It was enough of a Nazi salute for the head of France’s far-right party, who are Nazis, to cancel his planned speech.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac

A vast amount of it used to be Mexico.

Good luck now that you’ve said that. You’re going to be savaged by a certain type of vegan in PM. I was spammed by one this morning and I didn’t even mention animal products recently as far as I know.

(There are decent vegans, but then there are the asshole type who feel like they can berate and harass people into veganism.)

Yes, and that’s ridiculous. It’s part of the “everything he does is a distraction from the really bad stuff” argument I keep seeing on Lemmy. Except it isn’t. He’s doing a shit ton of damage right out in the open right after saying he’s going to do it.

Don’t believe him on firing a ton of government employees? Don’t believe him on tariffs? Don’t believe him on mass deportations? No, all of that is a distraction. And why don’t the people affected realize that when they should be not believing him since this is all a distraction?

“Don’t believe him” might as well be “ignore the suffering.”

It’s called fighting fire with fire.

Again, what should we rely on instead? You didn’t answer.

What should we rely on instead to stop these extremely violent people who got a full pardon? Because as far as I can tell, the only way they will be stopped is if they go up against the fascist cops.

That’s not praising the cops, that’s saying there’s no one else. Because there is no one else.

There’s a difference between praising cops and appreciating the irony of the guy who supported Trump, lover of police violence, dying in a police shoot-out.

Similarly, on a historical note, I’m not going to praise mass-murderer Stalin for killing Nazis to save his own ass, but I sure as hell am not going to condemn him for it.

Could be either Spanish or French based on those words, I guess. I’m not sure if any of the words in the picture don’t start with the same letter in those languages (or maybe even other Romance languages).

This is in no way a defense of Elon. He is a horrible Nazi and he hates Jews and I’m a Jew.

That said, I’m not seeing where he brought up the Holocaust. He made a bunch of very offensive puns regarding Nazi leadership, but unless I missed it, nothing about the Holocaust. All the critical responses seem to mention it so maybe I’m missing it?

I guess I feel like “makes Holocaust jokes” is just unnecessary hyperbole when what he said was awful enough.

Which means that this is the new norm.

You still think there will be a legitimate next election. Amazing.

I have heard that so many times now…

You’re missing what so many people seem to be missing because I keep seeing people say things like this: they do not care about the law. They don’t care. And now they don’t have to care.

I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t run for office now that you mention it.

I like the idea. I think I’ll tie some pressure-activated mines to myself next time I go for a walk in a high-traffic area.

It should simply not be legal anywhere to hold more money than you could possibly spend in your lifetime.

Similarly, much like there is a minimum wage (at least in the U.S.), there should be a maximum wage. And that would include stock options.

Jesus and God are part of a trinity, so that’s not really an “or” situation, unless you’re one of the minority of Nontrinitarian Christians. But I was thinking of John 3:18 in specific:

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

To be fair, he also suggested if they worshipped other gods, they’d be punished in hell for it. That’s why I’m not a massive fan. But I like the ‘be nice to people’ part.

In the femosphere, as in the manosphere, there’s an overarching belief that life is about survival of the fittest, that men will always hurt women and that will never change, so strategies are needed to conquer the opposite gender.

I’m not a massive fan of the guy they nailed to a tree 2000 years ago for saying maybe people should be nice to each other once in a while, but the violent reaction to that suggestion no longer surprises me.