In a conversation with AfD leader Alice Weidel on X, Musk concurred with her assertion that Adolf Hitler was a communist and pushed disinformation about migrants coming into the US.
The word Nazi, meaning “a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party,” is short for the German term for National Socialist (Nationalsozialist).
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Although the word socialist appears in the party title for Nazism, the Nazi ideology doesn’t have much to do with far-left traditional socialism. Hitler’s definition of National Socialism, a platform that serves one’s country only, is closer to far-right fascism and authoritarianism on the ideological spectrum.
so although your understanding is correct, colloquially I am also correct. besides it was a joke.
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so although your understanding is correct, colloquially I am also correct. besides it was a joke.
Wasn’t obvious it was a joke, tons of right-wingers unironically repeat that same line and believe it.