For fighting tyranny bolt actions are solid.
Are you aware of what gear the tyrants’ armies have? They’re not going to be fiddling around with bolt action rifles, I can tell you that much.
Guns are a tool, and horrible people using fully auto weapons isn’t a good reason for us to avoid them.
It’s been done before. Redneck Revolt (antifascist) even had a temporary relationship with a full-on lolbert militia (American Pit Vipers) after APV saw all the disgusting neo-nazis at Charlottesville and realised that antifascists aren’t crying wolf.
The majority of the world has always been in a bad mood because 90% of planet has always been poor, struggling, doesn’t have enough, live in poverty, are hungry and are generally not happy.
On one hand, there is absolutely harsh struggle around the world for the vast majority of the world.
On the other hand, it’s not as if most people are never in a good mood. Australia’s state broadcaster (ABC) had a show where people in small or disadvantaged groups answer anonymous questions, and when it came to Sudanese Australian refugees, a few were saying that life in Sudan was often happier despite their material struggles. IIRC a main part was that they had a collective culture, in some places outside of the cities even a communal village culture, and where good fortune was cause for celebration. Some contrasted that with our largely individualist, money-centric culture here.
All that to say, money doesn’t buy happiness, poverty doesn’t guarantee sadness. Money and other resources really really help, but it’s far from the whole picture.
It is a Nazi salute.
Musk is just shit at performing it. It’s still a Nazi salute.
You’re right, and I think I forgot to mention this in my reply - will people looking at those fans overlook it? When Musk was seen by many as a brilliant humanitarian ethical billionaire championing green vehicles and space innovation, that could be persuasive to typical people. But it’s harder for typical people to respect any praise them now they’ve clearly unmasked themselves on a stage as a nazi.
And playing the “woke cancel culture leftists are taking him out of context” card.
An Australian neo-Nazi speaker recently pulled this coward move too, laughably. (Context: in their jurisdiction, the salute is illegal*).
Nazi promotion event 1: After […] performing the Nazi salute, Mr Richardson asked the crowd if he was “going be fined now”. [1]
Nazi promotion event 2: i-i was just waving at my friend Beryl in the back row and they screencapped it out of context, it wasn’t a salute :( leftism gone mad
Don’t worry, antifascists bashed their office door in on Christmas regardless.
If you’ve seen any leaked footage from neo-Nazi orgs, they’re surprisingly garbage at performing the salute. It’s actually amazing.
It’s not news to anyone paying attention, but that weird Tesla fanatic uncle is going to find it a bit harder to rationalise an actual unambiguous world-famous Nazi gesture. We’ve even got those worshippers over here, and anyone reasonable who was on the fence with their pro-Musk proselyting can’t overlook something this clear.
Yep, had to ask teacher for permission. Some would say ‘you should have gone during the break’ but I can’t remember if anyone was denied (and I don’t know if that would be illegal).
Nah I’d say crickets because OP is banned from instances like lemmy.ml, and as a result, most MLs won’t even see 0x815’s constant stream of propaganda. Win-win, I guess.
Speaking of Australia:
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/humans-of-betoota/tesla-owner-sticks-this-on-their-car-like-they-werent-already-a-complete-and-utter-dick-hole-beforehand/