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Justice matters.

(10,023 posts)
Fri May 8, 2026, 01:42 PM Friday

Fascist propagandist eloon muskkk hoist or hoisted on his own petard...

Last edited Sat May 9, 2026, 02:27 PM - Edit history (2)

By his own AI robot for the entire world (on X) to see.




What a stoopid ignoramus!

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Fascist propagandist eloon muskkk hoist or hoisted on his own petard... (Original Post) Justice matters. Friday OP
Hitler was a Nazi-saluting f*cking Nazi, therefore unblock Friday #1
And, a minor point - 3_Limes Friday #2
Depends on if you're quoting Shakespeare or using modern English. Ilikepurple Friday #11
Wile E. called himself a "Super Genius" AZ8theist Yesterday #23
Thank you. Now I have no idea how to write it. lol Justice matters. Yesterday #26
Corrected it. Thank you! n/t Justice matters. Yesterday #25
Trump is a Republican ToxMarz Friday #3
shhhh niyad Friday #4
And/Or PEDO supporters. nt Cha Friday #16
Elon was trolling and being an ass as usual and didn't really mean it. That statement is too stupid even for him. Fil1957 Friday #5
Actually, he really is that fucking stupid. paleotn Friday #7
Blame it on the Ketamine Seinan Sensei Yesterday #20
Gee, Elmo, then why were German communists some of the first.... paleotn Friday #6
Welp... GB_RN Friday #8
The vast majority of German workers under Hitler and the Nazis blue-wave Friday #9
IOW -- All Socialists are Bernie. ananda Friday #10
Deport him ZDU Friday #12
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Friday #13
Also, it's bad logic. It would be like saying, Gaugamela Friday #14
Logic 101. If "A implies B" is true, "B implies A" may or may not be true. nt eppur_se_muova Friday #18
The Ketamin Kid seems to have lost the plot Hassler Friday #15
There was that "Nazi Salute".. no matter Cha Friday #17
I find it hard to believe it's really Elon Musk that posted this garbage FakeNoose Yesterday #19
[taps earpiece] ...This just in... Soul_of_Wit Yesterday #21
He is a very stupid man-child. nt City Lights Yesterday #22
Whenever I hear this crap I usually ask the speaker to give me 5000 words on the Night of the Long Knives. rsdsharp Yesterday #24
Elon Musk is Hitler. GoodRaisin Yesterday #27
As soon as the nazis came to power in Germany, they began sending socialists to concentration camps struggle4progress Yesterday #28
Ain't Done Nothing If You Ain't Been Called A Red struggle4progress Yesterday #29

unblock

(56,247 posts)
1. Hitler was a Nazi-saluting f*cking Nazi, therefore
Fri May 8, 2026, 01:57 PM
Friday

all Nazi-saluting f*cking Nazis are Hitler.

There. Fixed it.

3_Limes

(570 posts)
2. And, a minor point -
Fri May 8, 2026, 03:29 PM
Friday

Belive it or not it's 'hoist on his own petard'. Not "hoisted'. Yeah it sounds weird, but many expressions that we borrowed from French way back when don't translate directly.

(Mom was an English professor.)

Ilikepurple

(781 posts)
11. Depends on if you're quoting Shakespeare or using modern English.
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:36 PM
Friday

I thank you for providing this information in such a polite manner. I hope I’m able to do the same as I’m mot trying to cause offense. This is an attempt to put together what info I have on the subject, so read on if interested.
If one is quoting it’s likely originator Shakespeare, it’d be “hoist with his own petar(d),” but if following decades of popular use either “hoist” or “hoisted” is generally accepted. A petard is an explosive device rather than an impaling one, so it makes more sense to say one is hoist(ed) (raised up) “by” or “with” one rather than “on”. When I first read or heard the expression not knowing what a petard was, I imagined someone being lifted after being impaled by a sword. Yet, years after learning a petard is neither not an instrument by which you can impale someone and then lift them up like in Medieval fiction, it still comes to mind before the, let’s say, antics of Wile E Coyote. Wile E Coyote who has made a career out of being harmed by or with his own designs. I suppose he has at times hoisted himself “on” his own petard whenever he’s straddled an Acme rocket to catch the roadrunner, but that has different meaning.
Although “petar(d)has its roots in French, hoise and its past participle hoist (hoised) have there roots in Middle English (Germanic). I don’t believe the expression’s origin is French rather than another attributable to Shakespeare (Hamlet). Hoisted is now the past participle for hoist and commonly used with this expression. Justice Matters’s use here is commonly accepted outside of English literature classes and isolated cocktail gatherings.

Fil1957

(836 posts)
5. Elon was trolling and being an ass as usual and didn't really mean it. That statement is too stupid even for him.
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:03 PM
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Although I have to admit I believed he meant it, until I looked into it a bit further.

paleotn

(22,618 posts)
7. Actually, he really is that fucking stupid.
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:17 PM
Friday

It's not an act. It's a daily occurrence. See below why he ended up so rich despite it.

paleotn

(22,618 posts)
6. Gee, Elmo, then why were German communists some of the first....
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:15 PM
Friday

to get concentration camped?

Next time you get the urge to think Elmo or any of his compatriots are filthy rich because he's smart, stop yourself and think. No, he's not smart. He shows that day in and day out. He, like most billionaires, simply won the lottery. They were in exactly the right place, at exactly the right time, with the right idea they usually stole from someone else, and a bit more cutthroat than their competition. That's right, Bill Gates, I'm look straight at you too. It's the lottery fallacy. What we think is skill and talent is really just pure chance. And they deserve some kind of special dispensation? Oh, hell no!

GB_RN

(3,584 posts)
8. Welp...
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:20 PM
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I’m betting “Grok” gets a tune up in the near future. Can’t be countering Reichwing bullshit with actual facts, don’t ya know?

blue-wave

(5,491 posts)
9. The vast majority of German workers under Hitler and the Nazis
Fri May 8, 2026, 04:32 PM
Friday

saw their wages decrease during Nazi reign. The Nazis outlawed any independent worker movements and replaced them with state sanctioned (Nazi) approved organizations. These state approved groups were not pro-worker but were pro-production. The less you pay each worker, the more workers you can "employ." It wasn't slave labor but not the greatest situation for workers either.

Gaugamela

(3,568 posts)
14. Also, it's bad logic. It would be like saying,
Fri May 8, 2026, 05:05 PM
Friday

“Matt Damon is an actor, therefore all actors are Matt Damon.”

Or . . .

“Elon Musk is an addict, therefore all addicts are Elon Musk.”

Hassler

(4,955 posts)
15. The Ketamin Kid seems to have lost the plot
Fri May 8, 2026, 05:39 PM
Friday

He supports fascism. He's a fan of apartheid. Hitler is his role model, or should be.

FakeNoose

(42,247 posts)
19. I find it hard to believe it's really Elon Musk that posted this garbage
Sat May 9, 2026, 11:45 AM
Yesterday

This is a screenshot, so anyone can fake what is printed on there using his name.
Even I know how to do that, so does that make me smarter than Musk?

Soul_of_Wit

(135 posts)
21. [taps earpiece] ...This just in...
Sat May 9, 2026, 12:43 PM
Yesterday

I'm being told that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is actually Communist North Korea. Who knew?

rsdsharp

(12,086 posts)
24. Whenever I hear this crap I usually ask the speaker to give me 5000 words on the Night of the Long Knives.
Sat May 9, 2026, 01:31 PM
Yesterday

struggle4progress

(126,644 posts)
28. As soon as the nazis came to power in Germany, they began sending socialists to concentration camps
Sat May 9, 2026, 04:02 PM
Yesterday
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