Elon musk salute

[EasterIssland]

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

More fool them. Voting against your own interests.

FFS are the fascist apologists still at it? Yes, it was a fascist salute. By a man who may be a fascist or at least playing at being a fascist, which is just as repugnant (and dangerous). We already know that. The German press knows it, historians and scholars of fascism know it, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers know it.

Yeah. He's a habitual user of ketamine and weed. He may use other drugs we don't know about but he's admitted these ones.

I think the opposite is true. Bringing people in actually increases hostility and threatens peace. Your theory would create chaos, if there are no borders, and people should be welcome in because they’re unhappy in their own countries. It wouldn’t work - Multiculturism doesn’t work. People don’t integrate.

Any case, who cares if the Democrats are fascists too, personally I am not invested in distinguishing one American politician from another, unless, like Musk, they try to interfere in our affairs.

Whatever his intentions, it must be very disturbing for Jewish people, particularly. I imagine Jewish organisations fighting antisemitism will be deeply concerned that such behaviour isn't normalised.

The ADL describes the gesture as "awkward, not a Nazi salute".

https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403

Yep. So far we've had:

Its because he's autistic.
He was throwing out love from his heart.
He didn't say Seig Heil when he did it.🤯
It might be because he does drugs.
My Jewish family aren't bothered by Nazi salutes.
Everybody does it: Churchgoers, Santa, toddlers, Cat dolls.
It's because hes "awkward."
He's reclaiming his body's right to make whatever movements he wants it to, free from censorship.🤪
Even if he did do a Nazi salute, people should choose not to be offended. It's not that bad.

I may have missed something out.

It is possible that the ADL are more interested in the continued military, financial and political support of Israel than in rooting out the odd demented anti-semite in Trumps circus. Only a theory.

Once you see the nazi salute, you can’t unsee it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/k3dm_2wqMuI?si=wZ51DCFfo9MtBzM3

It is possible that the ADL are more interested in the continued military, financial and political support of Israel than in rooting out the odd demented anti-semite in Trumps circus. Only a theory.

Musk isn't an antisemite though. He's been really supportive of the Israeli hostages and the Bring Them Home campaign including meeting relatives. I posted a clip upthread.

You missed the part where you aren't the mighty all seeing eye that knows everything and we listed above are allowed to not be offended by a stupid drug taking troll.

It's not a Nazi salute because he visited Auschwitz
Here are a load of other people doing something that is nothing like what Musk did and I'm going to claim that they are doing Nazi salutes too. If they're not doing one, that means he wasn't either.

I am very surprised. We don't know for sure what Musk intended, but if it inspired others to feel free to do it it there would be blatant antisemitism. As a pp posted a released Trump fan in an offensive and antisemitic T shirt, it's clear that there are people who hold these views.

WTF!

I don't actually think he made a nazi salute. He is clearly touching his chest at first and then he makes the gesture that the end look like a salute. So it looks like enough of a salute to get everyone talking but not enough to convince the followers.

I think it's just noise. Designed to distract. The "you can't say anything anymore" crowd will be giving out about everyone being called a nazi these days.

Similarly, others are allowed to be offended and alarmed by drug taking trolls in power doing Nazi salutes @sparrowse.

Not being openly antisemitic doesn't mean you can't be a fascist. The German fascists (extreme right nationalists) were, but other forms of extreme right nationalism are available. Like Musk I grew up in apartheid SA. He was in Pretoria I believe, I was in Johannesburg. Joburg was and presumably still is very much a city in which middle class Jewish people were very prominent. As a middle class boy he would have grown up among them. Many white people were fine with Jewish people but still enthusiastic proponents of/beneficiaries of apartheid.

And the LGBT community. And non-white people. And women.

Israel was a supporter of the Apartheid regime in SA, if only for geopolitical reasons.

Check this out. I'm convinced.

substack.com/redirect/3f3ed338-e12e-4018-a378-d3aef45186db?j=eyJ1IjoiNDFhdm8ifQ.dv5w1KdQqIJA9N23cnoUictFiIaRuUvflX1Ds144oCE

Yes, I think there will be strong concerns expressed from organisations that represent all minorities that were persecuted under the Nazi regime over the next days. It maybe there is initial shock and people are not sure how to respond.

As the day has progressed and I watch it again, I'm more convinced this is a Nazi salute now.

It's beyond comprehension that this is actually something someone would consciously do on a world stage. There's a tiny part of me open to some amazing explanation. I don't think he'll give one though. More concerning really.

Indeed they were, including selling arms to them. It's a complicated story.

That was to @triesnottobecynical