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.
Consider the martyr Luigi in these troubled times.
Why do they lie in a way that makes their hero be on the opposite side as them?
Hitler scares right wingers because he turned the colonialism that Western Europe plundered and looted the rest of the world towards Western Europe itself. Lebensraum was settler-colonial, after all. However, right wingers are fascinated by such an idea and wish to replicate it on their terms.
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McBain to base. Under attack by Commie-Nazis.
A commie-Nazie is such a weird combi-nation
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The Axis alliance between Italy Germany and Japan was literally formed as an anti-communist alliance.
I was looking for this comment. It just shows Elon’s lack of knowledge and the will to say anything for the sake o confirming your beliefs.
I suspect he knows, he’s just a bad faith self serving douchebag
Dear Leader says Hitler was a communist so he was, all of you are wrong!
Ah just like dear Winnie The Pooh, who we swear is a good communist, and China is the greatest egalitarian state.
(Ignore our billionaires and Uyghur genocide)
Lost cause of the south levels of willful delusion
“I am so far right that compared to me Hitler was a communist” FTFY Elon
Ba dum tsss
You Americans really need to do something about this clown coughluigicough
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.
This assumes Elon is being genuine. He is not. Same as Trump. All the bullshit they spout is about manipulation of their supporters and not about being genuine about their beliefs.
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.
I think Elon believes whatever is most convenient for him to achieve his goals.
Fair. It’s not like
fascistsconservatives care about things like logic or truth anyway.
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
But then again Hitler did kill Hitler so maybe he was just playing the long game to catch Hitler off guard.
So she admits that her AfD supporters also support a communist.
Oh yes. In the early 1900s Nazis waged openly violent political gang war against the communists out of love and similar views.
I know this sarcastic, but conflict between various communist parties with slightly different views have been quite common in history
Pretty big difference though, the Nazis specifically targeted “Judeo-bolshevism” and were formed specifically to combat rising Communist sympathies and organization.
Conflicts between Communist orgs usually arose from incompatible differences in principle, such as whether or not to support such and such Socialist org, and usually the fighting isn’t based on extermination like it was in Nazi Germany with the Night of Long Knives.
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Stupid, or liars. Remember, that is always an option.
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
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.
This, though.
The takeaway from this is not “OMG Musc + the new Natsis = stoopid! D:”.
It’s “Musk and the AfD are lying sons of bitches.”.
They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Yes because that’s thing thing we care about, not that he was also a mass murdering fuckhead.
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.
