If you've never seen this, it's the final speech from the Film, "The Great Dictator".
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Due to the fascist nature of X we will no longer update our X-twitter account.
We had hoped to be able to provide an alternative voice on a platform filled with transphobic hate, but we cannot in good conscience provide content to a site run by a nazi.
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That said I always knew that the Fediverse would outlive any and all corporate social media
Here is another film for you to bookmark as well worth a watch. This is 1984.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Rudolph Cartier's 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's story about a man who tries to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives and works.BBC iPlayer
Trying again, without the misspelling this time: does #Friendica have functionality to replace Facebook Groups? How well does it do as a replacement?
Also, if anyone has experience adminning a friendica server, I'd also love to hear about that. It's a bit of an old stack, which makes me a little nervous.
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"We want the government to:
Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).
Cap all donations to a reasonable amount.
Review limits on the fines that can be levied for breaking the rules."
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Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations to a reasonable amount.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
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He started out telling the MAGAs that Biden made inflation the highest and worst in the history of the world. Then he said since he was sworn in he's "brought grocery and gas prices way down." That's a big fat lie. Since his inauguration gas and groceries have gone up. Eggs have gone up 40% and climbing. Insulin went from $35 to $400. The rapist is full of shit. - Mindy Fischer
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And the men who are that clueless about women's bodies are the MOST likely to want to legislate control over them.
As a cishet man, I continue to be amazed at the level of IGNORANCE so many cishet men show about the cis female body. You'd think they'd do their damnedest to become experts on something they WANT so much. Is it entitlement? Do they think if they play the social role of men, female bodies are their guaranteed right, no matter how little effort they put in? I've never made any such assumption.
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Fediverse question (Techies?)
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Florida is first to use 'Gulf of America' in official weather advisory
#FloridaWeather #ArcticAir #LowPressureSystem #GulfOfAmerica #WinterStormWarning
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Florida is first to use ‘Gulf of America’ in weather advisory
‘An area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida’ an official Florida weather warning readMadeline Sherratt (The Independent)
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Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
Tech billionaire wades into controversy after shooting right arm on upwards diagonal during celebrations of Trump
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Mr Crace is on good form this morning 👍
“They came in dribs and drabs, the unwanted, the uninvited and the unloved. First to arrive in Washington was Liz Truss, wearing a red Maga hat and a bright blue coat looking like an extra in a Paddington Bear film.”
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Donald Trump assumes office with promise to be the very bestest best
God spared him to make America great again. Rejoice oilmen and climate change deniers, but immigrants watch outJohn Crace (The Guardian)
I think the shock is more about the speed of his actions 🤔
It’s all part of the “plan” 🤦
@essjayjay @HarriettMB I am waiting for people to have voter regret and point out that they got exactly what they voted for, and they knew what they were like.
Everyone KNOWS what they are like. And people still voted for him. ANd that is on them.
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Mankind is stupid and history repeats itself, but we can only become a little less stupid when we realize we are repeating ourselves.
Yes.
The fact that they are cowardly is also how Trump managed to become president despite being a convicted felon.
I would hate myself if I worked for that guy, if I am in a relaitionship with that guy, if I am a family member of that guy or if I’m related to that guy at all.
@stinerman how though? I live in New Hampshire and we have a known Nazi cell out by Keane and Claremont. It’s not anything that’s deniable because they are loud and proud.
They come to the capital whenever there’s a drag queen at a coffee shop, last time they gathered to harass people their dear leader died suddenly afterwards. It was a whole thing because even some of the Nazis were celebrating that he was gone and then the other Nazis were mad about it.
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@tagesschau couldn't bring themselves to do it either.
Liveblog zur Amtseinführung: ++ Trump will Kapitol-Erstürmer begnadigen ++Noch am Tag seiner Amtseinführung hat US-Präsident Trump die Begnadigung seiner Anhänger an, die an der Erstürmung des Kapitols beteiligt waren. Tech-Milliardär Musk zeigt eine Geste, die an einen Hitlergruß erinnert. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.
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here's AP news talking about fist pumping
first pic is AP app search results for "musk salute" showing fist pump story as the first result
second pic is the page at the top of the results with a paragraph about Musk fist pumping below the video where Musk does the nazi salute
tell me about it... even Snopes has an article saying "well Musk didn't tell us whether he meant these as Nazi salutes or not... so there's really no way of knowing!".
Gotta trust your own eyes and ears these days above all else.
And the ADL is trying to pretend that what we can all see (twice) wasn’t what we saw, too.
Cowards and collaborators, all of them.
Following Alice Weidel's argument that Hitler was a communist, this wasn't a fascist, but communist salute (?)
Just thinking.
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The fact he did it twice, once to the crowd and once to the flag, and it was even more blatant the second time is crazy.
No one seems to be talking about the second one, when looks even worse IMHO.
@JustinMac84 this is a good quote, but at the same time, if a meteorologist is saying it’s raining and it’s not, if a journalist is writing about the weather I would like to know what meteorologists are liars and which ones know what rain looks like.
It’s a great quote, but it needs more. I don’t want the journalists to pretend liars aren’t lying just because they can get the correct information themselves.
You'd think at least here in Germany everyone would see it for exactly what it is, but nope. We're all fucked
Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
Tech billionaire wades into controversy after shooting right arm on upwards diagonal during celebrations of TrumpMartin Pengelly (The Guardian)
@lowrah @elena I wonder if they’re avoiding using the word “Nazi” because of all the platforms’ automatic censorships, they don’t want their article to be filtered out by Facebook filters.
Kind of like when women have to talk about “grapists” on TikTok or YouTube.
It’s not to diminish the weight of the word “rape” or to avoid calling out a criminal or the criminal act, it’s because if they use that word their video will be removed. But of course censoring the word from being spoken or mentioned on social media websites diminishes the weight of the crime, but that’s a different topic.
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Yes, they are. In Finland only one media has a headline "Musk made a nazisalute" The rest are talking about a strange salute etc.
Yet again, the Finnish media has difficulties with far-right anyways. Only terrorist are called with the word far-right, otherwise they use softening euphemism.
And look at where we have head on that road - a far-right party in the government. A far-right party, that the Finnish media doesn't call as one. And is even a tad uppset, when foreign media does.
#newspapers , the #sueddeutsche, merely called it 'caused irritation with a gesture that is reminiscent of the H****r salute'.
It's just strengthened my resolve to do without tech or apps from those companies and to get my news from other sources than mainstream media.
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Lies.
Nazi-Fascism is back, hatred and terror will come, again.
#nazifascism #fascism #fascismback #elonmusk #musk #salutofascista
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Having an account on "X" has become a statement, since a long time now.
And that statement has become more and more clear.
Up to this point, I'd resisted the accusation, because cynicism is its own deeply corrosive agent of cultural destruction and should be avoided.
But I will now. There is no excuse for failing to call this out, and doing so NOW. Any organ that fails to is cowardly, and ultimately complicit.
People of the past gave their lives for the societies and liberties we take for granted now. We must at least be willing to risk some discomfort in respect to their sacrifice, or else it was wasted.
My emotional response is profound; it causes me to sob and cry every time I see it.
Further, I still have the same emotional reaction to January 6 now as I did then and am suffering this instant.
The fear I felt in November of 2016 proved to be greater than the reality but now I'm more fearful than I've ever been.
he didn't just do it once, he did it twice for the people in back.
It's not even being in denial at this point, it's outright supporting it by trying to brush it off.
It’s almost like they go through a menopause of their own but it stripped them of that filter in their head that makes them not want to be a creep.
It's not just mainstream journalism. The problem seems to be a chronic one. Even the left-liberal Jewish Forward.com writes:
"Elon Musk appears to do Nazi salute at Trump inauguration rally"
I don't know how we ended up in this timwline.
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Elon Musk appears to do Nazi salute at Trump inauguration event – The Forward
The tech billionaire stiffly extended his arm to the crowd twice in a gesture similar to a Nazi salute during Trump's inauguration eventThe Forward
NYT has an article on it, though it is of course both-sidesy: nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/poli…
#GiftLink I couldn’t turn up anything about Musk’s nazi salute in the Washington Post’s search engine, though.
Anyway, congrats to US federal election-eligible voters who safeguarded their moral purity by voting third party or not voting at all.
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@ditsch42 Unfortunately the whole “don’t let the nazis take over” argument was lost long ago. I also heard about that and it’s my understanding that that’s the quite literal new nazi party minus the antisemitism.
I swear the it seems like the whole world is suffering from “it can’t happen here” syndrome
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I think that they don't get they way (those who do), rather they show what they've normally been. At that point one can either let it all hang out (aggressing those around) or do the work to address the issues. Musk seems not to be in the latter category.
Yeah, the amount they scream about "Communism" is laughable compared to their responses to open fascists.
The CBC isn't even the worst; at least they acknowledge that it might be a "fascist salute." The New York Times headlined an article "Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture," as if the paper didn't exist in the 1930s and 40s.
No need to be alarmist
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Don't fall to their level. Report and move on. I did.
"Elon musks gesture draws scrutiny" They are dancing around the glaringly obvious answer.
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Could create this video in other lenguages?
I could volunteer to be the voice to PORTUGUÊS Brasil (portuguese brazil)
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Elon Musk: Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß
Elon Musk streckt den rechten Arm, und alle springen drüber. Willkommen im neuen Aufmerksamkeitsregime.Lenz Jacobsen (ZEIT ONLINE)
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