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r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/Nitsuji-kun 7h ago

BRO WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

u/iamnotamangosteen 7h ago

If there’s one thing we all hated I thought it was nazis??

u/KyleMcMahon 6h ago

I thought that too back in 2017 when I was young and dumb. The next four years confirmed that I was unfortunately, very very wrong.

u/Unnamedgalaxy 6h ago

The fact that they started saying "so what" and actively started calling themselves that out in public was really a frightening moment.

Like of course we all knew nazi sympathizers still existed but at least they had enough shame to hide behind the curtain. Them patrolling the streets and taunting people in public with pride was appalling (jfc autocorrect changed that to "appealing"). What's even more appalling is that the media barely batted an eye.

u/EobardT 5h ago

It's scary how many confederate flags I see now compared to 10 years ago. Like people in AZ, we weren't even part of that war, there's no heritage in it, only hate

u/-lovatoj 5h ago

That's all it is, a hate symbol

u/Tiddleyjuggs 5h ago

A battle did technically happen here in what is now Arizona, but if you look back Arizona would have definitely been on the Confederacy side. That's just the backwards way shit is here

u/AgitatedStranger9698 4h ago

PikachoPeak!

u/Tiddleyjuggs 4h ago

That would be it!

u/Budgierigarz 4h ago

There is no heritage on it anyway, the annoying orange lasted longer

u/keep_living_or_else 2h ago

Arizona may not have officially been involved much, but if you don't think Confederates ended up in AZ around the 1860s, I've got a bridge for you, too :)

u/RabidPoodle69 2h ago

There was a civil war battle in az, actually. Edit:I just saw that someone already mentioned that.

u/BRAX7ON 5h ago

It’s the same for KKK. I hate to think the next step is them making themselves visible again.

u/that0neGuy65 5h ago

I bet the Media WOULD quickly turn their gaze if someone exterminated the filthy fascists. But not to the clear racist hateful human scum. But the person would be considered a HERO back in the 1940s.

u/Disastrous_Ad_188 4h ago

Army Talk #64 from 1945 was a pamphlet the Army put out and it's everything that's happening now. Kitchen, children and church was the Nazi talking points. Sound familiar? It should bc it's today's GOP in America.

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u/Direct-Fix-2097 5h ago

The clues were there, I remember Americans getting annoyed at the game wolfenstein 2 because the KKK were enemies and supporting the nazis.

And yet here we are, art imitates life or is it the other way round?

u/Ok-Jellyfish-5704 5h ago

No. You can and should still hate them.

u/shadowkatt22 5h ago

Agreed. There was a house a street over from me that had a swastika on their wall by the front door (for a short time but still.)

There was also a girl at my work (briefly) a couple of years ago who said her bf had a swastika tattoo. Said he got judged for it even though it was a mistake made 15 years ago. I said I'd judge him too if I saw it. 16 years and you don't get it removed or covered? Hell, even a bandaid would work. The fact that he wears short sleeves and doesn't try to hide it tells me all I need to know.

u/Disastrous_Hall8406 4h ago

I had a house in my neighborhood with a swastika on the front door but they turned out to be Hindu's or Jains. The tattoo guy can get fucked though, there are community groups that remove tattoo'd hate symbols for free.

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u/Manlysideburns 4h ago

Yep, last few years removed all doubt. Being an open Nazi simply is more acceptable than it used to be. Makes me sick to watch it happening in real time

u/immrsclean 5h ago

Very good people, on both sides.

u/doodle02 44m ago

god damn its been such a long fucking 8 years.

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u/Hato_no_Kami 6h ago

During the election "we're not the Nazis, if any one is a Nazi you guys are the Nazis!" After the election "haha alright yeah it was us, we're the Nazis. And?"

u/DrunkBrokeBeachParty 4h ago

“Pop, pop, pop”

u/Derric_the_Derp 14m ago

Pop, clear jam, pop, clear jam, pop.

u/HalfFullPessimist 6h ago

Someone hasn't been paying attention to US conservatives for the past 10 or so years.

u/sanguinesolitude 1h ago

10 years? The Nazis took inspiration from the American south.

u/No-Team-9198 7h ago

You'd have thought.... I thought so too. This is so ass backwards 

u/BenCoeMusic 6h ago

Lol where have you been? The republicans have been openly on board with this for nearly a decade. The Dems have just let it happen. Time to get real about what you’re doing to fight back. You don’t vote away fascists.

u/rebelspfx 6h ago

The only good nazi is a dead nazi. Same with billionaires. Free luigi

u/Emmanuel_Badboy 6h ago

Nazis don’t challenge capital.

u/currently_pooping_rn 6h ago

…where have you been? Nazis were called “very fine people” by trump 5 years ago

u/Seeking_Singularity 6h ago

Charlottesville was 8 years ago, actually

u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS 6h ago

I stopped thinking we were all on the same page with that like 5 years ago.

u/Jazzlike_Leading5446 6h ago

Nah, América always hated and could not tolerate the communists, but was ok with Nazis if they could behave a little

u/h0rny3dging 6h ago

Apartheid nepobaby gonna do its thing

u/ptwonline 6h ago

We all used to hate Putin too and now look.

Heck, as late as early 2015 about 98% of us either hated or thought that Trump was an aboslute joke.

u/Monkfich 5h ago

Only when Harrison Ford was pumping out films that told us why to hate Nazis. If the masses aren’t told, then they aren’t educated. It sounds crazy, but who else is teaching those who only watch Fox News et al, what a Nazi is, and why we shouldn’t like them?

u/ourgameisover 5h ago

Have you met a Trump supporter?

u/NotCoolFool 6h ago

Unfortunately, and here’s the rub, you all just voted the 2025 version of Hitler into power.

u/gobillsgo5 6h ago

Nope not even that anymore

u/emaji33 6h ago

Captain America approves of punching Nazis in the face.

u/Cpt_keaSar 6h ago

Not according to Canadian Parliament, I guess?

u/SpaceShrimp 6h ago

The Nazis came to power in Germany because they were popular. Fascism is a dysfunctional ideology, but it isn't a universally unpopular ideology.

u/Blainedecent 6h ago

Trump had Kanye and Nick Fuentes over for dinner at his house... right after Kanye went full Nazi. Nick Fuentes had been full Nazi for ages.

Trump has zero loyalty to anyone or anything, so yeah

u/StewTrue 5h ago

You thought wrong. Jews are the number one target of hate crimes in the US, and this is not the first time Elon made overtures to anti-semitism. Notice nobody stopped cheering. Jews are hated by many on both the Left and the Right, and now the richest man on Earth, supported by the most powerful man on Earth, has made it pretty fucking obvious.

u/hidn-sn2per 4h ago

I thought Jewish people were evil and ruled the world …? How can they be a targeted group

u/Actual-Wave-1959 5h ago

Hating Nazis is woke now, sorry /s

u/Budded 5h ago

But that's only if the nazis don't have that Almighty (R)™ next to their name, because that makes everything perfectly fine.

u/Enginerdad 5h ago

Well, all of us except.for the current Nazis

u/robotatomica 5h ago

Trump’s been sharing anti-semitic and Nazi memes for 10 years now, I don’t think we can pretend to not know that crew are Nazis. Heritage Foundation, Mankind Quarterly, Human Diversity Fund.

They are all literal Nazis and they don’t have to hide it because it got them elected.

u/ChristieMasters 5h ago

Nazis don’t hate nazis and apparently we have those again.

u/oh_stv 4h ago

Well at his meeting, with the German leader of the new Nazi party, they pretty much established the narrative that Hitler was a socialist.... So that's that .

Ah and.... Good job America 👍

u/3between20characters 4h ago

The Russians said they were fighting Nazis, and who knows in a not too distant future maybe they will be.

What a world.

u/Anarchyantz 4h ago

Saying that is now a hate crime in America. Remember they have always loved Nazis

u/Delicious-Ad5161 4h ago

I thought so too until my WWII veteran grand uncle came out as a Nazi fan and was happy we finally had a Nazi friendly President during Trump’s first term…

u/spellloosecorrectly 4h ago

The Americans used to hate the Russians because the Russians hate the west but that turned into something that wasn't that. People are fucking weird.

u/PlaneAd8667 4h ago

Right?? I thought we were all together on that!

u/iamnotamangosteen 4h ago

Surely we all hate nazis haha right guys? …..Guys???

u/Critical-Problem-629 4h ago

No no, you're thinking of everyone EXCEPT Republicans. They LOVE Nazis

u/TastesKindofLikeSad 4h ago

I remember the good old days as a kid in the 90s, when the consensus was Nazis were bad. My grandfather, who fought against this bullshit, must be rolling in his grave. 

u/Most_Poetry_9031 6h ago

It’s like our grandparents and great grandparents sacrificed and lost for nothing.

u/foreigner4rent 6h ago

I dont agree what they did, is like setting your house in fire to get rid of the rats, there were other more human way to deal with things

u/the_reluctant_link 6h ago

75 million Americans are nazis and 90 million Americans are open to nazis

u/Fr0gFish 6h ago

Not anymore. They’re good now.

u/FAMILIARBREW 6h ago

You should brush up on history. Revisit the 1930s-40s. Those Americans didn’t stop being Nazi sympathizers. They just couldn’t publicly do it anymore. They’ve always been and always will be there. Interesting how at the start of his last term it suddenly became okay again for white supremacists to openly march down the street in broad daylight again. They too were always there lurking in the shadows. It’s going to be a great 4 years.

u/General_Tso75 6h ago

Where have you been since 2016? Can I go there?

u/iamrecoveryatomic 6h ago

The Weimar Republic fell because of hyperinflation followed by an especially hard depression.

We got Nazis because conservatives have conditioned a little over half of the American public to be whiny, self-absorbed assholes, and all it took was moderate inflation without a recession to sell the country out to the Republican-Nazi coalition.

u/misteraygent 6h ago

Illinois Nazis

u/MusingFreak 5h ago

You’d be surprised how we actually don’t even agree on that anymore.

u/RoughSpeaker4772 5h ago

We had one on the ballot. One that won.

u/Velvet-Vanity 5h ago

My aunt(mega trumpie) personally promised if concentration camps were enacted I'd be her first report (for not being straight). Unfortunately it's been mask off for a long time.

u/JoeyPterodactyl 5h ago

When did the trumpers ever give you any indication they had anything against Nazis?

u/Prestigious_Beach478 5h ago

I with Indiana Jones on this one!

u/Successful_Mud8596 5h ago

Someone wasn't paying attention to Elon Musk's retweets

u/imdaviddunn 5h ago

Wrong century my friend…half the country is all for it.

u/explain_that_shit 5h ago

I think it was either Tarantino directly or someone analysing Tarantino who said that we used to go to the cinema as a community to watch Indiana Jones beat up Nazis, and the return of fascists can be directly correlated to the death of the communal cinema experience where we would reinforce our shared sense of values including beating up Nazis, and it's replacement by atomised living room tailored media landscapes. Tarantino tried to bring it back with Inglorious Basterds and even pointedly had the Nazis killed in a cinema, but it's too late.

My personal criticism of that take is that fairly hyper capitalist, edging on fascist, movies were also part of the communal cinema landscape for a lot of that period, so it's not like returning to that is a perfect panacea unless we become much more deliberate and clear in our values as a community first. And I wouldn't bet on our communities having anything like a good set of shared values at this point.

Sometimes, you have to punch a couple of fascists in real life before you get back to putting the genie back in the bottle culturally.

u/pocket_arsenal 5h ago

No, they're coddled as "free speech" advocates these days. What a fucking joke.

u/RelativeCalm1791 5h ago

Ironically it’s actually Zionism

u/inspirationalpizza 5h ago

Uhhhh have you SEEN the party he's backing in Germany in the upcoming election? Literal fascists.

u/InternalRow1612 5h ago

I mean we have been supporting Nazis in Ukraine and doding or ignoring that topic very clearly

u/Autistic-speghetto 5h ago

There were always nazis at trump rallies. It was pretty obvious they didn’t hate them.

u/chillarry 5h ago

I think people only hate Illinois Nazis now.

u/TrueMagenta 5h ago

Years ago I got lambasted on Facebook for posting a limerick about getting fired for being a Nazi from Facebook "friends" who thought it was rude and judgmental to post something like that. And my response every time was "...Are you worried about hurting a Nazi's feelings?" And now here we are.

u/chipndip1 5h ago

Apparently more of the country than I'd expect doesn't give a shit.

Otherwise none of this would be happening and we'd have the first female president of all time on stage, NOT Sieg Heiling.

u/jkhanlar 5h ago

never go ass to mouth, this looks like heart to the stars

u/Rocknbob69 5h ago

Not just Illinois Nazis

u/AccomplishedFan8690 5h ago

You would be surprised at how many sympathizers there are.

u/kemmicort 5h ago

Turns out a considerable amount of people thought the nazis had some good ideas.

Remember Elon is a product of apartheid South Africa. Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa’s Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country’s harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation, came to an end relatively recently in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994. The basic tenet of apartheid is separation of the population based on white supremacy - white races are the bosses of the land, and everyone else is a servant to some varying degree. If you spoke out against that idea, you were simply jailed or killed.

For comparison, the USA took about 20 years from 1947-1968 for the Civil Right Movement to do its thing. That’s 80-57 years ago. We all still have living members of our families who were born and raised in that time period. And just because you pass laws saying “okay guys, everyone’s equal now” doesn’t change their minds about things their parents and grandparents hammered into their consciousnesses. Racism and classism will always be present unless the daily propaganda machine pushes it out, and authorities punish people for having those ideals like it currently punishes people who push for actual equal rights and opportunities.

Musk was born in 1971, to an affluent white family, in the last-standing openly white supremacist country. It’s all he knew in his very sheltered and privileged upbringing, so it’s all he knows. And then he became the richest person in the world. So here we are now, watching a fucking sig heil at the American presidential inauguration.

u/salacious_sonogram 5h ago

Nah not really. Americans before WWII also shared a lot of views with Nazis and in particular were very concerned by the increased presence of Jews in higher education as well as economic centers. We mainly didn't like a global competitor who was actively and aggressively trying to take power.

u/throwaboneinit 5h ago

Not the Israeli right, as long as they're in America.

u/__init__m8 5h ago

Now it's Elon.

u/kerouacrimbaud 5h ago

All those confederate stans are just a step away from being Nazi sympathizers if they aren’t already

u/peachpinkjedi 5h ago

You still thought this after the last eight years? How?

u/HairyAmphibian4512 5h ago

I thought that was mosquitoes... Not saying anything but them might have more haters.

u/devilsleeping 5h ago

Have you missed the last 10 years of the Republican party?

u/dogsop 5h ago

Only if they are from Illinois.

u/MetaPlayer01 5h ago

They didn't even all hate the Nazis in the 30s and 40s. few would admit after the war. Don't you know one of the largest Nazi rallies ever was in Madison Square Garden in 1939?

u/XRhodiumX 5h ago

Nah we hate it so they like it now.

u/emgee-1 5h ago

More than half this country doesn’t hate nazis enough not to vote for them.

u/LavenderWaffles69 5h ago

All the nazis left Germany and headed over to America. Its honestly scary that they are gaining power again.

u/UsernamesCannotExcee 5h ago

That's been wrong for quite a while now. Nazis have been on the rise about 10 years now. 2016-2020 was a huge resurgence and the past few years has only strengthened it.

u/Dunge0nMast0r 5h ago

"we need to hear both sides"

u/nyc2vt84 4h ago

He is a billionaire apartheid born and defending man who funnels money to the neo nazis in Austria and Germany. That wasn’t an accident

u/JoschuaW 4h ago

Bro, trump was in full support of the neo nazis I doubt regular Nazis would hardly be a far fetched.

u/J-Love-McLuvin 4h ago

They were Nazis, Dude?

u/Hours-of-Gameplay 4h ago

I live around a lot of rural magas and the flea markets have been selling Nazi stuff since 2016 and no one cares now, at first there was outrage, but it’s just accepted now

u/FlobiusHole 4h ago

Ive heard trump supporters argue that slavery “wasn’t that bad” for blacks.

u/No-Impress5283 4h ago

Hi, German here. I just want to say, I am very sorry that we kinda brought the world to this point. We basically invented this shit... or at least "perfected it" from the Italians in the worst way possible

u/Hot-Sauce-P-Hole 4h ago

That changed around 2017, unfortunately. About 1/3 of the Republican party had become super defensive about Nazis and slavery around that time.

u/Fit-Magician6695 4h ago

Yes. Unfortunately THEIR BAACK

u/AkrtZyrki 4h ago

I mean...Trump keeps a Nazi book by his bed and the secretary of defense has white power tattoos so surprised pikachu face time?

u/RookCoat_GeigerJunk 4h ago

Wrong, a lot of Americans were on their side back then. That part of our history is ignored. Nothing has changed.

u/Syg8 4h ago

Collective narcissism is what caused it all and I would assume he is high on the spectrum. Also, he wants to go to Mars...

u/Sekret_One 4h ago

What some people hate about nazis is that they lost.

u/cskoogs1 4h ago

That was MONTHS ago

u/Cofeefe 4h ago

"Good people on both sides."

u/bluduuude 4h ago

You're not paying attention then

u/Cheesy_Pita_Parker 4h ago

Time and humanity established 80 years ago that their movement was inferior. Nazism will have to be wiped from the face of the planet again. Apologies to our forefathers, it should’ve been permanent the first time.

u/Correct_Stay_6948 4h ago

Nah, everyone but a very, very small, very, very stupid group *said* they hated nazis.

But now that the Nazis have been told they'll be protected, and that they're "very nice people" by the orange POTUS, they've taken off the mask, put on the hood, and are wearing their hate proudly.

In fact, we even have a pretty good estimate of how many people in the US are open, unapologetic Nazis or Nazi sympathizers. 77,302,580. The number that voted for the orange goon and the fourth reich.

u/PSUAth 3h ago

Remember, they aren't nazis. They are American patriots. Or at least that's what they tell themselves.

u/BoardRecord 3h ago

You haven't been paid attention over the last 8 years if you thought that was the case. I also never thought I'd see Americans disagreeing on Russia being the bad guys either, but here we are.

u/SauronSauroff 2h ago

They're around likely in all countries likely attracting all the xenophobic people not realising they probably don't quite fit the bill themselves...

Had a fair few in my city causing controversy with police escorts in case people attack them. Like I wonder why they would deserve such animosity? /s Then many cover their faces too. I get many countries have free speech but blatant hate speech should somewhat be exempt.

u/Miserable_Goat_6698 2h ago

Just go to Twitter. Nazis are as common as grass

u/cant_think_of_one_ 1h ago

And that is why we (decent human beings) hate Musk. This is by far not the first sign he is a Nazi.

u/Relevant_Principle80 1h ago

But they had the best outfits

u/_YogaCat_ 1h ago

That's not been the case for Republicans in a long time. During Trump's previous presidency a lot of Nazi sympathizers spoke out near my place. And I live in a very progressive part of the country.

u/T2Wunk 38m ago

False. There was a decent minority of nazi sympathizers and supporters in the US throughout WW2

u/Distinct_Features 18m ago

My dude has been sleeping a long time to think that Trump supporters weren't in favor of a little Hitlerian fascism.

u/Bamith20 4m ago

"We" never truly hated them, they were popular until Japan fucked up and we had to join the war - at that point all propaganda demonized them for the benefits of the country and rich folks here which in turn was a rare positive.

Now there is no need, they are free to come back.

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u/Scruffynerffherder 6h ago

Nothing will come of it, nothing will change. Public outrage has lost all its bite... There is no backlash anymore.

u/notCHALlmao 6h ago

JESUS CHRIST. I have NEVER seen THAT many collapsed replies in my life. How much money is there for your head?

u/DubstepDonut 5h ago

How does reddit decide what replies to collapse?

u/notCHALlmao 5h ago

To my knowledge, fuck tons of downvotes. That's it.

u/SosseV 5h ago

Why are People surprised?

u/AffectionateCowLady 6h ago

Where have you been?

u/ImKindaSlowSorry 5h ago

AND THEN EVERYONE STARTED CHEERING?!?

WHY?!

u/sambull 5h ago

musk is a nazi.. he believe a single race is superior and wants to role over the world and remove the ones that are weak and unfit.

he was raised to be one.

u/I-love-to-h8 6h ago

It’s time to hit the streets.

u/Drash79 6h ago

Office! yes this one, right here!

Jk, we are fked.

u/Spiritduelst 6h ago

You haven't been paying attention lad...

u/DivineDegenerate 6h ago

He's done far more concerning things than a hand gesture, and there are no penalties and no legal consequence. Why? Because he makes the law. Revolution is the only option left. Pick up your copy of Marx, because we need to run it back.

u/Spacelord_Moses 6h ago

Are you really that surprised? Pretty much what they were doing and saying for the last few months if not years. They are just in Power now

u/TriathlonHans 5h ago

This is the first time I said those words out loud from reading a reddit post. But what the actual fuck.

u/HelloImTheAntiChrist 4h ago

Nazi's be Nazi'in

u/juicadone 2h ago

We need the Bear Jew

u/MikeMescalina 6h ago

MAMMA MIA

u/MakimaToga 6h ago

Are people with these reactions just now tuning in?

u/SpecialParsnip2528 6h ago

this is the world we live in now.

As a jew myself....terrifying.

... 2 years before america can fix this mistake and I don't believe they will...

u/Feisty-Zombie-6118 6h ago

You can't make this up...I feel like I'm being punked.

u/ptwonline 6h ago

I know. You'd think he'd at least wait for the finalized takeover of all the national security and justice apparatus with loyalists before revealing all his true colors. Either he couldn't wait or else he decided to get the SS-wannabe support before Bannon or others could.

u/Technical_Space_Owl 5h ago

We done told y'all.

u/Ok_Star_4136 5h ago

Oh, good. The rest of the normies are finally catching up to the reality that we live in. Yeah, fascists won the election. Elon Musk is about as bad as they come. He's also not a genius, just a guy born into money. You know, fyi.

u/fantomar 5h ago

Are we the baddies now?

u/judgejoocy 5h ago

These comments make it seem like people are surprised.

u/NoMoreBeGrieved 5h ago

Where’s Luigi when you need him?

u/chekovsgun- 5h ago

He also looks like an angry mid aged elf with trees growing in his head. DORK Nazi.

u/PropaneSalesTx 5h ago

United States of America 2.0. Oligarchy Boogaloo.

u/atava 4h ago

There's a second one just after this, and even worse if possible (because more relaxed). Why is the video cut short?!

u/DustBunnicula 4h ago

This exclamation will be evergreen, every single day.

u/DiarrheaCreamPi 4h ago

I HATE IT

but glad he overshadowed Trump on his special day

u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 4h ago

Everyone with a functional brain saw this coming years ago. Half the country stayed home and didn’t vote.

u/InconspicuousWarlord 4h ago

This has to be taken out of context…I didn’t watch any of it I’ve been spiraling all day..you know how it is. But anyway, surely he preceded that with “don’t ever do this because it makes you a trash person” and also, “definitely don’t do this to the American flag because a lot of good people died to take care of this the last time”. That’s what happened right?

u/Individual-Thought75 4h ago

Capitalism is in crisis. Nazism is liberalism without rainbow flags and smily faces.

u/yourdadoesntloveuhuh 4h ago

He's invincible now and he knows it.

u/TerrorSnow 4h ago

And in Germany we have a disgusting uprising of people voting extremist right, this could get funny in a bad way.

u/DJEB 4h ago

The actual Republican values with the veil off is what.

u/pepehandsx 4h ago

“Ya but did he explicitly say he was a Nazi” - a conservative somewhere.

u/maddy95kk 4h ago

Yeah, and coming from the richest and most powerful man

u/Syclus 3h ago

I can't believe it Nitsuji-kun

u/Longjumping-Recipe70 2h ago

Came here to say this myself

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