Elon Musk: It Is ‘Outrageous’ to ‘Claim That I’m a Nazi’ << It is shallow. This is not 1937 Germany. Elon Musk is an Egomaniac - call him out for his egomania / egoism. Call him out for greed for power and control. Call him out for being manipulative

Call him out for manipulating “Mind Virus” in the population using Twitter. For “being manipulative”, for mind-fucking people like Rupert Murdoch does. Call him out for mass dehumanization using xAI / Grok / Twitter computing machines like Rupert Murdoch does with HDTV machines

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    Relevant “May the 4th”

    Skywalker Ranch interviews / lessons for Star Wars fans filmed in Summer of 1986 and Summer of 1987:

    JOSEPH CAMPBELL: The fact that the evil power is not identified with any specific nation on this earth means you’ve got an abstract power, which represents a principle, not a specific historical situation. The story has to do with an operation of principles, not of this nation against that. The monster masks that are put on people in Star Wars represent the real monster force in the modern world. When the mask of Darth Vader is removed, you see an unformed man, one who has not developed as a human individual. What you see is a strange and pitiful sort of undifferentiated face.

    BILL MOYERS: What’s the significance of that?

    JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Darth Vader has not developed his own humanity. He’s a robot. He’s a bureaucrat, living not in terms of himself but in terms of an imposed system. This is the threat to our lives that we all face today. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? How do you relate to the system so that you are not compulsively serving it?

     

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr, “United States Secretary of Health and Human Services” 2025: “Darth Vader has not developed his own humanity. He’s a robot. He’s a bureaucrat” - 1987

     

    Elon Musk DOGE 2025: “Darth Vader has not developed his own humanity. He’s a robot. He’s a bureaucrat” - 1987

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    “Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

     

    Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

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    Whatever – he’s a wannabe Nazi. How is that any better than being an actual Nazi. Also realistically, he has more power than most Nazis ever had and it’s acting like Nazi so fuck it. Call him a Nazi.

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    His behaviour didn’t/doesn’t come across as someone who is trying not to look like a nazi. Even if the only reason he did it was to try and bait people to call him out on it so that it “looks like” we would call anyone a nazi for a “simple misunderstanding”. He did way too good of a job making it look like a seig heil. Like he either was already practiced at it, or spent hours practicing it.

    And it’s not all we have to go on… he was behaving and talking like a nazi long before making the “confusing” gesture.

    And it clearly didn’t go the way he thought it would. He thought with spin they would be able to make it a net positive, more support from like-minded people while being able to deflect their detractors for "godwin"ing them.

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      Even if the only reason he did it was to try and bait people

      Yes, he’s lost his heart and mind to Kremlin’s 5,000 alternate reality screen games deployed on Twitter since March 2013. He shows the same pattern over pandemic response.

      Citation, Johns Hopkins University / George Washington University: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192

      Even if the only reason he did it was to try and bait people

      It’s compulsive behavior. He purchased Twitter in 2022 because he saw that was how to get the population to follow him, same with Donald Trump. But he doesn’t realize he is mimicking Russia Kremlin media techniques of year 2013.

      “In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014

       

      The entire population is doing everything it can to avoid studying information warfare / Cambridge Analytica manipulation side-effects.

      it clearly didn’t go the way he thought it would.

      he isn’t thinking, he is subconsciously manipulated, compulsively acting out, like the whole nation is doing. Mass psychosis.

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      Fuck that nazi.

      Elon Musk in year 2024 and year 2025 is first and foremost a Twitter user. A Tweet-length-thinking reactionary mindset promoter. Who reduces all complex discussion in the United States of America into Twittering-behaviors, Tweeting-values. Elon Musk knew that the core to controlling the population was to do as much absurd political antics, copying what Surkov in Russia was doing in year 2013, copying what Donald Trump does with short-length message Truth Social values and thinking and Twitter-reaction thinking.

      Elon Musk has so many people who compulsively adopt his style of thinking and use of social machines, it is a Twitter-Thinking Nation, United States of Twitter Thinking 2025 social machine ideas and White House. Horrific.

       

      ::: ____________
      “For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III ‘to prove a villain.’ Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is ‘banal’ and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil