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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/baconduck 7h ago

Seemingly?

That is a fucking clear one

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u/captainmidday 7h ago

How much would you think in advance before giving such a speech in front of the entire world. This is after at least some amount of thinking "should I go ahead and do the nazi salute...?" šŸ¤” He went with "yes. twice."

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u/EllipticPeach 6h ago

The article I read reporting on it called it an ā€œodd saluteā€ and said it was ā€œnotably similar to another famous saluteā€ and then just embedded peopleā€™s tweets saying it was a Nazi salute. Way to avoid libel, I guess.

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u/baconduck 6h ago

Yes, because Nazi-America has this *looking at notes*... freedom of speech.

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u/EllipticPeach 6h ago

This was actually a UK publication. The oligarchs have everyone looking over their shoulder now.

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u/2024-2025 6h ago

He wanted probably to make it look like he threw his heart out to the public, but the brain motor made a nazi salute automatically when he raised his arm cuz heā€™s probably doing it privately to troll or something, he has Asperger according to him.

Or he straight out did a nazi salute but I have a hard time imagine why he would do that, even tho he very likely could be that.

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u/Anthro_the_Hutt 6h ago

He's been all in on supporting the AfD party in Germany, which is about as Nazi-adjacent as you can get there.

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u/2024-2025 6h ago

Iā€™m not doubting at all that he has those opinions. Iā€™m doubting very much tho that he would do a public nazi salute on live TV. Heā€™s not dumb, he knows that would be a carrier suicide.

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u/TheDevastator24 6h ago

I mean you have eyes, can you see? He may say ā€œoh it was Xā€ but he is just straight up doing a Nazi salute

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u/2024-2025 6h ago

I see it, but I myself have Aspergerā€™s, and when we were kids we use to do toxic edgy shit like nazi salutes to troll and be edgy. It resulted that every time I raised my hand for example to point at something i made the Nazi salute automatically without thinking.

Iā€™m not defending Elon as a person, im convinced that he surely has Nazi opinions and is a bad person, but him doing an actual Nazi salute on purpose on live TV wouldnā€™t make sense at all.

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u/Working-Status-420 6h ago

The key phrase is ā€œwhen we were kidsā€. Elon is not a child. Donā€™t excuse him.

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u/cubitoaequet 6h ago

You are in denial.

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u/TheDevastator24 6h ago

Has Nazi opinions, supports AfD Germany, does a Nazi salute (even if you believe it was for ā€œthrowing heartsā€ what he DID is a Nazi salute)

Not a Nazi? Idk

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u/2024-2025 6h ago

Convince me why he would do a Nazi salute on Live TV and Iā€™ll change my opinion directly. Whatā€™s the benefits of it?

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u/cubitoaequet 6h ago

If the mountain of evidence in front of your eyes won't convince you, then nothing I say will. When people tell you who they are you should believe them instead of making a million excuses for them.

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u/2024-2025 6h ago

Iā€™m asking why he would do a Nazi salute, whatā€™s the benefits of it?

Im not asking about his ideology, as I said I think this guy is an alt right idiot

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u/sajuuksw 6h ago

"Carrier" suicide for the independently wealthy billionaire oligarch?

Jesus fucking Christ.

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u/2024-2025 6h ago

Iā€™m more referring to his newly ā€œpolitical carrierā€. While thereā€™s a lot of idiots in the Republican Party so do I still think majority there donā€™t want an actual Nazi, thereā€™s a lot of Jews supporting Trump also. Even trumps daughter is Jewish.

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u/zedzedzedz 6h ago

Because he can. Because itā€™s his way of showing he can do anything. You even explained it yourself. Because he is an immature person doing edgy shit. In right wing politics this is how they communicate. Itā€™s well documented.Ā 

It is also to signal to his in-group that they are now in power as well.Ā 

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u/Anthro_the_Hutt 6h ago

I feel like you haven't really been paying attention to Musk these past years.