It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

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    He’s been repeating Nazi propaganda for over a decade now about LGBTQ and immigrants…

    One of the big dangers of ignoring the ~11,000,000 Holocaust victims who weren’t Jewish, is neonazis have been relatively free to keep going as long as they don’t focus on Jewish people.

    Just like the first time tho, once they have the numbers they’ll go after more groups, but it’s hard to argue LGBTQ hasn’t been their primary target this time.

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        While the term Holocaust generally refers to the systematic mass-murder of the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe, the Nazis also murdered a large number of non-Jewish people who were also considered subhuman (Untermenschen) or undesirable. Some victims belonged to several categories targeted for extermination, e.g. an assimilated Jew who was a member of a communist party or someone of Jewish ancestry who identified as a Jehovah’s Witness.

        Non-Jewish victims of Nazism included Slavs (e.g. Russians, Belarusians,[16] Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs), the Romani (gypsies), homosexual men;[a][17] people with mental or physical disabilities;[b] Soviet POWs, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Spanish Republicans, Freemasons,[c] Black Europeans (especially the Afro-German Mischlinge, called “Rhineland Bastards” by Hitler and the Nazi regime), and other minorities not considered Aryan (Herrenvolk, or part of the “master race”);[d] leftists, communists, trade unionists, capitalists, social democrats, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents who disagreed with the Nazi regime.[18][19][20][21][22]

        Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews and an additional 11 million people during the war. Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of 17 million victims.[23]

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

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            6 million is > 11 million

            The alligator eats the biggest number…

            The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the right, >, has been found in documents dated as far back as 1631.[1] In mathematical writing, the greater-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is greater than the second number. Examples of typical usage include 1.5 > 1 and 1 > −2. The less-than sign and greater-than sign always “point” to the smaller number.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater-than_sign

            Edit:

            Now that we’ve got that right, and you’ve edited your comments to be the right symbol:

            Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews and an additional 11 million people during the war. Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of 17 million victims.[23]

            I believe eventually we’ll get this straightened out

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    Oh, wow, the head of the now far-right social media platform supports the far-right party in the birthplace of the Nazis. Who could have predicted that.

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      I’m pretty sure he has zero doubts that he knows what’s best for the world, and no moral qualms about using his money to buy power. So, yes, I think taking over the world (in his mind, “saving” the world) is probably where this is going.

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        I’d like to believe he started off with good intentions (might just be bias based on media coverage from before) and slowly turn to the dark side. It’s crazy what money (and the promise of influence) does to a narcissist.

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          He didn’t. He’s like they guys that idolize Rick in Rick and Morty. He talks about colonizing space, and says he’s inspired by the Empire in Foundation, and Warhammer 40k. He’s just a childish fascist

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      I think in general the plan of those behind the far right push is weaponized borders, so the (early) victims of climate change won’t be able to reach those responsible once the migrations really get going. Trump’s wall, the anti-migrant rhetoric in general, make the plebs demand “border security” and laugh while you continue to exploit them, and then have them defend you against those whose lands you destroyed.

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      Unfortunately, it will work too, as long as he doesn’t start stepping on Putin’s toes. In the meantime, Putin will be only too happy to see America’s fascists trashing democracies and their economies around the world.

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        I would argue western germany is a little bit more knowledgeable to his brand of bullshit. The east is a lot quicker to vote in a facist with promises of getting rid of all the immigrants who somehow make their lives harder

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    Is it just me or does Musk look more like Trump in that picture? The downturned mouth, squinty eyes, bullshit hair, but mostly the mouth looking like he’s sucking on a lemon-flavoured dick.

    I know they say owners and their pets start looking alike, but it’s actually happening here.

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    Where are all the maga and conservative morons to cry about the globalists??? Because that’s what Leon unironically is; an actual unelected billionaire trying to take over the world by buying one country at a time.

    Everything they said about Soros is actually true about Leon.

    Humanity itself is a cancer. This will never end.

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    Maybe we will get real Nazis because of this moron in the next few years. Job well done America.