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WTF Is Wrong With the People Still Defending Elon Musk?

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The world’s richest man called a notorious antisemitic conspiracy theory that inspired mass murder “the actual truth.” (Yes, he really did that.)

Sam Hoadley-Brill
Sam Hoadley-Brill
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Comparing demagogic figures to Adolf Hitler, or to the Nazis more generally, has been an internet cliché for almost 30 years. So frequently have Nazi analogies been misused that invoking Godwin’s

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Sam Hoadley-Brill

Sam Hoadley-Brill

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