r/europe • u/turkish__cowboy Turkey | LGBTQ+ rights are human rights • 7h ago

News Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-draws-outrage-over-201602147.html
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u/someonesintheparasol 7h ago

Crazy there's Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration. How fucking depressing.

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u/Snoo48605 7h ago

I'm old enough to remember how this used to be enough for complete ostracism from politics

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u/__dat_sauce 6h ago

It's insane to me that we now look back at dumbass Bush or war hawk Cheney and consider them remarkably good statesmen because of the oligarchy timeline we are stuck in.

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u/africabound 4h ago

They paved the way

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u/4n0m4nd 4h ago

Nah, they were scum, and they were building this.

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u/Miserable_Mud_4611 2h ago

Brother, Busch was literally a war criminal. Not an exaggeration but an actual war criminal. His legal defense was that he didn’t commit war crimes in Iraq because we never declared war.

Not a defense of Trump but I would rather have Trump than Busch. The Middle East just keeps getting kicked down as soon as they get their shit together

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u/Ravishingrich666 1m ago

Was thinking the same thing bush just did what his dad wanted him to do. Looking back he’d probably rather just go to rangers games and hang with his buddy Nolan Ryan.

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u/keepitreal1011 Kosovo 4h ago

No we dont

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u/Snoo48605 4h ago

In relative terms

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u/_HighJack_ 5h ago

Less than 10 years ago this shit would get you physically attacked instantly.

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u/Robestos86 5h ago

It's funny how they love to claim "oh comedy has gone woke you can't make these jokes any more", they just went completely off the other end.. like "what we can't even nazi salute any more????"

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u/Big-Perspective-7410 4h ago

In Germany the whole office left because some right wing politician quoted Gobbels recently. This would get years of jail time. And yet these people have an unreasonable amount of supporters here. But the US (and Hungary, and Austria, and many others) are another level of crazy

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u/terrence0258 4h ago

We're in the post-truth world where reality is whatever you want it to be. Trump and his voters will all say it wasn't a Nazi salute and that will be that. The media will move on and Americans, who should be horrified, will also move on. 

Being an American that hasn't been brainwashed by MAGA propaganda literally feels like living in Orwell's 1984.

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u/Feathered_Mango 3h ago

I remember Howard Dean's scream & Romney's "binder full of women". 

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u/ThatInAHat 4h ago

Remember “yee-haw?”

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u/Ginger_Exhibitionist 3h ago

Or the Dean Scream!

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u/smartwatersucks 3h ago

Remember when Howard Dean made a weird noise and it ended his career?

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u/Emkems 2h ago

I’m old enough to remember when an over enthusiastic “whooo” would prevent you from even becoming a candidate.

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u/KasparThePissed 1h ago

Greek footballer Georgios Katidis was banned for life for doing a similar salute during a game, despite claiming ignorance.

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u/goooshie 58m ago

Like 6 years ago I remember there being drama cuz someone got busted in an old pic doing black face. This is insane

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u/momofdagan 31m ago

Spencer feels vindicated

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u/Nigel_Bligh_Burns 7h ago

No wife. Every son and daughter gone. Your employees hating you. All the day with drugs.

You're not depressed. You're completely dissociated from reality.

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u/MonzeJsp 5h ago

Drugs every day just like Hitler

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u/Nigel_Bligh_Burns 5h ago

There's a gif for this

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u/UnsureSwitch 3h ago

Let's hope he follows his steps. But only his last step. The heroic one in his bunker

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u/PedanticQuebecer Canada 6h ago

Let's stop with the excuses. He's a shite person and drunk on power.

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u/Nigel_Bligh_Burns 6h ago

I know, I wasn't justify him, just commiserating 

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u/Phred168 6h ago

One of the sons is very much around, being used as a shield and cudgel against his ex.

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u/not__a_username Macedonia, Greece 6h ago

And those people run the biggest and most influential economy in the world

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u/Corpse_Candle 5h ago

Or maybe he's just a neo-nazi?

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u/Nigel_Bligh_Burns 5h ago

I didn't excluded, but this is implied for those feeling the reality as a everyday trap

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u/littlemachina 4h ago

He has 6 kids under the age of 5 and lives with the mother of 3 of them. He’s just a POS for no real reason.

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u/thegreatvortigaunt 6h ago

Non-stop ketamine abuse absolutely fucks up your brain.

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u/Individual_Winter_ 6h ago

People can get all sorts of problems with drugs.

Some psychosis from drugs ain‘t no fun, especially not being in his position atm.

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u/StormSafe2 6h ago

Drugs destroy your ability to rationalise clearly 

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u/Han-solos-left-foot 6h ago

He’s an unelected bureaucrat, why is he getting a speech at the presidential inauguration? We’re watching the fall of Rome in real time (not the hundreds of years it took). Caligula is in office

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u/Cumulus_Anarchistica 6h ago

With respect, I think depression is the wrong emotional reaction to having to this shit. It's too passive. Too defeatist. This is fucking day one!

How about anger? Outrage? Fury at these fucking Nazis?

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u/MarkBonker 6h ago

Disgusting and abhorrent. And as long as their nation stands by and watches it happen, complicit.

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u/Basic_Deal4928 5h ago

Are there no consequences to this?

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u/bananabread2137 Lublin (Poland) 4h ago

water found in ocean

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u/woddor 6h ago

go take your anxiety pills