Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips Elon Musk: 'In this country, we hate Nazis'
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips Elon Musk: 'In this country, we hate Nazis'
"I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis," the Democrat said. "And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground.”
Summary
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Elon Musk after he made a gesture during Trump’s inauguration resembling a Nazi salute.
Musk and his allies dismissed the comparison, calling such accusations exaggerated.
Ocasio-Cortez, however, called the gesture unacceptable, emphasizing America’s history of opposing Nazis and the Confederacy.
She also condemned the Anti-Defamation League for defending Musk, accusing it of losing credibility.
Her comments sparked broader debate on symbols, gestures, and their implications amid Trump’s return to office.
Do we though? Do we really, truly, hate Nazis? The evidence so far is not that conclusive.
I hate Nazis, but I don't think the country as a whole hates Nazis.
We used to kill Nazis.
Now we cheer them, shrug them off, or make excuses for them.
This nation is pathetic.
I wonder how many conservative's ancestors fought the Nazis and now they're voting for Nazis.
Hey 2A enthusiasts. This is the moment you've been saying you need your guns for your entire pathetic lives. Where you at?
National identity is imaginary, powerful and useful. What she's choosing to claim with hers is badass. It's brash, in-your-face, heroic. Anti-apathy. And our world needs tonnes more of it.
As an activist irl, and someone targeted daily by nazis for years, AOC has no illusions about the current state of fash in the USofA, nor the history and current state of slavery and genocide in the world. Nazis (and other misogynists) will tell you she's ignorant and deluded, but you know she's not. She's manifesting, and the irony is lovely.
If you want to live in the country she does - against all the opposition activists for the common good constantly face - claim it as she claims it. Go find your allies irl and stop letting powerful men tell you there's no point trying anything. Your enemy says you're not a real person, but a thing God put on earth for them to use or destroy.
Tough love: Hope is hard work. Apathy is an easy trap that flatters your intelligence while it kills your spirit. Trust yourself and make a choice: who is your enemy and how are you going to treat them?
I love AOC but I sure hope she has a really good security team. Most of us hate Nazis, but a whole lot of Republicans are actually Nazis and they hate and despise her.
'In this country, we hate Nazis'
I wouldn't be so sure. Trump didn't win the election in a packet of cereals...
I want to live in the country she thinks she's living in...
Madam President 🖤
I wish that were true
Most based AOC, I wonder if the hate-thirsting over her will begin again now that she's becoming such a needed voice in these trying times.
Only asking because the memes about Ben Shapiro wnating her feet pics were funny as hell.
But seriously, can it actually not? I low-key hated all the "Let's just tell dumb blonde jokes with AOC instead of the dumb blonde." memes, cause it's like.. when we call Trump dumb, we can point to shit he actually did (like turn every American into a woman because he's too transphobic to know how to read), we aren't just saying it to say it.
Demonstrably not, AOC.
Damn straight. Every US WW II rolled in their grave twice when the sack of shit "Leon Hitler" went on stage. AOC, find a way to fix the Democratic party.
Weeeeellllll.... some of us do.
Her peers cordially shaked hands with them well enough... Nevermind the richest members of the oligarchy who funded and paid respects to their coronation personally.
I'd kind of be willing to wager that we actually hated nazis mostly because they were foreign, more than anything else. I think all that ww2 valorizing history schlock about me and the good old boys from ken-tucky and all over going out and killing all the nazis has totally cooked america's understanding of that war. I dunno, towards the end we did nuke a country, twice, in a totally superfluous and cruel act, and we also concentrated the domestic immigrant population that we were bombing during that war into camps. Everyone brushes over that part, though, and america is truly faultless. These aren't our true characters, being revealed, no, this is just some errant deviation from a much more civilized and reasonable norm! Surely, that must be the case.
Well yeah but AOC has darker skin, therefore dirty immigrant. Elon Musk of course is lighter and has more money so he's a trueborn American and his opinion matters.
Just don't look up where either of those people were born.
Are you sure about that?
This is America.
I wish that were true but here we are with President Musk giving a Nazi salute and Americans said, "yeah, this feels right".
Ya ya ya, keep arguing on the internet/news until your country becomes one of the shittiest in world under Trump. Do something about it irl.
is "rips" the new "slams"?
Her comments sparked broader debate on symbols, gestures, and their implications amid Trump’s return to office.
Yea, no one was talking about this before AOC said something. Thank god she was here to shine light on this little known situation.
But We love Jews, But Jews love Reps. But alt right reps hate Jews.
The elections after 2050....
Mr (reuse last name of current or past presidents) was only raping the teens (plural) for five minutes at a time so deserves recognition for that is for winning our elections this year twice! 100% of electoral votes and a huge 5% of all Americans voted in Alabama so he got 67% of the vote plus or minus 350%
Unless you are one. And there seems to be no shortage these days.
I hate people that side with corporations over unions. People like AOC.
Apparently not
Ohh, sick rip bruh, he'll never recover from that!
Let's hope it's true.. you just elected trump
