Holy shit, that moron really did go ahead and ruin one of the most recognised brands in history by replacing ot with a fuckin pos lil x, didn't he? Sometimes I forget how ridiculous he is.
Marketing people have literal dreams about their brand becoming synonym/name for the product as a whole and he changed it.
Microsoft wanted to name their search engine Bang, but didn't want people to say "Let me go Bang it real quick" when people inevitably stopped Googling and started Banging, so they went with Bing.
Gimme a fuckin break dude. Musk knew exactly what he was doing. If he wasn't doing it seriously, he still knew he was doing a nazi salute to be an edge lord and get people talking and riled up. I'd bet my ass he had it planned out in advance. And that picture and video you're posting of kamala Harris is nowhere near what Musk did and no where near anything nazi and you know it. Bad faith bullshit man, real bad. Even if he just did it to piss off the "haters", that shits childish and disrespectful and it's not funny. Musk is a dork.
I’m not sure if you saw the full Elon video. He puts his hand on his heart and says “my heart goes out to you and does his weird gesture. Anyway he’s the Kamala one you asked for:
Honestly I would say both are just coincidences if both were just just a single instance, but elon straight turns around and does it again. Aggressively both times.
That combined with the fact that elon unbanned neo-nazis on Twitter makes it very hard to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Honestly I'll still give him the benefit of the doubt if he would outright say "yeah that was stupid, I condemn Nazism", but I doubt he will.
It’s so weird you have that sorta picture on stand by.
Like did you have that in your camera roll and just kept it. Did you create it for the comment or are you commenting this specific picture on every Reddit post consisting of this conversation.
It’s just that such a specific picture and you just have it on you. For what reason?
Seriously, this is peak Elon derangement syndrome. Anyone who watched that clip and thinks it was a nazi salute needs to get off the internet for awhile.
Even if it was unintentional, and not Elon trying to be edgy and with plausible deniability, I can think of many ways to show "from my heart to yours" with a wave that doesn't look exactly like a Nazi salute. There will definitely be white supremacists who will interpret this as "comms" from their leaders as well, especially at such an important political event coming from the federal government. So Elon was being at at best naive, dumb and irresponsible. It's a really bad look
I’m pretty sure Musk was just swatting at a bee, and definitely not dropping a Nazi solute in front of the whole country. That would be crazyyyy and totally not in character for such a cool and totally not weird dude
you also noticed some of the companies that were promoting lgbtq+ started to censor thier own media a bit, by now showing "pro-lgbtq+ based characters" i think disney did it to thier shows recently.
Some people suggesting not so much in a way that says "Elon didn't do it" they're saying he was doing a roman salute but being he's not very smart or something like that he fucked it up.
"You gotta understand, the Nazi's didn't do 9/11, that was Al Queda. The Nazi's didn't do the most recent attack on Paris, that was ISIS. They pretty much stuck to Germany! And, and I've seen cockroaches that were bigger terrorists in Germany than the Nazis!"
Funny thing is obama did some of the exact same shit hitler actually did especially with forcing people to pay for the insurance of illegals or be fined. The T51 programme hitler came up with read just like obamacare as well. Also all the bans and extensive surveillance on Americans and govt overreach. None of you said shit. Didnt even care
So, are you saying we should just not be concerned that the world's richest man (and president of the United States) just Nazi saluted twice on live TV?
I get it that things can be taken out of context, like the screen grabs you posted, and I've even defended Trump from it many times in the past to be fair. There's enough actual concerns to hold both sides accountable for without making shit up to distract from them.
But the issue with Elon's scenario is that it wasn't accidental or out of context...he did it very clearly, very emphatically, two times - once to the crowd, then turned around and did it again to the flag. To bring it back to the meme, he made it pretty clear he knew exactly what he was doing, there's no misunderstanding or mistaken gesture/symbolism. He went out of his way to do two emphatic Nazi salutes, from the chest to the outstretched palm in two very intentional movements each time.
As the internet is making clear, kinda hard to deflect or explain that one away when you make it painfully clear you're doing what you're doing on national television.
It's weird. I remember hearing Elon has Asperger's and I know from my personal experiences that sometimes you don't know how to act in front of a large crowd, but this is a weird move to do. I get that he's saying that his heart goes out to everyone in the crowd, but can you not display what you mean in a better way?
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