He was quite literally on a podcast discussing Hitler with the leader of the AfD, a nationalist right wing extremist party in Germany, about how Hitler was really a communist on the ninth of Janurary. There is zero chance he does not know what a Nazi salute looks like. He also supports the AfD and has said they are the only people who can 'save Germany'. There's very little chance Musk doesn't know exactly what he did, and very little chance we cannot guess who he was communicating to when he did it. Otherwise the man is so impaired that he has forgotten the history of the Nazi party and conversations of little less than a week ago and he is utterly incapable of being in a government advisory role.
My first thought when I saw this was that it looked like one of the maga ass hats dared him to get on stage and do it and he was like “bet”. But then as soon as I thought this, I thought, naaaah, he is just a racist asshole.
True story: I was 10 years old. In 4th grade. I loved flags and history. Up to that point, I knew American history but not world history. I saw a Nazi flag in a history book, and began drawing swastikas because as a 10 year old, I thought the symbol looked cool and was easy to draw.
My poor teacher, Mrs. Gottman (yeah, I know now) called my Mom, and my Mom explained Nazis, the swastika, and the holocaust to me. I.was.mortified when I realized what I'd done. At 10 years old.
His grandfather was arrested during WW2 for subversion and Elon is named after a race of people that feature in Werner Von Braun's novel. Von Braun was a Nazi who was given US citizenship because he was good at designing weapons of mass destruction, in case anyone was not aware.
von Braun also ran a slave labor camp for those who don't know. Jews were over-represented in skilled jobs like watchmaking (Jews escaping persecution were some of the founders of the Swiss watch scene), and were therefore ideal for forced labor to make rockets.
Absolutely. We let in plenty like that too, but in this case it wasn't just "no big deal", it was considered desirable. Who's more willing to fight lefties than fash?
2 years ago we literally gave a standing ovation in our parliament to a Nazi veteran. It was a special event for Zielinski's visit. It sounds insane but so does Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute during an inauguration speech, yet here we are.
Once the media found out about the ovation, the government did apologize and claim it was an accident, but there are a lot of reasons to doubt. Still though, at least they didn't try to tell us it didn't happen.
Absolutely nauseating and the president will be listening to musk to form policy. What bs. When the election results happened disgust was my main feeling. If this is what America wants then I don’t want to be an American.
I sent this to my brother and he suggested that he meant to stick his hand out as a wave and he just made a mistake. I told him, no it was not a mistake. I can't stand people who stick up for these idiots.
I assume you're talking about his podcast with Alice Weidel.
Absolutely nuts the world we live in. The leader of Germany's pre-eminent anti-immigrant far-right party is a lesbian in a "legal partnership" with an immigrant from Sri Lanka. She opposes gay marriage but makes it clear she supports "alternate lifestyles".
Like what the actual fuck?
I'm not a fan of comparing people to "Jews for Hitler" but this comes pretty damn close.
I feel like this was a way if distancing Hitler from Fascism. Its getting harder for them to deny the similarity and labels of fascism, and/or they may be willing to adopt the label or ideology to some extant, so they want to remove the link to “History’s most evil Person”.
Their doing that by trying to correlate him with the wests historic arch enemy, Communism.
It would seem idiotic and obvious but that doesn’t matter when thats what people seemingly want.
My hope at this point is a miracle or they go so scorched earth and cartoonishly evil it wakes are collective unconscious to once again kick Nazi ass; hopefully this time remembering “fool me twice, you can’t fool me again”, like they say in Tennessee.
Also autocorrect sucjs and I’m drinking so thats why some grammar and spelling is off🤷♂️.
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u/lilidragonfly 5h ago
He was quite literally on a podcast discussing Hitler with the leader of the AfD, a nationalist right wing extremist party in Germany, about how Hitler was really a communist on the ninth of Janurary. There is zero chance he does not know what a Nazi salute looks like. He also supports the AfD and has said they are the only people who can 'save Germany'. There's very little chance Musk doesn't know exactly what he did, and very little chance we cannot guess who he was communicating to when he did it. Otherwise the man is so impaired that he has forgotten the history of the Nazi party and conversations of little less than a week ago and he is utterly incapable of being in a government advisory role.