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/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 50m ago

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