Elon Musk's Salute Stirs Up Reaction From Right-Wing Extremists
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Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
  • _t_o_@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Please don’t make assumptions about me, or make it seem like being a centrist is equal to being a nazi - which I am not. I’m also not “just asking question” like you state. Nor am I comfortable with someone in massive position of power doing a nazi salute. But it seems you already know who am I, what I think and what I’m doing. (You don’t know any of those) Im also not white knighting him- where did I do that?

    I thought trying to make the point that when making points about Important discussions using logical fallacies isn’t the best way to go about it.

    But continue to make assumptions about someone you don’t know and point your anger at the issue at hand at me instead. If you wanted to say I was being a contrarian or this is no place or time to worry about things like that- I would have ceded that, begrudgingly but I would have seen where you were coming from.

    Instead you attack me, don’t acknowledge what I was trying to get across. Tell me how much more enlightened you are. God do people spend all day arguing like this online? Is that a great life?

    Agree, backdown and concede is all you seem to tolerate.

    You’re right I should just get off this thing, stop engaging and go live my IRL life. It’s much better than trying to engage with people on the internet. Thank you for the reminder. I’m going back to growing food, teaching people about food security, natural building and building community in real life. Despite what your wrongly accuse me of, I honestly wish you the best in your life.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      How dare I draw reasonable conclusions about your personality from the way you comport yourself. God, what a jerk I must be. It’s not like I could possibly interpret what you say as a reflection of the values you hold, god forbid anyone think that the opinions of the author bleed through to the written work. Man, you’re just a poor misunderstood lil’ bean, aren’t you? How could the internet be so mean to you, when clearly you didn’t mean the… er… things that you said. (obvious /s)

      To quote TachyonTele’s excellent rebuttal, a comment I notice you didn’t reply to:

      Nothing Ive said isnt anything I’d also say to someones face. You’re upset no one likes what youve said, so now you’re blaming “the internet”.

      I qouted an article, and you came in here making bad assumptions about bandwagons that doesn’t have anything to do with watching a man give the nazi salute during the US presidential inauguration.

      There’s nothing to debate. You’re the bad faith in this post.

      Dude, if you’re not actually opposed to nazis, or are defending the nazis under the veil of reasoned debate or whatever you use to justify your actions, you’re a nazi. Centrists that make excuses for nazi behavior, or preach for tolerance in front of fucking obvious nazi salutes, or who fundamentally do not understand what bandwagoning is and act like a smug tool while being wrong about it, are just as much to blame as the nazis themselves. The backlash you’ve received should be more than enough evidence that your opinion of your actions is not how those actions represent themselves. And for future reference, the rules of informal logic do not apply to informal discussion. Right now you are, no matter how much you might try and deny the fact, aligned with the nazis.

      Please think about that.