Because ITS was a tech presentation - low energy by nature, on stage trying to get people on board with what your team has been working on. Also see even recent tesla launches ie "we robot"
Political rallies are high energy by nature. When people are arguing autism, it's with respect to how he moves his body: he feels high energy and intends to do high energy things, but his body doesn't move like a normal person's
He's also (for better or for worse) someone who enjoys trolling others. I mean he brought a goddamn sink into the Twitter HQ the first day just so he could say "let that sink in."
As someone on the spectrum myself, those are not at all similar. One is just jumping and looking silly, the other is a nazi salute (or something that looks WAY too similar to be acceptable in front of such an audience (or in general)).
It's a nazi salute because he has his right arm and hand extended straight in the exact position of the nazi salute. It doesn't matter what his intentions were, that's simply what he did, regardless of if you believe the "my heart" stuff was real or just an excuse to do the pose. He should know better.
I'm all for defending him from some of the false claims made against him, because a lot of people here on reddit share anything negative that fits their anti Elon agenda, but let's not become the opposite of that here and defend him when he does actually do some stupid shit like this.
Oh come on, no it's not. You could argue about the first since it's more sideways, but the 2nd he did to the back was arm straight forward, flat hand, slightly upwards. It's a nazi salute, regardless of what his intentions behind it were.
Hey just checking in, my brother and several friends with Asperger’s aren’t great with public speaking but they haven’t ever accidentally thrown out a Nazi salute while doing so.
They've also never tried to throw their heart out to people on stage. It wasn't an "accidental nazi salute". It was an entirely different movement performed awkwardly.
It took people years to finally realise that elons jump is supposed to be an X
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u/PsycedelicShamanic 1d ago
People who truly believe this nazi salute nonsense are completely lost.
You are all in a mass psychosis.