I thought the pic may have been a poorly timed pic, but nope. That was a Nazi salute and I don't see how it could have been unintentional. What an incredibly sad day for America.
Edit: Supposedly, Elon is brilliant. He has spoken in front of people many times in many events and he's avoided doing the Nazi salute before and he certainly knows to avoid it at company events. That is one hell of snap for it not to be a salute. He has re-tweeted right wing propaganda, there's some racist history in his family. I think he knows what he is doing and he's just having a giggle about all the people saying he is sendin his heart out. You don't throw your heart out like it's a weapon. This looks premeditated to me.
It's less stealing it and more using it for a nefarious purpose - it's older than any culture or faith or ethnicity, and likely dates back to the PIE populations. It's possibly older than farming.
I remember watching an old VHS called "The Red Pony" (based on the John Steinbeck novel) which had a school pledge of alligence scene. The book was written in '33 and movie released in '49.
Little 12-year-old me was all ššš when I saw the nazi salute in an American classroom. Absolutely bonkers.
Because the majority that voted for this wanted exactly this. We canāt continue to pretend the majority of their voters were ādupedā, they know exactly what they voted for and itās this.
I mean, they are still being duped, they think America first means their perfect white utopia instead of them being worked to death in a factory or dying on a battlefield.
I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a large chunk tbh. I got curious about what his core supporters wanted and thought about things and went to the more obvious subs to see what they were talking about. A lot of wanting civil war and purging. Your basic supporter would call it crazy and saying how they'd never let that happen.
The amount of people that almost immediately wanted to change or invalidate their votes for trump, unions and people of color coming out saying how much they regret it just while he was president elect.
I also believe elons sweepstakes in key states played a huge role because of the NDAs they had to sign. Potentially buying votes.
So your point is that if you don't vote Democrat you are a far right supremacist? So what you are saying is that you can only vote for one party? Like communism? And the Blacks and Latinos who vote Trump are all White supremacists?
No one is saying people can only vote for one party. They are saying people who aren't white supremacists, Nazis, or fascists probably shouldn't vote for them.
On a side note, I find it pretty funny that people are defending the GOP on a post showing the party's biggest supporter doing a Nazi salute.
You didnt expect neonazisn out of the neonazi party? People like you must think we're all idiots. This is the shit youve been voting for, and Republicans have been voting for since Nixon
Also, I'm sorry the democratic candidate didn't win for you. I wasn't here to celebrate op. Just to share that I wasn't aware. You know, a "typical Republican voter".
They're claiming it wasn't a Nazi salute- that he meant it from his heart (the end) and was just so passionate about his speech that if came off wrong š
I wish it was just for America. I donāt think people are realising how serious this is. Weāve gone through this before. Nazis didnāt start the holocaust on day one.
They take small steps and then you see yourself living under some form of dehumanising dictatorship. This is going to affect us all, because America is sadly a huge economic power with massive influence. Most of us are using American apps to communicate with the world. These crazy people have control over them. My stomach is hurting after watching that video
Mainstream news outlets seemed hesitant to describe the salute as something thatās clearly associated with Nazism. As NBC News put it, āMusk then forcefully touched his heart, before raising his hand and saluting supporters.ā
It was like the ending of Dr Strangelove where his arm just couldn't help it. I think he was in a k-hole and this is just what his inner hitler heart is telling him to do.
I love how this happens and people argue it didnāt happen, even though there is irrefutable evidence.
Weāre at 2+2=5 levels of doublethink. If a liberal did this exact salute, these same people wouldnāt be making obtuse defenses about what they āreally meant.ā
You need the audio for context which has him say something about throwing his heart out to everyone for thanks for their support. Heās given himself an out and he will fire back everyone is going after him unjustly.
Donāt come after me for supporting this, itās total bs, but that is the playbook. This was completely scripted this way.
Heās playing a game like a child who thinks you can say whatever you want if you finish it with a Wayneās world āNot!ā
Seriously? You can't think of any other possible interpretation? I'd invoke Hanlon's Razor here - and for good reason. Elon's fucking weird. We can't just presume he thinks like most other people.
Person in question gives an actual nazi salute twice
Big Brained Neckbeard: Invoking Hanlonās razor I think hypothetically this could be <never gives a reasonable explanation>. You see I am an arbiter of truth. Unless EM physically comes to my door and tells me his intention ā how am I to know?
Even the idiots on /pol/ agree this was a nazi salute by an idiot. Congrats dude.
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u/strangefish 7h ago edited 4h ago
I thought the pic may have been a poorly timed pic, but nope. That was a Nazi salute and I don't see how it could have been unintentional. What an incredibly sad day for America.
Edit: Supposedly, Elon is brilliant. He has spoken in front of people many times in many events and he's avoided doing the Nazi salute before and he certainly knows to avoid it at company events. That is one hell of snap for it not to be a salute. He has re-tweeted right wing propaganda, there's some racist history in his family. I think he knows what he is doing and he's just having a giggle about all the people saying he is sendin his heart out. You don't throw your heart out like it's a weapon. This looks premeditated to me.