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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 55 points 2 days ago

Oh of course, if you fire all your public workers, you can't have a genocide because there's nobody to carry out your orders.

Silly fucking me.

I'm assuming we can look forward to all those cops and ICE agents being fired then.

[–] confusedandlost@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Luigi where are you?

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Haha "The Onion", you almost got me... OH GOOD GOD

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As much as "I was just following orders" is not enough to excuse someone of their responsibility in atrocities, "I was just issuing orders" will not excuse anyone either.

Anyone who thinks that just because someone didn't pull the trigger, that means they're not guilty, you can get your ass back in line to lick elons boots.

This is in the same vein as "Hitler did some good things" kind of cognitive dissonance. While the statement may not be wholly false, the fact that anyone could overlook everything he did that was bad, to find some small piece of something he did that can be construed as "good" is simply trying to put an objectively evil person into a better light, when they do not deserve it.

There are plenty of misunderstood people in history that did very good things, and were killed/maimed/murdered/imprisoned/tarred/feathered/whatever, because they did something that the wrong people saw as bad.

Nobody should ever try to find a shining light of good deep down in the black abyss of Hitler's life.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of a Brazilian advert for a magazine in the 90s. It started with some large black and white dots, slowly zooming out, and the narration went something like:

"This man was an artist. When he took power, his country was in a deep economic recession, but he brought prosperity back and made it home to some of the most important industrial companies still functioning today. To this day, many people look up to him. This man... (zoom out finishes) was Adolf Hitler.

It's possible to tell a lie telling only truths."

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[–] PearOfDees69@lemmy.world 126 points 2 days ago (7 children)

These CEOs always claim they can't do good for workers, because they need to please the shareholders. So now that the CEO of Tesla is sinking the company, where are these supposed all powerful merciless shareholders at? If I was a shareholder of Tesla I'd demand felon's head for doing all this damn to my investment.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He makes an excellent point.

"At the next war let all the Kaisers, presidents and generals and diplomats go into a big field and fight it out first among themselves."

If he wants war, let him war by himself

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[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Make him go, then. The world is watching. (Assuming you are American)

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Can't blame Elon really. Everyone wants to protect their heroes and saviours.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 days ago

Mussolini didn't string himself up from the service station, the enraged masses did.

[–] allo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Posting the tweet here for reference

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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Luigi's gotta save the Princess

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You see my honor i didnt shoot the man i just held the gun that decided to kill him.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago

Jesus fucking Christ. This is actually fucking happening... Fuck.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

It sounds like a pretty good argument for pushing back against the administration and not following orders.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Musk needs to be strapped into a chair, "Clockwork Orange" style and forced to watch all 9 hours of "Shoah."

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[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

"Mr. Musk, you recently shared a post that mentioned the workers were the ones who killed people and not Hitler without elaboration. Do you believe that Hitler bears no responsibility?"

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Just keeeeeep digging that hole Musky boi. Might as well upgrade to a backhoe at this point.

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I know people need to eat and times are difficult, but I would have quit way before he said that. I still wonder why he has so many employees left.

[–] balssh@lemm.ee 77 points 2 days ago

Well because US is exactly shaped for the employee to be a modern slave: no social security net in case you are jobless so you have to get rolled over by the boss. Breaking point for most isn't the morality of the company but when they are endangered or can't provide for their families...

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If he admires the man so much, why isn’t he following in his footsteps?

Coward.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He should just skip to the last chapter

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