Musk Shares a Nazi Meme and Then Tells Twitter to Vote Republican
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Via: tessylo • 4 years ago • 69 commentsBy: Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, Daily Beast
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Musk Shares a Nazi Meme and Then Tells Twitter to Vote Republican
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Life comes at you fast. Six months ago, Elon Musk wrote , “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.”
On Monday morning, weeks after buying the platform for $44 billion, he shared a meme featuring a Nazi soldier and then told his 115 million followers to vote Republican in Tuesday’s midterms.
“To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,” he wrote .
Musk has faced criticism for firing roughly 50 percent of the company’s employees last week, including those responsible for monitoring disinformation days ahead of Election Day. The purge was likened by some critics to a Category 5 hurricane.
Musk, who in late 2021 surpassed Jeff Bezos in wealth with a reported net worth of $219 billion, has had a rocky start in his latest tech foray, blaming a recent “massive drop in revenue” on “activist groups pressuring advertisers,” rather than his own antics.
At a campaign event in Chicago on Friday, President Joe Biden called out the site after Musk shared—then deleted—a baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Paul Pelosi, calling Twitter “an outfit that spews lies all across the world.”
But the new plan didn’t stop the thin-skinned billionaire from suspending comedian Kathy Griffin on Monday after she changed the name on her profile to Musk’s and encouraged people to vote Democrat.
“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” he tweeted.
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The CEO’s tweet on voting red garnered over 43,000 retweets and nearly 180,000 likes a couple of hours after posting. His Nazi meme, which used a photo of a German Wehrmacht soldier with a cage of carrier pigeons during the Nazi invasion of France, had about 14,000 retweets in the three hours after it was posted.
And the liberals can't stand that he is leveling the playing field. But why would they care, didn't they all move to Canada 4 years ago like they said they would? Fucking hypocrites.
The reason he posted the Nazi was to show people what they would be up against should the dems prevail. Simple as that. But, let's all get our panties wadded up. LMAO
The reason he posted the Nazi was to appeal to neo-Nazis and Fascists and to let them know that Twitter is open for their business.
Actually, the reason he posted the German soldier was to suggest that this is what we might end up with when only one party has all the power, be it left or right.
What about this quote, which appeared with the photo, suggests that I am wrong?
Hello?
used a photo of a German Wehrmacht soldier
Are we sure it wasn't the liberal hero Prince Harry?
but, but, but, what about...
Most Americans agree that is bad, But Trump has said he loves Stupid people, which often equals Nazis and democrats, as they are basically the same a lot of the time.
it's only taught that way in the civics classrooms of thumper madrasas...
But, nowhere near as bad as the Republicans. Otherwise they would not worship a person as filthy and dishonest as Trump and his Mentor Putin.
The only people I see worshiping at the altar of trump is liberals, I guess that’s why they can’t stop talking about him. And everyone knows Obama was Putin’s 🐔 holster.
Is he pulling Obama off to save the dignity of the Presidency?
Liberal hero?
Haha He is an asshole and this 'Liberal' can't stand him.
And that one line set the left off. Looks like they don't actually want equality. They want only THEIR version of the narrative to get out.
Well, it's not much of a surprise that the Neo-Nazi's, white supremacists and white nationalists will be coming out to support Republicans as usual, that is the party they most identify with.
Neo-Nazi and Proud Boys groups push Trump campaign poll watching operation online: Reports - ABC News
How Trump Brought Nazis Into Republican Politics (nymag.com)
Holocaust-denying neo-Nazis among the Trump supporters who stormed US Capitol | The Times of Israel
"Nine percent of Americans said holding neo-Nazi or white supremacist views is acceptable"
Survey: 9 percent call neo-Nazi views acceptable | The Hill
And 99% of those 9% almost certainly vote Republicans and worship Donald Trump.
Sure, it may not be the 'face' of the Republican party, but it certainly is its ever-present shadow.
Were those pictures from the last get out the vote rally that democrats had?
I've no doubt any one of those folk in the photos would want to punch you in the face for insulting their white Christian conservatism and doubting their loyalty to Trump and Republicans like that.
Well, I will take your word for that. You seem intimately familiar with the people and the movement.
I am. I grew up around them in Ohio and still have a lot of white Christian conservative family in Arkansas and there really is no doubt as to who those folk are and which political party they support. If someone is flying a confederate flag, a swastika flag or marching with tiki torches chanting "Jews will not replace us!" there is without a doubt about a 99% chance of them being a vocal outspoken supporter of Donald Trump and his Trumpublican party.
Why did Elon Musk buy Twitter and show his support for Republicans?
Step one was to take over Twitter.
Step two is to take over the Republican Party.
Step three is to take over the United States.
Step four is to take over the World.
I think you might be on to something.....
it's still for sale and it's had a lot of different owners...