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Elon musk salute

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EasterIssland · 20/01/2025 22:20

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

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Tekbrobillionaire · 21/01/2025 00:32

crumblingschools · 21/01/2025 00:20

@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

Yeah maybe but it kinda looks like he needed to turn round to address the opposite side of the room to thank everyone from his heart and which some have decided no it was definitely a Nazi salute!?

Which it clearly wasn’t but don’t let that get in the way of a good old conspiracy theory. Leftists don’t like it much when the boot is on the other foot 😉

haters gonna hate!

OpheliaWasntMad · 21/01/2025 00:34

Lots of reasons why someone might stretch out one arm in a gesture to a crowd.
Nazi salute wouldn’t be the most obvious or only reason.
I watched it again. He said “my heart goes out to you “ to the crowd. I don’t think that’s a Nazi salute - it’s an awkward gesture

Tekbrobillionaire · 21/01/2025 00:34

CheekyHobson · 21/01/2025 00:23

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.

Ah he’s not the right kind of oligarch influencing and espousing political views.? Got it.

Over40Overdating · 21/01/2025 00:35

@Tekbrobillionaire don’t mind boots as long as they aren’t jackboots.

You’re doing a nice job of lacing the ones that ketamine addled, thin skinned twat is wearing. 😉

whynotwhatknot · 21/01/2025 00:35

fuk off with autism as an excuse he knows damn well what hes doing

scoobysnaxx · 21/01/2025 00:37

SassK · 20/01/2025 23:01

He's physically very awkward in his gestures. He said he was directing love as he threw his arm out. Nothing to see here.

Seriously 😂😂😂

Ger1atricMillennial · 21/01/2025 00:37

Being generous I could see how someone could get excited and just fuck it all up on the spot. I wonder if a Democrat did this or something similar whether it would be interpreted in the same way.

At best he is hoping we will talk about this and not the concequences of the removal of the US from the Climate treaty. But I wonder how sensitive the new US leadership team are to the optics on this.

Still.. I am interested to hear Ben Shapiros take on it :)

scoobysnaxx · 21/01/2025 00:38

Tisthedamnseason · 20/01/2025 23:03

The Democrats have been in power for at least half of the last decade, they need to look at why the vote has gone like this. Why ordinary people are turning to the likes of trump and musk.

I hate this argument. "The other people didn't do a good enough job of convincing me not to vote for fascists".

This. Ridiculous argument.

scoobysnaxx · 21/01/2025 00:40

AfraidToRun · 20/01/2025 23:19

Hes a massive idiot but I don't think he knew what he did. I think he meant to throw his heart into the crowd but totally misjudged it. Don't get me wrong, he's a terrible human being but doing in on purpose would have no point, so I find is less plausible.

These fascists know exactly what they are doing. It is an international dog whistle.

Period.

Tekbrobillionaire · 21/01/2025 00:41

Over40Overdating · 21/01/2025 00:35

@Tekbrobillionaire don’t mind boots as long as they aren’t jackboots.

You’re doing a nice job of lacing the ones that ketamine addled, thin skinned twat is wearing. 😉

Thanks, it pays well 😉

Applecharm25 · 21/01/2025 00:42

He just tripped and fell into a Nazi salute.

crumblingschools · 21/01/2025 00:45

@Applecharm25 twice!

user22446688 · 21/01/2025 00:45

Ringpeace · 21/01/2025 00:15

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.

Yeah, I like the posters who are like:

A Nazi salute is 45° and Elon's arm was at 46.2° the first time, and 44.9° the second, so you're deluded in seeing a Nazi salute, He was clearly just throwing great big handfuls of his overflowing lurve and, having ASD, has no control over his arm.

echt · 21/01/2025 00:47

user22446688 · 21/01/2025 00:45

Yeah, I like the posters who are like:

A Nazi salute is 45° and Elon's arm was at 46.2° the first time, and 44.9° the second, so you're deluded in seeing a Nazi salute, He was clearly just throwing great big handfuls of his overflowing lurve and, having ASD, has no control over his arm.

Spot on.

noblegiraffe · 21/01/2025 00:47

He is posting on twitter knowing that people are commenting on his Nazi salute and he, who replies to everything hasn’t made a comment yet.

He would normally post a laughing emoji or something.

Is he just going to try to ignore it happened?

echt · 21/01/2025 00:48

Pretty much.

A big boy did it and ran away.

Ringpeace · 21/01/2025 00:48

Tekbrobillionaire · 21/01/2025 00:32

Yeah maybe but it kinda looks like he needed to turn round to address the opposite side of the room to thank everyone from his heart and which some have decided no it was definitely a Nazi salute!?

Which it clearly wasn’t but don’t let that get in the way of a good old conspiracy theory. Leftists don’t like it much when the boot is on the other foot 😉

haters gonna hate!

Meanwhile, far-right social media is creaming itself over Musk's gesture.

But what the fuck would the far-right know about fascist salutes?

user22446688 · 21/01/2025 00:49

noblegiraffe · 21/01/2025 00:47

He is posting on twitter knowing that people are commenting on his Nazi salute and he, who replies to everything hasn’t made a comment yet.

He would normally post a laughing emoji or something.

Is he just going to try to ignore it happened?

He wants to destabilise and sow confusion. He's revelling in the uproar.

Over40Overdating · 21/01/2025 00:54

@Tekbrobillionaire not in the currency you’ll need when the time to be held accountable comes.

Applecharm25 · 21/01/2025 00:56

Sure we can all just do an ould nazi salute by accident don't you know.

When I'm at work tomorrow and I'm giving presentation. I have to thank a team for their work. Sure in my excitement and gratitude I might fall into a nazi salute by accident.

It's never happened so far. But people say we can do these things by accident.

LadyWiddiothethird · 21/01/2025 01:03

It was a Nazi salute,he was as high as a kite,his eyes rolled uncontrollably at one point.Drugs will probably kill him.

FagsMagsandBags · 21/01/2025 01:14

Applecharm25 · 21/01/2025 00:56

Sure we can all just do an ould nazi salute by accident don't you know.

When I'm at work tomorrow and I'm giving presentation. I have to thank a team for their work. Sure in my excitement and gratitude I might fall into a nazi salute by accident.

It's never happened so far. But people say we can do these things by accident.

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Or maybe he really is like Father Ted in that episode where everyone thinks he's a racist and he's gesticulating at his window and which has a speck of dirt on it so from a distance it looks like he's gone full Hitler. So, yeah, maybe that's it because according to those who are all "haters gonna hate" because they think the sun shines out of the massive arseholes of the far right, we're all idiots who don't know what we saw, so it's far more likely that Musk went a bit Father Ted than the man who thinks Nigel Farage isn't right wing enough because he doesn't support Tommy Robinson did something a little bit Nazi.

Luminousalumnus · 21/01/2025 01:15

And these?

Elon musk salute
Combustivechicken · 21/01/2025 01:17

Apparently Musk stated last year he was ‘aspirationally Jewish’ and ‘Jewish by association’ (whatever the hell this means). Knowing this, as an actual, rather than an ‘aspirational ‘Jew, I’m now even more horrified/terrified having seeing his salutes. The international rise of the far right is horrific . There’s enough crazy, drug fuelled extremist bastards waging war and wrecking and destroying innocent lives throughout the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, without this psycho literally running the US

echt · 21/01/2025 01:20

Luminousalumnus · 21/01/2025 01:15

And these?

A photo is not a video.

If you can supply footage, you might have a point to make.

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