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[–] [email protected] 267 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For a while I was holding on to sanity thinking "he's an idiot and he's just drawing attention to himself." But now, to anyone that was still thinking "maybe he really is that clumsy, maybe he didn't really mean it", this is it. If you're not getting it now you never will. He's literally, in the literal sense of literally, a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

He’s doing the same shit Kayne was/is

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 192 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've known a number of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They're often quite kind-hearted, loving people. Musk is not. You don't need to insult them twice by comparing Musk to them, and using hateful terminology while you do it.

Maybe call Musk an asshole, a nazi, a shitass fucking fleck of rotten cumstain stuck to Trump's taint instead.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't forget "a cunt". Sorry... I'm Australian and not calling Elon Musk a cunt feels wrong.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's definitely a Nazi cunt by Aussie definition. But lacking the warmth and depth, he fails to meet American criteria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

his family was mad when aparthied ended,.

[–] NotAnAlt 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do those people have to do with Musk being a retard? Would youcall them retarded? I'm guessing not. Most people don't use the world that way anymore.

It's clearly been repurposed and it's getting quite silly how upset.

The definition of the word has nothing do with disabilities:

To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder;

When someone calls Musk a retard they obviously do not mean he is disabled. They are referring to the base definition of the word.

Now downvote me because you disagree but be aware of the irony in retarding the word from being changed from an insult towards people who are disabled to a word that describes a deep rooted willful ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Yes, but it was an official medical diagnosis at one time. And then it got used as an insult, so the medical establishment backed away from it.

But that’s beside the point. I have known both nice and nasty people with intellectual disabilities, and somehow none of them were Nazis. I believe the proper term for Musk is ‘shithead’.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Idk, I like re-defining that word to be used on people like him. Just call people with actual disabilities “handicapped” or “disabled”

Edit: whoever downvoted me def calls special needs people “retards”. That’s not cool

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago

We don't need to resort to ableism to hate a nazi.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

No.

This sort of argument both minimises his accountability for his actions by blaming factors outside his control, and is incredibly insulting to the millions of people with actual mental disabilities who manage not to be racist assholes.

Elon is a Nazi, full stop.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

yeah, and he is not accidentally a nazi as is often implied.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

In all my days, I've never seen a better comment that asked for a "no u."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I can't stand him. Interesting that's the word you've used cos in Britain it's considered ableist. Can I interest you in the word "wanker" instead? It rolls off the tongue nicely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

He is both a moron and a Nazi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

He’s an evil retard, with an infinite amount of wealth and power, if that’s not scary Indon’t know what is.