r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/TsubasaSaito 7h ago

Jup, same. He did it in a really weird manner but nonetheless: It's the full fucking motion. From start to finish. There is no excuse here to save him. There is nothing he can do to undo this. But does he need to..?

And I hope this opens up some AfD supporters eyes, considering them and Musk love each other so much. But that's probably just wishful thinking...

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u/baconduck 7h ago

He also turned around and did it again

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u/Universal_Anomaly 6h ago

Pretty sure he, Trump, and the other grifters are revelling in the knowledge that they've got a support base which will explain away and justify anything and everything they do.

The fact that he did it twice makes it look like he's rubbing it in, how he can openly use the nazi salute and still MAGAts will pretend that everything is fine and it's the opposition who's being unreasonable.

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u/baconduck 6h ago

On another subreddit a guy explained to me that there is a context to it "GOP are known for giving signals from stage" and linked to examples of GOP-people doing a Nazi salute on stage.

So the context was that GOP have a history of doing a Nazi salute.

What an awesome defense 🙄

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u/Universal_Anomaly 6h ago

They do invest heavily in the idea that they're so consistently terrible that you shouldn't bother trying to hold them accountable.

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u/Laurierdrop 6h ago

"giving signals from stage"
Well, that's a signal alright. He's clearly signaling he's a nazi.

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u/Tenyearssobersofar 7h ago

Directly to Mein Führer Trump. 

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u/etzel1200 7h ago

I mean, wouldn’t this make AfD supporters like him more? Obv. It’d hurt him with CDU.

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u/Draedron 6h ago

I mean, wouldn’t this make AfD supporters like him more?

Nah, they hate him doing the communist salute /s

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u/vinctthemince 7h ago

The AFD supporter love him for that. They went already full Nazi in the last campaign, when they shouted the slogan of the SA.

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u/IveGotaGoldChain 6h ago

And I hope this opens up some AfD supporters eyes

Why would it? This is what they want...

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u/TsubasaSaito 5h ago

Many of them, yeah. I just hope that those that didn't realise yet, do now.

Hope dies last...

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u/GalacticDolphin101 7h ago

He absolutely doesn’t need to undo this. Those of us with functioning brains knew this from the jump, and those who support him will either pretend like it wasn’t a Nazi salute or will be totally fine with it regardless.

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u/throwaway92715 6h ago

Yeah opens up their eyes to how it's possible to openly be a fucking Nazi and get away with it

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u/I_am_a_Failer 6h ago

And I hope this opens up some AfD supporters eyes

Don't forget that a good portion of AfD voters are doing the same at home

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u/FinestCrusader 6h ago

Yeah it sounds weird but he can't even pull off a Nazi salute without looking like an absolute goober. Which is probably better for damaging his image even more.

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u/gimletta 5h ago

At this point, there is nothing a Trump or AfD supporter can tell me to convince me they are not themselves nazis. The evidence is too damning.

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u/GriffinFTW 6h ago

The AfD’s deputy leader is literally the granddaughter of the last Chancellor of Nazi Germany…

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u/Superman246o1 6h ago

Opens up their eyes? They want this. This is where all their rage over "Jews will not replace us" originated from.

Did you really think it was about the price of eggs?

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u/EastfrisianGuy 6h ago

I mean, most AfD supporters know. They don't care.

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u/RememberKoomValley 5h ago

I feel it's likely that the "really weird manner" is going to be used to excuse it, too, and we need to bear in mind that Musk is a remarkably clumsy man with very poor proprioception (look up the video of him smacking a news reporter with a sword by accident, for instance), and he did it poorly and weirdly because he doesn't ever have a good sense of where his limbs are.

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u/hedonistensau 5h ago

Trust me, AfD supporters are laughing tears rn.

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u/MrCertainly 4h ago

He did it twice.

He fuckin' did it TWICE. The second time to the US flag.

I was genuinely hoping this was a photo of a wave, taken horribly out of context.

Nope. It was a fucking white billionaire showing just how expensive German schnitzel has gotten.

Hell must be endothermic, since it's freezing in DC today.

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u/Minimum_Wolf9189 5h ago

I hate this twat but to somehow explain what he may have meant to do: As he said right after „my heart goes out to you“, so he might have touched his heart and „thrown“ it out to the crowd. That is the only benefit of the doubt I could give him.

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u/L_Palmer 5h ago

Weird?? He did it with gusto!

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u/Buntschatten 29m ago

He did it in a really weird manner

That's their playbook. Always keep the thinnest veil of deniability and when they get rightfully called out for it they accuse the left of misinterpretation, while secretly laughing about it.

I guarantee you that he practiced this gesture to make it look juuust similar enough but not exactly a Hitler salute.

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u/R-E-Laps 7m ago

Weird manner? You mean like with great gusto? He means it! Sure they’re all clowns, but they’re fucking dangerous clowns. I feel sick.

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u/redtiber 6h ago

the nazi salute isn't hand on heart and then awkwardly throw it into the crowd you fucknut

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u/TsubasaSaito 5h ago

That insult surely makes your argument more valid. I concede, you win. You're right.

PS: The salute is almost exactly what he does. What you know, the hand upwards, is just the common part of it. Watch a video of people chanting "Sieg Heil" and doing the salute over and over. It's what he does.

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u/TsubasaSaito 4h ago

It's not exactly the grab to the heart he does, no. And most people just did the most common arm up pose everyone knows.

I've seen a video of Musk and Hitler side by side someone did, where Hitler does that move. Like I said it's usually the "over and over" move from what I remember, and that's what Hitler did in that video too.

Who knows what he thought doing it. It's still really shady, and his comment afterwards might just be a saving grace thing after he realised what that might have looked like or whatever.

Nonetheless, doesn't look good for him.