turns out this is fake, wouldn’t be a surprise tho

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    Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

    Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

    Con: LOL no…no not those views

    Me: So…deregulation?

    Con: Haha no not those views either

    Me: Which views, exactly?

    Con: Oh, you know the ones

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    I remember this quote, but I don’t remember it being in response to someone with that username

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    Neither right nor left, lol. Even if it’s fake, it would be on par for Muskrat. He feels so exceptional he refuses to see how unoriginal and predictable he is.

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      I remember threads about people being born in 88 having an issue with their usernames getting banned from various platforms. Not Musk though. Probably gives free check marks to anyone with it in their username.

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    “I am neither right nor left” is what Nazis say to hide that they’re Nazis, because they’re too cowardly to own up to it. Alex Jones tried pretending that for 20 years, and to no one’s surprise, is a Nazi and has tons of Nazi friends. He’s also been a bircher forever, so the naziness was never a secret.

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      “I am neither right nor left” is what Nazis say to hide that they’re Nazis

      Mussolini wasn’t hiding anything. He was drawing out political tendencies from the vulgar militarism of the monarchists and imperialists on his right while pandering and promising to win labor support from his left. Fascism was centrist at its founding. Italy was literally a kingdom governed by a monarch, with a large contingent of aristocrats who believed Mussolini was a DEI Woke Lib for coming out of a working class ghetto.

      What’s changed over the last century has been the rise of a wealthy and well-positioned petite bourgeois and professional managerial class. People who predate on their labor peers through rent-seeking without ever rising to the level of unassailable inter-generational wealth. This “middle class” labor contingent has historically been a breading ground for fascism, particularly among military veterans, police, and other security service workers who never got to enjoy the economic windfall of the 70s/80s like their parents and grandparents.

      They only stopped identifying with “fascism” explicitly because it fell out of vogue with the defeat of the Axis Powers. But they adopted plenty of alternative titles - Klansmen, Neo-Confederates, Patriots, Anarcho-Capitalists, Constitutionalists, Neo-Conservatives - to white-wash the root ideology through some popular pastiche. And they don’t hide the fact that they want a single party ethnostate. They trumpet it.

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      Let me guess. He’s “neither right nor left” because he supports welfare, but only for white people?

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    Elon behaves like a 13 year old that just learnt about politics, in the first lecture of a starter couse in social science. He is facinated, but he probably thinks he knows all there is to know now. He is not intending to go to the next lecture.

    Doesn’t just apply to social science. It’s probably how he rolled all his academic time.

    He was diagnosed as retarded in school. So i guess his behaviour makes sense to some degree.

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      Nah, autistic people can be and are very intelligent, don’t let his complete cruelty and stupidity hide behind a diagnosis.

      Also retarded is mostly used as a slur meant to insult the intelligence of people by making a connection between lack of intelligence and developmental disabilities. The difference between the two is that developmental disabilities can cause lower intelligence but are actually mostly comprised of aspects not directly related to intelligence, such as not understanding or naturally picking up social cues, sensory issues that overwhelm the vrain making it hard to actually think properly (Imagine being stabbed, you would also have a hard time acting “normal” or intellectual at that moment) etc.

      Fuck elon, his fucked up words and actions cannot and should not be dismissed as any thing related to autism.

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      No it’s not. He was replying to a guy named differently:

      https://xcancel.com/getpaidwrite/status/1596073876089602049

      I think the Right needs to start funding more artists, filmmakers and writers instead of politicians and super-PACs.

      You don’t win a naval war without any ships, and you can’t win a culture war without any culture.

      We’ve been reacting too long. Time to go on the offensive.

      But unsurprisingly he’s fine with letting a user with that superhitler1488 actually exist on twitter.

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    Name one “left” point you’ve agreed with in the past year, Elmo.

    Also, the real commenter’s name he was replying to is “@getpaidwrite”. Stop the cap, OP.

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    Well have fun leading your army of fat, rizzless, broke, gamers into battle. I’m sure all that CoD experience will pay off in spades.

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      I’m sure all that CoD experience will pay off in spades.

      The loser doesn’t even have that, he pays people to play his games for him.

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      Italics signify the equivalent of stage directions vs speech for online communication. It’s there to say that as musk says what he says, he’s also simultaneously agreeing with superhitler1488