People have asked me lately if I’ve seen news footage of the giant symbol erected haphazardly atop Twitter headquarters in SF. Yes, yes, I tell them. I sometimes watch it getting destroyed by the U.S. Army just to cheer me up.

Oh, they say they did Nazi that coming.

Twitter’s ‘X’ sign is taken down in San Francisco after neighbors filed 24 complaints

Why do I wish they had filed 88 complaints? I mean, have you noticed a certain pattern used in Tesla marketing?

• Charge Plugs: 88
• Model Cost: 88
• Average Speed: 88
• Engine Power: 88
• Voice commands: 88
• Taxi launch date: 8/8

That’s real. Not a joke. Seriously, let’s talk about the “X” for a minute.

Anyone who knows basic Nazi history can attest that the antisemitic use of a swastika started in the late 1800s with an “X” design. Elon Musk saying he is obsessed with such an “X” is very, very similar to a certain group of Swedes, Poles, Romanians, Finns, Germans… saying they used the swastika as an innocent “good luck charm“.

It was only meant as “good luck” to the Aryans who thought it would bring them victory in an existential fight to the death with the “unlucky” (non-swastika) races they hated and wanted to exterminate. That’s what “lucky” meant in swastika terms to those who proudly displayed their “X” affinity.

Perhaps even more to the point, the exploding swastika video at the start of this post is from Nazi party rally grounds. Do you know the peculiar and specific phrase that commonly was associated with it?

Do you?

DO YOU?

…the [new swastika app] tagline reads either like a desperate admission or an embarrassing troll. It references a colloquialism…that valorizes a spectacular but premature death.

The slogan promoted by Twitter today seems quite familiar, given Nazi history of disinformation.

Boom.

Twitter is banging a big Nazi drum, arguably the biggest since ’45. Can you hear it?

…death resulting from choosing to fight back against overwhelming enemy force rather than surrender; to choose to receive unilateral deadly force in conflict rather than end the conflict…

WWII was basically over in 1942.

The extremist and arrogant Germans were toast, yet they used the next three years for mindless self-harm, notably genocide based on racism.

…it was difficult to go to work, knowing [staff working for Elon Musk] would face racist slurs, references to slavery and offensive graffiti for 12 hours at a time. He said he made a verbal complaint to human resources in late 2021, but never heard back and nothing changed.

Hitler never changed.

We’ve talked about the symbol.

We’ve talked about the phrase.

But wait, there’s more when we look at the app.

That sounds like Twitter’s “blaze” strategy, to attract kids with an app they can use to harm others in a mad rush towards the “extreme freedom” of hitting bottom and commiting suicide.

The British soldiers said that God and Chocolate is what melted a Nazi child’s cold coal heart full of false fears and nightmares. Such stupid orientation of kids towards mass suicide was the result of disinformation, the kind of thing Twitter’s app is known for, right?

Speaking of running out of chocolate, consider how the Nazis tried to control all aspects of life through an “everything” synchronization plan.

The Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and quickly began trying to control all aspects of society. This internal consolidation of power to remake Germany as a Nazi state was known as Gleichschaltung. The term is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.” Under Gleichschaltung, German political, social, and cultural life were rearranged to serve Nazi goals.

While Twitter has fashioned an obnoxious “X” symbol different yet similar to Hitler’s adaptations of the same symbolism, they also just invoked the Nazi concept of Gleichschaltung.

New CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted that X would be “centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking,” a step toward Musk’s vision of creating the “everything app”…

A proprietary, centrally planned and controlled app (Gleichschaltung) to control all aspects of life (serving Twitter’s goals) is a terrible, terrible idea from a terrible human who wants to repeat the worst mistakes in history.

Twitter has been rebranded with:

1. Nazi symbol
2. Nazi phrase
3. Nazi Gleichschaltung app

Need I go any further? Do I need 88 more examples, or what?

Let’s be honest and just admit this is all about some very misguided people hoping to bring Nazism back without resistance.

…Twitter has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk.

Another repeat. I guess I did need to continue.

Twitter has been rebranded with:

1. Nazi symbol
2. Nazi phrase
3. Nazi Gleichschaltung app
4. Nazi persecution of critics

Did Hitler refuse to deny claims and instead viciously attack critics for reporting the rise of hate speech?

Yes, Nazis even setup a rushed Kangaroo court to behead anyone who stood against them. After seizing power the Nazis forced over 16,000 critics into regional prisons to be assasinated with hastily deployed guillotines.

At this point I probably don’t have to point out how Nazis really, really hate being called out for being Nazis.

Here, watch this again to cheer yourself up. Works for me.

Update January 2025:

The warning below about keeping Nixon out of office was prophetic. Elon Musk used the unmistakable Hitlergruß “Sieg Heil” (Nazi) salute today at a national political rally. And he has refused to deny his Hitler salute, instead attacking all criticism with traditional anti-semitic slurs such as calling them “dirty tricks“.

This Nazi salute is banned in many countries, including Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic as a criminal offense. The gesture remains inextricably linked to the Holocaust, genocide, and crimes of Nazis. Such illegal use or mimicry of Nazi gestures continues to be a serious matter that can result in criminal charges due to their connection with hate speech and extremist ideologies.

Update November 2023:

Elon Musk boasts to reporters that he thinks some of his best friends are Jewish, after he says he knows that the phrase is antisemtitic.

After this he spread and supported a “deadly” antisemitic comment on his swastika platform.

Elon Musk’s Disturbing ‘Truth’: The billionaire affirmed the deadliest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in recent American history.

Artists get it.

Update September 2023:

People are writing that the CEO, laying in a bed with Saudi Arabia, is now belting out obnoxious hateful anti-Semitic rants on the platform that he has covered in swastikas. Yeah, so anyone think maybe the Nazi logo, Nazi tagline, Nazi everything app, and Nazi persecution of critics all weren’t enough evidence of the Nazi problem already?

I mean what’s next for the swastika brand, SpaceX makes unhinged claims to be saving the world from war by meddling in and prolonging war?

The latest news has people asking yet again when he will be stopped.

Elon Musk has admitted that his refusal to grant Ukraine permission to use his Starlink satellite network was an attempt to prevent a drone attack on a Russian naval fleet…. Having apparently spoken to the Russian ambassador to the United States – who is reported to have told him that an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response – Musk is then said to have ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100km of the Crimean coast”.

Elon Musk was actively defending the Russian fleet (likely due to insistence of the Chinese government) with lies about escalation risk.

Meanwhile U.S. policy clearly has been to destroy military equipment used for firing missiles into civilian areas of Ukrainian cities. Remember how in April 2022 “U.S. intel helped Ukraine sink Russian flagship Moskva“?

Destroying Russia’s flagship should have cascaded into sinking far more ships. Instead, SpaceX self-admittedly interfered by helping Russian officials protect their warships in order to keep firing missiles at schools and hospitals. Odessa’s infrastructure used in grain and agricultural exports, for example, were under attack by this Russian fleet and impacting a lot of the world. Musk’s interference to keep the attacks coming, while ignoring every and all other military use of communication, exposes him as having very political intent.

Some see this at Logan Act levels of traitor-ship. It does remind me of the Chennault Affair, when Nixon went to Vietnam to keep the war going longer and kill more Americans.

The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953) is old and obscure. It was enacted by President Adams in 1799 very soon after George Logan, a doctor from Philadelphia, had setup meetings in Paris to “usurp the Executive authority” intending to influence France and defeat U.S. foreign policy objectives.

To obtain a Logan Act conviction, a prosecutor would need to show that the defendant sought to influence a foreign government with respect to a discrete “dispute” or “controversy” with the United States or would need to identify a “measure of the United States” that the defendant sought to “defeat.” …if the law is ever used, we suspect it will be used against the narrow class of people who are capable of causing serious damage to U.S. foreign policy.

It is almost never enforced but that should probably change now. Just think how it would have kept Nixon out of office.

Related: What Isn’t a Swastika?

In an otherwise fascinating read about changes in Charleston, I found the following paragraph… to be inconsistent and misleading.

But it’s impossible to ignore for both white and Black Americans trying to grapple with the country’s original sin, whether they are descendants of enslaved people or those who enslaved them.

False choice fallacy.

Don’t forget that slavery was banned in Georgia back in the 1730s, as well as banned in Vermont in the 1770s (first state to join the Union). Pennsylvania passed an Abolition Act in 1780.

Americans could be descendants of neither people enslaved, nor people who enslaved others. In fact, as an example that never gets enough attention, why not teach Americans that they could be descendants of people who abolished and fought slavery at every turn?

The idea that a white student should feel shame about being white is perpetuating the mistake of hiding the role of whites in ending slavery. That crucial detail could change everything. Ask a classroom of white kids, which one of you had relatives who fought against slavery?

Why should any white student be condemned to always ignore the contributions of a huge number of whites who were anti-racist, who did the right things?

One of the big mistakes in teaching American history is typically to leave out the John Brown equation, let alone a Robert Gould Shaw, Silas Soule or President Grant.

Who was Robert Carter and what did he do in 1791?

Seriously, ask any American who he was. Or who was Robert Gould Shaw? What did the men of the 54th do that was so important in a Civil War about slavery?

There were many white men who fought and WON the Civil War, yet somehow being white means shutting down all discussion of these heroes instead of celebrating them. President Grant was one of the greatest military and political leaders in history. Tell white kids to look up to him when they read about slavery.

But then again, when you read the SC State House education appropriation language, you can kind of see how screwed up they are.

…no monies shall be used by any school district or school to provide instruction in, to teach, instruct, or train any administrator, teacher, staff member, or employee to adopt or believe, or to approve for use, make use of, or carry out standards, curricula, lesson plans, textbooks, instructional materials, or instructional practices that serve to inculcate any of the following concepts… (7) meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist, or were created by members of a particular race to oppress members of another race…

There’s a long and sordid history of racism that calls people lazy. It’s no secret. It’s well known and often getting racists into big trouble.

EEOC alleged that African-American employees were referred to as “lazy”…

The SC government has taken court decisions about being called lazy and cooked up censorship in schools. They seem to want to prevent someone from criticizing “meritocracy” (encoded racism), or to prevent someone from criticizing “hard work ethic” traits (encoded racism).

Their point seems to be if racists aren’t allowed to directly call some race lazy then those racists will write laws that protect the ability to say that racism is a meritocracy, and that racism is just proof of a hard work ethic.

See the problems? It’s basically a gag rule that prohibits calling out racists for being racist.

It reads to me like a page out of the Puritan book saying a hard work ethic is evidence of God choosing someone for salvation.

…racist policies were leading to racist ideas, and racist ideas were leading to ignorance and hate. I realized people were creating racist policies out of economic, political and cultural self-interest. And those racist policies were leading to racial inequalities, disparities and inequities.

Saying someone is superior is an inverse of saying someone is inferior. White supremacists are inherently racist. So if policies are written to protect superiority language, even prohibiting calling it racist… that’s still racist.

Racists play some long and complicated games, you have to admit. But maybe people getting more and more interested in the slavery history of America, let alone the genocide, will help push through the nonsense.