After rallying behind Trump, the tech billionaire supports AfD and other anti-immigration parties.

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    You know, the last time fascism got a big foothold in the world, many tens of millions of people died, but then it was stopped because there were still powerful opponents of fascism who eventually managed to stamp it out. This time around, it seems all the world’s most powerful governments are going to be fascist. Russia will be fascist, France, Germany and Italy will be fascist, the USA will be fascist, Canada is about to lurch to the far right, and Nigel Farage is taking Musk’s dollars to fund a fascist takeover in the UK. Now is the time to organize an international popular resistance and start properly fighting against these fascists. We have to get serious about actually stopping it. What organizations are at the vanguard of this today?

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          No kidding, it’s just, Jesus Christ it’s not even a dog whistle at this point it’s just barely masked. It’s about as subtle as an incorrectly drawn swastika

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            I think they’re past needing to mask it. They have attained critical mass. We’re not going to be able to stop it just by pointing out to people that they’re supporting Nazis. They know, and that’s what they want. We’re going to have to fight it, in every country at once.

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              Yeah, I see you’re on Lemmy.ca too, so our deal is going to be PP even if he’s not that brazen yet. Really not looking forward to the next decade

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      I thought displaying Nazi salutes was illegal in Germany? How the hell do they get away with this?

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      Bruh wow. I’m pretty white, like sandals and socks white, but this is levels of whiteness that shouldn’t even be possible. We’re really gonna have to do this shit again, huh?

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        This is not whiteness it’s racism of the worst kind, and unfortunately most countries have it disregarding color or race.

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          No, I mean apart from the obvious fucking Nazi bullshit, these people are in daylight and still glowing like exposed reactor cores. Gawd dayum.

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      I talk about this all the time.

      Like how cant people see America is now totally fascist. This coup didn’t get squashed just postponed. One of the main architect’s sons and grandson were sitting presidents and the us is now completely controlled by corporate power at the intersection of wall street and military / prison industry. Its so obvious and so fucking enraging.

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    At this point in time Musk has been rather explicit about his far-right politics, therefore this is just a continuation. A continuation with terrible consequences.

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        That’s been on my mind for a while now. They’re both assholes who can’t listen to “no” without throwing a fit. They’re eventually going to disagree on something, and it’s going to turn nasty.

        So I’ll be ready with popcorn for when it eventually happens. Fascism always destroys itself, just not before killing everything it can.