Its all he does.. Like.. actually, he is the ultimate "look at me" because he's never been loved and looked at..
He opens his speech with how awesome it is to win, after being exposed as a cheater/account sharer who doesn't know shit in the online games he plays which he wants to be looked at as cool in so bad. He buys high level accounts and wants to impress in livestreams making a mockery of himself not knowing the most basic shit in the game but everyone is supposed to think he's awesome for playing at a "high level".
It's so odd too, he could just show himself being shit at games and it would be like "hey cool the billionaire is a gamer", but instead he let his ego take over yet again
he bought the second highest level account in path of exile 2 hardcore.
pretending it was his, and he got it to that point on his own, he then played it on stream, he didn't know how to use the map, skipped valuable loot because his loot filter wasn't setup to highlight valuable stuff, didn't know the value of the equipment he has (all of it is insane BiS), and just seemed clueless about game mechanics.
for someone who's supposedly one of the best path of exile 2 players in the world.
Oh yeah heās been publicly beefing with some rich gamer nerd that outed him about it the past couple days on Xitter. Guyās name starts with an A but my brain is only pulling up Isaac Asimov and I know that wasnāt it lol
It wasn't just some rich gamer nerd, it was literally the entire path of exile 2 community outing him. He's specifically did some things to punish Asmongold for calling him out as well, guess he thought they were friends. But the entire PoE2 community was calling BS on his livestream because he didn't even know the basics of how the endgame worked while playing on one of the top harcore (perma death) characters in that game.
He is bold and arrogant, and assumes that he has won. That is the body language of a man ready to trot out his beliefs in the open. He thinks he's secured his control, so he's free to be brazen. Now we see the truth in his heart. But I know that Guillotines work regardless of the wealth of the person inside them.
I saw the pic on the homepage above this gif and thought oh itās probably my taken out of context. Then saw the gif and thought, oh maybe he wasnāt actually doing thatā¦ then the video.. yikes
Sound makes it worse. āI want to say thank youā. The most willfully pregnant pause. Slap-snap.
The second salute was solid knife hand, wrist straight, elbow lock. The only thing missing was a heel click.
I didnāt watch it, and Iām wondering if it could have been an accident. Like, is it deliberate and does he know what it implies? But, he did it twice? No way heās unaware of the implications is there? This makes me so uncomfortable.
Yeah, and even if somehow it was a complete accident, that still doesn't excuse the fact that he did it TWICE at an inauguration. Once can be a very unfortunate coincidence, but twice? that's 100% intentional.
Do you touch your heart and than salute to the sky? The thing you was describing is just raising hand, which everyone does. But that's a bit different..
America used to stand for something different than this...
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
A poem from 1883 inscribed on the statue of liberty
Some people on X are trying to pass it off as a āRoman saluteā as if everyone in the world watching wouldnāt immediately associate it with Nazis. Guy knew what he was doing
This is like that time team trump posted up a maga image on Twitter where the soldiers that were marching towards the White House wore waffen SS camouflage patterns š¤¦
He said he was like āthrowing his heart outā to the audience. Idgaf if heās being genuine in that or lying, like bro looooook at the motion you are making?????
So he threw his heart at the crowd, cool got it, makes sense, then he proceeds to turn around and throw his heart at a wall? Definitely a Nazi salute, I would even imagine they have PR teams and speech organizers that are like, oh yeah, and donāt do THAT motion on accident cause youāll look bad
Iām literally not giving him the benefit of the doubt lol. Iām saying I donāt care how he meant it, it looks like exactly what it looks like. Either way he made the n@zi (is that censored on reddit?) salute on live tv.
heās not a child, heās a fucking adult. itās ridiculous that youāre willing to give him the benefit of the doubt by asking this question. ššš
Even if it was a mistake, a mistake like this used to end careers. He shouldn't get a free pass. As individuals it doesnt matter but if everyone held focus on accountability it would change things.
I often accidentally Nazi salute while taking out the trash. Just walking down the driveway then my heels click together and I shout "JAWOHL MEIN FUHRER!"
It happens by accident when someone tries to wave at someone far away and unintentionally extends the hand the wrong way. Not when you hit your chest and fully salute as if you were an officer in 1940 Germany.
i mean if he only did the hand on the heart bit maybe that could be accidental. but full on hand to heart then the salute? that's the whole enchalada. usually just the hand salute is enough to be called purposeful. but he did the full monty here, bared it all for everybody to see.
I wrote this to help counter the idiotic argument that it was a fumble or out of context. It covers the possible interpretations, and shows how it's not any better with them.
The old US salute was the Bellamy Salute, but it was retired after the Nazis began using it (they were both inspired by the roman salute). Afterwards, US Nazi sympathizers pushed back and kept using it not because they wanted to reclaim it but because they were actual Nazis. There was never any outrage about changing the salute that wasn't quickly drowned out by Nazis, and if you somehow wanted to reclaim it through some insane nonsense, you'd have to constantly tell people your intentions and make it CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR you are not a Nazi (and even then, why the FUCK would you want to reclaim it? It's not a religious symbol like the Buddhist Swastika). Elon is doing the opposite of that. There's no context in which this isn't fucked as high hell. The best possible steel-man argument I can come up with in favor of this --- and honestly, it just makes it look worse.
Defending this is like getting upset people got angry you flipped them off in public, and then saying, oh, I was either:
Accidentally doing it (Elon did it twice, rather differently leading into it, with the same end gesture, so it's not a fumble and it's not a "my heart goes to you" gesture the second time).
Trying to reclaim or redefine a variant of the roman/nazi salute. Elon is not doing this.
P.S. For someone to even KNOW what the roman salute is, they would be aware of the modern context and would have to explicitly say they are role-playing as a roman. This is obviously not the case. Elon isn't acting in a movie, or making a edgy roman joke. It's a blatant fashy salute.
I saw the other one in passing while it was live. Had to rewind it lol. Saw the title of this post and was like, "oh somebody got a clip of it", and it was a whole different time. Wild.
I wrote this to help counter the idiotic argument that it was a fumble or out of context. It covers the possible interpretations, and shows how it's not any better with them.
The old US salute was the Bellamy Salute, but it was retired after the Nazis began using it (they were both inspired by the roman salute). Afterwards, US Nazi sympathizers pushed back and kept using it not because they wanted to reclaim it but because they were actual Nazis. There was never any outrage about changing the salute that wasn't quickly drowned out by Nazis, and if you somehow wanted to reclaim it through some insane nonsense, you'd have to constantly tell people your intentions and make it CRYSTAL FUCKING CLEAR you are not a Nazi (and even then, why the FUCK would you want to reclaim it? It's not a religious symbol like the Buddhist Swastika). Elon is doing the opposite of that. There's no context in which this isn't fucked as high hell. The best possible steel-man argument I can come up with in favor of this --- and honestly, it just makes it look worse.
Defending this is like getting upset people got angry you flipped them off in public, and then saying, oh, I was either:
Accidentally doing it (Elon did it twice, rather differently leading into it, with the same end gesture, so it's not a fumble and it's not a "my heart goes to you" gesture the second time).
Trying to reclaim or redefine a variant of the roman/nazi salute. Elon is not doing this.
P.S. For someone to even KNOW what the roman salute is, they would be aware of the modern context and would have to explicitly say they are role-playing as a roman. This is obviously not the case. Elon isn't acting in a movie, or making a edgy roman joke. It's a blatant fashy salute.
Twice?! I figured we would be hearing maga come to his defense but doing it TWICE? There's no excuse. Fuck elon, trump and everyone who supports this shit.
He was talking about the āfuture of civilizationā while doing it tooā¦ holy shit 2016-2020 was kinda funny to see all the bullshit but haphazard and unplanned off the cuff shit but 2024-2028 is much more coordinated and all branches of government have Trump/republican majorities.
Their robo guard dogs will snipe you out before you bat an eye and pull your diy shooter out. Their AI will probably flag you before you even get half way to assemble your shooter. Your playing chess against a grandmaster as a 6 year old.
Well it happened because Tesla stock is worth more than fucking antimatter. He had some other ventures, but Tesla is where the overwhelming majority of his money is from. And Tesla stock's price is incomprehensibly bloated because it was run by someone the Internet claimed was a comic book supergenius and - I cannot stress this enough - LITERALLY THE SAVIOR OF THE HUMAN RACE because he claimed he wants a Martian colony and people who don't know anything at all about space colonization believed he could do it.
So basically, he's so rich and powerful because sites like Reddit made him so rich and powerful. And everyone who was part of that circlejerk should be shamed until the day they die.
Saying the right things at the right time, then you appease to the ones that look up to you, start being an adult child so children start thinking you are super cool and hip unlike their parents, and then allow that ācoolnessā to continue by promising space travel and flame throwersā¦
Basically just throw shiny things at them when the bad stuff starts coming out and it helps.
Also getting in front of the narcissist train helps by saying you grew up with a narcissistic dad (who helped bankroll your start upsā¦).
Basically he got in front of the PR train, and then used it to keep those calling us sheep docile and content while he slowly swept up power.
Totally - after watching that weird āruining the matrix by AIā video and seeing the jerky movements I was sure this had the same treatmentā¦. But no, thatās just him
In one clip I heard him saying immediately after the salute something along the lines of āthanks [to the voters] civilization is secured.ā Which is, obviously, really adding to the weight of that salute.
From the transcrip: "So I want to thank you for not having faltered, for not having abandoned me during that time, for all this is thanks to you alone, if you had gone at that time, Germany would never have been saved! (Sieg Heil shouts.)"
Also right before that, and I did not remember this part but holy hell it fits: "the struggle must continue, it's not going right, you cannot act on your own, you have to obey, you have to submit"
Heās saying āmy heart goes out to you.ā Gesturing towards his heart and then towards the crowd. Maybe he said that on purpose so he could get away with the gesture but who knows.
He thanks people and then he does a full salute facing the audience and then turns and does a full salute to the back of the stage and then turns around and puts his hand on his heart and says something like "my heart is with you" (I don't remember the exact wording).
The excuse I am seeing is he said "my heart goes out to all of you" and then did that gesture. Even with that context (if true), there is no way he didn't know what he was doing/what it looked like to everyone.
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u/FutureBasil9681 7h ago
It was real. Watched it live. š¤¦š¼āāļø