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    Probably the weirdest part of the decline and fall of the US is that it’s being brought about by a 78 year old toddler and a 53 year old teenager.

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        Turns out the meek will inherit the earth was a dire warning about giving power to people with self esteem issues.

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          “But”, interjected van Paasen, “You will be sitting on a pile of ruins.”

          “We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. The world is growing this minute.”

          —Buenaventura Durruti, interview with Pierre van Paassen (1936-07-24)

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      Nah, it’s only happening because the people are rolling over and letting them.

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        Yeah. This is the key factor. These people were always there. But right now two responses are the majority ‘‘I’m glad this is happening’’ and ‘‘This isn’t my problem’’

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    I’ve heard that Musk lives in his own bizarre little bubble. And that has been pretty clear. But I didn’t realize how weird it was, or that it included an objectively lame ‘sense of humor’. These jokes just aren’t funny. Not because they are offensive (because they aren’t that offensive), but just because they are painfully lame. If it was most other people I world feel genuinely embarrassed on his behalf.

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      They are more offensive, if one of the richest men in the world, being part of the government controlling the strongest army in the world does them, while openly supporting other fascists outside their country.

      If it comes from power these “jokes” are meant to test the water for what to employ in real policies soon.

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    So apparently he thinks Nazis are a joke. But since he’s a Nazi, that just means he’s a joke! A bad one, I’m afraid, but a joke nonetheless.

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      I suspect the idea is to disarm the folks who are still in denial by making these familiar names sound all cute and cuddly. (He’s not anywhere near successful at pulling it off thankfully, but it strikes me as the kind of thing they’d try to do in subtler ways through their social media pipelines, where there are reportedly stages of indoctrination.)

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        I don’t know, I think that’s giving this idiot too much credit. He thought if the last line, giggled like a moron, and hastily threw the rest of the post together.

        The invisible hands behind the curtain, though? Yeah, their motivations would match what you said. And no, I don’t think Jews run the world, to be clear. I just think the public faces of this admin are all stupid as piss, so somebody’s got to be calling the shots. That’s all.

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          What? I was talking about what used to be called alt-right recruiting channels. This is the kind of thing they would do (but more skillfully). I got the impression he heard what to do from them and then went and botched it, trying it out.

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      Pretty much. He thinks if he makes fun of it first, everyone will see it being silly.

      Why does this man have twelve children and every single one is more mature than he is?

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    I would have found these clever when I first joined Reddit as a teenager

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    On discord, someone pointed to the PoE2 drama and the “straight arm gesture” drama, and his rapid fire tweets in the past 24 hours as a Elon meltdown.

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    Ah, I see now. Elon Musk intended to tell some bad puns at the inauguration but then he accidentally did a couple of Nazi salutes instead. Puns are so easy to mix up with other things, which is why now he’s mixing up puns and an apology. It’s a mistake that anyone could make.

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    ADL complains about this for “Holocaust something” but doesn’t complain about normalizing nazi salutes which is highly encouraging to extreme right.

    I’ve never seen these puns reported or heavily downvoted on internet before, and they are not “oven jokes” about holocaust.