Yea, the name is originally in latin res publica, meaning "public matter". In opposition to a kingdom that is the private domain of a single person.
The name "National Socialist" was a trick to get people on board.
Sort of. Hitler didn't found the party, he joined it as a mole in order to spy on it for the military. He ended up doing a lot more than most moles, eventually taking it over and expelling the more socialist (though still racist) founders.
Hitler hated socialists and tried to change the name as soon as he took over, but was convinced to keep the name because it had become a popular brand.
Consider the martyr Luigi in these troubled times.
The Axis alliance between Italy Germany and Japan was literally formed as an anti-communist alliance.
Dear Leader says Hitler was a communist so he was, all of you are wrong!
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Communists were literally one of the first groups targeted for arrest when Hitler came to power in 1933. Like 10 seconds on google.
Oh, so now Stalin is a communist?
Elon does not read... or at least pay attention to what he reads.
He also apparently does not watch movies.
I think it's very possible that he doesn't actually believe this, but instead wishes that his fans, who are always so eager to kiss his ass do, since in the eyes of most people, Hitler was the most horrible person to ever exist, and if Hitler was a communist that'd mean that communists are horrible people.
On the other hand, Muskrat is so stupid that him honestly believing this isn't impossible.
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To quote wikipedia : The first [concentration] camp was Nohra, established on 3 March 1933 in a school. The number of prisoners in 1933–1934 is difficult to determine; historian Jane Caplan estimated it at 50,000, with arrests perhaps exceeding 100,000. Eighty per cent of prisoners were members of the Communist Party of Germany and ten per cent members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
This obviousy proves Hitler had tens of thousands of communists imprisonned in concentration camps to hide the fact that he secretly was a communist/socialist ! /s
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Breaking: Fascists are fucking stupid, more news at 11.
Corrected Title: Two fascists agree Hitler was a communist.
I gotta think of the ridiculous Simpsons clip with McBain where he said: “COMMI NAZIS” And it was funny because of how ridiculous it is to have a communist Nazi
The problem isn’t the Elon and co say this. It’s the middle ground people who, for the most part, are reasonable but have little education about politics, and don’t want to participate beyond soundbites.
In this case, the phrase works on two levels.
Most of these people would admit Hitler was bad. So, this reaffirms the statement Communism is bad. Even if they don’t know what Communism is.
For others, Communism is bad. This allows them to hear “We’re not like Hitler” about Elon and Co. They have no idea how bad Elon and Co may be, but at least their not commie pinkos.
The real genius of capitalists has been to persuade the electorate that there are no viable alternatives to capitalism.
You Americans really need to do something about this clown coughluigicough
Ahh so elon is now publicly declaring he doesn't know what he is talking about.
That's what he always does right?
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Oh yes. In the early 1900s Nazis waged openly violent political gang war against the communists out of love and similar views.
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So she admits that her AfD supporters also support a communist.
Fucking idiots. Does it mean that Trump is a communist?
Yeah, all the comments he made about the secret agenda of European jews to spread "judeobolshevism" through communist organizations and annihilate the Aryan race were just jokes about his good friends the communists. Him and Stalin were actually best buddies.
It's telling that it needs the second sentence you wrote for me to realize you were speaking about Hitler, not Elon. I don't say he's gone of that far, but it wouldn't have supposed me at all.
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So ... then they're both communists too?
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