#elon musk literally did a nazi salute on tv

[depressedcatgirl]

no because elon musk did the nazi salute like twice on tv and i've already seen people try to defend it or even say that its "based"

we literally have a nazi leaning 4channer as the ceo of a major social media and he somehow has a big influence in the american government even though he really shouldnt bc isnt he south african? Like if he wasn't white he would get told to "go back to his own country"

yknow im starting to think that the president could do a fuckin nazi salute and straight up just repeat shit hitler said and get away with it without any consequences and there would still be so many people who try to defend it

have we learned nothing over the past 100 or so years

[awakefor48hours]

"Mspec gays and weirdos with neopronouns are the reason why no one's taking us seriously and they're erasing real queer identities."

Trump and Musk are some of the most powerful white supremacist on the planet that want to get rid of anyone who isn't an abled bodied cishet white person but go off about how that chronically online stranger is actually making equality harder. I would love to hear more about how the average queerphobic person simply doesn't take us seriously just because of lesboys and nothing else.

[kaiischa0tic]

[aliencatwafers]

I am disgusted at the fact that we have a Nazi in office

Did the United States forget the collective trauma of WWII and what generations had died for, only for Elon Musk to do a Nazi salute and be supported by Trumpers.

Imagine a President or anyone they pick pulling a Nazi salute in the 1940’s and so on?

We live in the timeline where we have Nazis in office.

When I tried to force myself to be conservative in 2016, I didn’t fully understand why my disabled classmate said Trump was the next Hitler (I was disabled too).

I understand that she’s right, and I should’ve seen it coming much sooner rather than have it slowly dawn on me through Trump’s bigoted and harmful acts.

Of course, the United States was never great. The moment the white colonizers decided to oppress Indigenous people and enslave Africans, and oppress Latin and Asian people, to oppress women, to oppress disabled people, to oppress queer/trans people, to oppress anyone, this country was fucked. It’s built off a graveyard with blood. The oppressed people saw it coming, and the privileged should’ve seen it coming.

Also what Trumps doing is not subtle in the slightest. It baffles me that there’s people who still love and support this man, and act as if fascism isn’t on the rise. I shouldn’t be shocked with the long racist history of this country. I hate that the privileged will happily let flames spread rather than accept helpful policies if it helps another oppressed person they hate with a passion.

The right wingers are fascist cowards.

[silvermoon424]

Elon Musk just did the n*zi salute in front of everyone on TV. I feel sick already. Somebody stop him before it gets even worse, PLEASE!

Oh yeah, I saw that.

Of course literal Nazis are already celebrating it and laughing about how normies are offended. I can't wait for Fox News to whitewash this and put out a narrative defending it that my ignorant Boomer parents will swallow hook, line, and sinker. It breaks my heart.

The fascists truly do not care about hiding it anymore. They've been shown time and time again that going mask-off will not cost you votes and support. They have no reason to keep pretending that they're decent people when they know they stand to lose nothing by showing their true colors.

Absolutely sick and embarrassing how the US fought a war to end Nazis and now we're actively allowing people Sieg Heil. Probably not a coincidence that everyone who lived through and/or fought in WWII is either extremely old and frail or dead. I really do think WWII veterans would have thrown hands if they saw this.

Idk man, I really don't know how to articulate how exhausted I am. I feel like I've seen this country degrade so fucking quickly in just this past decade. Of course it's always been bad here, it's always sucked for marginalized people and the working class and so many others. But it's gotten so much worse. People feel so emboldened to be openly hateful and bigoted. They love it when people get hurt and laugh at the pain of those they deem inferior.

I guess if nothing else I'm gonna revel in saying "I told you so" to every conservative I know and really rub in how fucking badly they messed up.

[pinnamon-rolls]

guys…. what do you mean elon musk did a literal fucking nazi salute on live tv… guys…

[wirewitchviolet]

Controlling the Narrative of Your Own Life

I'm thinking about a lot of things tonight. In no particular order, I'm seeing footage of Elon Musk giving straight-up nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration while he praises him as some kind of genius programmer for "knowing how those voting machines work" and other people talking like he's actually going to put people on Mars despite being quite possibly literally the stupidest and least competent person to have ever lived. I'm seeing just the worst and most badly informed takes on the whole thing with Tiktok's owner putting on a show of shutting it down for a day and pretending this is something he was forced to do but then Trump magically saved it, and that was the day BEFORE the inauguration. I nearly bumped into one of my scariest stalkers, and of course there's the big ol' incident that inspired me to sit down and write this, but I'm building to that one. The point to keep in mind here though is just how absurdly much of a difference it makes when you do and when you don't have control over the narrative about your own life.

Back when I first came out as trans, most people were cool about it and/or thought this was the most obvious revelation ever, but one close family member really could not handle it, and shouted at me, word for word, "I know you better than you know yourself!" Doesn't get much more straightforward an issue than that, does it. Here's me saying "hey, so I've actually been a girl this whole time and just have this hormone imbalance making me look weird and I need to start taking a medication to deal with that." "No you aren't." And there's so many other things like that I've had to deal with. I have so damn many stalkers with so damn many utterly absurd conspiracy theories about me, and I've lost more friends than I can count from them catching wind of those and not bothering to take a moment to verify if there's even the slightest bit of truth to them, but there's one in particular that keeps cropping up, and it sucks in a way you probably wouldn't think it would.

Once upon a time, about a good decade ago, someone who is fairly famous around the world for... reasons that have shifted over the years, had the most massive embarrassing crush on me. I didn't clue into it at the time for quite a few reasons. This guy is a couple decades older than me I'm fairly sure, was married at the time, and lived on the other side of the planet. I DO NOT share photos of myself, so there's nothing to go on visually. And this guy developed this crush RIGHT after I came out as trans, and the concept of anyone being into me was just the most alien concept in the world. And I mean honestly, after a decade on HRT, walking around as a super tall redhead with a chest so big I can't really wear a bra, I still never register that the cat calls I get when I actually leave my apartment and walk around could possibly aimed at me. Plus I'm pretty openly asexual. Everyone should know they're barking up the wrong tree.

But yeah, this guy was totally obsessed with me for the longest time. Did the Twitter equivalent of following me around like a lost puppy, quoted basically every post I made, shouted out to his followers how they should all follow me, constantly DMing me to see what I'm up to, fished for approving comments about the time he wrote a hot trans girl into a TV show of his (this is the first thing he was famous for) despite it never airing in my country, and talking about how he liked protecting girls like me from bullies when I asked why he was always fawning over me (and several other openly trans women). All of whom incidentally were constantly talking about the trans experience, and several of whom also did sex work, promoting it through the same channels.

I'm emphasizing that last bit because the next thing this guy became known for is being just a huge foaming at the mouth TERF. What people generally assume happened is trans people chewed him out for that TV episode with the trans woman I mentioned earlier, but that's straight up untrue. Like I said, at the time, he was fishing for approving comments on it, while also promoting the work of multiple trans women. Cis guys with entertainment connections willing to promote the hell out of trans women's causes and personal writings are precious unicorns so rare and useful as to be practically unheard of. The idea that any of the trans women he was talking to back then would burn their bridges with him for the sake of griping about an episode of an old TV show he's already riddled with anxiety about is such an utterly ridiculous tactical own goal that the only reason this rumor ever got off the ground is that there's this longstanding bit of propaganda that trans women are all super angry and combative... which, you know, you're perpetuating when you spread this lie here.

The actual story is a bit of a two-parter. First, he got suckered in by some other TERF writing this "feel good" work of fiction about "tough love" causing her trans son to "realize he wasn't trans." The actual story there if you read between the lines just a little, waited for her son's side of the story to come out a bit later, or even just ask her about things like two weeks after the fact was of course that she enacted some straight up child abuse until her son stopped bringing the subject up and just quietly transitioned without her input, but there was a brief window there where someone not paying attention could be taken in and talk about this heartwarming story, get rightfully called out for boosting child abuse advocacy, and get love-bombed by a hate group. And honestly, that really was the whole thing, this second part only exists because nobody's going to tell you they were radicalized into a hate group because they celebrated child abuse then kept doubling down about it.

What came next though, and the reason this creep will cite TO THIS DAY as what flipped him... not even when asked, he regularly records videos just rambling about it even, was me... kinda. Like I said, guy was crushing on me HARD at the time, and still boosting my stuff while he was still getting indoctrinated into this crap, and the rest of the hate group didn't like that one bit. Not only was he mooning over a trans woman, he's signal boosting the stuff I'm writing about the alarmingly high percentage of these people buttering him up involved in CSA crap and acts of domestic terrorism and such. Apparently talking about that constantly was my irresistible siren's song and all.

So the absolute scum of the earth set about trying to find some dirt on me to show this guy to maybe make him stop jerkin' it to my essays or whatever, and when they couldn't find anything (turns out I'm pretty boring) they made something up. That one site that does this sort of thing put together some sort of "dossier" on me that just sort of filled in arbitrary garbage for where I lived, my dead name, etc. etc. and included a photo of... mid-90s anime convention regular "Sailor Bubba" in full costume. And then of course they started bombarding this guy with it. Also me. They really don't get how the whole stalking thing works and assume people will be terrified if you "prove" you know where they live by messaging them an address in the wrong timezone and a picture of some random guy dressed like Sailor Moon.

This absolutely got the job done. He was properly horrified and disgusted by this "revelation" and... still hasn't stopped publicly freaking out about it. I kinda wish the photo they sent him really was me so I could joke about having the face that launched a thousand ships in the wrong direction. As is your guess is as good as mine whether he actually disapproved of this random congoer's appearance that much, just didn't want to picture me, the woman he's been obsessing over for like a year or two looking like that, or it's just a big act to distract people from what actually turned him to the dark side, but he was apparently so horrified by this "revelation" he burned his last bridges with decent people, lost his wife, lost his job, and lost whatever was left of his humanity. The other thing he's famous for is trying to get the British government to cut funding to a children's charity. Long story. Involves Donkey Kong somehow.

But point is, he's still screaming about this to this day. Mentions me by name, sorta. It's the one I used to use for this blog, and he intentionally always gets one word slightly wrong because he REALLY doesn't want the few TERFs who are still even willing to speak to him to look this up and see that no, he didn't ever think that woman he was obsessed with was cis, or that there's a dozen other such.

To finally get to my point though, I enjoy telling this story. It's weird, it's baffling, it's damaging to a huge bigot's ability to do harm, and it's pretty funny. BUT, this is my story to tell. It's not at all cool for anyone else to tell it, and they do. Often. I swear at least about once a year, someone with a huge platform decides it's time to rehash this loser's weird public meltdown. Sometimes they just tell the myth about the angry reactions to a TV show, which again is harmful to trans people generally, sometimes they get it mostly right, or they just stare at a recording of him explaining it himself. And these are the times when I really suffer for someone else's entertainment.

They don't know who I am. Their audiences sure as hell don't. If I'm lucky, they play a clip of this creep's disgusted ramblings about some random dude's photo and awkwardly try to say something nice like "there's nothing wrong with a woman having a big beer gut and a full beard by the way." And if I'm unlucky, things go all telephone game, and I suddenly have some unstable weirdo from halfway across the country trying to rally up a lynch mob against me because "wouldn't just take one for the team" or that I DID (never enough showers to scrub away that mental image) or otherwise hold me accountable for the sins of some creep who used to stalk me. And even if I catch these and try to offer up some corrections or bonus anecdotes, people using my weird story about this creep (or vice versa) to make jokes never want to change their material.

I don't ever want to be talked about like that, thanks. If you want to tell people how much this particular creep is a pathetic monster, I'm all for it, but you have to invite me along. You get a better version of the story, I don't get a fresh wave of weird stalkers and I get to feel like I have some measure of control over my own life for once. You know?

[akalimbratic]

Ok ngl the absurdity of 2025 already is genuinely comical if you look at it through a TV show lense.

My explanation below the cut

We opened up in 2016 where the generic villain (and I'm not even making this up, Donald was so hated and mocked that movies DID base their evil ceos off of him) rules over the country before the people prevailed in 2020 at the start of a plague plot. (🎶I sent the pestilence and plague into your house into your bed🎶), and it became a show about surviving that.

About 3/4ths into the 2024 season we get the a beacon of hope to step in and start rallying the people together, things look absolutely fantastic as we get closer and closer to election day.

And then, ✨️ plot twist ✨️, the big bad wins! We don't know why or how, but he wins!

Aaand immediately starts breaking promises btw. Like things started going downhill FAST. People get violent, the world's on fire (literally, my heart goes out to those affected by the fires /gen), it's like hell itself opened up.

TikTok goes down, the one media the united states didn't regulate, indicating that by this point the government is already silencing the people because the big bad evil guy signed the order for it to happen before his first defeat. Then it's back up in 12 HOURS thanking the man who took it down in the first place before he's even president. Like??? Okay so Tiktok's ban was politically motivated, plot twist 2. I mean big whoop really, roses are red the sky is blue and I sincerely hope people remain Xiaohongshu cause the memes are funny and it's great seeing two cultures create community with each other.

BUT IT GETS BETTER/MORE ABSURD.

DONALD DORK STARTS MONOLOGING IN HIS VICTORY RALLY JANUARY 19TH. I watched Luke Beasley's video on it and 5 minutes in, this dude admits the evil plan and says (I'm paraphrasing), "..2026 2028 I'm not gonna be your president anymore, and then they rigged it. And we won." LIKE??? DUDE??? He also went on to comment how good with the evil tech bro (who we were ALL clowning on) is with computers and how due to that fact, they won Pennsylvania by a landslide.

AND THERE WAS FORESHADOWING

•Trump alluding to a secret with Mike johnson

•billionaires dumping so much money into his campaign (they don't just do that unless they know the winning horse)

•"I don't need your votes"

•Elon Musks starlinks were attached to the voting booths

•People reporting their votes never got counted

•Ballots being tossed in the woods

•How the count came in so quickly

•calls from Russia that they tried sweeping under the rug

•Russian bomb threats in major polling locations

AND MORE

I'm cackling. You cannot make this shit up-- EXCEPT YOU CAN. I AND MANY OTHER WRITERS HAVE LITERALLY WRITTEN THIS. THIS IS HOW I'D FORESHADOW A TWIST LIKE THIS ONE.

I am just.

I am that. I am that guy. I was that guy after the election results came in the next morning, I was that guy as people also got started getting suspicious and I began to rub my braincells together in hopes a thought would occur.

So we fast forward to inauguration day, and my god did the directors do ARCANE levels of symbolism. Flags half-staffed at his crowning because we lost a great man (and of course he bitched about it online), it's the coldest day of the year, his wife wearing a god damn funeral outfit, things are still on fire and NOBODY is happy. He didn't even put his hand on the Bible, like you couldn't even do that? If this was in a show, I'd be analyzing every frame, every line of dialog, every episode because this would be a MASTERPIECE if it was just fiction.

But oh, my friends, does this recent episode get delicious.

Because the god damn tech bro boyfriend henchman, threw up the Nazi salute. THE WRITERS ARE BRINGING BACK THAT OLD PLOTLINE. ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS MEN IN HISTORY IS COMING BACK IN CULT FORM, BABY! I feel like we're living through castlevania's season 2 here!

But, craziness aside, you know what I will give the writers a good handshake for?

Community.

Throughout this entire mess, there's always been community. When Donvict got elected governors rallied against him and began putting protections in place, they're not afraid to stand up to him. When the fires were raging, while he was making fun of it, Mexico sent firefighters for us, and I cannot thank them enough.

Leaders around the world rallied against us and continued standing up to him, when Donald toyed with the idea of buying Greenland the Prime Minister declined, but said something along the lines of; "we'll happily take some states off your hands and give your people what they need though.", and so much more. World Leaders have our backs, and even the people within. I've seen countless comments from other countries talking about how they weep with us, but are by our side. There's love, community, and we aren't left completely alone.

Even within the United States, there is love and community. The people are not afraid of this man, going as far as to protest outside at the Lincoln Memorial.

Not to mention, when we thought TikTok would be banned people moved to Xiaohongshu. You know what happened? Community. From what I heard, Chinese and American folks are striving to learn each other's languages to talk to each other easier, they ask questions about culture, make jokes, etc. Community.

Jokes, memes, we're all making those aren't we? "If I don't laugh I will cry" you know. Songs and other forms of art just to put a smile on someone's face in this harrowing time. We hadn't stopped creating, stopped sharing, stopped loving. We're afraid, very afraid. But we're together.

We can't forget that, and if this tale goes as I hope it does, that togetherness will ultimately be what saves us all.

So, yeah. The absurdity of 2024 and 2025, looking at it through a writer's lense, it's already one hell of a ride.