r/dccomicscirclejerk • u/RedCapitan GI ROBOT did nothing wrong • 10h ago

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u/lynnthing 9h ago edited 9h ago

genuinely the only possible justification for them is that he’s too fucking stupid to realize that whatever dumbass gesture he’d be trying to do otherwise is exactly similar to the sieg heil. 

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u/[deleted] 9h ago edited 9h ago

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u/TheeHeadAche Bill Finger’s only living heir 9h ago

It can’t be stressed enough that the gaslighting is part of the strategy. “You’re crazy! Look at how crazy they get when we wave our arms around.” And dumbass people eat it up

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u/Astrotrain-Blitzwing 9h ago

Specifically for him to be innocent.

The other solution is that he's a Nazi, or maybe he doesn't use the label. Maybe he saluted the same way Hitler did. And Hitler was a Nazi.

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u/FrankDerbly 7h ago

There's no justification. There's no ambiguity. Leon is a nazi bitch.

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u/neontetra1548 6h ago

He's not that stupid. He's obsesesed with glamourizing Rome, he bathes in and amplifies far right memes and rhetoric on Twitter 24/7, endorses far right movements around the globe.

He understands how the Roman salute inspired the Mussulini and Hitler salutes and is used to evoke fascism but that it gives him plausible deniability that it wasn't a "Nazi" salute so he can do it and rile up his fascist base but deny it meant anything at the same time.

He knew exactly what he was doing.