Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.
Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”
Musk later thanked Netanyahu.
Nazis were also famously fascist, had no elections, had a strong security system to squash internal dissent and brooked no protest, none of which apply to Israel.
I get the appeal of labelling things you oppose as nazis but you can’t just pick and choose what aspects fit and then apply the term nazi, it just makes us look dumb.
When someone gets banned from a site and complains that site is run by nazis, if we’re using your standard of picking and choosing then that person is as correct as you are as the site is allowing no dissent and removing those who do. But in reality (I pray) we both look at that person and think less of their complaint because of the silliness of their comparison.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/8/israeli-protesters-bring-tel-aviv-to-a-halt-demand-deal-to-free-captives
https://www.voanews.com/a/stop-the-war-say-israelis-demanding-return-of-gaza-hostages-/7849068.html
Do you really believe protests like these would have been possible in Nazi Germany? Like the Gestapo would’ve just been “yeah, that’s fine.”
Is this silliness coming from tik tok or are we really this ignorant nowadays?
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That wasn’t what I asked.
Again, could you see these protests actually happening at all in Nazi Germany?
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That’s the one protest, as the Reich was falling, reeling from the defeat in Stalingrad. And there were plans floated about simply shooting all the protesters.
Again, it’s just nonsense to declare Israel is now a nazi country. Fascism is very different than what Israel is.
Doing terrible things doesn’t make one a nazi, and claiming it does makes you look like a child.
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If you’ll go back to the start, you’ll remember the whole thread was about the stupidity of calling Netenyahu a nazi.
By your logic, anyone that attacks a group of people on any group characteristics is a nazi. Which is goddamn nonsense.
I get the appeal of calling people doing bad things nazis, but you sound like a child doing so. Worse, it makes it much more difficult for anyone to take our side seriously. (Same way that it is fucking stupid when trump called Harris a communist.)
My workday is done and you aren’t worth my free time.
Have a good weekend.