Elon musk salute

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

@devastatedagain if only it were Russian bots, the sheer idiocy would then be excusable.

Strange that he managed to throw his heart out there.....in a very pronounced nazi salute.

Surely you would sweep both arms out to the crowd.

I've never stuck one arm out dead straight for any loving gesture. And he does it twice

I was just off looking at more photos! The actual Nazi salute was very definitely extended in front of the body. I found this nice picture of some German women photographed from the front for better comparison to Musk's sideways arm-stretch.

However ... the photo with the fur coats was taken in America, where, despite being keen "Friends of New Germany", they don't seem at all sure of how to do the salute. They're all over the place!

Musk is, of course, an American nowadays. I still don't believe he was doing a salute at all, but I'll have to grant that he might just be fucking useless at saluting.

Anders Behring Breivik 'clutched his chest' before giving a salute when he was on trial.

There's not an actual style guide that right-wing fuck-nuts consult before throwing up this revolting gesture.

Have a quiet word with yourself.

He massively supports the far-right AfD party, a party with strong Neo-Nazi links in Germany and is trying to get them elected. What do you say to that?

Yeah we can't blame everything on autism.

My brother is autistic and would never do a nazi salute. He's not an asshole

There is a whole subculture around this in Silicon Valley.

Linking Curtis Yarvin, who was one of the instigators:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

He looks like a Nazi David Brent.

Musks photo still looks like a nazi salute to me.

Like the comparison photos are just making me more convinced

As someone Said, if it wasn't a nazi salute why has it now been edited out of his speech?

How many were in the crowd when you spoke at a presidential inauguration and did you remember to use both arms so that the media couldn’t use it to drum up faux outrage for clicks?

@Tekbrobillionaire but even if you were only using one arm, you would sweep your arm round so you are pointing to all the crowd, not stick your arm out at that angle

Aw the little Elon bots with money in their user names are hard at work excusing the heart touching, autistic, arm waving, perfectly normal man who has EDITED THE SALUTE OUT OF FOOTAGE HE HAS SHARED from the mean and nasty accusations of people with eyes and sense enough to call a Nazi a Nazi.

History is repeating itself but to those who voted for this man by proxy, who are excusing him, who are thrilling that this is acceptable now, look at how this ended last time. And you’ll be held as culpable in the end as the rest of the foot soldiers.

The one thing to be grateful for is how excited this lot of goons are to show their true colours and giving the gig up a lot sooner.

The man is a phenomenally rich businessman. If he has enough judgement to get that right, then he has enough to avoid doing a nazi salute on global tv.

so that the media couldn’t use it to drum up faux outrage for clicks

I think the outrage at this totalitarian oligarch openly embracing the political beliefs he has been more quietly signalling for ages is completely genuine.

Didn’t he visit Auschwitz after saying that Jewish people push hatred against white people was the truth on Twitter? A whole load of big advertisers paused their advertising and he had to backtrack swiftly to get them to put money back in. Which included this PR trip to Auschwitz.

It does seem a little careless to accidentally make that claim, and to support AfD and to accidentally make a Nazi salute twice.

Musk for president 2028?

Maybe because it wasn’t an intentional Nazi salute- it was just a weird gesture and he doesn’t want it shown because he doesn’t want to be associated with Nazism ?

Come on, Musk defenders. Own it.
This is far from the first time trump has been bolstered, cheered and supported by nazis and white supremecists.

Own it.

They couldn't drum up faux outrage if he didn't do it! He did.

Even trump as bad as he is, managed not to give a nazi salute.

I avoided all of this today because I find Trump so unbearable to the extent that even hearing his voice makes me a bit angry. I caught the tiniest bit before managing to turn over when Newsnight came on and Trump looked frankly deranged. Preamble over. Anyway, read this thread and thought I'd go and have a look because surely it couldn't be that ba ... oh sweet mother of god he did a Nazi salute not once but twice! I mean there's absolutely no denying what we all looked at and you're all right, that was intentional, it wasn't a gaffe. It was f-ing scary is what it was.

He can't be as he wasn't born in the US.

Though trump could change the rules

But mush has said he doesn't want to be either

Yep.

Do some research on Stephen Miller, trump's right hand man. Even his own family disavows him. Sociopath.

None of these descriptions preclude him from being a very dangerous ideologue with already-evidenced far right sympathies. After all, a lot of the Nazis gave to charities, were nice to their families, kept the trains running on time, etc.
He is one of the richest men on the planet who is at the moment in step with the most powerful man on the planet. The fact that he has ‘visited Auschwitz’ should do nothing to make us think it is ok to look the other way.

Not president,

Supreme leader.