Elon Musk's "Hitler Problem" his unholy economic alliance with Nazi's

[Idilinaa]

This 1 hour and 35 minute segment was packed with a lot of historical fact checking but this 1 excerpt describing the economic/labor policies of the Nazi party stood out to me the most.

When you start to unpack all the political and ideological posturing people make (especially on the right ) which is used to boister up support, at the core of this is a political/industrial elite trying to preserve their own power and wealth monopoly and prevent it from being redistributed.

It's twisted logic when Elon Musk @58:00 minute mark begins to define the ''Woke Mind Virus'' as anti-meritocratic. When him being a billionaire is one of the most anti-meritocratic things. He does the least amount of work, hogs all of the wealth and takes credit for other (mostly nameless) people's production and inventions/designs. Mistreats and exploits his workers and laborers. Pays them 30% less than the average UAW automakers. There is nothing about him that's merit based, i don't even have to bring up his privileged upbringing.

In another weird twist of logic he thinks letting workers unionize creates ''Lords and peasants'' .

When he is himself is accused of operating much like a feudal lord in his active war against labour movements and trade unions world wide.

Elon Musk says letting workers unionize creates 'lords and peasants'. What?​

Susanna Gideonsson, president of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, said: “What grinds our gears is that a large corporation thinks it can come here and set the rules on the Swedish labor market. To think you can waltz in here as a feudal lord and think a whole country should adapt to one’s whims is just wrong.”

In reality Unions are important for a healthy functional democratic and economic system. They play a critical role in developing and defending democracy.

Unions are not only good for workers, they're good for communities and for democracy​

High unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being ​

We know that unions promote economic equality and build worker power, helping workers to win increases in pay, better benefits, and safer working conditions.
But that’s not all unions do. Unions also have powerful effects on workers’ lives outside of work.

Elon Musk and his Nazi/Feudal ilk's are actually doing more to ruin the so called ''Western Civilization'' than they are trying to lead people to believe.

 

[Idilinaa]

To continue the point, the conventional explanation you see often. The whole doom and gloom narrative of ''The west is falling'' ''Economic crisis/distress'' due to neoliberal policies are the reasons for more and more people leaning to support of right wing/facism. It's just patently false.

The Economic Anxiety Explanation of Fascism Is Wrong​

That’s not true. Study after study has shown that Trump’s voters were not particularly poor, but were very racist. Similarly, KKK members of the 20s were better educated and more likely to have professional jobs than most Americans—not really a surprise since the Klan by its nature excluded Black people, immigrants and other minorities who formed (and still form) the bulk of America’s poorest people. The exact class makeup of the Nazis is still disputed, but we do know that working class parties were among the fiercest opponents of fascism. There just is little to no evidence that economic hardship leads to fascism.

If the erosion of working class "material conditions" was the reason for working class to vote for right wing populism , you would expect to see working class minorities voting right. But they don't, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be poor/working class than White Americans and yet they are more likely to vote left.

So to see them pretend that it's about the working class problems, when they couldn't care less about them unless its to exploit their labor, resources or malign them for being poor.

 

[repo]

Right wingers or Nazis don't buy EVs, middle class liberals do. You'd think he figured that out but he's a racist edgelord ruining his overhyped, overpriced company. I'm happy for it, we need people like that in the open. And to top it off, the quality of his cars are absolute trash including the recent "CyberTruck". I hope Biden is re-elected.

 

[The Oponian Guild]

Unless they start actively contaminating our water supply or trying to sterilise minority women, I’d say we are yet to see the worst, Elon musk is the tip of the iceberg, the nativist and neo nazi element are simply riding on his coattails and if they manage to seize power, they’ll start enacting vicious policies meant to target the non native population in each European country.

 

[Idilinaa]

Right wingers or Nazis don't buy EVs, middle class liberals do. You'd think he figured that out but he's a racist edgelord ruining his overhyped, overpriced company. I'm happy for it, we need people like that in the open. And to top it off, the quality of his cars are absolute trash including the recent "CyberTruck". I hope Biden is re-elected.

Not true.

Tesla owners are more Republican than you’d think​

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/cars/tesla-buyer-politics/index.html

The only thing that separates tesla buyers , is their purchasing power not really their political leanings. Most of them are rich white males.

“Republicans do buy Tesla, especially wealthy ones,” said Alexander Edwards, president of Strategic Vision.

Tesla buyers in general are very wealthy​

EV buyers are more likely to be wealthy, especially with the price of most Teslas, by far the industry leader, significantly above the price of the average gas-powered car.

Buyers of electric vehicles have been able to claim a federal tax credit of up to $7,500. In 2019, the last year for which Tesla buyers qualified for at least a portion that credit, 163,000 EV purchasers filed to claim it. “Your Prius buyers and Tesla buyers are not the same group,” he said. “The Tesla buyers are rich white males. They’re really about showing off a great sports car. So Elon is not concerned at all that people will stop buying his vehicles because he’s making fun of a Democratic president.”

Elon Musk is allying with the extreme right because they help his elite corporate interests.
The right punches down on the poor and the middle class, give tax breaks to the rich, promote the most extreme form capitalism that creates wealth inequality.

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich​

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one p

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The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent

 

[Idilinaa]

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