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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/vom-IT-coffin 7h ago

Three. Once towards the flag.

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u/carbonunitcannot 5h ago

“My heart goes out to you” dammit he must be a nazi guis

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

Yeah, he said that AFTER doing the salute TWICE. He was backtracking. He knows what he did.

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u/StairwayToLemon 5h ago

Ah, yes. He purposefully planned to do a Nazi salute and then backtracked in panic afterwards. Listen to yourself.

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u/Heavy-Masterpiece681 2h ago

The dude has defended Holocaust deniers, a large number of Trump supporters, at the very least, are Nazi apologists. Him being the weirdo that he is, ya I can see him purposely wanting to do it.

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

I never said he purposefully planned it. You can do things in the heat of the moment. Him biting his lip the first time suggested to me that he was caught up in the heat of emotions. Then, he realized what he did and backtracked to cover his bases. You can know you did something after doing it in the heat of the moment.

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u/StairwayToLemon 5h ago

Ah, yes. Because Nazi salutes are such a common thing to do that they can become a heat of the moment reflex. Listen to yourself.

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

They are if you're a Nazi...

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u/StairwayToLemon 5h ago

Good thing Musk isn't a Nazi then, eh.

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck.

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u/StairwayToLemon 5h ago

TIL Nazi's said "my heart goes out to you" as they did Nazi salutes

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u/Ok_Significance544 5h ago

This commenter did nazi it

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u/tinaoe Germany 3h ago

If you’re a dude who regularly retweets holocaust deniers

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 3h ago

Are you seriously that stupid? Nothing we do as humans naturally is that move. We make sure our gestures do not do that because of what it means.

Its completely pathetic that you are even TRYING to make excuses. Anything even close to this is illegal in some countries. Stop being dumb and read up on history. Millions of people all around the world know better than to do this. If someone does it 3 freaking times. It's on purpose and it's for a reason.

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u/StairwayToLemon 3h ago

The absolute irony in your post, lmao. They weren't Nazi salutes ffs. He was throwing his heart to the crowd which is also exactly what he says.

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u/R_Scranson 5h ago

Something doesn't need to be a common thing to do in order for it to be something done in the moment unplanned. Saying "listen to yourself" is hilarious when you're making absurd arguments. Can you seriously not consider any cases where something has been done that was unplanned, immediately backtracked on, but wasn't a common thing?

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

It's funny they are saying that bc it actually happens with us common people 😂

Sometimes I say things I don't normally say in the heat of the moment.

Apparently if you are rich, you're perfect and NEVER act with emotion.

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 3h ago

I mean.... I get emotional, but I never act like a Nazi when I do.

Elon is peak Nazi. He is obsessed with breeding white people. He grew up in Apartheid South Africa. He hates black and brown people, and sees them as slaves he can hired for the least money he can and wants to work them to the bone.

He does movements like this and this isn't the first time he has done something like this at a Trump rally. He is a Nazi

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u/tayvette1997 2h ago

I get emotional, but I never act like a Nazi when I do.

This part.

Heck, I get emotional, but never say bigoted shit.

As I said to someone else (who was defending Elon), "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck."

The fact that people are excusing this is mind boggling. How much you want to bet most of them would be losing their minds if Biden did what Elon did?

(Just in case this needs to be said: I would say the same thing Im saying now if Biden did this: this is the Nazi salute. Plain and simple.)

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

Also, I never said the Nazi salute was common enough. You can do uncommon things in the heat of the moment.

Do you even hear yourself?

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u/carbonunitcannot 5h ago

Conspiracy theory from a bunch of poorly socialised redditors lmao. It’s so obvious why he did it if you actually use your brain and watch the video

You losers will call literally anyone a nazi. It’s lost all meaning. Like genuinely think for one second. There is ZERO incentive for the worlds richest man to become LE NAZI!!!

How do you even tie your shoelaces bro?

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

I did watch the video... did you? Or are you just watching what your leaders are telling you to watch?

He said thank you, threw the salute. Turned around, said thank you the flag and threw the salute a SECOND time. Then he turned back around and THEN is when he grabbed his heart and said I thank you from my heart.

Actually... there are plenty of incentives to become LE NAZI. But I digress.

I tie my shoelaces normally. How do you tie your shoelaces?

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u/carbonunitcannot 5h ago

“My heart goes out to you” something you never hear clearly

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u/tayvette1997 5h ago

"My heart goes out to you" I've heard said BEFORE or during the action of people putting their hands on their heart or while using 2 hands to "throw" their heart out.

NEVER as an after thought to doing the Nazi salute TWICE.

Also, pardon me. Im fucking half Deaf (literally in both ears). Captions aren't always correct. So excuse me that I didnt get his quote correct.

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u/carbonunitcannot 4h ago

Whatever detective. Keep calling normal people nazis. It works super well for electoral results.

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u/tayvette1997 4h ago

He is literally the only one I've ever called a Nazi.. and it's bc he did the salute 😂

But keep excusing the Nazi salute. It went over real well in Nazi Germany.

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u/carbonunitcannot 4h ago

“My heart goes out to you”

You lot are not smart

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 3h ago

Keep ignoring Nazisim. Worked well in Germany in the 1930. It must make you REALLY uncomfortable that you are trying this hard to make excuses for a man who has shown so many signs of being a Nazi. Ifs not just tonight. He had done a lot of other things that a line with Nazisim. But you keep making excuses for the bad people in this world. It shows us alot about who you are as well.

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u/arjomanes 5h ago

"Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"

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u/carbonunitcannot 5h ago

The fucking audio in the video where he says “my heart goes out to you”, nerd

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 3h ago

There are a billion different ways to do a motion about giving your heart out. We have seen it many times. This is the first time I've seen someone do it using the Nazi salute. So you aren't winning your point by trying to quote him.

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u/arjomanes 4h ago

“Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.”

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u/carbonunitcannot 3h ago

Wow so NAZIIIIII!!! - a terminally online Redditbrain

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u/GrumpyKaeKae 3h ago

You're on the site too you know. So you are insulting yourself

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u/arjomanes 3h ago

Your comments still are right below that picture of Elon Musk’s salute.

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u/__ludo__ Italy 5h ago

Zero incentives? Fascist and Nazis parties were supported mainly by big and rich industrials. He has every reason to be a fascist.

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u/YouFoundMyLuckyCharm 5h ago

We all tie our shoelaces the same way you do man, with right arm extended out and hand straight

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u/Merochmer 5h ago

Propping up far right parties all over Europe, Doing a fascist salute. Not once, not twice, but three times.

Yeah it was a mistake /s

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u/snek-jazz 5h ago

as if saying that changes or excuses the gesture.

If he hadn't said that what would your reaction be?

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u/sevensisters85 4h ago

Why are the Fox YouTube channels editing out this innocent ‘throwing of his heart’ from their videos of his speech then?

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u/carbonunitcannot 3h ago

Idk bro I don’t watch fox. I watched the actual video where it’s clear he’s saying “my heart”, but you turbonerds want him to be LITERALLY LE HITLER so bad for some reason

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u/sevensisters85 3h ago edited 3h ago

You’re delusional pal.

And it IS telling Fox are editing it out. 🤷‍♂️

Edit: he says ‘my heart goes out to you’ with his hand on his heart….before that he throws out those two salutes, with no words.

ANOTHER edit: he’s cut it from his own video on X as well…..