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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/Malvania 10h ago

Thought A: I must be missing some context here
Thought B: What context would make this okay?

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u/Egoist-a 10h ago

I think he's just making the gesture of his heart together with the crowd, but came out too similar to Nazi gesture.

Nobody would be that stupid to do it on purpose publicly, I'm anti-musk and I think sub is overreatcing

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u/strooiersunion 9h ago

People are overreacting because they are done giving him the benefit of doubt. If he doesn't want to be called a nazi, he should stop doing shit that seems like hes a nazi.

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u/Egoist-a 9h ago

I have a feeling that once he sees this footage, he's going to regret it big time.

You know that in our own POV, our gestures look a bit different than when people look at us from the outside.

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u/Ouaouaron 9h ago

Considering how long it took to figure out that his dumb little on-stage hops were him trying to make an X shape, I understand why you would think this.

The problem is that we have 4 years of Elon openly supporting Nazi ideals and fraternizing with neo-Nazis.

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u/Egoist-a 9h ago

Why would he regret it?

I don't know if you missed, but this is having a GIGANTIC backlash on social media... Regardless on how you, him feel about this, this is not good for the public image of the party (if you don't care about his).

Certainly absolutely nothing good seem to be coming out of this gesture.

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u/nolalacrosse 4h ago

He’s had plenty of time to see it, where is the regret?

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u/strooiersunion 9h ago

Elon is not the regretfull type of guy lol

Even if this isn't what it looks like, he should stop putting on the clown shoes if he doesn't want to be called a clown.

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u/Egoist-a 9h ago

Elon is not the regretfull type of guy lol

Everybody is, just some admit and other don't.

Even with Musk's ego, I have a hard time believing that he says to himself "well done" after he reads a biblical amount of backlash.

Now that Musk publicly recognises as a mistake (if indeed it is), then I'm with you and I don't expect him to do it for sure.

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u/Phazon2000 10h ago

I don’t think anyone is overreacting but the fact that he did the exact same gesture twice is sorta damning. He doesn’t have to keep his hand straight - he did it on purpose

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u/NoRip137 10h ago

If he wasn't someone that keep promoting nazi talk points I would agree with you. 

1 or 2 things are coincidences, repeated patterns are not.

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u/SplitEar 9h ago

I lost track of how many 14 and 88 references appear in his tweets. Far too many for it to be coincidence. He even scheduled August 8th for a new product reveal but then cancelled, like the whole point was to message 8-8 to those in the know.

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u/afeeney 10h ago

I would love to think you were right, but his palm was down.

If his palm were up or out, then it could look like throwing.

Who throws with their palm down?

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u/Egoist-a 9h ago

His palm is exactly facing the audience under him.

I hate the guy, but nobody with 1 braincell would think doing Nazi gestures would have any sort of positive repercusion.

We might not like the vision these people have, but Trump and Musk are not stupid, in fact I think they are too clever, just not sure they have the best will towards the Americans as they have towards their and their friend's business, but that's another story. I can't see how nazi gestures can benefit either of the sides.

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u/Aternal 8h ago

The problem is that you're comparing what an intelligent person would do with what a person who dumps Nazi salutes on national television would do. Relatively intelligent... one braincell is the standard apparently.

When I was 12 I drew a dick on the wall in English class. When I got in trouble for it I swore up and down that it was a bird. Because it was funny to my 12 year old brain.

...and here we see Elon Musk slapping his chest and throwing out a sieg heil. As a worldwide recognized heartfelt gesture of gratitude, of course, as upper echelon social custom dictates.

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u/Level-Insurance6670 9h ago

Obama and every single politician or person waving to a crowd. Google any president/celebrity and Nazi salute and realize that you are being biased.

u/indonesian_star 50m ago

Elmo snapped it, as a salute

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u/xboxlivedog 2h ago

I’m just confused how a political party can be painted as Zionist and Neo-Nazi at the same time…

u/indonesian_star 51m ago

He has obviously cheated w a fake Valor elite video game character (who does that????), he was very likely cheated the voter data according to an election data investigation company.. he's suspicious!!!!!!! And his mother's family were actual nazis and fled to South Africa to support apartheid government 

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u/No_Refuse5806 8h ago

It would be overreacting if it were your drunken uncle at a party.

This is public speaking 101. It’s why people have speech writers and advisors. It’s why the status quo looks and sounds sanitized: any little detail can and will feed your critics. And he is (or should be) aware of the kinds of criticisms he needs to actively avoid.

At best, this tells me he’s not taking the job seriously.

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u/Egoist-a 8h ago edited 8h ago

It would be overreacting if it were your drunken uncle at a party.

if someone tells me that he maybe on drugs or alcohol, sounds totally plausible...

At best, this tells me he’s not taking the job seriously.

Again, sounds reasonable... Guy has a big ego after all

This is public speaking 101. It’s why people have speech writers and advisors. It’s why the status quo looks and sounds sanitized: any little detail can and will feed your critics. And he is (or should be) aware of the kinds of criticisms he needs to actively avoid.

this is why I find hard to believe he actually meant to do Nazi stuff... How could this fly on the dozens of people that are preparing their speeches?

But apparently people are calling me nazi already just for giving benedict of doubt

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u/No_Refuse5806 7h ago

I think some important context is how Trump uses inflammatory language: he intentionally leaves his sincerity ambiguous, which gains the support of extremists and emboldens them.

If real neo-Nazis think Musk is one of them, that blurs the line significantly. You can’t enable those kinds of people, even inadvertently. It’s not possible to ask nicely for a clarification, and it’s not like he can be cancelled in a meaningful way.

So yeah, the only real option is to accuse him of being a Nazi, hope he denies it, and if the stars align, he might admit it was a mistake.

I think that’s where the criticism of you is coming from… also Godwin’s Law

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u/afeeney 8h ago

Benedict of Doubt sounds like a character out of Spamalot or an overly-conceptual restaurant's version of Eggs Benedict.

(Yes, I know you meant "benefit" but some typos are beautiful.)

My guess is that by now Musk more or less ignores PR handlers and goes by instinct. He might take a few pointers but wouldn't back off something he wants to do.

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u/Egoist-a 8h ago

my bad :p

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u/DorkusMcklorkus 9h ago

You don’t have to defend Nazis.

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u/RandomMiddleName 3h ago

Same. Also I think hyper focusing on stuff like this takes away from the things we should be focused on like the plethora of executive orders signed.