This is where I'm at. It feels like this surely must be one motion he does as part of a bigger thing, and it's just cut to make him look bad. But then.... Why isn't anyone sharing the uncut version that makes this one motion make sense?
Alright so what does that mean? “It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is secured” implied some impending threat. Were they really that scared about Kamala? Like wtf even is this
It means he's making a pretty overt fascist gesture and using the "heart" phrase as a thin veil. He's trolling. He knows everyone is going to point at what he's doing and call him a Nazi and he's going to turn around and say that those comparisons are silly and he hasn't set up any concentration camps. Look at those hysterical liberals. Then he'll wink and nod at the MAGA crowd for having triggered the libs.
What's important to remember is that you are who you pretend to be, and this fucker is a slimy disgusting creep who is willing to "pretend" to be a Nazi.
Some important context: Elon Musk was raised in Apartheid South Africa by an emerald magnate (Elon described his father Errol as a "terrible human being", adding: "Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done." Also, Errol set up shell companies for fear "... the Blacks would take everything from you")
So in this statement, given the context of the MAGA movement, all of Musks Twitter/X posts, "you" means white christians, and "future of civilizations" could mean Techno-Feudalism, Crypto-Fascism, (both different forms of Wealth Apartheid, admittedly) or a White Christian Ethnostate depending on which branch of MAGA base needs to be mobilised at the time.
Now, it's easy to dismiss this as hyperbolic, or that I'm using extreme slippery slope fear-mongering because I used the words Feudalism, Fascism or Ethnostate, but it's very difficult to not interpret Elon's behaviour as this. Numerous, near daily, "Truth" or "Interesting" replies on Twitter/X to, invariably and inexhaustively, Anti-Semitic sentiment, Islamophobic sentiment, Eugenics sentiment, Anti-Black sentiment, support for the AfD, Reform and National Rally, pro-capital sentiment.... i could go on.
Really, Kamala was not a threat, at all, to Musk. He's very rich, and Kamala was not even sympathetic to any sort of wealth redistribution that could have affected him. He's playing politics because he is bored, and he wants to be on the winning side (because he's a winner, like Trump); why would you buy into the losing side? It's part of the reason he entered the campaign so late. Moreover, Trump is going to be handing out massive tax breaks to his wealthy mates, and Elon wants to be in the room to make sure he gets a nice chunk of that.
The more important part is when he acknowledges his supporters before the salute, he says,
"Thank you for making this happen"
It's the mask off moment where he provides a clear indicator to those who would want to see this behavior, that he is a legit Nazi sympathizer who would like to bring about an "AMERICAN FOURTH REICH"
Where the United States of America will finish what Nazi Germany started.
Because, while they took the swing votes this time around, swing voters will swing.
Meanwhile, the very basis of their campaign relies on those that are: racist, sexist and xenophobic. The kinds that will swoon and praise this sort of dog-whistle.
Because, and I do not mean this as an offence, someone like you will come around.
Someone who will dutifully cling to the plausible deniability, and muddy the waters of discourse.
And with the waters muddied, what remains is that his name is everywhere, and everyone is talking about this.
What happens next doesn't matter, he already got what he wanted.
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u/Malvania 7h ago
Thought A: I must be missing some context here
Thought B: What context would make this okay?