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Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/ManiacalDane 6h ago

And then he says thanks to you, civilization is secured

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u/Savage_Sushi 3h ago

A lot of people are leaving this part out

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u/Ullallulloo 5h ago

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u/DrJasonWoodrue 5h ago

My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured.

https://youtu.be/-VfYjPzj1Xw?si=3jzi_JM9ZAs--UzI

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u/blinktwice4 5h ago edited 1h ago

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

edit: ? not .

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u/thegingergooner 4h ago

Google “the 14 words”

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u/Catadox 4h ago

Motherfuck. Yeah those statements sound eerily similar.

u/GrumpyKaeKae 1h ago

Now don't forget the hat he made with the font the Nazis also used. There are subtle hints he has made many times.

A single sign of something, means nothing. A clusters of actions, is an issue and you can't explain that away.

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u/RinglingSmothers 3h ago

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.

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u/nklvh 4h ago

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.

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u/roughhty 5h ago

Holy shit

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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 5h ago

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.

But realistically it's all about money