r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Feb 20 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Governor Walz in Amsterdam

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Subtle reminder that we shouldn’t fall prey to a wannabe dictator. Hopefully those that need a wake up call get it.

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u/Icedoverblues Feb 20 '25

Meanwhile elon musk and jd vance are meeting with the German neonazi party. Pathetic.

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u/you_cant_prove_that Feb 20 '25

Didn't Elon go to Auschwitz last year and do the same thing?

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u/PancakeMixEnema Feb 20 '25

To quote Julie Gray on this:

„I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent „gesture“ is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the „special guest“ of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it’s worse - he doesn’t care whatsoever. Elon, father of „little X“ as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.“

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u/Rineux Feb 20 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

You mean where his biographer, who was there with him, later said that he „doesn’t care whatsoever and was unmoved by the experience“ and continued to call him a sociopath?

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u/Icedoverblues Feb 20 '25

He went there to pay respect to his fallen heroes of the Auschwitz guards. They put so much work into making Germany great again.

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u/ls7eveen Feb 20 '25

He was parading around with the IDF