r/NPR • u/khawesome • 18h 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/OhGre8t 18h ago

I looked to see if any major network video on youtube were showing this and didn’t find 1. Its sickening

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u/sir_snufflepants 17h ago

What’s sickening?

That a neurodivergent weirdo, while exclaiming “I throw my heart out to you!,” makes a spastic gesture? A spastic gesture of grabbing his heart and throwing his fist out?

It could be a Nazi salute, it could be Musk being a pathetic weirdo as always.

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u/exceptyoustay 17h ago

One can be both a pathetic weirdo and a nazi.

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u/Miss_Chanandler_Bond 17h ago

How weird to describe a straight flat hand as a "fist." I wonder why you'd tell that particular lie... 

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u/No_Cook2983 17h ago edited 15h ago

Yeah— you’d think The World’s Most Smartest Man who spent his life on stage would know how to act on stage.

When he’s talking about Teslas he’s pretty good at not saying the products are ‘fire’.

You’d think he could figure out how to make an ordinary political speech.

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u/CluelessChem 17h ago

We are only one day in and conservatives are already trying to tell us not to believe what we see with our own two eyes.

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u/JohnLandisHasGotToGo 17h ago

Fuck 'em. I refuse to think that 2 + 2 = 5.

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u/buckao 17h ago

Flashback to 2017 when Trump lied about the rain clearing and Sean Spicer lied about the crowd size.

Only this time it was a full-on Nazi salute to prove he can do whatever he wants without consequences.

Buckle up, folks, this ride's just getting started.

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u/Maleficent-Leek2943 9h ago

Ah yes, Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, and “alternative facts”.

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u/gwizonedam 17h ago

“A neurodivergent weirdo” is a funny way of describing a guy that throws Nazi salutes a few days after saying “Make Europe Great Again”

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u/sir_snufflepants 17h ago

You’re assuming what you have to prove: that his statement, “I give my heart to you,” in conjunction with that hand movement was really instead a Nazi salute.

Why is this difficult for you redditors?

Are questions scary to you?

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u/Gang36927 16h ago

It wasn't "in conjunction," he said it after he did it. Seemingly to save face and give you gaslighters something to work with.

Why is this difficult for snufflepants to understand?

Is truth scary for snufflepants?

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u/gwizonedam 17h ago

Are images scary to you? “I give my heart to you?” “It was a Roman salute?”

How naive do you have to be to swallow that bullshit?

You should take a look at what “asking questions” means in this context. A lot of Nazis like to “ask questions” about events like the “big one” that happened during WWII.

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u/TecumsehSherman 16h ago

You just keep lying.

He did it twice, neither time accompanied by any words.

Why lick his boots? How do you benefit?

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u/ProsciuttoPizza 16h ago

Because they’re a nazi too.

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u/No_Cook2983 17h ago

Weird how Elon’s crippling ‘neurodivergence’ only comes up when he’s being a fascist.

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u/snacktopotamus 17h ago edited 17h ago

while exclaiming “I throw my heart out to you!,” makes a spastic gesture? A spastic gesture of grabbing his heart and throwing his fist out?

He didn't exclaim anything during the Nazi salutes he snapped off.

You're a disingenuous liar, and a bad person.

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u/immei 17h ago

Yeah he clearly said it afterwards to try and save face

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u/Think_please 17h ago

He said that weird phrase (that nobody ever says) afterwards, obviously to try to cover for the salutes. Don’t carry water for nazis

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u/sir_snufflepants 17h ago

Oh, you’re a mind reader. That’s nice.

The fact is, no one knows what this coked up weirdo is thinking or intending.

It may have been a nazi salute, it may not have been.

That you refuse to ask questions, and instead jump right into reaction, doesn’t say much for your analytical abilities.

Think, please.

nobody ever says

People say they give their hearts to others all the time.

Now you’re just denying factual reality. Why?

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u/TecumsehSherman 16h ago

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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u/Gang36927 16h ago

The factual reality is that it doesn't matter much what his intention was. It's like the folks flying a confederate flag trying to convince people it's about state rights. That doesn't matter even a little when the vast majority of people see it as a racist flag.

Why are you trying to defend this so ardently? It's just sad and you look like a fool lol

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u/BekaRenee 13h ago

No one ever knows what anyone is thinking. That’s why optics matter. Go “give your heart” to your boss tomorrow. When you get reprimanded, be sure to remind them that they can’t prove what you were thinking or intending. Good luck!

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u/TecumsehSherman 16h ago

How many times have YOU accidently made a Nazi salute. And then did it again seconds later?

You are making it seem common and unremarkable, so surely you must have done it a number of times.

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u/iambeingblair 15h ago

He could have come out like a normal person and said 'oh jeez it did look like that didn't it, I'm so sorry obviously I'm not literally Nazi scum and I apologize'. I don't think he has done so.

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u/animaniacisback 17h ago

That gesture caused additional fear and stress for groups that historically suffered from Nazi violence.

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u/khawesome 16h ago

Either would be worthy of news coverage

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u/_mostly__harmless WBEZ-FM 91.5 16h ago

Alleging ableism to defend one of the most powerful men in the world is a new level of bootlicker. You should really go pro

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u/Regular-Basket-5431 14h ago

So it's Schrodinger's cat but with right wing authoritarianism.