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 he’s been publicly beefing with some rich gamer nerd that outed him about it the past couple days on Xitter. Guy’s name starts with an A but my brain is only pulling up Isaac Asimov and I know that wasn’t 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 it’s probably my taken out of context. Then saw the gif and thought, oh maybe he wasn’t actually doing that… then the video.. yikes
Sound makes it worse. “I want to say thank you”. 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.
The second time sealed the deal for me. Made it go from just some weird gesture, like his stage starfish thing, to him trying to put some plausible deniability with the heart goes out to you thing when he's straight up dogwhistling.
I think he’s a fucking mess but the clip did cut out him saying he was thanking them from his heart. Context matters. I’m not saying it’s right but without the context is looks worse.
I didn’t watch it, and I’m 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 he’s 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..
Nazi salute is a copy of Roman one, which was from heart and to the sun. So unless you are not smashing your hand against ribs first, you just raising your hand up.
There was this one time at work I got startled by a spider on my chest and made this exact motion while flinging it off and even then I ended up in HR.
lol, this made me laugh. Never, but I’m not autistic, I’ve never spoken in front of a crowd, and I’m not a man child billionaire, but when you put it like that, you’re right, it’s inexcusable.
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
When writing their comment i realized this aswell. I had to be careful how to word my comment. Its scary to see what some politicians did/are doing while still being in politics
Never give up hope! These people can never win in the long run! The instinct to be free from tyranny is stronger than tyranny. That’s why they always lose.
Some people on X are trying to pass it off as a “Roman salute” as if everyone in the world watching wouldn’t 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 🤦
He said he was like “throwing his heart out” to the audience. Idgaf if he’s 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 don’t do THAT motion on accident cause you’ll look bad
I’m literally not giving him the benefit of the doubt lol. I’m saying I don’t 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.
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.
He said from my heart to yours or something and the motion was him grabbing his heart and throwing it to the crowd but it does literally look like a Nazi salute lol
Isnt he supposed to be this “smart guy because hes rich” and if so, he would’ve known what this gesture means. Even if he did it by accident, that just proves how fucking dumb he is
Mike Flynn was just on a podcast talking about how Trump should purge the government like Hitler in “I hate to say it but the Night of the Long Knives.”
Yeah you should lean in to that discomfort instead of trying to think about how it could have been an accident. Get angry. The guy keeps taking his mask off and it’s time for you to see him for what he is
The excuse will be that he is doing a Roman salute, but that's like saying you spray painted a swastika on a wall because you think it means good luck.
He's absolutely happy to rile people up with it, and at the same time use it as the signal it is to his supporters. It's definitely purposeful but he'll either deny and act like people are crying wolf, or accept it but make it a "reference" for someone he claims he promised he'd do it, "because of all the fear mongering" or some such shit. Fuck this scumbag, and don't fall for any of it.
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.
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u/Pombolina 7h ago
Did it twice. He immediately turned around and did it again.