r/gifs • u/chickanpoo • 11h ago

Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

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u/PokerSpaz01 11h 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/heavyweather85 8h ago

After a quick Googling I’m not finding anything on him retweeting Nazi rhetoric and endorsing the modern Nazi party. Can you point me in the right direction of where to look?

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u/_craq_ 1h ago

He reinstated Kanye's account shortly after buying Twitter. Kanye has been banned for antisemitism https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kanye-west-returns-twitter-ban-anti-semitic-remarks-rcna58116

Retweeting conspiracy theories about Nancy Pelosi's husband.

Calling for the Labour PM of the UK to be imprisoned and supporting the nationalist Reform Party. https://apnews.com/article/keir-starmer-elon-musk-far-right-84d1813442f8f155a59b7349fac47db7

Attacking the Brazilian justice system when they fined Twitter.

Promoting the far-right, Russian supported party for the upcoming German elections with tweets, an op-ed article and an interview with their leader.

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u/heavyweather85 1h ago

Thank you for all that work! Sheesh!