Elon Musk: It Is 'Outrageous' to 'Claim That I'm a Nazi'
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Elon Musk called claims that he's a Nazi 'outrageous' during an interview with Lara Trump on Fox News.

Summary

Elon Musk rejected accusations of Nazi sympathies in a Fox News interview, calling it “outrageous” and blaming media propaganda.

Critics point to his straight-arm salute at Trump’s rally, endorsement of a German far-right party, and reinstating white supremacist accounts on X.

His cuts to federal agencies under DOGE have sparked protests and vandalism, including nicknaming Teslas “swasticars.”

Musk claims he’s targeted for character assassination and receives daily death threats. He and Lara Trump compared the attacks to those against Donald Trump, accusing mainstream media of spreading lies.

  • WatDabney
    391·
    3 days ago

    Nazi works, but if he’d prefer something else, “technofascist” and “neo-feudalist” are both arguably even more accurate.

    Or we could go a different way - “psychopathic douchebag” has a nice ring to it, or maybe “delusional fuckhead.”

    • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
      33·
      3 days ago

      He behaves like a Nazi so he’s a Nazi. And clearly calling him that is getting under his skin, so it’s working. I don’t think using a different word will have the same effect. Heck, he might even latch onto neo-feudalist thinking it’s cool or something.

      • stopdropandprole@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 days ago

        interesting note: a flavor of techno fascism actually started in the 30s, it was called Technocracy, Inc.

        The technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy […] a California engineer, invented the word technocracy in 1919 to describe “the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers”

        here’s an article explaining how Musk, Thiel, and Andreessen (and other tech billionaires) have adopted a similar philosophy with the “Charter Cities” ancap utopianism they’re working to replace democracy with.

        A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

        • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 days ago

          Huh, weird. From that article (I didn’t read the first link) it seems like that old movement wanted a techno-communism of sorts. No money, no markets, goods distributed according to need, etc. It does point out that the current administration wants to keep political control, unlike the old Technocracy, inc.

          And really, I don’t see our current billionaires wanting any sort of wealth redistribution. They like it just like it is. Really interesting that a hundred year old idea is sort of resurfacing though.