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    So apparently he thinks Nazis are a joke. But since he’s a Nazi, that just means he’s a joke! A bad one, I’m afraid, but a joke nonetheless.

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      I suspect the idea is to disarm the folks who are still in denial by making these familiar names sound all cute and cuddly. (He’s not anywhere near successful at pulling it off thankfully, but it strikes me as the kind of thing they’d try to do in subtler ways through their social media pipelines, where there are reportedly stages of indoctrination.)

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        I don’t know, I think that’s giving this idiot too much credit. He thought if the last line, giggled like a moron, and hastily threw the rest of the post together.

        The invisible hands behind the curtain, though? Yeah, their motivations would match what you said. And no, I don’t think Jews run the world, to be clear. I just think the public faces of this admin are all stupid as piss, so somebody’s got to be calling the shots. That’s all.

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          What? I was talking about what used to be called alt-right recruiting channels. This is the kind of thing they would do (but more skillfully). I got the impression he heard what to do from them and then went and botched it, trying it out.

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      Pretty much. He thinks if he makes fun of it first, everyone will see it being silly.

      Why does this man have twelve children and every single one is more mature than he is?

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    I would have found these clever when I first joined Reddit as a teenager

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    Ah, I see now. Elon Musk intended to tell some bad puns at the inauguration but then he accidentally did a couple of Nazi salutes instead. Puns are so easy to mix up with other things, which is why now he’s mixing up puns and an apology. It’s a mistake that anyone could make.

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    ADL complains about this for “Holocaust something” but doesn’t complain about normalizing nazi salutes which is highly encouraging to extreme right.

    I’ve never seen these puns reported or heavily downvoted on internet before, and they are not “oven jokes” about holocaust.