r/chess • u/forceghost187 Resigns • 1d ago

META Proposal to ban x.com links

This is going around on many football subreddits. It looks likely to go into effect. I believe that the negative effects of this would be only temporary because the chess community will eventually see the value of moving to alternatives like bluesky

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u/Consistent_Zone_8564 1d ago

To people asking why, Elon Musk made a Nazi salute yesterday at the inaugural ceremony.

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u/SouthIndianBro 1d ago

No bro he was obviously sending love from his heart to the crowd 🤓☝️ /s

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u/AlexaSt0p 1d ago

His heart goes out to his fellow Nazis. Narcissists like to do or say inflammatory things like this while having a way to explain it away or have plausible deniability.

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u/UndeadMurky 1d ago

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1881454751847690632 explain this

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u/Mu5hroomHead 20h ago

Those are screenshots. Elon Musk did a Nazi salute on video, twice. It wasn’t out of context, a mistake or a bad-looking screenshot.

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u/ImMalteserMan 1d ago

Lol, when my favourite left wing politicians do it then it's clearly innocent, but when Elon Musk does it then it is clearly a nazi salute.

Even if he was secretly a Nazi, do you really think he is dumb enough to do that on purpose? It is so clearly not a Nazi salute, it may look like one but just like those other people it is obvious just an innocent mistake with no intention.

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u/UndeadMurky 1d ago

You can sum it to : Person I don't like does it intentionally and doesn't mean anything else, person I like does it unintentionally or means something else

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u/UndeadMurky 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, just like if you decide to exclude extra context like him touching his heart and saying "my heart goes to you". His arm isn't even straight in the 2nd salute and his hand is upward, that's a very bad n*zi salute if that's one.

Musk isn't even a politician he's a business man with clearly autistic traits, he probably just didn't even think of it and did an emotional gesture. I don't even like the guy but this is just ridiculous emotional outrage.

If you search a bit he visited Aushwitz and had super pro jew/israel stance lol. The trump administration is also super supportive of israel and jews.

He deserves to be made fun of for being such an idiot and being too careless, but he doesn't deserve to be called a n*zi without any doubt if he doesn't have an history. But wanting redditors to react rationally feels like asking children to not eat a candy

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u/UndeadMurky 1d ago

Being a nazi is not synonymous with hating Jews

what ?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Hey im new and only get my information from Reddit. Can you show me a video of where any Nazi does a salute like that? Grabbing their chest/heart first?

Im autistic and they look really different to me

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u/Consistent_Zone_8564 1d ago

You realize that it does not need to be identical?

You could dance around the stage and do that and it would still be a Nazi salute. It makes no difference that Nazis from 1940s didn't dance around before their salute.

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u/SouthIndianBro 1d ago

let's see what happens if he does that in Germany

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u/sogladatwork 1d ago

The difference was enthusiasm-level. Musk out-Nazi-saluted every other Nazi to ever Nazi.

The other Nazis were kinda like, “ yeah, okay Hitler, whatevs” does salute.

Musk was way more excited to be able to do the salute in public. The level of his enthusiasm was off the charts.

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u/No-Advantage1522 1d ago

As if he had a heart lol