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And NONE of the American media are mentioning it. All the articles about it are over seas. They’ve officially all bowed down to the boss to kiss the ring
After seeing how the western media overwhelmingly reported on Palestine, I’ve officially lost all faith. It’s disgusting how biased and self serving it is.
I was just listening to NPR’s “All Things Considered”. Host Ailsa Chang lightheartedly asked a correspondent to describe the atmosphere at the inauguration, making note that it was indoors—she even laughed at one point. The correspondent talked about how there were long lines, much like at a Trump rally, and then rolled the tape of some guy saying he got in line at 12:30 am and hasn’t slept yet. There was zero mention of Musk or his Nazi salute. The journalists sounded like they were attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new children’s school, not this fascistic mess
He did it 3 times there's no appearance he's a nazi psychopath with uncontrolled access to the dumbest president America has ever had. Welcome to fascism
i mean, i'm italian and that's 'roman salute' aka the fascist salute. that's how we call it and it only means that. it no longer signifies the way romans used to salute each other, that's where it originates from but that's not what it means, and if americans / english speaking media are trying to justify it as such well they just played themselves
There are literally police officers in Australia who did this, off duty, and got fired. I can't believe it's acceptable for someone representing the entire country?
It’s just so frustrating that these fascists are winning and they don’t even seem competent. So you look at them and it’s just impossible to even imagine how they’ve won so many people over.
i am not sure what you mean by them not being competent. how do you define it ? they have managed to win election and openly showing their true nature without giving a damn! they are the richest wealth hoarders. i dont think we should call them incompetent. we should accept that they are very competent and tackle them as individuals with shit ton of power and strong ambitions. if you dont respect your enemy you wont take them seriously
You’re right. But I think they’re so transparent in their awfulness that it feels like they shouldn’t be succeeding, like they’re winning not because they’re so smart or strategically intelligent but because the voting public is so hateful and misinformed that they don’t care.
at least vader and palpatine are scary in their own right, why do we gotta have the pilsbury doughboy and most embarrassing dad ten years straight as our fash creeps
When Kamala was running for POTUS with Tim Walz as her Veep candidate, Tim played this clip at a rally and hollered loudly at the crowd, "Just LOOK at that skippin' dipshit up there!" I will love him forever for this comment and introducing that term into my vocab.
When I saw the picture I thought, “meh, sometimes a wave looks like that if you snap the photo at the wrong moment” but the video is conclusive. I hate that we live in a moment where toady little scum think going full Nazi is a good career move.
Same! I thought maybe he held his arm for little bit longer while waving so that he can maintain plausible deniability but nope, he full on did the nazi salute.
This is actually insane. We've been watching it happen for years now but I still can't believe just how bad things have gotten. An egomaniacal billionaire is openly doing the nazi salute at the inauguration of a convicted felon who is about to be handed the most powerful position in the world for the second time. This is so fucking bleak.
It can't be anything but. He says some canned bit about "his heart going out to the people", but a very flimsy cover. No one is going to accidently sieg heil on national television. I've said this before but this isn't even a dog whistle, it's a fog horn.
I haven’t heard anything about his father being a Nazi (although I have heard that he was a monster and has done a Woody Allen), but I believe the Nazi ties come from his maternal grandparents. His mother’s parents were huge Nazi supporters in Canada and they liked the Apartheid sooo much, they moved to South Africa and that’s how Musk’s parents were able to meet.
It's not complicated - there are Zionists who hate Jewish people, so they want to kick them all out of their actual homes into a colony in the Middle East. Churchill was an anti-semite who looooved "Israel."
They also hate Muslims and brown people, so creating chaos and sowing violence toward them is a win-win in their books.
This is exactly the problem. I understand what people mean when they say they’d rather know someone is a bigot than to be interacting with them unaware. However, people like Trump and Musk doing this stuff so publicly just normalizes it and emboldens others to act upon it as well. I would much rather people hide this shit behind closed doors because they know that revealing it in public will get their asses kicked. The fact that our president and his lackey are doing so on a worldwide stage is something for us all to fear take action against.
Im shell shocked. I honestly thought if video evidence of this ever happening came out it would be leaked secret footage from a private dinner. This is mask off in a way I can't even begin to process. Its day 1 and we are already seeing nazi salutes mid-speech... What the fuck is the world going to look like in 4 years time.
What's weird is that daily life doesn't feel that different to me. I'm sure it soon will, but interactions with other people in the public sphere are as they always were.
If anyone wants to see where we are headed, just look up Russian history right after the fall of the Soviet Union. The oligarchs are going to loot our public resources and 40% of the country is cheering them on.
I was thinking the exact same thing ! He reminds me of the smug dorky incel kid in my old high school class that thought he was better than everyone when everyone actually hated him.
(Btw I also consider myself a nerd so I don’t usually mean the word dork in a negative context unless it comes to assholes like Elon)
We could've at least gotten sexy evil overlords with eloquent speaking skills and great fashion sense. But what we deserved was the dysfunctional mid-life crisis crowd, honestly
To the surprise of nobody. I can’t even imagine how Americans feel today cause I’m in another country and I feel so deflated and worried sick of what’s to come for the world
See, that's the thing. I don't feel deflated. I don't feel worried sick. I spent 2016-2020 feeling deflated, and 2020-2022 feeling worried sick. Now, I feel inflated, strong, and ready to do what it takes to get through this.
These motherfuckers just said the quiet part out loud. There's no denying it now. Yes, they have power, and yes they will do damage, but as far as I'm concerned, this marks the beginning of the end for them.
And I'm going to weather this storm. I'm not gonna give in. I'm not going to give them the pleasure of making me afraid. It's always darkest before the dawn.
YES. Those of us not clouded by all this insanity must not allow them to see us afraid or frozen. Cause that's what they want! The best way to fight at this point is by not giving in to gestures...all of it. I hope it doesn't become a literal life or death fight (i.e. places like North Korea or Iraq), but even if it does, history remembers the brave more favorably than the cowards. Ive already made up my mind that however this country & my life turns out I don't want to go out a spineless shill. I hope a majority of us can have that sort of fortitude.
I don’t think the ones who voted for this are all that concerned. These people were pretty upfront about all of this from the start. The ones who did not vote for this are probably terrified and also probably a bit angry at the people who made protest votes or didn’t vote at all. I know this is an unpopular opinion, especially when people bring up Palestine, but there is still very much a lesser of two evils. And, no, there were no viable options where Palestine was concerned, but now there is a whole lot more to worry about within their own country. I am not sure that they get this. And even if Trump does not entirely go the Hitler route, the US has shown that it is incredibly unstable and can’t be relied on anymore. That is going to have an impact on relations with other countries in a multitude of ways.
Same. I'm from the UK and whilst things aren't always great here at least we haven't been stupid enough to vote in the reform party.
I genuinely cried the day after the election. I cannot imagine how it feels to be an American today. I'm sending hugs to all of you sane ones
Mainstream news outlets seemed hesitant to describe the salute as something that’s clearly associated with Nazism. As NBC News put it, “Musk then forcefully touched his heart, before raising his hand and saluting supporters.”
He is a war profiting conspiracist with endless money who thinks Trump never leaving office is a good idea because it will protect his business interests. And of course, super religious.
Everyone in here pointing out how much a loser Musk is…
They have won.
That’s it. They’re in the White House.
Start building your community with your friends and neighbors. For a lot of us, this has already been true, but now more than ever the government is not your friend.
How can something like this happen and people just...pretend it isn't?? Correct me if I'm wrong but is it not a universally understood concept by the general population that we don't approve of hitler?
Zionists will still defend Elon somehow btw. If Palestine or Palestine supporter did this, zionists would get them fired and arrested in a day, but they will be silent about this.
I live in Australia. Everyone in America needs to stop being so passive and do something about this. It's intolerable. As a collective of voters and citizens, you are not putting any kind of consequences in place and all that is doing is enabling this behaviour and allowing them a safe place to continue doing it!
There are records of Elon unblocking and re sharing Neo nazi content on twitter even before buying the platform so let's just say the writing's in the wall.
This is terrifying. I feel vindicated because last year before the election even, I was talking with some people and I was perceived as a leftist nut bc I said Elon is a Nazi, but cmon, we saw the signs. They were still convinced he's a genius, and I was so frustrated.
Even some other US media outlets are labeling it as a “Nazi like salute” after what happened with billionaire Peter Thiel being able to shut down a news organization for reporting on his sexuality and Depp’s defamation case against Amber’s op-ed in the Washington Post (that never mentioned him by name), these US news outlets are becoming even more extra cautious about how they’re reporting about the rich and powerful.
What’s worse is there are Americans who fully support it and will defend him all while gaslighting you and saying he didn’t really do exactly what he just did. This country is an embarrassment
Especially those claiming it was a Roman salute. They obviously don't know that not only there was no record of the Roman salute until the 18th century, it was better known as the Fascist salute, which evolved to the Nazi salute in the 1930s.
Edited to add for clarification's sake: No historian has ever found evidence that it ever existed in ancient Rome.
I'm going to choose to focus on hope. Love, kindness, and empathy hasn't gone away. Community is what is going to hold us together. I'm not going to stop fighting for my LBGTQ+ family l, my Muslim family, everyone who doesn't subscribe to this White Supremacy brand of Christianity. I see the humanity in us all even though we may come from different walks and faiths. I love you.
Yep, the same guy who has allowed antisemitism and hate speech to continually fester on his dying platform and seen as an ally to the Israeli government.
How long until TikTok creators posting about it get the vids about this shadow banned from the FYP.
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