Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@CaptainXtra
IIRC the Buddhist Swastika (the real one promoting peace) has the lines flat on the ground, the Nazi Swastika has been twisted (figurately and literally) to be at an angle

@Background Pony #1F81
I thought the difference between the two was the direction the arms are bent, as in clockwise or counterclockwise.

Heard some things on the news of my radio as I’ve been paying attention to politics a bit. I don’t know where exact trusted sources are for politics, because I don’t trust the radio or the news, eh..

I hear the words but then try to balance and weigh facts.. anyways;

First off, can someone explain equality? -And is in part with Communism or ..Capitalism?
Because Trump was saying some stuff about equality.

Does that mean everyone should be euqal, same by nature and not allowed of their differences?

Also, why tax other countries? Does that really give USA money or help at all?

I feel like that sounds like they’re just gonna charge them with tax and that doesn’t sound like it helps other countries.. ?

What is Open-Party-AI? Heard that too.. An AI of it’s own? Or Open as in like anyone just signs up to use it?

Is the world gonna become the movie idioacracy? Where is education going now? I heard that they were gonna raise pay for teachers, by years they’ve been working at schools, but do they only focus on certain teachers and groups?

Also, Why does the education system keep changing/updating their math books or any other topics in general? When someone comes back home with homework and their parents can help, but their book changes, how they would learn to do something, that doesn’t help if it’s something that’s demonstrated in a more rediculous way just to learn it?

Are there going to be firings of employees from educational/important work enviroments and those replaced by a ‘one-party’-thing? If that’s a thing, it doesn’t sound like it would benefit much if someone outside of that party has good and actually-helpful experience with knowing/having-experience enough to benefit or be helpful in general to the system.

Basically equal as in all humans deserve equal rights. What Trump is trying to do here is make it so that only straight white Christians have rights and everyone else is subhuman.

@Wiimeiser
Subhuman? What about the gays and other races?

Damn, Is there discrimination towards those indivisuals then? They should be allowed to exist on a land without causing misunderstandings and misleads.

Why does he also like to call other countries aliens? Not supporting random people, just trying to see why these people are treated as dust in the wind.

It’s not really a tax on other countries. It’s tariffs which are taxes on Americans that import from other countries. The usual idea is it encourages people to do business in their own country rather than overseas. The risks are products might not be easy to find at home and other countries can retaliate with tariffs making a trade war.

Sorry to tell you, there’s basic things that even in cartoons för little kids teach you very well without a two-party system.

A lot of US people on internet are proud of be ignorant and they believe that all things around them are always like this all over the world,It’s not surprising when someone like that makes fun of something they consider weird simply because they never left Ohio in their life (no, tips aren’t mandatory and I’m not going to give them if your boss doesn’t pay you well, for example), their education stands out not only when you ask about geographical locations.

@Zaknel
Your “ha ha, these guys did the salute, too” comparison is the equivalent of taking a picture of someone mid-blink and saying “wow, they gave me bedroom eyes 😳!”

Elon did a nazi salute. He did it on purpose, he knows he did it on purpose, and he knows people like you will cover for him by saying it was something else, or that he’s autistic, or that “it was just a wave”, because that’s how these assholes operate. They flaunt their symbols and codes and gestures in public and hide behind ambiguity and plausible interpretation, because they can’t quite be so blatant about it. Yet.

@The Smiling Pony
If they can become blatant about it, you can kiss anyone who isn’t a straight white cisgender Christian goodbye, it’ll be WWII all over again, but with nukes and with the Nazis having control of the two most powerful armies in the world.

A Nuke wouldn’t be use in a Civil War unless said user is totally suicidal.

Rump wouldn’t want to die in a fiery explosion.

Poo Tin is another story tho…

Huh, I feel like this is the point where the Mods step back in the thread.

@The Smiling Pony
Weaponizing alarm fatigue

@CaptainXtra
They wouldn’t be using the nukes on themselves. Unless Vault-Tec has something to say about it and we’re in the timeline where ponies are aliens on a planet in Equuleus and the yaks are just the North Woods Tribe

@Zaknel
LMAO I love the little manifesto you give to your LITERAL copypaste meme.

Here, tell me if it’s a nazi salute: https://x.com/gonzalez_j95128/status/1881795810326986986

And while you’re at it you mind searching for the source of those gestures you’re parading? No, of course you won’t, because people who like to tell themselves they’re “skeptics” only distrust one side and deep throat the other.

I’ve told you this a thousand times and I’ll tell you again Zaknel: MEMES ARE NOT RESEARCH.

Here is the full speech, about 4 minutes long, Musk does the salute at 1 minute or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubITdJ_MCw

Is he “sending his heart out” to the audience here in a very clumsy way or is he actually making a nazi salute? (Musk has Aspbergers and is clearly very excited here.)

Not sure myself but here at least is the entire incident in its full context, not just memes.

@Background Pony #01F2
Nazi salute, puts his hand over his chest and everything.

Me reading Trump executive order that states that everyone is female. Yeah.

Trump doesn’t know Biology.

Funny you should use the name for the long since retired “subtype” of autism. Dr. Hans Asperger was a Nazi sympathizer who thought his “aspergoids” held clues to advancing the mental prowess of the Master Race(tm), and though he protected his autistic patients from Aktion T4, he gladly turned over all the others in his care to be “euthanized.”

@BlitztheDragon
It’s the term Musk uses for himself*, mind. From my anectodical observation, it was the term popular up to over a decade ago some nerds used to excuse themselves being weird while also proclaiming they were genetically smarter than everyone else, the sort of thing popular among those that’d use “neurotypical” as an insult and go around looking for “similar minded ND individuals with which to engage in enlightened conversation”.

Reddit shit, basically.

@The Smiling Pony
His teachers, not his father.

@BlitztheDragon
I am aware but the term is still used by many laymen, myself included as someone suffering from it, as it describes high functioning autism very well. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is the more common modern term but it encompasses a wide range of disorders.

I am also on the “high-functioning” (more accurately low-support or “Level 1”) part of the autism spectrum, and was formally diagnosed with “Asperger’s Syndrome” in high school, prior to it falling out of use.

And I have never felt the need to fall back on the term to differentiate myself from those on other parts of the spectrum. Moreover, I am extremely suspicious of those who do, as it comes off as elitist at best.

It’s a double red flag if the kids who insist on using it explain it as “Aspergers is a superpower while autism is a disability!” (Not saying you do this. It’s something I’ve witnessed growing up.)

The ignorance of people outside of the know is understandable to a point, but when we’re talking about a guy with a very long track record of doing Nazi-adjacent shit - to the point of retweeting literal Neo-Nazis and endorsing antisemitic conspiracy theories - and the people defending or excusing his latest Sieg Fail choose to identify him with the subtype of autism that has a Nazi background, well brother I take notice.

Since people keep bringing up the Kamala comparison, here’s a clip of the moment in question

Stop making excuses for him

@BlitztheDragon
I was diagnosed 15 years ago or so. I am not familiar with the classification you use as I am not American, for me “aspbergers” was the diagnosis.

My diagnosis is not a superpower at all but a disability, I have seen other autistic people that are far worse off than I am and consider myself fortunate I am able to function relatively normal for the most part.

You are making a connection that is not there when you are connecting the term “Aspbergers” to the salute Musk did. They are two separate things, despite both having very unfortunate historical ties back to nazi Germany.

The reason I said it is that people with the same diagnosis I have sometimes have problems controlling their mannerisms and movements when excited.

As for what Musk greeting means I can only guess.

It’s past 24 hours. Is there peace on Ukraine? Oh that’s right, he said he will have China on top of it.

He’s not smart and he’s not autistic either. He is just a person of little principle.

It’s an alt right dog whistle from our epic meme lord.

Remember when he based a part of his identity around a videogame he didn’t even bother to learn the mechanics of? No discipline, no principles.

He’s never had to do shit, him and Trump both look like overweight ghost with no muscle tone, spouting vapid bullshit about nothing.

But capitalism props up living rot.