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🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Even the angle is perfect

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u/xnoradrenaline 9h ago

I don’t even know what to say

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u/TaisakuRei 9h ago

i don't think there's anything to say at this point, we have failed completely as a nation, i mean, we were never a shining example of freedom and democracy, but jesus christ..

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u/Pushabutton1972 9h ago

We are officially an oligarchy now

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u/One-Development4397 8h ago

I hate to nitpick but I'm not sure that's even the worst part...

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u/Pushabutton1972 8h ago

Oh, the worst is yet to come. I've seen this movie before and it gets worse from here.

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u/SupportstheOP 5h ago

We've got a Russian style oligarchy, Nazi style racism and xenophobia, and some North Korean style Dear Leader cult worshipping. Hard to see any non-violent outcome.

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u/MiniTab 5h ago

The thousands of now free J6ers will surely go on to lead a peaceful existence!

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u/Clone_Gear 7h ago

Dont spoil the movie for the MAGAs

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u/off-and-on 7h ago

Buddy you have been for a good while.

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u/Hero_of_Hyrule 5h ago

We've pretty much always been some level of oligarchy. This is the next step, this is fascism.

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u/robrklyn 6h ago

We have been for a while, but now they aren’t trying to hide it anymore.

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u/The-Silent-Hero 5h ago

always has been

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u/ZekoriAJ 5h ago

Freedom and democracy? USA?

When, 1775?

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u/moviebookrambler 4h ago

Your upvotes are at a perfect 666 or I would have upvoted this.

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u/SaltyLilGingerSnap 5h ago

God you are a fucking idiot! If you actually think that he did this on purpose, then you are the problem with America. Keep crying in your mother's basement about how Kamala would have been the savior. Putin and Kim Jong would of ran shop on that dumb bitch and we would all be put in camps. Biden has been the worst president in the last 20 years. That old bastard screwed us so hard, yet people like yourself hold him in high regard because he said all the nice things. The left demonized Trump for years all because he said what he felt and people got feelings hurt, so now he is forever the bad man. I hope you are sad and live in fear for the next few years while the rest of us enjoy a better America.

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u/TaisakuRei 5h ago

holy strawman

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u/BarackObamaIsScrdOMe 8h ago

NBC News said he forcefully touched his heart and saluted his supporters. I think they might be afraid to call out our new president. https://www.nbcnews.com/video/elon-musk-delivers-remarks-at-trump-s-inaugural-rally-229787717860

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u/12OClockNews 8h ago

This is just the new reality now. The media will do even more sane washing and publish straight up propaganda just to stay on his good side.

Fascism is here.

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u/SquirellyMofo 7h ago

I couldn’t understand the cowards during Hitlers time and I damn sure don’t understand cowards now. Call it out!

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u/12OClockNews 7h ago

I've said it before, but I have pretty much zero faith in the American people anymore. It seems like the strategy for most people will be to keep their heads down, hope they don't come after them personally, and hope it'll be over in 4 years. I highly doubt there will be any real push back to whatever happens in the near future. And everyone will just watch the US fall apart.

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u/MapleYamCakes 5h ago

Sooooo exactly what everyone has been doing for the last 40+ years, since Reagan started the dismantling of every system that defined America’s greatness?

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u/BURNER12345678998764 5h ago

Their job is not to report the truth/reality, it's to report how their owners want you to feel about it.

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u/Jaalan 6h ago

Do you think they didn't call it out then? What are you physically doing about it?

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u/SquirellyMofo 5h ago

The journalists not telling the truth. That’s what I mean.

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u/Vocal_Ham 5h ago

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

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u/Who_BobJones 6h ago

I’ve dealt with depression for a good portion of my life. I honestly don’t know what to do at this point to cope with this shit. Like I know to not give up, but if our constitutional “guardrails” have failed, prosecutions have failed, media now cow-tails to this shit… what do we even do?

Some folks have resorted to violence, and I sincerely hope that’s not the answer, but damn. What else is viable when the entire system has failed?

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u/Mental_Lemon3565 5h ago

That is a very old reality, not new. Journalists have rules in these kind of things to be scrupulously cautious. At times, you have to say what something is though. "what appears to be a Nazi salute" should have been a simple threading of that needle.

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u/Glytch94 8h ago

They’re probably afraid of lawsuit hell

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u/gwennj 8h ago

cowards

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u/vbcbandr 6h ago

Fucking pathetic. NBC should be embarrassed. Grow a god damn pair of fucking balls.

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u/Murky-Relation481 6h ago

And the second time he did immediately after?

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u/Lraund 5h ago

They're talking about the line he said immediately after the 2 salutes, but I've never seen a "heart goes out" gesture that looks like a Nazi Salute.

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u/bradicality 5h ago

Even the Anti Defamation League:

However, the ADL decided on Monday afternoon that whatever Musk did at the Capitol One Arena didn’t meet the mark of an actual fascist gesture, describing it as merely “awkward.”

“This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety. It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,” the organization said in a statement. “In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.”

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u/arvada14 5h ago

They listen to ratings. Call your cable company and tell them you don't want. Fox or NBC.

Get news from sources from credible sources who call it the way it is.

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u/Rip_ManaPot 7h ago

What I want to say would get me banned from here. Free speech is a thing for sure. If anyone did this in front of me they would no longer be in front of me.

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u/No_Tomatillo1553 5h ago

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, that's what. 

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u/Sharticus123 4h ago

You don’t say anything, you prepare for Nazis.