In a conversation with AfD leader Alice Weidel on X, Musk concurred with her assertion that Adolf Hitler was a communist and pushed disinformation about migrants coming into the US.
  • ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
    14·
    6 hours ago

    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…

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        5 hours ago

        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.

  • poo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    You Americans really need to do something about this clown coughluigicough

  • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    56·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      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.

  • alexc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    8 hours ago

    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.

  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    12 hours ago

    The Axis alliance between Italy Germany and Japan was literally formed as an anti-communist alliance.

    • 299792458ms@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      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.

    • Deway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 hours ago

      Dear Leader says Hitler was a communist so he was, all of you are wrong!

      • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        61·
        9 hours ago

        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)

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    15 hours ago

    Communists were literally one of the first groups targeted for arrest when Hitler came to power in 1933. Like 10 seconds on google.

    • Beryl@jlai.luEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      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

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        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.

      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        29·
        12 hours ago

        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.

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
    1343·
    15 hours ago

    Breaking: Fascists are fucking stupid, more news at 11.