Elon musk salute

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

The funny thing is I'd put money on you being one of those delusional people who tell yourself that you would have 'done something' on the right side in Germany in 1939.

Wonder how keen Keir starmer will be to pursue our special relationship with the US.

I think the Trump cult call this the “play dense” defence.

Don't think they are playing.

The likes of Musk don’t dislike being called a Nazi sympathiser or fascist. They hate the fact that Nazi is used as an insult.

To those saying 'try Russia, try China'. I know both places, Russia especially. That is why I'm so keen on retaining our checks and balances, to make sure the billionaire oligarchs are kept in check, for POTUS to remain fully accountable to his people, and for the US to not go full rogue as that will make us over here suffer bigly!

FFS doing a Nazi salute is not "politicly incorrect".

He needs to get his head out of the sand, take his courage in both hands and go work with the EU in a very serious and urgent manner. The more he appeases Reform would-be voters, the worse it'll get. I don't want him to be a 'peace in our time' appeaser. He needs to take a stand for goodness sake.

Trump likes very wealthy Jews who support him. I doubt he would be so keen on the impoverished Jews fleeing to the US and the UK to escape the pogroms.

Plus, if this time fascism doesn't have the Jews as their first target, his supporters will soon turn their sights on them. Remember the Proud Boys with their chants of 'Jews will not replace us' and Trump described them as 'very fine people'.

I pity the poor sods who are stuck with a Tesla, but if anyone buys one from hereonin, I will judge them.

Musk is an ideologue and completely unhinged.
Trump thinks he can control him. Trump is all about himself and America first and America ONLY. Not quite the same. I too don't think he's a nazi (at least he wouldn't think he is) but Trump is very much in love with power and that's his weakness which could lead him down a dark path. Who knows who will ultimately 'win' him over ideologically speaking.

I think Trump is a puppet for all the tech billionaires that were on the front row at the event! He will just be a front being controlled and told what to do!

@AfraidToRun oh it would very much have a point. He is signalling to certain groups that he (and by extension Trump) has their back. And such is his current power/sense of invincibility that he doesn't have to hide it. He doesn't mind being identified with AfD or English fascists, so why should he?

NO ONE DOES A NAZI SALUTE OUT OF AWKWARDNESS

Musk has the emotional maturity of a thirteen year old boy (on drugs). I've taught many teen lads who thought it was hilarious to do a Nazi salute and then pretend they were just putting their hands up to answer a question - usually on the anniversary of the release of Auschwitz, or other most inappropriate possible day for it. They all know what they're doing. So does Musk.

He got high and thought it would be hilarious, came down a bit, told someone to edit it out, and now he's just enjoying the attention. It was Trump's inauguration, but everyone's talking about him. What a win!

And just because he thinks it's hilarious to troll the world with this, doesn't mean he isn't also a bonafide nazi as well. He's in the troll/nazi overlap of the Venn.

What a fucking world we live in.

In Germany he would be in prison for three years for such a salute and rightly so .

I think there's a larger point within a larger point here. Elon and Trump are, at the very least, fascist-curious because it serves their narcissistic ends of more money and power and less accountability.

Whether he intended to do a Nazi salute or not, I don't know. But they're letting the debate and outrage rage on because it suits them and their agenda of muddying the waters enough that people can't see straight.

While attention was focused on this, they sat down and signed papers that were 100% carrying out the Project 2025 agenda which they were so busy disavowing during the election. They took the US out of the W.H.O. and the Paris Climate Accords. They pardoned or granted clemency to 1500 January 6 violent rioters (they were the only ones who were sentenced to jail). They disabled the app that allows people to apply for legal immigration. They fired or coerced staff to resign, putting a January 6 sympathiser in charge of the Washington DC Federal Prosecutors' office. And that's just to name a few.

People are very foolish indeed to ignore the real agenda. A bit of Fascism is just the cherry on top for them.

Maybe Musk should go to Germany and repeat this gesture and see what happens

Not with us intellectuals; or the significant Jewish contingent on the pro-Palestine marches either.

what I saw was an overexcited man who made a gesture of grabbing his heart and tossing it to the crowd.

Reminds me of:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/may/14/richard-herring-behind-the-joke-hitler-moustache

Not commenting on whether it was or not but does he have a frozen shoulder as he had to move his whole body backwards to elevate his arm. Reminds me of when my husband would be asked pre surgery to lift his arm above his head and he’d do something similar and then get stuck (in the consultants rooms not live tv).

Not commenting on whether it was or not but does he have a frozen shoulder

I think he has a brain frozen in1933.

They'll pay him well too so as far as he is concerned he's winning.

Lol Trump does not support black people. Trump supports Trump.