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It’s absolutely a Nazi salute. I’m about 90% sure he did it the way he did just to stir the shit because he’s an attention seeking asshole wanting to be the main character. Only 10% remaining because he doesn’t think he’s a Nazi despite sharing a shitload of their fascist traits.
He did it twice very emphatically with anger in his face. He did it as an act of defiance. The only way it makes sense is if he was using it as his public declaration that he was with the nazis.
Oh he was definitely declaring a side.
My favorite this was watching all the people claim “It was a Roman salute! It means he is giving his heart to the people!” Motherfucker the Roman salute is the Nazi salute. They are the same thing. The Romans used it, then the Italian Fascist party used it and Hitler adopted it in Germany and called it the Sieg Heil.
The Romans didn’t even use it. It’s from a French painting of Rome that became popular after the revolution. It existed for barely a hundred years, and was hardly used by anyone, until it was adopted by fascists and Nazis.
Really could use Occam’s razor with this bullshit. If you gotta make so many assumptions, then you’re likely not on the correct path.
Elon musk is a Nazi who did a Nazi gesture. Simple as.
And even if it was the “Roman salute”, didn’t they introduce the fasces? Isn’t it just a symbol for “power”? Although I read, that it initially should signal “unity and harmony”. Hmm, lost in translation
The salute is just one piece of the story. Musk is actively supporting right wing fascist and white supremacy groups in UK and Germany with funding. His activity on social media is just as bad.
Even if he didn’t obviously do Fascist salutes while high on ketamine, he has a deeper troubling history.
What’s the controversy? The man’s entire body of work is authoritarian to the core. Are we debating whether this was a nazi salute or an awkward attempt at a nazi salute? Who cares about the gesture, look where he invested his money, what he says on a daily basis. Is there anyone who doesn’t recognize the fascism? If you don’t recognize it, I got news for you…
Elon Musk’s NAZI salute. There is no controversy
The salute done by the Nazi? The nazi Elon Musk? By Elon Musk the Nazzzzi? Nah he was just saluting his Nazi friends, he’s not a Nazi himself
That is why I love wikipedia, this will be there forever (or atleast in the hard drives of people who backed it up). Not the sort of stuff you can find it in government backed projects. Happy to be an annual donator.
¡Yo tambien! Also I paid for WinRAR. It’s not much, but it does make me feel a little better about myself.
In my opinion, Musk does not consider himself a Nazi, despite his involvement in far right causes and patent racism.
I think he just can’t stand the idea of a world where other people can tell him what he can and can’t do. This was him going out there to show the world, “I can do whatever I want” with the most extreme example he could come up with. The “lol you call everyone a Nazi” trolling afterwards was icing on the cake for him.
I say this not to excuse or condone this in any way. It clearly was 100% intended as a Nazi salute.
He’s a pathetic creep whose mental development stopped in adolescence. See also: Stephen Miller.
The distinction between ideological Nazis vs capitalists who are going with it for money is a pointless one; do you know what we call people who supported Hitler for business reasons?
We call them Nazis.
similarly, I don’t think he is a nazi in the sense that he believes in the same things and means it; I think he’s a nazi because he supports nazi ideology and verified nazi people, and he’s just shitty to everybody of a different class regardless of race
He actively supports all the big nazi “causes” you can think of, and is a privileged white man from south africa, whose companies have been sued an abnormal amount of times for racial discrimination, and who constantly talks about white replacement theory while artificially having as many white children as possible, and you don’t think he’s a nazi???
People really do be giving rich people every conceivable benefit of the doubt in existence. Holy fuck.
IDK if you surround yourself with nazis, use your wealth and influence to further their power, and then do a fucking nazi salute I’m not sure what to call you but a nazi.
Maybe not an “ideological” nazi, but he’s definitely in the party…
I have no strong opinion on whether this was or was not intended to be a nazi salute. The bigger issue in my opinion is how Musk reacted to people asking him to confirm that it was not intended to be a nazi salute. Deflection, jokes, ridicule, and tacit approval. All served to bolster the white supremacists watching – and this, for sure, was intended.
Imagine STILL thinking this is a “controversy”.
Propaganda has poisoned people’s minds and I’m afraid it’s permanent.
Was this not controversial??
More USA drama! Noice. It’s clear what he did, there is no controversy.
You fool yourself.Not just USA drama. He’s been involving himself in global politics.
This is like reading a drunken attempt at a haiku or something
Someone said to me once, “he’s just a awkward guy!” Give me a fucking break.
There’s lots of awkward nazis, it’s not uncommon.
Oops! I slipped and fell and accidentally did a Nazi salute. And then refused to clarify I didn’t do one
Oh yes, the Terran Empire salute.
I’m never buying a Teslar.
Why don’t u just ask the guy if he is a nazi…I mean he is still alive…
This whole administration feels like highschool. You think he would give an honest answer when presents with a forthright question like that?
This happened again, or are we looking for things to be outraged by just because it’s a Sunday?
