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

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Even if it weren’t a mental gymnastic stretch, even if there was reason to give the benefit of the doubt, even if you were to assume that it was “autism” or whatever, it’s still problematic whenever someone in a presidential cabinet or the president himself does something stupid enough to be easily misconstrued as offensive. We don’t want someone who’s too stupid with gestures regardless of their political leanings. Either way, it was problematic.
I guarantee if this was something Biden did, right-wingers would’ve been up in arms about it and even people on the left still considered it a problem whenever he slurred his speech no matter what the reason was.
We would’ve been pissed if a democratic cabinet member did this. We don’t make excuses because we don’t fuckin’ worship them the way right-wingers worship their golden calf.
CaptainXtra
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I’m not giving up.
Just three days ago, Donald Trump was being heralded as the “savior” of TikTok, with the app coming back online and thanking Trump for taking action. But that note of thanks was clearly premature, as Trump has already changed his tune and said that the app is likely “worthless” and may not even be worth saving anymore. This shouldn’t actually come as a surprise to anyone that was paying attention, as Farron Cousins explains.

Backtracking eh?
Let’s see if Rump sticks to letting TikTok die this time or if he’ll flop again on it.
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Time to get spooky
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As someone with high-functioning autism, I regularly have my body do the Nazi pose on its own. It’s quite awkward during family gatherings. /s
@CaptainXtra
I think he’s planning on buying it and want it to be as cheap as possible, maybe even be paid to take it off their hands.
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This was a landmark act in the Civil Rights era that made it illegal for businesses to discriminate hiring someone based of their skin color/race/religion/gender/national origin.
Trump is going to make it so that only straight white men can be given jobs in America, no matter how underskilled or incompetent
CaptainXtra
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I’m not giving up.
Reminder:
Have 0 sympathy for those “Latino, Blacks, Women, and Gays For Trump” groups.
They fucking knew what that orange turd was saying and they didn’t care.
You shouldn’t give a shit about the ones who cared more about Egg Prices than Human Rights.
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My educated guess for his sudden pivot is because after Tiktok did their purely performative stunt and then changed their content filtering to suppress anti-Trump, anti-Zuck, and anti-Musk comments and videos, a wave of Gen Z folks - the people he was trying to ingratiate himself to with this stunt - came out in force to call bullshit on the whole thing.
So Tiktok blew up what integrity they had to suck up to a guy who is likely to screw them anyways. And that’s par for the course when you’re dealing with the Donald.
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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.
I said it before but, there’s plenty examples of “train autism”. There’s plenty examples of “video game autism”. There’s all kinds of autist interests, I dare call it a spectrum if you would excuse me.
Trying to claim that your autism is for Nazism is like, the biggest tell on yourself you can get.
@The Smiling Pony
His teachers, not his father.
His father wasn’t disagreeing with them, and what little we know of him paints a very…unflattering parenting towards Elon.
So yeah it’s just splitting hairs, especially when we can see for ourselves how Elon is.
This was a landmark act in the Civil Rights era that made it illegal for businesses to discriminate hiring someone based of their skin color/race/religion/gender/national origin.
Trump is going to make it so that only straight white men can be given jobs in America, no matter how underskilled or incompetent
Sucks to be a white man in America then. Musk and other oligarch elite already admitted they wanted the indentured servitude that HB-1 Visas bring, especially since those come pre-skilled.
Guess what MAGA? You’re the “DEI hire” now!
Background Pony #43CB
Honest question here.
Is Trump and his administration are going to count out Democrat votes in-favor of their own MAGA votes come 2026 midterm election, and the 2028 Presidential election?
CaptainXtra
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I’m not giving up.
It would be foolish to assume that Rump’s Party wouldn’t attempt some sort of rigging or unfair handicapping in the Midterms.
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I always found it strange how WWII veterans often were racist and even klansmen at times like in the 1960s.
Like did they not see the irony that they were being like the person they fought?
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@Dustcan
That’s just online slang for someone with deep and specific interests, not necessarily actual autism. The diagnosis encompasses more than just being very into something.
Edit: And I did not claim Musk was autistically into nazism but that his clumsiness and childlike excitement could be caused by being autistic.
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Yes people can be awkward. But that doesn’t necessarily lead to people sieg heiling.
So the question is why does Musk’s brand of awkwardness keep making him do Nazi stuff or keep hanging around Nazis.
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@Dustcan
I don’t know why he did that salute or what he meant by it. He is hanging around MAGAs, not nazis. Trump is bad but he is not a nazi. You are not using the term incorrectly and thus watering down its meaning and impact.
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In other news: Trump said that he was going to visit Los Angeles after he became Preside-
Oh wait. He has not.
Dustcan
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So yeah, Trump made good on the threat to end Birthright Citizenship yesterday. A totally not Nazi thing by the way.
You that thing guaranteed in the Constitution? Yeah people have been warning about, Trump is saying “Nuh uh” to your rights. And now we get to see if a pithy EO overrides the country’s founding document.
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And now we get to see if a pithy EO overrides the country’s founding document.
For that to happen, he either needs to change/replace the Constitution, or pass his own version of the 1933 Enabling Act of Weimar Germany.
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