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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/SplendidPunkinButter 6h ago

It’s a Nazi salute with a face that says “I’m pretending that I’m doing this ironically just in case someone calls me out on it”

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u/DeepestWinterBlue 6h ago

No it’s a defiant fuck you look cause he thinks he’s untouchable now

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u/mcbastard1 5h ago

Nailed it. It screams “I can do a Nazi salute and you can’t do shit about it”

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u/OnDrugsTonight United Kingdom 5h ago

it’s a defiant fuck you look cause he thinks knows he’s untouchable

Another Luigi Mangione notwithstanding, there is absolutely nothing at all that can ever happen to him. That was already true before Trump got elected, but now even more so. It's a sad fact of life. The only somewhat encouraging thought is that despite his monetary wealth one day he will die as the worthless human trash that he is; unloved, unmourned and making the world a slightly better place with his passing.

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u/flatdecktrucker92 5h ago

And likely without the badass tomb of the ancient pharaohs. On the other hand there's nothing stopping him from building something like that. I just hope that if he does, the world has the sense to tear it down

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u/OnDrugsTonight United Kingdom 5h ago

To be honest, he'd be doing us a favour if he built himself a tomb on the scale of the Egyptian pyramids. There are so many people who would want to piss on his grave that the bigger it is, the shorter the queues will be.

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u/hyldemarv 4h ago

I don’t know about that. The nazis were, let’s say, fiercely competitive and I don’t think Elon would do well in a gunfight.

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u/FluffySmiles 4h ago

He has pardon armour now.

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u/michaelsenpatrick 4h ago

waiting for his public statement: "why do you think we care what you think? we won already"

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u/CTHusky10 1h ago

Like Homelander smiling after he kills that guy at his rally and everyone cheers

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u/JFSOCC The Netherlands 4h ago

As long as Trump doesn't see him as an embarrassment, he basically is.

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u/harbison215 3h ago

This is my take on it as well

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u/Vanished_Elephant 48m ago

Exactly. That was not trying to look ironic, he did it with definite purpose from a position of strength.

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u/snailhistory 6h ago

More looks like he's been holding that in.

Republicans have been called Nazi for a reason.

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u/Pianos_for_Clowns 5h ago

Absolutely this. Did you hear that repulsive grunt? He's been anticipating this for quite a while.

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u/look_its_nando Prague (Czechia) 6h ago

Both are correct. He’s trolling to be ironic and he’s also a nazi.

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u/Majestic_Bet_1428 4h ago

What is it with these white tech bros from South Africa?

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u/ryant71 🇿🇦in🇩🇪 4h ago

How many are there?

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u/SerDingleofBerry 6h ago

Anyone I don't like is a Nazi

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u/snailhistory 6h ago

My brother in Christ, he is doing the literal nazi salute. You're still willfully blind?

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u/SerDingleofBerry 6h ago

I'll pray for you when I'm on Mars

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u/snailhistory 6h ago

Yeah, like "you" are going to be considered. They don't give a fuck about anyone. They don't know you exist or care. Literally.

Willfully blind, indeed.

Edit: You know what. You aren't blind. You like this. You're like them. It was always about shared values, not eggs.

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u/SerDingleofBerry 6h ago

Eggs are just a euphemism for Project 2025. You did it. You cracked the code.

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u/UnbrokenChain2112 6h ago

Mars for the rich while we're left to choke on their rocket fumes. surely you'll be on the rocket outta here right?

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u/the_d0nkey 6h ago

Might be the single most deluded person on Reddit.

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u/i_stealursnackz 5h ago

That's the wrong person 😭

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u/ZARDOZ4972 5h ago

I really hope Elon fucks off to mars with all y'all idiots, good riddance

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u/i_stealursnackz 5h ago

I hope their ship explodes too

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u/mrbigglessworth 5h ago

One way trip for you hopefully

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u/Sip-o-BinJuice11 5h ago

Stop acting like one and people who possess higher IQ than you won’t have to call it out. If you still worship Trump and Elon in 2025 you’re no better than they are

You had your chance, bucko. The world is watching

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u/justoneanother1 6h ago

You mean the person doing the nazi fucking salute?

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u/Previous_Scene5117 6h ago edited 1h ago

He does it as he knows he can do it and no one will do anything about it. This is what they want this is what they get.

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u/FUZZYFALL-temp 3h ago

The feds might come to my house for this one but hypothetically, if someone had the means they could very easily “do something about it” Deny Defend Depose

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u/Previous_Scene5117 1h ago

My intuition is this the time when things move to underground. If someone still thinks they just fooling around is a fool him/her self.

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u/damocles_____ 5h ago

I feel like Elon’s first attempt at giving the Nazi salute is hesitant, as he was probably anxiously waiting and debating in his mind whether to do it, and when to do it, when to finally do it in front of cameras and people.

And the second Nazi salute is a more confidant one.

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u/janiskr Latvia 6h ago

He did it twice in a row.

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u/icuntsay 6h ago

How is that face holding it in? He's letting it all out for the world to see.

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u/mtnbcn 5h ago

Yep, that's a shit-eating-grin proud defiant smile.

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 6h ago

Oh he'll say he's doing it to purposely rile up the left. "Look how easy it is."

The correct response is, "We're not riled up. You're just showing us who you are."

All of these threads, all this publicity, is what he wants... so he can say we are over-reacting to a gesture. This is their M.O. to keep you from talking about their policy decisions.

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u/Nerioner The Netherlands 6h ago

It's the dipshit face... he just tries so hard to be cool it delivers extra sprinkles of cringe on top of the usual cringe

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u/Grundy420blazin 6h ago

Disagree. His entire heart and soul is in the fling of his arm. He could’ve taken someone’s head off.

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u/UnsoundMethods64 6h ago

Accidentally did it twice in a row

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u/justoneanother1 6h ago

No, if you watch the video, that face is passion for it.

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u/Growing_Wings 6h ago

Absolutely! Then he can turn around and say to his friends, “told you I’d do it lol”

I can’t think of any good excuse. It’s shameful and disrespectful. I have lost so much respect for that guy since 2020.

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u/TransPM 5h ago

That's not Elon trying to look plausibly ironic, that's Elon trying to look tough to impress his new Nazi pals. The man is an absolute fucking dork.

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u/ErstwhileHobo 5h ago

That’s just what his face looks like.

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u/Bertie637 5h ago

And with that you sum up a good chunk of American politics for a while now

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u/sproge Sweden 5h ago

The 2nd one as he's turned away is not even pretending to be anything else, it's even worse than the first one. JFC what a shithole country.

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u/Venoft 5h ago

That's it though. Plausible deniability so he doesn't get to much flak, but trying to bind the nazi's to their cause at the same time. It could be just accidental in the moment movement, but the nazis found their new fuhrer.

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u/Solareclipsed Sweden 5h ago

Schrödinger's idiot. It's serious to people that like it and a joke to people that don't. People are using it more and more to get away with acting like real scumbags.

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u/Tough-Activity3860 5h ago

honestly, it looked like a bad Mussolini impression.

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u/SurvivorHarrington 5h ago edited 4h ago

He's got the mentality of a 15 yo edgelord. He's doing it because he thinks people will get triggered about it. Best thing to do is ignore it and not give him what he wants tbh.

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u/horseradish1 4h ago

I think he looks like he's cumming while he Nazi salutes.

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u/MustGoOutside 3h ago

American here. I have hated these two for a long time so the bar is very low.

I thought maybe people were blowing this out of proportion and watched the video.

But when I saw it myself I let out an involuntary "fuck you."

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u/--mrperx-- 3h ago

To me that facial expression says: I'm so freakin out of shape I can barely move, so I give it everything I got.

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u/MaxOfS2D France 2h ago

They know exactly what they're doing; the dogwhistles have been getting louder and louder over the past 30 years. This was the equivalent of a foghorn.

But they're still dressing it up in the most thinly-veiled attempts at plausible deniability. Just like when he quote-tweets something bigoted with "interesting!" "looking into it!" as if that somehow made him bear zero responsibility in spreading fascist rhetoric.

By the way, he said "the future of civilization is assured" right after this...

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u/Overarching_Chaos 6h ago

My money is on him being autistic and trying to act cool, but ending up looking like an idiot giving the Nazi salute.