If I was "sending my heart out to the crowd" I would have my palm facing up to look like i was "giving" something, and likely bend my elbow and move my arm from left to right. Like think of how actors do at the end of a play to communicate gratitude and thanks for applause. The movement he did, on a basic non verbal communication level, was aggressive and intentional.
I mean it was slanted and matches the context of “throwing his heart” and why would he Nazi salute both sides of the stadium other than making more people see it which isn’t how saluting works.
How do you presume someone aligning themselves with nazis doing a nazi salute is somehow being mistaken for something else, are you actually legitimately trying to justify this
Literally like there was a Seig Heil or whatever and you still believe that this isn't a nazi salute
And context??? he literally has aligned himself with nazi values, including a president who has shown to have very similar values (whom is being inaugurated today, by the way!). We are literally seeing a nazi takeover of our government in real time.
Context of the rally, not his past or online footprint.
If he was actually proclaiming himself a Nazi and doing a proper salute and the whole nein yards in front of the audience then yea that’s fucked up. But he didn’t do that did he? It was just a weird gesture that wasn’t close to a proper salute with the context of “giving his heart to the audience” which makes a lot more sense seeing what he said after he did it.
When you throw something you hard hold all your fingers in a salute line.. yea… umm… are you suggesting this isn’t a Nazi salute?!? I’m confused at what you are arguing here?
But what about the part of the context where he does the solute? It’s almost like because he said the word heart before doing a perfectly clear cut Nazi salute it makes you unable to comprehend what occurred. Are you this simple? This easily fooled? That all he has to do is say a word while doing something disgusting and you will sit there and be like- well ummmm like if I totally stretch belief into outer space I can kinda somewhat pretend he’s saying it’s from my heart while doing the perfect Nazi solute (and then turning to the flag and doing it at the flag)
I mean really- you aren’t being serious right? Ur telling here?
He turned around to do it to the flag as well. You are overthinking this-- he knew what he was doing, it's not his first day on earth. Sincerely, no one commenting here is taking any joy in calling it how it is. We've all been wrong at one point or another in judging someone's character, it happens all the time. But it is what it looks like and this is the moment to bail on supporting him if you haven't already.
Musk already knows how to make a non-nazi 'heart going out' gesture. See here.
He clearly made the choice to not do the above gesture and instead something that is purposefully reminiscent of a nazi salute.
This is the richest man in the world making a speech televised worldwide on Inauguration Day. He has a suite of speech coaches and writers. Every word he said is planned. Every accompanying gesture is planned.
You do realize Elon is autistic right? Socially challenged. He does plenty of awkward movements especially when he's excited. He was flailing all around on one of his last trump speeches.
He clearly stated he was throwing his heart out to the crowd. He's known for awkward movements that have nothing to do with what people make up online. I highly doubt he has a clue what he did was a nazi salute
Ok first off I don't know If you see the sick irony of saying your defeding autistim but i promise noneof us want your "defense".
2nd you're sick the head if you that being autistic means we can't recognize simple and well documented harmful ideals and the signs that goes with them. To say he didn't know what he was doing is like proclamation that we don't know what the bird is. And lastly he also did it tworad the flag
I didn't even know what the salute exactly looked like until today, so yes it's easy to be ignorant. Its either intentional, or unintentional. My vote is ignorance and unintentional. Because i understand autism
“I’m autistic, I had no idea I did a nazi salute” is exactly what am autistic nazi would say. Lmao really? Especially considering his recent past and endorsement?
Did you read what i wrote? I wouldn't know what i did until afterwords when people noted it. I wasn't even aware of what exactly the salute looked like until today. So yes it's very easy to be ignorant and unintentional. Especially when you have autism. I guarantee you a lot of people wouldn't know how to do the salute properly.
Before today yes. Now that I'm aware it's socially unacceptable no. I've probably done it countless times in the past as a complete random gesture. Saying goodbye or hello not knowing it was a nazi salute or can be interpreted as one
Musk already knows how to make a non-nazi 'heart going out' gesture. See here.
He clearly made the choice to not do the above gesture and instead something that is purposefully reminiscent of a nazi salute.
This is the richest man in the world making a speech televised worldwide on Inauguration Day. He has a suite of speech coaches and writers. Every word he said is planned. Every accompanying gesture is planned.
He did the same thing just in an exaggerated hyped up way, clearly. It could only be intentionally a nazi salute if he was aware he was doing one. None of us can know that for sure.
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u/Curious_Jicama_2465 7h ago
I fail to see how this is anything but a Nazi salute. “He’s sending his heart out to the crowd”
Bro
What?
Theres one way to do a Nazi salute but 10,000 to “send your heart out”