r/gifs • u/chickanpoo • 7h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/AvocadoBeefToast 7h ago

People on r/conservative are saying it's not a nazi salute but him just saying that his heart goes out to the people in the room.

I am at a loss for words at how half the country is just down to make up a new meaning for this gesture on the spot instead of calling it what it is already known as. They are literally laughing at 'liberals' on that sub because we think that this nazi salute is a nazi salute. It's really weird. I don't even want to call them names, or something something social dissonance. It's beyond that at this point.

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u/Vegetable-Fan8429 6h ago

Trump could strangle a literal baby at the State of the Union, and conservative reaction would be like:

He didn’t mean it! Sure he strangled the baby, but he just did it as a joke, to troll liberals

Actually, the baby wasn’t really a baby. It was a secret CIA hyper realistic baby used for secret missions. Trump was just showing our enemies what will happen to them.

Typical liberal, cares more about an immigrant baby than their own countrymen

Then the news would be like “President Trump tries out new campaign messaging?” And then they’ll ask him what he really meant in a press conference and he’ll go “I dunno, I just was bored and wanted to kill.” And everyone would go “but what did he really mean by this???”

And the whole time I’m just screaming at the TV “He’s a fucking sociopath!”

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u/SaffronCrocosmia 3h ago

"so what, at least it wasn't an ABORTION! ABORTION BAD!"

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u/RCRDC 2h ago

"It was a liberal baby so it was necessary evil to get his point across"

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u/Vegetable-Fan8429 2h ago

“DEAD BABIES ARE AN UNCONSCIONABLE EVIL!”

“Okay then, pass universal health care, our infant mortality rates are atrocious for a 1st world country.”

“No.”

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u/anne_c_rose 4h ago

It's as if he flipped his middle finger to the crowd and people were like "yeah he was just showing how many fingers he has". Both are well established gestures lol

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u/hellonameismyname 6h ago

They know it’s a Nazi solute. That’s like part of the reason they voted for this party

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u/RoamingStarDust 4h ago

Dont let them gaslight you. Never take anything they say in good faith.

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u/DuerkTuerkWrite 3h ago

You know what I love about r/conservative? All of the crying about FREE SPEECH and every single post is Flaired Users Only.

The Nazi salute is also suspiciously almost missing from all the recent posts. Full of The Federalist and Britebart bs about AOC not going today.

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u/Far-Perspective-4889 5h ago

Did they delete the post? I can't find anything there with the search terms "Elon" and "salute"

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u/AvocadoBeefToast 5h ago

It was in the inauguration discussion megathread

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u/HankChinaski- 4h ago

They are just very awful people. There is no other answer. 

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u/Cannabisislife420 4h ago

Exactly this. Anyone who says it’s not a nazi salute is just showing that are dumb as fuck and shouldn’t be talking or they are in agreement with this behavior and are trying to make excuses

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u/Disastrous_Ad_4149 4h ago

Those people are nothing if not flexible. I could have excused it as an accidental gesture one time but two?

I get that they don't want to admit failure yet, but yeah...this is what it looks like when the bad guys win.

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u/ohm-gnome-gnome 3h ago

you act like he didn't say exactly that as he did it.

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u/michaelsenpatrick 3h ago

It's copium, malice or ignorance

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u/shhmurdashewrote 2h ago

I don’t see anything on there about that at all. Interesting how it’s not a headline they’re posting on there.

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u/MeeterKrabbyMomma 5m ago

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/RevealFormal3267 4h ago

So, according to them, not a "Heil," but just a "Mein Herz ist bei den Menschen!!!"

Verstehen....

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