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Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on Saturday, speaking publicly in support of the far-right party for the second time in as many weeks.
"It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything,” Musk said.
Note that Musk’s citizenship include South Africa, Canada (from 1989) and United States (from 2002)
"Do you think there are no Nazi sympathizers in Germany? Don’t you see AfD on the rise there?
Most of the people seeing this isn’t going to know the context (i.e. this is a protest). If you strip away the context, this is just a blatant public display of the fascist salute, which many there have wanted to do for so long but couldn’t because they feared the consequences. This could very well embolden them.
Like, if you just look at the photo, it even straight out says “heil Tesla”, for crying out loud. If this is a protest, they did a piss poor job of it. At least put a clown makeup on Elon’s face, what are they even doing.
Edit: some people can’t even read it seems."
https://lemmy.world/comment/14629315
Lol, no, that’s not why you got downvoted. You got downvoted for saying people don’t understand the context. Which is just a really bad take.
You might want to put that into a quote block.
And, no, the people from the centre of political beauty are definitely not Nazis, and neither are they amateurs. They’re professionals. Their list of exploits is long, and artistic, including building a replica of the Berlin holocaust memorial next to the house of Germany’s highest-ranking Nazi.
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This isn’t.
This again isn’t.
Respectfully, learn to post on lemmy.
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Learn to read
Learn convention. Everybody here expects bars on the left side to signify quotes, especially when it comes to multi-line stuff.
“” are commonly used if you summarise something, but not for verbatim quotes.
Learn that I don’t care.
…ah, looks like you do; good to know…
When composing a comment the web ui has a couple of buttons including a question mark one sending you to, ultimately, a tutorial, and there’s a “view source” button under each comment.
That may or may not be the case for mobile apps. If it isn’t, you can do your part by reporting it as a bug.
Sigh, here we go again. Many people didn’t try to understand what I meant by context. No I wasn’t talking about the context of Elon doing a fucking Nazi salute on inauguration. Every one saw that on the news. I was talking about the context of seeing the photo of Elon Musk’s Nazi salute being projected onto the side of a building.
That’s what was shared here, not the news article about it being a protest, not the video released later by the protesters (which is worth watching btw). So yeah, I stand by the claim that that photo itself can be taken out of context and be made to look bad. And in fact it is, I’ve seen far right assholes calling it based, and Germany is currently investigating it for its use of Nazi symbolisms.
Is that enough? That’s not even the main thing my comment was about. What’s even the point? Neo-nazi is on the rise in Germany, and broadcasting Elon doing this shit will embolden them, and you want to talk about context.
So fine, downvote me. I’m depressed to see people on my side can’t even muster two brain cells to think.
And everyone in Germany understood it as branding Tesla as Nazi. A big “Don’t buy cars from Nazis” sign. The cultural implication is “Own a Tesla? Better get a sticker distancing yourself or a packet of charcoal starters might find itself located on one of those tyres”.
Nazis cheering for Musk is a different phenomenon.
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