Over on the disinformation platform, its owner Elon Musk claims “Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler”.
This post got 111 million views and apart from this claim being factually incorrect, it also shows that politicians of the remaining free countries should not support his social medium by posting there, because it is not about promoting free and informed dialogue — it is about spreading false myths using an algorithm design by Elon Musk to benefit Elon Musk.
Maybe he was saying it because he thinks it's true, but maybe he was saying it because he thinks it's clearly absurd and it should be clear why the logic makes it absurd.
There's an obvious parallel to the opposite point made routinely by socialists: That Hitler did X therefore everyone who does X is like Hitler and therefore a fascist. Reductio ad Hitlerum was a common logical fallacy before the 2010s and 2020s, but really ramped up in that era to unprecedented heights.
Consider that the entire Earth's establishment media sources decided to claim that Musk raised his arm in salute, Hitler raised his arm in salute, therefore Musk is Hitler. He's been a direct and personal recipient of such fallacious logic.
But I dunno. I was never on Twitter on the first place, and I don't follow tweets by Elon or anyone else. Maybe he's just an absurdly literal person who never says anything but robotic expressions of literal truth. That would be an odd thing for a snake oil salesman to be, however.
There's an obvious parallel to the opposite point made routinely by socialists: That Hitler did X therefore everyone who does X is like Hitler and therefore a fascist. Reductio ad Hitlerum was a common logical fallacy before the 2010s and 2020s, but really ramped up in that era to unprecedented heights.
Consider that the entire Earth's establishment media sources decided to claim that Musk raised his arm in salute, Hitler raised his arm in salute, therefore Musk is Hitler. He's been a direct and personal recipient of such fallacious logic.
But I dunno. I was never on Twitter on the first place, and I don't follow tweets by Elon or anyone else. Maybe he's just an absurdly literal person who never says anything but robotic expressions of literal truth. That would be an odd thing for a snake oil salesman to be, however.
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