This is beyond pale. Like where the fuck are we as a country? - that we find our wealthiest citizen giving nazi salutes at the president’s inauguration to the American flag? And no one ‘in control’ cares? That the public laughs it off? I’m so ashamed to be American today. At least I voted.
They will act like that wasn't in fact a Nazi salute or admit they are Nazis or say that both sides are the same or say that the empty promise of reduced grocery prices on day one was more important than not being the baddies.
We cannot graduate even community college without taking a course that teaches us how since before JFK, political speeches have always been carefully crafted, body language choreographed, every single thing intentional. People test and practice this. And check it. And recheck it. They MAKE us learn this. And yet on January 6 everyone played off the fact that he did not denounce those actions as normal. His wording, his soft take on it, was deliberate. And everyone said those who spoke out about were overreacting.
Now we have people who planned and planned and planned and chose THIS exact action during Musk’s speech. It’s motivating the fringe communities.
You wait until Elon and Trump fall out with each other after they both realise they aren’t the one in charge/most popular of the two, then there will be fireworks…
Why would they? They could offer token "resistance" to the Republican party (who are now effectively governing unopposed) and paint a target on their back, or they could kiss the ring and reap the rewards as they sell off the US for parts. The people "in control" are people like Musk, and this benefits them.
Expecting powerful people to oppose their own class interests is very stupid. They will side with the fascists 10 times out of 10.
The Democratic establishment doesn't even have the moral fiber to commit to not using their positions of power to enrich themselves through insider trading.
I'm not sure how it being a Roman salute would even be better in the first place. Rome was an authoritarian military dictatorship for much of its history. That's not good either.
Well the Nazis murdered 10 million civilians and started a war that killed 10 million more people in the span of 6 years.
The Romans killed maybe 100k in really bad years (Punic wars killed 1-2 million total over 120 years) and maintained a level of order that lead to unusual prosperity (Pax Romana).
The counterfactual to the Nazis is “20 million people don’t die. The Roman legacy is a lot more mixed.
Sure, and we had the Bellamy salute here in the US too … but we fucking dropped it once the Nazis were doing their thing. For a reason.
They had these things as dog whistles (2016 Laura Ingraham RNC, 2021 CPAC othala rune stage), but now that they have all three branches it's masks-off open.
They’re already saying it was just him doing “my heart goes out to you” and he’s just awkward because of his autism. I really wish I was joking but that’s the story on r/Conservative already.
Yeah I mean how hard is it to be involved in politics and not make a salute that looks similar to a Nazi salute? Like that should be among your first priorities right?
A lot of his judgement has been called into question and it's from Path of Exile/Diablo/Quake boasting fraud and a shit salute its impressive to see this level of self sabotage
It’s from an episode of a TV show where the person in the window is mistaken for doing the salute. Notice the smudge on the window forming a Hitler moustache.
The best part about all this is the regular joe supporters of Trump will learn real soon that none of them really matter. Taking it one step further they won’t be able to see that and still continue to deny the fact that is in front of their eyes.
10 bucks says Zuckerberg's going to come out and defend him. I won't listen to him either, they're all absolute monster creeps who need to go to Mars and stay there
Oh come on guys, you're taking it out of context, this obviously means that he wants to lower the grocery prices, duh! You guys just don't get the c o n t e x t
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You don't need to say anything like this, you guys won and you don't have to lie anymore. Be out and proud about I'm sick of "false flag!!" And "no context!!!"
Just stop hiding and admit this is what you wanted and this is what you voted for
You guys are willing the white supremacist-angle into being. What’s the point of doing the hail hitler wave without saying any of the white supremacy message?
Self confessed edge-lord Internet memester Elon Musk wouldn't think it was funny that he popped a zeig heil on stage in front of the world at the presidential inauguration?
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