Elon musk salute

[EasterIssland]

Has he really done a nazi salute in the trump inauguration celebration? 🤦🏻‍♀️

….or just people with a different opinion.

We live in a country where criminals have been let out of prison so people who wrote bad words on Facebook can have their cell and you are worrying about Musk being a Nazi? Think we need to look closer to home.

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

And this is exactly what happened in Russia. And Putin is a full on fascist.

This thread is hysterical and unhinged. We don’t live in a fascist regime despite kiers best efforts. Try living in china, Iran, Russia. It’s sad and a bit ignorant that this is the key take away from the inauguration, whatever side you are on there was so much interesting stuff going on. I waved at my friend the other day in the park. If you had taken a still and out it on the local Facebook page then you could have whipped up a mob of pitch fork waving idiots to come after me.

I seem to have been quoted a lot over night.

Do I think Elon Musk is far right, threat to democracy, propagandist professional shit stirrer and all round mad man? Yes.

Do I think he did the salute on purpose? No

They are not mutually exclusive.

That’s such a great way of putting it

Some made the point that if Zelensky had done everything remotely like this, Musk himself as well as a whole bunch of Trump supporters would have been all over it accusing him of being a Nazi.

I can't help but think that's true.

You'd be fine with a whole stadium of people doing this in unison then?

Any evidence for this? And I mean evidence that an actual release of a criminal was linked to to "bad words on Facebook". Presumably that means that committed crime.

I won't be holding my breath.

They're all just trolls. Do whatever they want in plain sight and then deny it.

A Nazi salute is not a Nazi salute.

People in prison for inciting mobs to burn down hotels containing human beings are in prison for "writing something on Facebook".

The man who pays people to make him look good at video games is a "genius".

The greatest harm social media has done to us is to make people no longer ashamed of looking stupid.

Musk is a drugged up, dangerous man and I do think he did that gesture deliberately. However as far as Trump is concerned, he supports Israel wholeheartedly and his son in law is Jewish so although I really do not like Trump, he is not a Nazi.
Trump will get fed up of Musk within a couple of months and Musk will get very bored of the constraints of goverment, so let’s all hope he fucks off pretty quickly.

No, in Russia gangsters and kgb agents came to power. Business men had to toe the line or else.

This is the man naive and gullible mumsnetters we're falling over themselves to support in the last few weeks.

I hope those posters are thoroughly ashamed of themselves, and will think twice about supporting a died in the wool racist, fascist lunatic in future.

Two powerful, rich men in the US, probably a little bored with life - I can see bad things ahead. I think Musk in particular, wants a war. A world war. And Trump will facilitate.

Well the neo-nazis certainly recognised it, and they should know.

/Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration

The last vestiges of civilisation are being stripped away by the super-rich. Dietrich Boenhoeffer’s prediction that the stupid would undermine it has come to pass.

Evil people have weaponised the great mass of stupid and immature people that they themselves have diligently created since 1980.

And here we are. Farage/Brexit, Trump, Modi, Milei, Putin…all empowered by massed ranks of undereducated, ignorant - and synthetically angry people.

You waved at your friend with an entirely stiff arm raised above your head, and you palm facing downwards? And I guess you gave the chest slap as well beforehand too?

Bit weird but, ok. You do you, I guess?

(And it's Keir, btw. But you knew that too, didn't you?)

Because as both owner of the platform and perpetrator of the salute, he could be up on a charge in Germany and certainly have Twitter taken down there. By editing it out, yes made it harder for them to act decisively. It calculated behaviour.

Oh my God! So glad I never scratched that itch and got a Tesla as would have to sell it now for sure. Anyone with any decency should boycott X too.

Thats not a Nazi “like” salute though. That is a Nazi salute, and he did it twice.

I’d love everybody who supports this and thinks others are unhinged and hysterical to please upload a video of them doing this. Upload a video of you doing this salute and support Elon since you idolise him so much.

Upload it to your LinkedIn profile. Upload it where your boss can see it. Upload it where your family can see it. Go on. Show us.

The facts are prisoners were always going to be released due to the last Tory government not building any new prisons. The releases had zero to do with the riots.

And if you encourage people to go and kill someone/set fire to property/ riot, by writing it down or even shouting about it, you are breaking the law and will rightly be imprisoned.

The greatest harm social media has done to us is to make people no longer ashamed of looking stupid

True!

To me the hand gesture seemed like part of a very awkward dance he was doing, why he had such a pivotal role in the inauguration despite not being elected in any way, shape or form is weirder imo.

@ilovemoney but this wasn’t a still that makes it look like a salute, the whole gesture in the video looks like a salute. He didn’t wave his arm around like you would have done if you were waving to someone