Disclaimer: I know the flag looks like shit. I didn’t really try and make a well done, symmetric n**i flag. The entire point is to illustrate the general intent, not to make a symmetric “asshole flag”.

Edit: the sample size isn’t that big yet, but around 20% (19.51% as of this edit) of downvotes is definitely uncannily aligned with the average percentage of far right voters… (I’d show data from the US too, but you guys haven’t yet learned how to count to three in politics… So data is severely lacking.)

  •  Zozano   ( @Zozano@aussie.zone ) 
    3•11 months ago

    As I mentioned earlier, metaphors are pretty useless when you begin applying specifics.

    “Would you jump off a cliff if your friends did it?” I trust my friends would jump off a cliff for a good reason, maybe they were running from something, so yes.

    It was absolutely the wrong move to let Kayne back on the platform, and Elon is an asshole, for this, and basically everything else he has ever done.

    But epistemologically, we don’t have good reason to suspect Elon is ascribes to Nazi ideology. He could let Kayne back on for many other reasons; maybe he gets off on the attention (likely), maybe he just likes kanye (likely), maybe he’s a free speech absolutist (likely - unless it’s critical of him specifically (see jet tracker and parody accounts)).

    •  adderaline   ( @ondoyant@beehaw.org ) 
      6•11 months ago

      right, but he did let the person who said nazi shit and went to go talk to a nazi (Nick Fuentes) back on the platform, he has overseen a massive increase in hate speech on the platform, he does comment in support of people demonizing queer identities, and he has used his power in a number of ways to silence his dissenters, so we can say that he demonstrably isn’t a free speech absolutist, he likes people who like nazis, and he is comfortable courting the favor of nazis. i think we can say that he fits the definition of a nazi sympathizer without much stretching at all.

      •  Zozano   ( @Zozano@aussie.zone ) 
        1•11 months ago

        Maybe. The point is not to say that he isn’t, just that I require a high standard of proof to say that he is. I don’t know why everyone is getting their panties in a twist, I already know he’s a bad guy, I just don’t think he checks off the requirements to be a fascist or Nazi.