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   tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 09:11:21 JST tinydoctor

   Fuck #ADL. Fuck them dead. Not literally, metaphorically. it's an awkward gesture, not a death threat, but again, we understand how that might put Quislings on edge.

   #elonsnazisalute

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 22:24:30 JST tinydoctor

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     • Riesl

     @riesl The last scene of Dr. Strangelove comes to mind, but it ain’t a movie and it ain’t funny.

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     Riesl (riesl@pixelfed.de)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 22:24:31 JST Riesl

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     It was unambiguous. It was extremely clear. He did it twice. This is so fucked up...
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:02:51 JST tinydoctor

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     @riesl I have a friend who was a fervent Musk fanboi. A gay man who has always been a "liberal". I drove him to the drugstore yesterday just as the clip of Musk throwing the Heil hit Mastodon and Bluesky. I showed him the clip, he shook his head, said "I thought he was backing Trump to protect Tesla and SpaceX, but I guess he drank the Koolaid.." I said, "He is the Koolaid, and you drank it. After all, Werner Von Braun wasn't a Nazi, he just liked building rockets. With slave labor."

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     Riesl (riesl@pixelfed.de)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:02:53 JST Riesl

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     Yeah, exactly. I agree - that does come to mind, and IRL it is not funny. It first seemed, as I read posts on Mastodon about musk making the salute, that maybe it was at least ambiguous, that maybe I would see it and have at least some doubt that he did it explicitly. But it was explicit, beyond any doubt. It makes me fear for everyone so much more.
     
     There is no way we can stop genocides and wars if so many of us are so desperate to dissociate from crisis that they can deny what is happening now. My working model of what I am supposed to do with my life keeps changing rapidly because the circumstances keep looking more and more dire around us...
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:06:28 JST tinydoctor

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     • Riesl

     @riesl My friend did say he had retired his "Don't Bet Against Elon" tshirt.

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:13:35 JST tinydoctor

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     @riesl My friend just wants to cozy up in his bunker and pretend all this isn't happening. That the flying car future can be real if we wish upon a billionaire. I've known this man for almost fifty years, and I'm so mad at him that I'm ready to tell him "With friends like you..."