[Bones McCoy]

Unlike plastic Brendan, most of us Brits know the cure for Nazism.

We and our little friends Lee and Enfield.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[MisterMuncher]

He really is an odious little shit. For all his chin-scratching and pseudy posturing, he is, at best, a posturing edgelord who is not all that good at it. Extricating how much of it is "playful" and how much is sincere at this point is an exercise in futility. To cite a law that first emerged on Twitter, Popehat's Law Of Goats, it doesn't matter why you think you fucked a goat, everyone just knows you're the guy who fucked a goat.

[RedSparrows]

Aye, he's a distillation of 4chan pseud tossery.

In a very rich form. Failing upwards, American style.

[Samanfur]

I'll just leave this here.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Oh I do like that...

[Malcolm Armsteen]

My old man knew how to deal with people like Musk, to quote, he had his colleagues Lee and Enfield, and his old pal Bren...

Seriously, now, how else?

[Bones McCoy]

My old man knew how to deal with people like Musk, to quote, he had his colleagues Lee and Enfield, and his old pal Bren...

Seriously, now, how else?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He never had to use his bayonet, he assured me, which he felt was a good thing...

But on the other hand...

[Bones McCoy]

I'm not keen on the latest twitter logo.

[Oboogie]

Banksy has a view.

[RedSparrows]

Interesting article here, about responses to Musk the Scamp.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/22/elon-m ... this-time/

It's very familiar to anyone who's been online a lot, but less so 'IRL'.

Right wing twattery flourishes when they flood the zone with shit, and people litigate stuff that's already old news, preaching to the converted. The quite understandable (and often necessary anyway) desire to correct, fact check and appeal to reason can't do the job alone.

The context is key: the fact of there being so much shit in the zone, not what it's precise consistency is. It's easy to see where it comes from. Ditto Putin: just check the various narratives about Ukraine he's pushed. It doesn't matter what he believes, in a sense. What matters is bombs falling on children. What matters is Musk's overall performance. It's fucking obvious.

[kreuzberger]

While stowing your seat-back tray and looking out the window on the right, I am pretty sure that you can get a delightful view of this on the final approach to BER Berlin.

Happy landings, y'all.

[AOB]

I've seen his autism thrown in there as an excuse. Autism can be a valid reason to explain certain types of behaviour but I'm not sure it covers throwing a Nazi salute twice. I find the explanation that he's a cunt as the most logical one.

[zuriblue]

I've seen his autism thrown in there as an excuse. Autism can be a valid reason to explain certain types of behaviour but I'm not sure it covers throwing a Nazi salute twice. I find the explanation that he's a cunt as the most logical one.

I've seen it described as Caughtism - a condition which causes sufferers to blame their reprehensible behaviour on a dubious claim of neurodivergence rather than taking responsibility for their actions. Similar to Schrödinger's Arsehole.

[Andy McDandy]

Some of his followers are saying it was 'ironic'.

Ironic's a song by Alanis Morissette. Not this crap.

[RedSparrows]

But that's the point. It COULD be ironic and that still wouldn't change anything, because he also embodies oligarchy, backs Trump who wants to report forrins, supports the AFD, retweets conspiracist lunacy, enables Nazi accounts and dampens anything that seeks to critique the great MAGA clown tank parade.

The 4chan/playground :lol irony triggered lib: tactic of yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre doesn't work if everyone can smell smoke.

[Crabcakes]

The tell is, all the traditional news networks and friendly press tried to pretend it wasn’t what it was or simply didn’t show it at all. His supporters tried to pretend it wasn’t what it was. But Musk has it as his pinned tweet.

The people who the gesture was aimed at know EXACTLY what it is. The more reasonable but right of centre people who would be horrified by it need to be convinced it wasn’t what it was, or simply have the truth hidden from them, and everyone else needs to be framed as a hysterical leftie screaming “Nazi” because they hate Musk and Trump - pushing those sheltered centre right types further towards accepting whatever Trump does until it’s too late to back out.

In this scenario, actions not only speak louder than words but also have an effect without that polarising action. So I’m delighted to see how many organisations and groups are simply now banning links to X - no fuss, no hysterics or trumpeting it, just “nope. Not joining in anymore”.

[Oboogie]

For the avoidance of doubt, Led By Donkeys have an explainer. The evidence of Musk's support for Nazis is wider and more blatant than even I realised.

[Youngian]

Musk has a note from Bibi to say he's not a fascist.