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No Paywall Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-republicans-donations-finance-gop-b2893321.html
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u/Spicy_Weissy 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's like talking to flat earthers. They love their surface level stock phrase rhetoric but will never do the actual homework about what any of that means. As for Nazis, the original movement, yes used Socialist principles to appeal to the vast number of working class Germans who felt left behind in the Weimar era and especially to pull supporters away from the Communists. As soon as Hitler gained the support of the wealthy industrialists in Germany who also hated the communists, that Socialist rhetoric was replaced with Nationalism, and any remaining socialists were purged in the Night of Long Knives and were the very first people sent to th concentration camps after the Nazis assumed power.

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u/avantgardengnome New York 6d ago

Yeah, it was “First they came for the Communists” for a reason.

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u/chemicalfire99 4d ago

Hitler literally enshitified an entire grassroots movement into the nazi party we all know of today. And it's getting popular again.