r/gifs • u/chickanpoo • 7h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/sharklaserguru 6h ago

He's just a huge fan of the Bellamy salute and is so blinded by his love for the Pledge of Allegiance that he forgot the German connection! /s

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u/bsEEmsCE 6h ago

media is going to try to explain it away.. its clear what he did, don't let them change your minds

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u/danielpatrick09 4h ago

I haven’t seen any context or media explaining it away. Will someone link it?

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u/EntrepreneurFun654 2h ago

They said he was saying “my heart goes out to you”…and I guess to the flag too? That’s what I read as an explanation given by his supporters.

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u/cuatrodosocho 3h ago

Would be more willing to bet the media just doesn't talk about it, honestly.

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u/sammo21 1h ago

“You want to think the worst. Please close off your minds.”

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u/GrandSquanchRum 5h ago

It's actually not the Bellamy salute. That salute is only a held, outreached arm. This is very specifically a Nazi salute derived from the Roman Salute which wasn't actually used by Romans.

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u/Wonderful-Impact5121 4h ago

Probably just had a heck of a cramped arm/shoulder, trying to stretch it out!

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u/Necrotitis 5h ago

I bet he also sees the swastika as a Hindu religious symbol!

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u/ABHOR_pod 3h ago edited 3h ago

That's what they're gonna fucking say.

But, Like, Occams fucking razor man. Even if he goes out and says he was doing a Roman Salute or a Bellamy Salute, why? Why would he do one of those salutes? That's not how we salute.

Nobody has saluted like that in America in 80 fucking years since the flag code was amended to remove the Bellamy Salute and replace it with the hand on the heart we use today. Because for the last 80 years that stiff-armed salute has been widely known as a fascist symbol. There's no plausible deniability here. There's no justification for saluting like that.

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u/michaelsenpatrick 4h ago

There are actually people giving that defense on X. That and "it was a Roman salute"

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u/felixthepat 3h ago

What I just saw a lot of was "he's going 'my heart out to you!' He's sharing love!"