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babylonsister

(172,761 posts)
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:19 AM Mar 2025

Musk Boosts Claim That Hitler Wasn't to Blame for Holocaust


Musk Boosts Claim That Hitler Wasn’t to Blame for Holocaust
REALLY?
The MAGA millionaire reposted a tweet saying “public sector workers”—not Hitler—caused atrocities.
David Gardner
Chief National Correspondent
Published Mar. 13 2025 6:40PM EDT


Elon Musk has reposted a tweet suggesting that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong were not responsible for murdering millions of people.

The post amplified by Musk to his 219.6 million followers blamed “public sector workers” for the atrocities carried out in the name of some of the most barbarous tyrants in modern history.

It was unclear whether the DOGE boss was seeking to defend the infamously ruthless former leaders of Germany, China, and the Soviet Union, or seeking to encourage debate over the mass killings carried out in their names.

The MAGA millionaire shared a post on his X platform by an account with the username @TheAlice Smith that read: “Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-boosts-claim-that-hitler-wasnt-to-blame-for-holocaust/
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Musk Boosts Claim That Hitler Wasn't to Blame for Holocaust (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2025 OP
Won't be missed orangecrush Mar 2025 #1
Keep digging , idiot. 2naSalit Mar 2025 #2
And Charles Manson didn't kill anyone, either. YodaMom2 Mar 2025 #3
That's because . . . peggysue2 Mar 2025 #4
And it's scary how deranged and unhinged he's getting every single day. Initech Mar 2025 #19
So the SS and the prison guards at Auschwitz were "public sector workers" Ocelot II Mar 2025 #5
Apparently the Nazi party paramilitary force was made up of public sector workers sarisataka Mar 2025 #18
Self own: so the people working right below authoritarians applegrove Mar 2025 #6
Exactly! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #8
Thanks. applegrove Mar 2025 #10
Yw! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #11
Elon was trying to justify firing "public sector workers." sop Mar 2025 #7
Of course, the public sector workers,were "just following orders" when they murdered the victims. Ping Tung Mar 2025 #9
I don't even know Bettie Mar 2025 #12
Padded cell time Bettie Mar 2025 #13
Yesterday this Trump wannabe lost BIGLY in the Federal court. GreenWave Mar 2025 #14
Hitler - Meth Tweaker Deluxe MayReasonRule Mar 2025 #15
Wowzer! RobinA Mar 2025 #16
Yep MayReasonRule Mar 2025 #21
So he's basically saying, Free Manson JCMach1 Mar 2025 #17
WHO GAVE THE ORDER??? Passages Mar 2025 #20

YodaMom2

(195 posts)
3. And Charles Manson didn't kill anyone, either.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:26 AM
Mar 2025

His followers did. Does that absolve Manson?

Is he preemptively exonerating himself (and Trump) for what their fanboys are no doubt gearing up to do?

peggysue2

(12,533 posts)
4. That's because . . .
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:26 AM
Mar 2025

Elon is a frigging Nazi apologist if not an outright Nazi himself.

Fuck that guy!

Ocelot II

(130,570 posts)
5. So the SS and the prison guards at Auschwitz were "public sector workers"
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:26 AM
Mar 2025

and they, not Hitler, were responsible for all those murders? The "just following orders" guys and not Hitler? My God, why can't we make Melon Husk go away?? He's as much of a menace as Trump; the only difference is that he's an overt and proud Nazi while Trump tries to pretend he isn't one.

sarisataka

(22,696 posts)
18. Apparently the Nazi party paramilitary force was made up of public sector workers
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 01:10 PM
Mar 2025

and entirely on their own initiative, with no direction from leadership, created an entire start to finish process dedicated to the extermination of human beings. Somehow this slipped under the notice of the leadership...

The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless.
-Adolf Hitler

applegrove

(132,267 posts)
6. Self own: so the people working right below authoritarians
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:27 AM
Mar 2025

are responsible? So Trump is not responsible for anything that happens under his watch like measles or the spreads of a newly evolved AIDs virus, or people who die because MEDICAID is cut, or on and on and on. That leaves Musk as responsible.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
9. Of course, the public sector workers,were "just following orders" when they murdered the victims.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:30 AM
Mar 2025

Whose orders? Was Adolph busy giving a botany class about the joy of growing dandelions?

GreenWave

(12,644 posts)
14. Yesterday this Trump wannabe lost BIGLY in the Federal court.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:38 AM
Mar 2025

Pretty much called a coward for not showing up for interrogation. Judge threw book at him. Return ALL to their jobs. List them one by one and give them each a letter saying they were illegally fired!

So the Trumpsters shoot this hateful shit out their mouths to distract from yesterday's devastating defeat.

RobinA

(10,478 posts)
16. Wowzer!
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 12:14 PM
Mar 2025

That guy (Hitler) has a problem. Is that something he could be seen doing regularly?

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