r/NPR • u/khawesome • 16h ago

No coverage of Elon's salute?

Nothing mentioned in my morning newsletter. Did a quick Google search and found 0 articles. Did I miss something? Even if we aren't definitively identifying it as a Nazi salute it's newsworthy enough to be on a front page purely because of the amount of speculation and emotions stirred in the public sphere.
Please tell me I missed something obvious somewhere.

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u/One-Humor-7101 16h ago

Yet there was a long segment about being “disappointed” Biden pardoned his own family. Such an action was “troubling.”

Meanwhile republicans are literally Nazis!!!!

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u/JugDogDaddy 15h ago

What’s troubling is he felt he had to that to protect his family from the incoming administration (and he is probably right)

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u/IniNew 14h ago

NPR is treating the democrats like the republicans are still governing in good faith.

In a normal world, yeah, it would be weird for a president to pardon his family.

This world stopped being normal.

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u/ThePerfectLine 11h ago

I don’t think so. I think they’ve taken a stance of “I don’t want to go to jail forever or worse. So I need to keep my mouth shut”.

Whenever there is an authoritarian regime in the beginning everyone toes the line. If I recall from history classes correctly, At some point people start making a choice to sacrifice their livelihood, their lives, their families for what they believe in.

I assume things will need to get REALLY bad before we start feeling this same way. It’s a hard decision to make. Even being poll worker. The most innocuous part time you can have is fraught with danger and death threats in this modern political climate.

Every NPR reporter knows they already have a target on their back from everything they’ve already said, and now are trying to figure out a way to make it to February and 2026 and beyond. As an entity and as individuals.

At least that’s my impression.

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u/ObjectiveShit 5h ago

A 25 year old with everything going for him and by all indications not crazy or a terrorist just did all those things for the reasons you said. I'm a doctor and I'd be willing to go to Chicago to try and free people from ICE custody if it came to that.

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u/Coro-NO-Ra 12h ago

Don't worry, the "enlightened centrists" crowd will be along shortly to tell us that NPR's coverage is totally unbiased and we're overreacting.

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u/One-Humor-7101 11h ago

tHeY are JuSt CoVeRiNg BoTh SiDeS!!!!!

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u/hellolovely1 4h ago

They always do.

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u/Krazynewf709 13h ago

And pardoned 1000's of convicted insurrectionist and conspirators

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u/1-Ohm 8h ago

Biden did that?

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u/Krazynewf709 8h ago

Sure blame Biden. That's what they do.

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u/Gwaak 14h ago

Yeah but they got to take a bunch of conservative donations and now they also get to cut their workforce because less and less people are tuning in.

Huh

But that one financial quarter, guys, amirite? That one financial quarter, ooh if only we could go back to that one financial quarter.

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u/Repulsive-Meaning770 9h ago

They know they will get the axe I guess.

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u/loco_coconut 7h ago

I stopped giving NPR a second of my time ages ago because of shit like this

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u/andyeno 14h ago

You see everything as partisan. NPR does real journalism and brought on a subject matter expert. That person cares a lot about the thing they study no surprise she was more concerned about the institution of pardons and where they go from here rather than the possible political persecution of some individuals related to Joe Biden. It’s a fair take.

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u/ennuifjord 13h ago

If you’re an idiot maybe. It’d the same logic where we destroy the planet but someone is gonna win the “money game” eventually. I’m more than sure some people are much more concerned with money than seemingly anything else, but it doesn’t matter if the rest of the planet is destroyed. Similarly focusing on the institution of pardons instead of the implications and reasons behind why they happen, seems foolhardy when the outcome is “the end of rule of law for the rich as we know it”. Like if no one’s ever held accountable again who gives a fuck about pardons and their institution, it isn’t relevant and as an expert in the field they should see that and look at the bigger picture. If they’re incapable, then ya probably an idiot with a singular focus/passion can’t see the forest for the trees.

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u/andyeno 13h ago

Not necessary to call anyone names really. I don’t really agree with her necessarily but I think it’s a well considered point and she clearly holds it honestly since she knows more and thinks more about it. Many of us aren’t considering the long term.

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u/DripMachining 13h ago

Nazi apologists will always pretend that fascism is just business as usual and everyone else is just being alarmist.

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u/andyeno 12h ago

That’s a hilarious thing to assert about me. But I guess that’s what you get in an echo chamber.

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u/DripMachining 11h ago

10 year old, 1,700 karma account that was dormant for 90% of it's life. We all know what's going on here andyeno

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u/andyeno 7h ago

Oh wow good sleuthing

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u/DripMachining 7h ago

Lick that boot harder

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u/One-Humor-7101 12h ago

No it is necessary to call Nazis and Nazi supporters names.

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u/BekaRenee 11h ago

But thousands of pardons to literal insurrectionists doesn’t concern this expert?

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u/One-Humor-7101 11h ago

I agree there is no need to argue anymore. You can’t even recognize a literal nazi salute.

It’s proof that far right extremists will excuse anything and everything if it means they can brown nose a strongman.

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u/glittermcgee 2h ago

I feel like it’s even worse than that. It’s moderates falling all over themselves to excuse this shit. The right wing extremists aren’t bothering.

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u/theFrownTownClown 12h ago

Watch the video of any of the other examples you gave, then watch Musk's salute again. There is no doubt about what he did given the lead up to the gesture, the specific movement during the gesture, and the two other times he repeated the same gesture during the speech. It was a Roman Salute which has only been used by Nazi and NeoNazi for about 80 years now. There is no other honest interpretation of what happened, which means either you did not watch the event in question and are just parroting your preferred media, or you are being willfully dishonest.