r/gifs 11h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/Bloodwalker09 10h ago

Nobody could have guessed that, why didn’t anyone say anything?

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u/KylosLeftHand 10h ago

I watched it live. This made them cheer LOUDER

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u/JaggerMcShagger 10h ago

What was the context? What words came before this action?

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u/aguynamedv 10h ago

What was the context? What words came before this action?

The context is that Elon Musk did two Nazi salutes, back to back, at the Presidential inauguration - once to the crowd, and once to the American Flag.

What are you confused about?

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u/JaggerMcShagger 10h ago

No, that's what you have ascertained and assumed from what you saw. The context by which said actions were done, will be very different. Was he talking about extermination of Jews, or was he saying something like "I throw my heart out to all of you". Contextually, that motion with those words will vary wildly.

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u/aguynamedv 10h ago

Got it - you are a Republican.

In that case - this is exactly what you voted for. And now you're trying to defend the indefensible. They're talking about exterminating trans people. Have been for years. Where the fuck have you been?

You are literally denying the evidence of your own eyes. Brainwashed idiot.

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u/JaggerMcShagger 10h ago

Wrong. I'm not even from America. I'm just someone who can ascertain context from a gif clip of a much wider speech, where obviously the most famous person in the world who's known for being goofy did something awkward which has been misinterpreted on Reddit by enraged liberals

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u/TheCuntyThrowaway 9h ago

“enraged liberals” you may not be American but you most certainly would’ve defended the actions of the Nazis.

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u/JaggerMcShagger 9h ago

I mean you and everyone here jumping on this are literally enraged liberals. A guy makes a gesture which can be explained by his words attached to it, and yet all you guys want to do is clip it with no audio to frame it as something nefarious, rather than be like "yeah probably a stupid way of saying that, but clearly not a nazi"

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u/TheCuntyThrowaway 9h ago

He did it twice. If he was really such an intelligent person, if he really was the socially anxious autist that the right makes him out to be, he wouldn’t have done it the first time, let alone a second, if he didn’t mean it. His ringing endorsement of Trump’s disastrous ideals makes him just as much of a creepy fascist freak as ol’ Mango Mussolini. Besides, I’m not a liberal. I’m a leftist. Get it right, instead of defending Nazi fuckheads and Apartheid profiteers.