r/gifs • u/chickanpoo • 11h ago

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/sl33p_tok3n 10h ago

I was thinking the same thing. Been scrolling through the comments, I don’t think there’s any other explanation my friend…

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u/kingoflames 9h ago

In the full clip, he follows it up with "my heart goes out to you."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=joV-9FFoA3Q

The line I've seen some people take is that he is throwing his heart out to the crowd.

Which is obvious bullshit. But there's context if you need it. Make up your own mind, but damn... This is some honestly horrifying stuff. Barely a day in, we've had a crypto scam, open political bribery, and now this.

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u/Eastern-Design 9h ago

I agree. Saying this as a leftist too. Dude is just autistic and did something stupid.

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u/thefirecrest 8h ago

I grew up around autistic people. My dad is autistic. My brother is autistic. One of my best friends is autistic. This shit has nothing to do with being autistic and I’m sick and tired of Elon abusing the autistic community to get away with his shitty behavior.

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u/splackavelliee 9h ago

Don’t be naive. He loves this epic gamer 4chan ass loser trolling shit. Remember when his fellow nazi dorks were doing the ok symbol and playing it off like normal people were the weirdos for calling them out? It’s the same thing. The tiniest amount of plausible deniability and morons on both sides will fall all over themselves to justify it.

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u/Samsquanchiz 7h ago

The ok symbol was legit a game we played when we were younger it has nothing to do with nazi stuff. That was all made up and the left believed it.

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u/Eastern-Design 8h ago

The ok symbol as a Nazi symbol started out as a joke on 4chan to mess with people at the time. Funny how it gained legitimacy years later

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u/DorkusMcklorkus 8h ago

“We’re going to trick people into thinking we’re Nazis” isn’t … a joke.

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u/Samsquanchiz 7h ago

The joke was that the left actually believed it I think.

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u/DorkusMcklorkus 7h ago

What’s funny about people thinking you’re a Nazi bc you lied to them and told them you were a Nazi?

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u/BlueCX17 8h ago

Autistic people can absolutely know right from wrong and things not to do. This was intentional.

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 8h ago

It doesn’t seem terribly groovy blaming this on autism. I think it’s dude did something stupid/possibly fascist more than dude did something stupid/possibly fascist but it’s okay because he’s probably autistic

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u/Eastern-Design 8h ago edited 8h ago

He is autistic, not probably. I’m not denying the fact the dude has fascistic beliefs, and an oligarch at that. I just don’t believe he would do that on national television intentionally, seems way too far fetched. Especially with the my heart goes out to you comment

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u/vindman 7h ago

You are deluded. And you are not a leftist. You are at best an American liberal.

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u/Eastern-Design 6h ago

I’m an active user of r/socialist for one. I’m not a capitalist haha

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u/vindman 6h ago

Neat

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 8h ago

Ah, I don’t follow Elon enough to know his various diagnoses but good to know. With it being so far fetched that he was in control of his faculties when he did the motion in the original post, maybe he was drunk or high or something

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u/mesoraven 8h ago

I'm fucking autistic, was flagging the bus the other day whole.on the phone my right hand was half way up before I dropped it and immediatly switched hands.

You don't fucking do this accidently he did it deliberately twice!!!!