Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.

Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”

Musk later thanked Netanyahu.

    • Lauchs@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      If by too far gone, you mean I have actual current and historical knowledge and that makes your ignorant and facile comparisons harder to sneak by, uhhh, sorry? Knowledge has always been the bane of the purposefully ignorant.

      I get using nazi as a perjorative feels cool but goddamn you look foolish and worse, make those who support the cause equally childishly ignorant.

      I do hope you’ll grow up, read more and not just about what’s trending on your social media. Until, well, it’s pretty hard to take you seriously but I’d be pretty careful with making bold proclamations from a point of ignorance, just a thought.

      Cheers!

      Edit: Feeling a bit under the weather, I guess I’ll tell the boss I have ebola. As they’re both diseases and can be fatal (flu kills thousands a year) so they are clearly the same and distinguishing between the two would make me some sort of far gone medical elitist.