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[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 161 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Breaking: Fascists are fucking stupid, more news at 11.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Corrected Title: Two fascists agree Hitler was a communist.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 143 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Communists were literally one of the first groups targeted for arrest when Hitler came to power in 1933. Like 10 seconds on google.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's very possible that he doesn't actually believe this, but instead wishes that his fans, who are always so eager to kiss his ass do, since in the eyes of most people, Hitler was the most horrible person to ever exist, and if Hitler was a communist that'd mean that communists are horrible people.

On the other hand, Muskrat is so stupid that him honestly believing this isn't impossible.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think Elon believes whatever is most convenient for him to achieve his goals.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

Fair. It's not like ~~fascists~~ conservatives care about things like logic or truth anyway.

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[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 8 points 1 week ago

To quote wikipedia : The first [concentration] camp was Nohra, established on 3 March 1933 in a school. The number of prisoners in 1933–1934 is difficult to determine; historian Jane Caplan estimated it at 50,000, with arrests perhaps exceeding 100,000. Eighty per cent of prisoners were members of the Communist Party of Germany and ten per cent members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

This obviousy proves Hitler had tens of thousands of communists imprisonned in concentration camps to hide the fact that he secretly was a communist/socialist ! /s

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[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 99 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Axis alliance between Italy Germany and Japan was literally formed as an anti-communist alliance.

[–] Deway@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dear Leader says Hitler was a communist so he was, all of you are wrong!

Ah just like dear Winnie The Pooh, who we swear is a good communist, and China is the greatest egalitarian state.

(Ignore our billionaires and Uyghur genocide)

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[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is this the whole "Nazis were socialists because it's in the name" thing again? The far right love to pull this point out, ignoring the fact that as soon as he had power, Hitler had anyone remotely socialist in the Nazi party murdered so he could get on with the fascism. The name "National Socialist" was a trick to get people on board. Anyway, it figures that Musk thinks Hitler was too left wing, since Musk thinks the whole universe is too left wing. And it's characteristic of Musk that being to the right of Hitler doesn't even give him pause.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

North Korea is a thriving democracy; it’s right in the name!

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[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The name "National Socialist" was a trick to get people on board.

Sort of. Hitler didn't found the party, he joined it as a mole in order to spy on it for the military. He ended up doing a lot more than most moles, eventually taking it over and expelling the more socialist (though still racist) founders.

Hitler hated socialists and tried to change the name as soon as he took over, but was convinced to keep the name because it had become a popular brand.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Breaking: self proclaimed genius is, in fact, an idiot.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't his own dad say he was... the R word?

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

To be fair his dad's opinion isn't one that I respect.

But yes. The man has more money than God and basically his entire family has completely disowned him, with the exception of the baby he carries around as body armor because he isn't old enough to know what that is yet.

For anyone else in the world I would hope that would be something of a wake up call.

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[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If Hitler is communist then the Nazi party is communist.

If the nazi party is communist then nazis and supporter of the nazi ideology are communists.

The far right is comprised majorly of nazis and supporters of nazi ideology, then the far right is communist.

The far right has Trump as a leader and have an ideology similar to their supporters, then… Trump is communist.

America, you know what to do with those commies.

[–] isles@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Red scare, don't let me down now!

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fucking idiots. Does it mean that Trump is a communist?

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

"I am so far right that compared to me Hitler was a communist" FTFY Elon

[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ahh so elon is now publicly declaring he doesn't know what he is talking about.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 18 points 1 week ago

That's what he always does right?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Now? Always has been.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So ... then they're both communists too?

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 32 points 1 week ago

Funniest are people quoting Goebbels who said something like that...

Like... Bruh.... You are falling for the tricks of the minister of propaganda of the Deutsches Reich of 1940 in 2025...

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh yes. In the early 1900s Nazis waged openly violent political gang war against the communists out of love and similar views.

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[–] Gerprimus@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago

They can agree as much as they want. They can agree to suck each other's cocks too.That doesn't change the facts. Stupid people remain stupid people.Populism remains populism Stop listening to them.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, all the comments he made about the secret agenda of European jews to spread "judeobolshevism" through communist organizations and annihilate the Aryan race were just jokes about his good friends the communists. Him and Stalin were actually best buddies.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

It's telling that it needs the second sentence you wrote for me to realize you were speaking about Hitler, not Elon. I don't say he's gone of that far, but it wouldn't have supposed me at all.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love it when folks are so stupid that they're ignorant of how stupid they are.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some guy saying that in a pub is ignorant. The leader of a Nazi political party knows exactly what they're doing.

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[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago

They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they’re doing.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The problem isn’t the Elon and co say this. It’s the middle ground people who, for the most part, are reasonable but have little education about politics, and don’t want to participate beyond soundbites.

In this case, the phrase works on two levels.

Most of these people would admit Hitler was bad. So, this reaffirms the statement Communism is bad. Even if they don’t know what Communism is.

For others, Communism is bad. This allows them to hear “We’re not like Hitler” about Elon and Co. They have no idea how bad Elon and Co may be, but at least their not commie pinkos.

The real genius of capitalists has been to persuade the electorate that there are no viable alternatives to capitalism.

[–] Cintari@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

McBain to base. Under attack by Commie-Nazis.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

So she admits that her AfD supporters also support a communist.

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Americans: "Hitler was a communist."

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

BuT tHe PaRtY hAs SoShUlLiSt iN iTs NaMe So It MuSt Be TrUe A nAzI wOuLdN't LiE

Americans: "Hitler wasn't all bad. Sure, he killed some people but not as many as people say. He helped save the economy and even loved animals and children"

[–] aleisner@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago

Read George Orwell "1984"!

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Consider the martyr Luigi in these troubled times.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

they know this isn't true but they also know it works to say it

[–] poo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You Americans really need to do something about this clown coughluigicough

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

people can agree on whatever they want to. However facts say these two are fucken morons because facts say something entirely different about hitler.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's like defining masculinity by looking at Musk.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they the same morons that say Hitler was an atheist, despite him repeatedly quoting the Bible and the SS having "God is with us" on their uniforms? 🤔

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, he was opposed to Catholicism because it was a threat to the total rule of the Nazi party over every aspect of life, but he was following "German Christianism", which was a Protestant splinter group in line with Nazi ideology.

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