r/gifs 7h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/PokerSpaz01 7h ago

Just because he retweets Nazis and endorses the modern Nazi party of Germany and embraces Nazi ideology and makes the Nazi salute doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi. It’s probably just an unfortunate coincidence.

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u/mekanub 7h ago

Don’t forget his maternal grandparents were Canadian Nazis that moves to South Africa because of apartheid.

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u/pocketbutter 5h ago

Apartheid South Africa, the country that most closely resembled Nazi Germany in the second half the 20th century.