Somebody said out to me today that the Cybertruck “looks like it belongs to a landing party of space Nazis.” To me that seems like a pretty accurate description.
And it also explains several things. For example, why would Elon Musk make an ostentatious show of doing Nazi salutes in public, when his favorite president is claiming to be trying to stamp out antisemitism?
At first I thought Musk was just trying to align with our president’s true beliefs. After all, we’re talking about a president who hangs out with the virulent antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and who is also working about as hard as he can to make black history disappear.
But then the comment today about the Cybertruck, and it all fell into place. Musk does not make Nazi salutes in public because he’s an antisemite, or a white supremacist, or a neo-Nazi. He may be all of those things, but that’s not why he is doing it.
He is doing it to sell cars. Clearly he’s trying to promote the Cybertruck — a car that looks like it belongs to a landing party of space Nazis.
What better way to sell such a car than to get people thinking about space Nazis? And what better way to get people thinking about space Nazis than to actually be one?