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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
Elon really is a nazi and with supremacist
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
— (@sonja-k.bsky.social) 2026-01-09T16:58:18.371Z
https://religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-just-endorsed-blatant-white-nationalism-and-the-silence-is-deafening/
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
Again, because so many are insistent that “retweet does not equal endorsement,” it’s important to note that Musk added the ‘100%’ endorsement emoji.
At this point, we’re so desensitized to Elon Musk’s open endorsement of blatant white nationalism that we may be tempted to shrug and move on. Beginning in 2022, he steadily embraced more explicit shades of Great Replacement rhetoric, though over the last two years it’s become even more virulent and almost entirely unvarnished. His early flirtations generated major media controversy and pushback. Today, it’s happened too many times to count. Nobody’s surprised anymore—this is the man after all who gave a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration....
Musk’s retweet comes as he is angling to hitch his wagon back up to MAGA and the GOP for the 2026 midterms, dissipating speculation that, with the crash-out of DOGE and his public feud with Trump, he might form an independent party which could split the right-wing vote.
At times like this, feeling numb to the missives of Musk and so many others is understandable. For many, it’s a protective measure. But as we’re able, we must continue to bear witness, and to let our outrage, our grief and our determination fuel our resistance as we reach together, in ways large and small, for a better world.
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they will be 1000x times [sic] more hostile and cruel when they are a majority over whites. White solidarity is the only way to survive.
Again, because so many are insistent that “retweet does not equal endorsement,” it’s important to note that Musk added the ‘100%’ endorsement emoji.
At this point, we’re so desensitized to Elon Musk’s open endorsement of blatant white nationalism that we may be tempted to shrug and move on. Beginning in 2022, he steadily embraced more explicit shades of Great Replacement rhetoric, though over the last two years it’s become even more virulent and almost entirely unvarnished. His early flirtations generated major media controversy and pushback. Today, it’s happened too many times to count. Nobody’s surprised anymore—this is the man after all who gave a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration....
Musk’s retweet comes as he is angling to hitch his wagon back up to MAGA and the GOP for the 2026 midterms, dissipating speculation that, with the crash-out of DOGE and his public feud with Trump, he might form an independent party which could split the right-wing vote.
At times like this, feeling numb to the missives of Musk and so many others is understandable. For many, it’s a protective measure. But as we’re able, we must continue to bear witness, and to let our outrage, our grief and our determination fuel our resistance as we reach together, in ways large and small, for a better world.
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The Guardian writer puts two of today's billionaire NAZIs pol-watchers into context:
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
by Chris McGreal
The Guardian, January 26, 2025
Excerpt...
They include Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”.
David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk.
Among them, Musk stands out for his ownership of X, which is increasingly a platform for far-right views, and his proximity to Trump, who has nominated Musk to head a “department of government efficiency” to slash and burn its way through the federal bureaucracy.
Snip...
The week before the inauguration, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, described white South Africans as the “most racist people on earth”, questioned their involvement in US politics and said Musk was a malign influence who should go back to the country of his birth.
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The South Africa into which Musk was born in 1971, and to which Thiel moved as a child from Germany, was led by a prime minister, John Vorster, who had been a general in a fascist militia three decades earlier that allied itself with Hitler.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa
They have used their wealth to turn America into an Apartheid, fascist state.
Traitor is Orange.