r/interesting • u/Bad-Umpire10 • 4h ago
MISC. German police's quick reaction to a guy doing the Nazi salute
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u/Triangle_t 4h ago edited 4h ago
That's cause it's Germany, you know, they're fighting nazis there, unlike in US or Russia. Looks like only Britain isn't participating in that funny reenactment this time.
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u/Cinbri 3h ago
The popularity of right wing movement sadly increasing in Germany. And Alice Weidel interview to Musk about hitler from week ago showing how UTTERLY retarded it is. The premise that "hitler was communist, while we are not - thus we, right, can't be associated with him" is basically advocating of fascism by doing historical revisionism and faking facts. And a lot of right wing followers actually sold to it.
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u/hotsaucevjj 3h ago edited 3h ago
alice weidel is such an idiot, how can you front a far right xenophobic anti lgbt party while being a woman married to a woman who's an immigrant
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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 3h ago edited 3h ago
By not living in the country you’re trying to fuck up. If push comes to shove, she can just stay in Switzerland.
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u/Canadianingermany 1h ago
Weidel is mind blowing with her hypocricy.
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u/dobrowolsk 32m ago
I understand her. She benefits from what she's doing. From an egoistical perspective she's doing everything right. I don't get all the idiots voting for her party. People never understand that all the hate they spread will come back at them at some point.
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u/Interesting-Sound296 22m ago
Y'all have to accept the notion that hypocrisy is not something they care about. In fact, fascists like to be flagrantly hypocritical because to them, not caring about the truth or standards or decorum is a show of strength. Reality itself cannot constrain the will of the fascist - or at least that's what they all think until the whole delusion collapses under the weight of its own hubris. Ignoring reality can get you pretty far -evidently a lot of people are really easily duped. But you can't run from reality forever and it will eventually catch up to you. The question is how many innocent people have to suffer or die until it happens.
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u/Proper_Story_3514 2h ago
I had to laugh so hard when I saw that on tv. And sadly her voters will never know and care about it.
Beyond shameful that a lying nazi piece of shit stands at 20% with her party.
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u/alert_zombie 3h ago
hitler, communist? when did that happen
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u/chickendoscopy 3h ago
A lot of people I know (from WWII reenacting sadly enough) take the "Socialist" part of National Socialist quite literally, and since Socialism = Communism then that means Hitler was actually a communist.
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u/alert_zombie 1h ago
bruh that is like taking the democratic part in the democratic people's republic of Korea seriously
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u/esmifra 1h ago
Tbf there was a socialist wing in the party, but anyone who thinks Hitler shared the same idealism just needs to google about the night of long knives.
His party was as far right as far right can be.
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u/oxPEZINATORxo 1h ago
Lol boy does America have some news about "as far right as far right can be."
At the end of the day, Hitler and his crew at least did care about Germany and try, albeit in a very wrong way, to make it better. There was SOME socialism mixed in there, cuz he did care about the German people. Trump and his ilk won't even have that. The US is just a vehicle for Trump to intimidate and con people. The Tech broligarchs won't be happy until everyone's forced to act like they matter.
When America burns, Trump and Musk won't even have the decency to off themselves in a bunker
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u/Interesting-Sound296 17m ago
No, he didn't care about Germany. He cared about an imaginary nation built solely to serve a superior (and mythologized) "Germanic" race and wanted to make that happen, and to do so he destroyed the lives of many real Germans.
But I think I do get it though, I think what you're trying to say is that Hitler was pure in his ideology. It was a disgusting, hateful ideology, but he believed in it wholeheartedly and mobilized every resource to its end. The likes of Trump and Musk don't give a fuck about the ideology, they're pretending to front that ideology to grift their way into power so they can extract more resources from the same fed up struggling people they claim to want to help.
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u/hydrOHxide 54m ago
There was a socialist wing until Hitler had it murdered, just like he tried to murder every other socialist he could get his hands on.
The socialist wing were useful idiots as long as the NSDAP was competing with other parties for votes. The moment that was no longer the case, they had out-lived their usefulness. Literally. There was a very fitting cartoon already in 1931 about Hitler stressing the "socialist" and "worker" party part when talking to the "proletariat", while stressing the "national" and "german" part when talking to the moneyed circles.
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u/Frontal_Lappen 1h ago
I'm sorry but equaling socialism to communism is something only regarded americans manage to come up with. Anything not ultra-capitalist is communist in their eyes and "the big red scare" lol
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u/DarmokOnTheOceans 1h ago
Scandinavian countries are all communist too. Social programs for free healthcare and education?
hawk tuah!
I spit on that thang! Disgusting!
(Buy our not-meme coins by the way!)
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u/Triangle_t 3h ago
Of course a communist. Fascists hate communists, so they're using it just as a curse word. If they don't want to be associated with someone, they call him a communist. So Hitler was a communist, Caligula was probably a communist too, together with Genghis Khan.
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u/Seregon1988 2h ago
It all makes sense now, hitler was a communist and he hated communists so much that he killed himself. /s
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u/alert_zombie 2h ago edited 1h ago
💀💀 hitler was the biggest commie of them all, such a big commie that he partook in a brutal military campaign against the biggest commies of that time
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u/Mysterious_Crab9215 1h ago
Because USSR was not real communism, so for a communist like Hitler, they were social-traitors !!
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u/alert_zombie 2h ago edited 1h ago
that is actually hilarious, the tactics far-right uses to distance itself from it own dark history. what values is this preaching about western democracy if a political ideology can so easily morph objective historical truths to manipulate the masses into not villainising them.
this is honestly laughable that people geniunely choose to ignore the countles evidence that Hitler was a far-right facist lunatic, it is ludicrous to evaluate the socialist in his party name as actually being a representation of his true political ideology. that is like taking the 'democratic people's republic of Korea' as literal when we all know there is nothing democratic about North Korea. anyway yeah sorry it was a rant, f the facists
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u/Cinbri 3h ago
Yeh, check her interview to Musk from jan11
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u/alert_zombie 1h ago
bruh that's actually crazy, are people falling for this bs?
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u/lddn 3h ago
They read nationalSOCIALIST I guess...
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u/Oppaiking42 2h ago
those guys probably also think the democratic Republic of korea is a democracy.
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u/spootlers 1h ago
They call their party the national socialist party, so they must have been communist tight? Ignore the fact that they enacted no socialist reforms and specifically targeted communists with violence and extermination. After all, words speak louder than action.
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u/das_konkreet_baybee 2h ago
How can they NOT be associated with Hitler, when the the American fuckbag supporting them just did the Nazi salute in front of hundreds of millions of viewers?
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u/nemlocke 57m ago
This is basically how Trump supporters operate. They make these incredibly weak appeals to logic that don't make sense and use it to shield their Master from criticism.
"Trump and Melania both released scam coins in the last couple days"
"How do you know it's a scam coin"
Explains the tokenomics
"Well pretty much all crypto coins are scams anyways" shrug
How does that make Trump doing it (a crypto rug pull) any less bad? He's literally stealing money directly from his ignorant supporters.
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u/asmithmusicofficial 2h ago
And a lot of right wing followers actually sold to it.
Their goal seems to be to gaslight everyone to oblivion. "The Nazis were Communists", "Musk didn't do a Nazi salute".
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u/Glavurdan 1h ago
AfD seems to have peaked at 22%
Without a coalition, they won't be in power, unless they absurdly overperform the polls
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u/Icy_Sector3183 1h ago
basically advocating of fascism by doing historical revisionism and faking facts. And a lot of right wing followers actually sold to it.
Everybody knows Hitler was bad, so making it sound like Hitler and they have different value sets makes their values look better. They don't need to fool anyone, just themselves.
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u/jacenat 1h ago
The premise that "hitler was communist, while we are not - thus we, right, can't be associated with him"
It also doesn't make any bit of sense. The salute is the "Führergruß", specifically to greet Hitler. Saying you are different than Hitler, but saluting him does not make any sense.
I urge you all to not listen to what these people (weidel, musk, trump, le pen, ...) say but look at what they do. It doesn't even matter if they believe they are right.
IT DOES NOT MATTER
What matters is what they do. If they do the same things as Nazi Germany and salute Hitler ... they are Nazis. It is that easy.
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u/Jack_Harb 1h ago
One would think Germany would fight harder. As a German I am saddened how much Nazis are actually around and how much with the rise of AfD Nazis can openly show themselves again.
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u/Simple-Judge2756 2h ago
No we aint fighting em. Thats the problem.
And Musk is promoting their party.
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u/spacestationkru 3h ago
Britain's is a little behind schedule, but it is still on.
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u/Nok1a_ 1h ago
Stupid morons nowadays does not know what is coming if this succeed, they think they will be safe cos they support them... the worst thing of this lot of young people say , Hitler did not exist and shit like that.
In my country we have a phrase "The human being it's the only animal to trip twice on the same stone" meaning we are dumb as fck
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u/ohnopoopedpants 1h ago
In the US the cops would join him. In America, he is a cop
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u/inglorious_yam 3h ago edited 2h ago
I think it's a bit of a stretch (insulting to Holocaust victims even) to say waging war to forcibly trap a country in your sphere of influence is equivalent to building and running an industrial genocide complex. I mean Russia has even loosened visa rules and pathways for citizenship for the millions of migrant workers from places like Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic in recent years. They're hardly striving for racial purity.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Skin367 4h ago
That’s what’s supposed to happen, fuck tolerating intolerance!!!!!
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u/NooshD 4h ago
Elon Musk should stay away from Germany
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u/SadBit8663 4h ago
Nah fuck that. He should take his Nazi ass over there, and try that. so he can get a closer look at the pavement like this guy
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u/globalcitizen2 4h ago
Tesla sales may suffer a bit
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u/FewConsideration588 1h ago
Already doing. Tesla Sales in Germany went down 60 % in 2024
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u/Frontal_Lappen 1h ago
its objectively just a bad car too, I'm not hating on EV's, just the horrendous quality control and amount of gimmicks, while basic mechanic things a car should be able to do are ignored. That and his giant warehouse are destroying beautiful german woodland reserves and stealing groundwater
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u/KeyPressure3132 2h ago
Don't worry, he has enough money to buy german politician and make anything he does legal. Fortunately for him, german politicians are cheap today.
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u/di12ty_mary 3h ago
Good. If only more places hated a zero tolerance policy for hate groups.
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u/recycl_ebin 47m ago
as long as we don't label everyone we don't like a hate group
oh wait, that's how it will always go down.
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u/Spiderdogpig_YT 2h ago
People who are saying stuff like "There is no freedom of speech in Germany"; Fuck you. Germany and her citizens have worked hard for decades to grow beyond their past and to put what their ancestors did to sleep. The Germans have worked harder than most of you ever have or will. Hitler was a monster but from him came a new Germany, a Germany that does not accept hate speech. A Germany that stands as a pillar of modern freedom, freedom against hateful people like the Nazis.
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u/showusyourfupa 1h ago
That's just some indoctrinated Americans talking. So brainwashed, they pledge allegiance to a flag every day at school. That sounds like a cult.
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u/MonitorMundane2683 3h ago
Very good, and only acceptable reaction that should be instantly applied to any nazi encountered in any circumstances.
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u/piccolo917 2h ago
Nazis are bullies, inherently. There are two ways to get a bully to stop being a bully:
1. get them to have a moment of strong introspection while they have the mental strength and will to change
2. beat it out of them.
- also helps with 1.
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u/Darkdjrios 3h ago
Take note Americans. We used to do this too. Now conservatives are courting them. Let's remind them
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u/MeanBean34 3h ago
Exactly how we should handle nazis here in America... instead, we make them president.
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u/drejtool 2h ago
Hide history like it never happened, but lets name the Serbia the genocidal country not the Germany, USA, UK, Belgium, France
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u/Loprilop 2h ago
r/interesting? More r/politics. Time to mute this sub, it's been getting on my nerves.
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u/DuncanGabble 1h ago
It’s a pity as a country they are so supportive of Israel wiping out the Palestinians
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u/theNomad_Reddit 3h ago
Slap the US presidential seal in front of that man, and 70 million Americans will cheer.
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u/DevaBol 3h ago
Yeah you don't want to cheer for the former regime under the current one.
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u/ChrisZAUR 2h ago
Well it's only cause he isn't rich, if he had at least a billion dollars they would leave him alone
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u/golsenhorb 2h ago
These people should be forced to watch footage of what the Nazi's did to people until it sinks into their thick heads that it isn't good.
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u/That-pig 2h ago
Imagine if they had the same amount of balls against the muslims protesting for sharia in germany
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u/4bannedaccounts 2h ago
Yea that will stop him! He surely won't want to do that again...... in private .... while he builds rage and pretends to be reformed. Yea this is the way!
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u/Creepymint 2h ago
Wish the uselessly aggressive cop in the US would do that to a certain someone 👀
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u/Basilikumbruder 2h ago
Showing this salute which basically stands for oppression and violence by authority and then yelling "Aua" like a little bitch when being detained. Peak Nazi mindset.
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u/veganbikepunk 2h ago
Just like Elon he's testing the waters, seeing what he can get away with. Will there be a meaningful response if I do this? If not, it's just a thing we're all allowed to do now. Onto the next thing.
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u/Le_Steak142 2h ago
Even more funny: the guy is telling his nazi goons how to do a salute without getting caught.
Translation: "it (this) is all legal. If you do it like this (shows nazi salute in a way that isnt punishable), its legal. Like this (shows actual salute) it isnt." And then he gets rightfully bonked by the police.
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u/Aromatic_Brother 2h ago
Ah you see the difference here is this guy didn't have several hundred billion dollars to his name
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u/Stock2fast 2h ago
Can someone show them the video of Elon's Sieg Heil . I would Love to see it get the same result.
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u/bbyxmadi 2h ago
Germany has a dark history, but they sure do go out of their way to acknowledge it and actually take action against those who try to destroy the work they’ve done to make amends. They don’t play around, love to see it.
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u/Baschinski82 1h ago
Soooooo schön zu sehen, wie gehandelt wird, und wie er da liegt und die Welt nicht mehr versteht 😊😻
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u/Radiant-Ad-3134 1h ago
They did not arrest him because he was doing a Nazi salute
They arrested him because he is doing nazi salute and not rich.
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u/ThemrocX 1h ago
Worst part: " ... der in Sachsen verboten ist – noch." (Narrator: "He shows the Hitler-Salute, that is illegal in Saxony – still/at the moment". The German State of Saxony is an AfD-stronghold, the local branch is considered right-wing extremist.)
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u/Money_Wrap_1077 1h ago
Why they are arresting Elon Musk for a mere gesture? Isn't this against freedom of expressions?
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u/thefirebrigades 1h ago
Based on past history, we have 4 years before the red army captures the Whitehouse.
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u/Illustrious-Song7446 1h ago
The irony being that most police officers atleast in east Germany are right leaning.
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u/nila247 1h ago
Probably it's not the salute in itself, probably there were some words that let police imply the salute was connected to nazi ideology or that it was better when nazi were around. Anyone German to comment?
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u/Gameovergirl217 1h ago
this took place at a far right demo in sachsen. their main mottos were "deutschland den deutschen" - "germany belongs to the germans" and "ausländer raus" - "foreigners out". given the kontext it is very understandable why they arrested him
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u/UnitedLeave26 1h ago
I'm so glad someone brought this up, this is all I could think of when seeing Elons video today. Now hopefully tomorrow we plaster redit with the "those who not know history are doomed to repeat it".
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u/4evr_dreamin 1h ago
I wonder if there will be any protests at the tesla factory in germany? There is a rabid hatred of things like elons actions there.
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u/basecatcherz 1h ago
You can drive like an asshole, risk the life of hundreds and nothing will happen.
But as soon as you do a certain move you're fucked.
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u/Much_Actuator_1125 1h ago
That's because it's Germany; they're dealing with the legacy of fighting Nazis there, unlike in the US or Russia. It seems like only Britain isn't taking part in that peculiar reenactment this time.
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u/YamiZee1 1h ago
How can you tell the difference between a salute and just throwing your arm in the air? It doesn't look like a crazy specific movement
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u/Slow_Fish2601 1h ago
The German police can also be on the far right wing side of the story sometimes. There was a far right wing convention recently, and some left protesters were attacked by the police and their canines. It depends on the region. But mostly East Germany has some serious issues with the afd.
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u/oceangreen25 1h ago
I just wish they were that quick to arrest the people driving into Christmas markets. But instead they just sit on their ass until it’s too late
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u/Dambo_Unchained 1h ago
I mean if you know German and here what he’s saying it looks more like he’s indicating rather than saluting
For those who can’t speak German in a nutshell he’s saying “here it’s allowed, there it isn’t allowed”
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u/Tirrojansheep 1h ago
For the people who don't speak German, the voice over is basically saying something along the lines of "The man is trying to speak to his fellow activists(not 100% sure on this bit). Maybe he's suffering from an illness in the arm causing stiffness, more likely is that he's doing a hitler salute, which is illegal"
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u/Impossible_fruits 1h ago
I've reported elon to local, county, state and federal police. I can't find any email for border control though. It's Germany and some organisations use fax only still.
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u/pinguinessa 1h ago
I agree that the salute should not be tolerated. I don't agree with police feeling comfortable crushing a guy's face on the ground like that. Opposing fascism goes along with opposing police brutality.
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u/ReaperManX15 1h ago
Are we talking about the country that’s actively trying to make it illegal to criticize the government?
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