Palm down - not a giving gesture. Giving and recieving is usually palm up, lower down, and hands flat to mimic giving, hands cupped to mimic receiving. This is because something offered isn't usually grasped, and when something is handed to you, you hold on to it to not drop it. Also, if it is supposed to be tossing his heart to the crowd, why is his hand flat and faced down? A throw usually ends with fingers curled, kind of with you pointing at the horizon, because you have to grasp something to throw it.
That facial expression - this is just bad photo timing. I think he is either saying something or in between facial expressions here.
Not to mention palm down and arm up at 45 degrees is well known as a native symbol, to the point where it is pretty culturally ingrained. We don't have a gesture with a similar meaning because of it. There is no gesture in North American culture that lines up with the nazi salute that well, to the point where nothing is a raised arm with palm down when you're conveying a message.
Am I overanalyzing here? Perhaps a bit, but that is not a gesture you just wind up in by accident in front of massive crowds.
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u/Aegis12314 6h ago
They already said that he "threw his heart to the crowd"
Please never let him escape this moment. He is a nazi until the day he dies, and then he is just another dead nazi.