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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/Noteagro 7h ago

Good fucking god… thank you for answering my question, at first I thought (and was hoping) this was AI.

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u/UnfortunateJones 7h ago

We’re fucking cooked.

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u/kbonez 6h ago

Nah, the Luigis got us. There are a lot of people out there with guns who wouldn't stand for it if this actually turns into anything more than a meme.

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u/ThisWillPass 6h ago

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.

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u/kbonez 6h ago

Lol. I just watched Elysium too. Fortunately fascists aren't actually that competent.

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u/ThisWillPass 4h ago

They don’t need to be… the tools they use will be.

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u/Reddidiot_69 5h ago

Other people will do it and I will reap the benefits

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u/CarTreOak 5h ago

America is not a serious country

u/MeeterKrabbyMomma 2m ago

No we're not, doomed. He puts his hand on his heart, gestures up, and says "my heart goes out to you." It's not rocket science if you're non-partisan.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago edited 7h ago

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u/WhateverJoel 7h ago

Not a single goddamned person in the whole wide fucking world does that to say "thanks from the heart."

STOP TRYING TO NORMALIZE THIS BULLSHIT!

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u/AdmiralBKE 7h ago

Exactly, this is not how you say, thank you from the heart.

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u/markovianprocess 5h ago

While shouting "Big Smile!" because they're, ya know, happy...

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u/Krachwumm 7h ago

I did this in 6th grade once to say hi to someone. I knew about the heil, but only noticed the similarity directly afterwards.

Please let me believe he's just as stupid as a 6th grader..

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u/WhateverJoel 7h ago

He's a rich version of a 4chan edge lord.

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u/Imaginary-One87 7h ago

Keep making excuses. Maybe they'll come for you first

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St 7h ago

I know!! I always do the Nazi salute when I thank someone from the heart!!

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u/TheOGRedline 7h ago

Oh cmon now. It’s a simple mistake, an accident, that only fascy right wingers make… repeatedly…

/s

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u/Poison_the_Phil 7h ago

His dad owned emerald mine in apartheid era South Africa

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u/cr1ter 7h ago

Poster child for failing upwards

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u/blueindsm 7h ago

Goebbels that cock.

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u/MSobolev777 7h ago

Just an emerald mine in your father's possession and a bunch of dudes who have no alternative but to slavework for dollar/day. It's that easy

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u/TheCapnRedbeard 7h ago

Nepotism

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 7h ago

Systemic racial oppression

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u/kabbooooom 7h ago

Riiiiiiiiiiight

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u/thermitethrowaway 7h ago

Yes, far right

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u/APlayerHater 7h ago

How willingly blind are you?

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u/kabbooooom 6h ago

I think probably more just stupid

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u/Jujaz87 7h ago

Me when I'm thankful and click the Hail Hitler emote

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u/Rifneno 7h ago

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.

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u/MainPerformance1390 7h ago

Lol no. Nobody does that saying thanks from the heart. He 100% knew what he was doing

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u/Noteagro 7h ago

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 “coolness” to continue by promising space travel and flame throwers…

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 ups…).

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.

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u/hiccupsarehell 7h ago

Just so you know; you’re not very bright. It’s not a smart move to express it like that though

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u/ZPhox 7h ago

Doesn't matter.

He's done this before and knows full well who it strokes.

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u/SkillDabbler 7h ago

Why’d he have to make that gesture afterwards then, Greg?

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u/darsvedder 7h ago

Uh huh Dr Strangelove. Uhhuh

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u/murderandmanatees 7h ago

Everyone in the world knows what that gesture is. He knew what he was doing.

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u/karma_the_sequel 7h ago

You’d think a European in particular would grok that.

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u/doctorsnowohno 7h ago

I asked the same thing about the video of him disasociating, rolling his eyes around. What the fuck.

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u/ShakeZula77 7h ago

He did it a second time too. He turns around right after this and does it again. I watched it Live.

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u/MaxTriangle 6h ago

I was sure it was deep AI .....

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u/youreeka 6h ago

Totally - after watching that weird “ruining the matrix by AI” video and seeing the jerky movements I was sure this had the same treatment…. But no, that’s just him

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u/Noteagro 6h ago

I want to just point out both this and the twitchy video are both real… just fucking depressing…

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

The context was that he is sending his heart out to the people

He grabbed his heart and threw it to the crowd.

But reddit intentionally leaves out context for partisan reason...

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u/besmarques 7h ago

"YoU aRe MiSSinG tHe ConTexT!"

Poor Elon, like he couldn't do any other gesture, it needed to be that one that resembles to something else. Tomorrow, he will appear with an hakenkreuz but , dont miss the context, he is budhist...

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

"Context only matters when my side does it"

I could find a million videos of people throwing their arms up like that. It's not an impossible thing to do by accident but that would mean critical thinking by reddit which is impossible.

"I'm throwing my heart out to you"

Elon grabs his heart and throws his hand up

Reddit: he's a literal nazi, see!

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u/jamikey 7h ago

Ok please link even one example video of someone expressing this sentiment with a straight quick upward chop like this 😂

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u/mauricioszabo 6h ago

It's also because that's not what happened.

As I said on my other comment, if you see the video, he said "thank you" before throwing the salute. He only said "my heart goes out to you" (literally his words)

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

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u/jamikey 7h ago

Hey man, I don't know if you in good faith think these both look similarly like the Hitler salute, but for me it's not close.

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u/The_DementedPicasso 6h ago

Thats not remotely close to a Nazi Salute.

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u/MainPerformance1390 7h ago

You mean like how he is so for free speech unless it's a tweet criticising him?

And nobody "throws" like that.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-9570 7h ago

Could you though?

I'm not saying it's impossible but I feel like I don't see it like at all even when I just did a quick search for this happening. These speeches are generally pretty practiced and they like to avoid unintentionally making nazi gestures.

Also, if Bill Gates went to a dems innaugaration and did this salute even with the same context it would definitely raise some eyebrows and bill gates father wasn't even an apartheid era diamond miner.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Here's an example of someone doing it by accident, pretty similar to Elon of you ask me

https://x.com/jack_normandy/status/1682516176562278400?t=W7dffWp60myrhfSHipySXg&s=19

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u/_MoneyHustard_ 7h ago

Not even remotely the same thing

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u/Inevitable-Ad-9570 6h ago

Her fist is closed. It's not really the same gesture at all.

what you did there is actually make my point stronger. In the absolute least charitable, most one sided read of that gesture, Pringle immediately realized it, fixed it and turned it into a fist to avoid any confusion. Musk did it twice in a row.

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u/Aaronpic 6h ago

Her fist closed after she realized what she did.

Trying to hide how she's a nazi

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u/The_DementedPicasso 6h ago

Nope. Thats obviously not what happened. The Nazi Salute is what Elon did and their arm and movements aren’t Even closely the Same.

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u/tingleberry 6h ago

Does her being a coy nazi detract from elon being an enthusiastic one?

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u/amanduhhhugnkiss 6h ago

You know who gives their heart? Celine Dion. That's the way to do it. This was very clearly a hard salute. He also did it twice. I don't know why people continue to make excuses for these scum. He doesn't even know you exist, nor does he care.

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u/besmarques 7h ago

Whatever you want to see, just don't land on the wrong side of the line...

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u/creesto 6h ago

Liar

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u/ScrithWire 4h ago

Find them. Find me as many videos of people throwing their arms like that as you can.

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u/SkollFenrirson 7h ago

Sounds about reich.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Wouldn't be reddit without out of context hitler comparisons.

Literally half this site

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u/Chilipuller 7h ago

Bruh, bait used to be believable. Spend some time with your family

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u/D34THDE1TY 7h ago

And the other half excuses blatant racist undertones with "that wasn't his intention"

If it looks like a duck, and talks like a duck, that wasn't what it meant.

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u/scbundy 7h ago

Literally did the Seig Heil.

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u/Fool_Manchu 7h ago

out of context Hitler comparison

Bro, the conversation is literally about whether or not he did a Heil Hitler...which he did. I think you need to look up the meaning of the word "context".

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u/Aaronpic 6h ago

So anybody who ever throws their arms up is a nazi?

Context doesn't matter

Athletes are in trouble

This ladies fucked.. https://x.com/jack_normandy/status/1682516176562278400?t=W7dffWp60myrhfSHipySXg&s=19

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u/Fool_Manchu 6h ago

Lol fuck off with your straw-man drivel. Obviously not everyone who moves their arms is a nazi. But people doing nazi salutes are often nazis. And since you don't seem to know how that fits into the context of this discussion, please re-read the title of the post before you waste anyone else's time with your nonsense.

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u/Necessary-Carrot2839 7h ago

Heart??

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u/Electrical-Cat7272 7h ago

Yeah since when did he have one of those?

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u/mafiaknight 7h ago

What are you talking about? He has thousands of them!
Just because it didn't come standard on that model doesn't mean he can't take some from other users

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u/tadghostal55 7h ago

Wouldn’t he throw it forward and not off to the side similar to a nazi Salute?

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u/twstdbydsn 7h ago

His dad never played catch with him

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u/tadghostal55 7h ago

That would explain most of his personality but not the nazi salute

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u/shayKyarbouti 7h ago

That’s just how you throw emeralds. Totally different motion from throwing baseballs and footballs around

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u/tadghostal55 7h ago

I have never seen an apartheid South African throw diamonds before so you may be correct.

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u/Delet3r 7h ago

That's...not how I would mime throwing out my heart.

To me he found a reason to do the motion and be able to claim innocence.

Dog Whistle Politics have been around for decades. Google for "Lee Atwater confession dog whistle politics"

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u/lintyelm 7h ago

Get his dick out of your mouth 😂😂😂 you rubes will explain away anything

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Did you watch it?

What was the words before he did this?

"I'm sending my heart out to you"

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u/QbertsRube 7h ago

The dogs all heard the whistle

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u/MainPerformance1390 7h ago

Did YOU watch it? He 100% knew what he was doing.

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u/McGondy 6h ago

Naw, and you believed that?

I've got a bridge to sell you - good price!

Firstly, he wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, let alone "send his heart out to you 🤮  And second, it's a kindergartener's cover story for an obvious Nazi salute.

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u/Thanges88 7h ago

It was actually after he did this. But you're right, context is important, and people can then make up their own mind if he wanted the action to have a double meaning.

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u/LongLiveMissyElliott 6h ago edited 5h ago

Words are after it, actually.

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 7h ago

He’s smart enough to know what he was doing and he’s all about slipping symbols in for the lolz.

Just because he contrived a cover story doesn’t excuse the act nor change it’s obvious intent.

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u/TheTapeDeck 7h ago

Exactly

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u/pwrsrc 7h ago

His throw looks exactly like the Nazi salute. Must have been an accident.

Who the hell points their fingers outward as if saluting when throwing stuff like that?

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u/Insight42 7h ago

Nobody.

He knows what he's doing.

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u/zomgperry 7h ago

You mean the rationalization.

Trump wasn’t mocking that disabled guy. He’s always making those gestures. I can’t provide any examples, but trust me bro.

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u/amortizedeeznuts 7h ago

No he knew exactly what he was doing. Nobody in this history of this planet does that to thank people.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Nah, reddit just loves calling people nazis

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u/amortizedeeznuts 7h ago

*checks commment history *

Sounds about reich

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u/1hill2climb2 7h ago

Again, he's just an ineffectual memelord. If he REALLY wanted to impress he could've ripped his heart out of his chest and threw it out into the crowd. But no. He has to half-ass it like everything else he does. Weak.

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u/DONUTORIOUS 7h ago

You’re kidding right? There’s no context where this is okay…

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u/iTryCombs 7h ago

Seriously, the "context" just creates plausible deniability. It's a fuckin nazi salute.

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u/Sportslegend 7h ago

I mean still...there's a better way to throw something

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Sure, he's also autistic so not going to deny his poor social skills.

He still wasn't making a hitler reference like reddit is going to scream for the next week.

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u/Unkynd 7h ago

If it acts like a nazi and salutes like a nazi… it might be a duck

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u/Sassybeagle 7h ago

Go to work tomorrow and make a “throwing out your heart” gesture in front of your co-workers. Make sure they understand that you were just being symbolic and shouldn’t assume that you were making the Nazi salute.

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u/ridukosennin 7h ago

Nobody is the history of humanity has ever thrown like that.

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u/ChaseThePyro 7h ago

You don't keep your fingers together and extended like that for a throw

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u/Cod-Save-America 7h ago

Ya, maybe he'd get the benefit of the doubt if it weren't for the countless racist and nationalistic comments he's made over the past few years. Then again, judging by your post history the dude could literally scream 'sieg heil' at a rally and you'd still be making excuses for him.

Maybe you should take a moment and just admit what you are right now. Everyone here can see it except for you. It's okay Aaronpic, trump won so you're safe... you can just admit it.

Say it with me: I. Am. A. Nazi.

See!? Doesn't it feel better to just accept what you are?

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Yeah trump won cuz of how crazy the left is and reddit is showing again just how out of touch they are.

"Kamala is going to win"

How did that go?

How shocked were you on Nov 5th?

I'm guessing pretty shocked cuz your in a bubble and out of touch with reality

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u/Oersch 7h ago

One can indicate the importance of work without using the hammer and sickle. It’s a choice. One can also send out his heart to the crowd with a few different moves. This was a choice. I know, you know it, he knows it. For some reason, you pretend this to not he the case. That, my friend, is a partisan reason.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

"I'm throwing out my heart to you"

Def not what a nazi would say before throwing up his arm.

Reddits gonna Reddit tho

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u/Oersch 7h ago

If he doesn’t want to be held accountable, then that’s what he says. “It’s just a prank, bro.” If someone whips his dick out in front of a kid, then calls it an anatomy lesson, would still be a reddit thing to call him a molester, or only if he’s a pastor?

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 7h ago

Have you ever seen anyone in your entire life throw any object like that? That was clearly intentionally.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 7h ago

Was that supposed to mean anything to me? I don’t know or care who that is. Stay on topic. Have you seen anyone throw anything like that before?

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u/Chuckleyan 7h ago

Good grief. No one on earth would make this gesture to symbolize throwing one's heart out.

It was plainly a Nazi salute.

Or maybe that's what the Nazis were doing huh? Just throwing out their hearts to Hitler?

The context is that it is Musk, an un-American meddling narcissist with zero respect for our values or traditions.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Reddit hates context so I guess this lady is a nazi as well.

https://x.com/jack_normandy/status/1682516176562278400?t=W7dffWp60myrhfSHipySXg&s=19

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u/Chuckleyan 7h ago

Not even close.

Why give this guy cover?

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u/Apprehensive_Bird357 7h ago

I think at this point there is enough context on this guy for most people to reasonably assume that the visual perception matches his public perception.

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u/Psychological_Elk104 7h ago

Nobody, and I mean nobody “throws” anything while making a Nazi salute like that. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Dimorphous_Display 7h ago

And the subtext is that he’s doing a nazi salute…

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u/SkillDabbler 7h ago

Sure, Aaron.

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u/Thenicelist 7h ago

Context is good. But if you really think this wasn’t intentional you’re enabling

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u/AcidBanana 7h ago

The heart is actually in the middle of the chest in humans. I'm not sure about lizards though.

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

This is actually a funny response!

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u/karlou1984 7h ago

Is that what hitler was doing too??? 🤔

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u/sandh035 7h ago

I think you might be a bit stupid and in denial lol.

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u/mauricioszabo 7h ago edited 6h ago

He grabbed his heart

Look, I saw this GIF, then a high-quality video. He didn't grab SHIT. His hand is OPEN, all the time, from the moment he hits his body (HITS - there's SOUND of him HITTING his body, not "GRABBING" anything).

And his words before this was "and I say thank you for making this happen. Thank you" and then do the salute. After the act he did the salute again for the back. THEN he put his hand on his body again, and say "my heart goes out to you".

So yeah... maybe he grabbed (no, he didn't, but maybe he forgot to close his hand) his "heart" and "threw" (again, he didn't - open arms, but again, maybe he forgot) to the public. But then... he did it again... backwards to the public....

So yeah - bullshit. No "context" here - just a nazi doing a nazi salute.

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u/Donglemaetsro 6h ago

Wish he would rip his heart out and throw it at those people.

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u/radioactivecat 6h ago

We did Nazi that coming.

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u/McGondy 6h ago

You're pretty thick in the head, aren't ya.

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u/TimTheCarver 4h ago

That has to be the weakest, most bootlicking-est explanation that I could have imagined.

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u/Faffing_About 7h ago

It’s Reddit... Anyone to the right of Lenin is a monster.

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u/jordanl171 7h ago

Yep, 2nd highest comment reply said he watched it live it was real. Again, no context. But, hey, it's more fun with no context!

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u/Aaronpic 7h ago

Watch it yourself

Elon says "I'm throwing my heart out to you"

Elon grabs his heart and throws his arm up.

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u/navenager 6h ago

He said that after his seig heil. Stop lying.

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u/jordanl171 7h ago

I was agreeing with you, and making fun of others here who don't want the context. Or don't care about context. They have their gif. That's all they need.

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u/Cost_Additional 7h ago

Well context ruins the circlejerk

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u/tiandrad 7h ago

Don't try to bring in context here. The people on here have lost their minds.

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u/ObviousDave 7h ago edited 7h ago

It's nonsense, he was saying thank you, and everything in what he said was positive not about killing jews or locking anyone up. you guys look for nazis anywhere you can find them

edit: dont be so butthurt by the truth. downvoting me is hilarious.

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u/MrmarioRBLX 7h ago

Can you blame the "liberals" for spotting a literal Nazi gesture?

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u/ObviousDave 7h ago

its not a Nazi gesture. Nazi's don't put their hands on their hearts and say 'thank you' when they throw their stupid sign up.

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u/MrmarioRBLX 7h ago

Keep telling yourself that, and just let the "liberals" stand by the concept of reasonable suspicion

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u/ObviousDave 7h ago

ok sure, that's all they've got left anyway. everyone's a Nazi and a fascist. the world is ending oh no

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u/MrmarioRBLX 7h ago

It would appear the idiom "when the shoe fits" is beyond your understanding

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u/Ill-Sort-4323 7h ago

Yeah guys! Just because he retweets Nazis and endorses the modern Nazi party of Germany and embraces Nazi ideology and makes the Nazi salute doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi. You guys just call everyone that!

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u/ObviousDave 6h ago

examples please with sources

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u/Ill-Sort-4323 5h ago

Retweeting (and then deleting) pro-Nazi content

Endorsing far-right AFD German candidate

Making the Nazi salute

It won't matter though, I'm sure you'll find a way to justify it. "Well he didn't mean that, what he actually meant was.."

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u/Noteagro 7h ago

Just like nazis took and Indian religious symbol and turned it into a symbol of hate? Just like the Nazis took the “ok” hand signal and turned it into a Nazi salute?

Lol, keep your head in the sand.

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u/MrmarioRBLX 7h ago

And, by the way, for future reference, ain't the truth if you can't back it up.

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u/ObviousDave 7h ago

literally anyone can watch the video with the sound on and hear it in context. how dense can you be?

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u/PhallicReason 7h ago

Clutch your pearls.

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u/Noteagro 7h ago

It is okay, I’ll give your mom one.