While I don't agree with the "this shouldn't be on HN" part, people thinking Elon is a Nazi isn't exactly unreasonable. He literally sieg heil'd an audience at Trump's inauguration. Twice. Call it trolling or whatever you like, but he did it and the outcomes for such an act are ... predictable.
The way people continue to use X is a perfect example of Arendt's banality of evil: that moral wrongs can be enabled by ordinary people, acting through conformity, careerism, convenience, and thoughtlessness.
They don't have any deep ideological commitment or overt cruelty, they just don't care enough. They justify themselves with claims such as "it's the way things are," "not my role," "everyone does it", or that it doesn't really make a difference.
But if everyone on X that doesn't explicitly support fascism and Nazism stopped using it, it would make an immediate difference. X would turn into something more like Truth Social.
It is a neat story about Richard Feynman. What about it reads as "Nazi" to you?
The complaint is about it being a post on X.
Some people around here really do think that way about Elon Musk.
While I don't agree with the "this shouldn't be on HN" part, people thinking Elon is a Nazi isn't exactly unreasonable. He literally sieg heil'd an audience at Trump's inauguration. Twice. Call it trolling or whatever you like, but he did it and the outcomes for such an act are ... predictable.
I don't recall this "richard feynman" guy ever publicly supporting trans rights
The way people continue to use X is a perfect example of Arendt's banality of evil: that moral wrongs can be enabled by ordinary people, acting through conformity, careerism, convenience, and thoughtlessness.
They don't have any deep ideological commitment or overt cruelty, they just don't care enough. They justify themselves with claims such as "it's the way things are," "not my role," "everyone does it", or that it doesn't really make a difference.
But if everyone on X that doesn't explicitly support fascism and Nazism stopped using it, it would make an immediate difference. X would turn into something more like Truth Social.
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