• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t think he’s a dyed in the wool Führer-lover.

    No, of course not. He’s a dyed-in-the-wool Afrikkkaner. It’s a Dutch/English strain of Fascism far more in line with the American brand than the German/Nordic Central European brand.

    A poser; doing loser shit opening the door for someone/something much worse because his idiot brain thinks he’s being cute.

    A professional sycophant and corrupt corporate hack who has made a cool trillion selling exploding cars, crashing spaceships, and non-existent subway systems. He’s anything but a loser, as he’s perfectly hacked the modern capitalist system.

    The Nazi pastiche he’s adopted is intended to keep those super-sized government contracts and cheap private loans coming. Same reason he pays teams of pro-gamers to run his video game accounts and throws the biggest, most debauched orgies in Silicon Valley or Austin, TX. Same reason he nearly killed himself and Peter Thiel doing burnouts in a brand new McLauren.

    TrueAnon Podcast has a great three-part series “The Lamest Show On Earth” that takes a deep dive into Musk’s background. Does a great job of laying out who this guy is and how he’s successfully grifted his way to the pinnacle of the western business ziggurat. The most that can be said of him is that he loves to dominate other people. The explicit flavor of fascism is secondary.