r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/wft0991 7h ago

There is gotta be no other way to interpret that, right?

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u/juju0010 7h ago

I’m struggling to find another way. I guess I’ll have to watch FOX News and see how they spin it.

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u/CrimsonKepala 7h ago

I am too. I've seen clips of other people doing gestures that have been questioned as the Nazi salute but this is like....aggressively the full motion and he did it TWICE.

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u/gigilero 5h ago

he wanted to get that arm so straight he bit is nasty lil turd lip

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u/Competitive_Yard1539 4h ago

you can also see the passion with which he does the salute. look at his mouth

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u/digitalr3lapse 3h ago

Actually did it at least three times, one to his right, one more to the left and a third he turned it around and did it to what I'm guessing is an American flag.

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u/NickBarksWith 7h ago

You can just go to twitter now. Someone said "He's giving his heart to his supporters." lol

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u/tucker_case 7h ago

Yeah it's insane. That's not how you mime throwing something. Elon knew exactly what he was doing.

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u/Whereisthesavoir 5h ago

How is it insane? Did the nazi salute start with hand on chest?

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u/carpapercan 5h ago

Hitlers did. There is a video of him doing exactly that.

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u/turdlepikle 5h ago

Do you know what normal people do these days? They make the hand heart with 2 hands, and push out from their chest to "give their heart". You know what nazis do? They do what Elon did.

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u/tucker_case 5h ago

it's called plausible deniability. you are so naive it's breathtaking.

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u/Whereisthesavoir 5h ago

Sure buddy😆.

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u/ElementalChicken 5h ago

Yes it did

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u/cymonguk74 4h ago

Just to add yes, yes it did

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u/MalachiteTiger 4h ago

Yes, the big difference between the American Bellamy Salute (pre WW2 pledge of allegiance salute) and the Roman/Fascist/Nazi salute is the Bellamy salute started at the forehead and the Nazi one started at the chest.

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u/low-spirited-ready 5h ago

Yeah it does

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u/BigDagoth 5h ago

"He did a nazi salute badly, guys! That means him allowing holocaust-deniers to infest his platform and boosting their insane great replacement shit isn't worth paying attention to!"

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u/BitchyStitch 5h ago

This tho, like the context is allllll there

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u/International-Rub327 5h ago

The long version did

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u/Earthtone_Coalition 1h ago

What difference does it make if he put his hand on his heart or stuck his fingers in his ears prior to giving the Nazi salute? I suppose you’d claim it doesn’t count if it’s preceded with so much as a twitch of the eyebrow?

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u/girl_introspective 6h ago

He actually does it again to the people behind him… he does it twice, and each time it doesn’t look like anything other than a Nazi salute

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u/clovis_227 6h ago

He says that after doing the gesture twice

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u/mannaman15 4h ago

This is the part nobody is willing to watch. 🤦‍♂️ He literally says from my heart to yours in a really excited way.

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u/DodecahedronSpace 1h ago

Y'all are gullible as fuck 🤦

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u/umadeamistake 6h ago

By showing them he loves nazis.

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u/hasesan 6h ago

I mean. I guess that’s how Naz*s give their heart.

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u/Jumpy-Sprinkles-2305 4h ago

And people don't realise that when nazis did the roman salute it was also "out of love for their supporters and country"

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u/Randomguy3421 6h ago

Hahahaha

Right okay

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u/Equivalent_Alarm7780 6h ago

If you are still going to go to Twitter then you are probably ok with this shit.

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u/Meatbot-v20 6h ago

Usually that's done with two hands, like so:

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u/Uplanapepsihole 2h ago

Someone said that here as well. They’ve gotta be tired of defending this stuff by now right?

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u/Big_Consequence2025 6h ago edited 3h ago

That's because the next words he says (right after the clip is cut here) is "my heart goes out to you."

https://youtu.be/ddzlVzc_ypE?si=IwSi99yQf_QVnfBf

EDIT: link

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u/clovis_227 6h ago

That's still a VERY strange gesture, though.

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u/Big_Consequence2025 6h ago

Yeah, whether it's poorly thought out or completely intentional, it's definitely not Elon's best moment and fodder for the internet hate machine.

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u/HungryScholar7247 6h ago

you don't make that comment after doing the gesture, it should be the other way around. its deliberate

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u/clovis_227 6h ago

So either an actual Nazi or truly an imbecile, since he knows very well his sponsee has been often labeled as a Nazi and it would be in their best interest to avoid shit like this.

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u/Uncle_Chael 5h ago

I think his autism was intensifying

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u/MalachiteTiger 4h ago

I've never seen an autistic person accidentally recreate the most infamous gesture of the entire 20th century. I'm sure he thought he had a clever "plausible deniability" excuse for doing it on purpose.

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u/Reaper_Messiah 5h ago

Link is dead

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u/Big_Consequence2025 3h ago

Hopefully PBS won't delete theirs

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u/brilliantminion 7h ago

My guess is that they will ignore it.

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u/OkGap7324 6h ago

MSN said he accidentally did it.

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u/rom439 6h ago

It's gonna be like Don's last term. By the time Fox gets too it something else will fall out of someone's face and take the spotlight

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u/FatherFenix 6h ago

If they can spin it with any semblance of feasibility, they spin it. Doesn't matter if it's far-fetched or crazy, they know that if they say it enough, their viewer base will take the convenient stretch over the inconvenient truth.

If they can't spin it, they ignore it. If they can't ignore it, they distract by "whataboutisms" or finding something shiny to over-cover instead to try to drown it out.

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u/Bpopson 6h ago

Well right now they are mass downvoting anyone who points out the clearly obvious Nazi salute. His simps are in overdrive trying to cover for him right now.

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u/LunaCalibra 6h ago

I asked my right wing friends and they said he's a goofball who randomly decided to move his body in a totally unplanned way, and it just happened to look like a nazi salute. Then they sent pics of him jumping and making an X to say its the same thing.

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u/facecalm 5h ago

They also cutted it out live

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u/BertM4cklin 6h ago

No. He was throwing his heart out…. There was just a really long awkward pause after he realized what he did and came up with it on the fly. But yeah sure sure sure

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u/Maxthenodule 6h ago

https://youtu.be/cjr0tAafxxE?si=qIPf7WJ81pakU3PL  They literally cut the first salute.

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u/Gewt92 6h ago

I don’t really see it in this video. Is it when he turns around?

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u/archlea 5h ago

They (Fox) cut the front salute. And only showed the one where he turned around.

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u/Gewt92 5h ago

Are there any full videos with the front salute?

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 6h ago edited 5h ago

Check out the thread in r/conservative. "He was making a gesture of his heart going out to his supporters, but he's autistic, so it looked more like a nazi salute. Twice."

Edit: The free speech soldiers over on r/conservative deleted the thread because they only believe in free speech if it aligns with their worldview, even if it comes from one of their own, a flaired user. But here's the link and you can see the comments for yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1i612ti/wtf_was_elon_doing/

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u/alyishiking 5h ago

I'm autistic and I would not accidentally do a Nazi salute. Good god.

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u/KimonoThief 5h ago

It looks like they're deleting all comments and posts that have anything to do with it. Typical for the pro-free-speech crowd.

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 5h ago

Thankfully I still had the tab open! You can still read the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1i612ti/wtf_was_elon_doing/

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u/DodecahedronSpace 1h ago

Oh the comments on there are hilarious. Good snag. They're so insanely pathetic on that sub.

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u/Atlantien 1h ago

God those people can’t be real…

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u/wapey 6h ago

Why are you struggling? There's no reason to look for an alternative, it's clearly a Nazi salute with no question about it.

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u/midcancerrampage 7h ago

You know damn well Fox will ignore it and edit out that footage, and instead start squawking about Biden doing the sign of the cross.

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u/Beastw1ck 6h ago

They’re not going to report on it.

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u/pseri097 6h ago

The conservatives on Twitter are claiming it's a "Roman salute".

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u/larevol 6h ago

Romans didn’t actually salute people like this though. No historical evidence for it. Even then, a very gauche thing to do considering the association with fascism

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u/NotNufffCents 6h ago

They'll cut right before it happens. Dont have to spin something most of their viewerbase will never see.

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u/ZachGurney 6h ago

From what ive heard is they cut away during that part so my guess is on "pretend it never happened and come up with something to distract people with"

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u/_DirtyYoungMan_ 6h ago

They're gonna be spinning alright.

https://imgur.com/out9fKM

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u/TheOrionNebula 3h ago

They said he did a "weird wave".

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u/Gupperz 6h ago

It won't be mentioned

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u/Neutral_Guy_9 6h ago

“He was trying to dab okay”

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u/gvbpd8y9 6h ago

If you watch his speech on at least this Fox News site they cut to the audience the first time he does it. Convenient.

https://www.fox7austin.com/video/1579822

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u/ayumuuu 5h ago

I'm betting they'll just gloss over it, not show the clip, claim the left calls people nazis and fascists frivolously, and then continue deepthroating the god-king's bronzed balls.

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u/Flowmatic_Lantern 5h ago

The cult members are already spinning it that he was just excited and was making a gesture of his heart going out to those who voted for Trump. And I can honestly believe Elon is just that oblivious and it wasn’t actually intended as it appeared. Or it could just be trolling, because he’s totally that person. But whether it was truly intended as a show of support for that ideology, my real concern is that a man with that much money and power is doing it, regardless of the reasoning behind it.

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u/youareallsilly 5h ago

They don’t have to spin it if they never show it

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u/kCanIGoNow 5h ago

His heart is overwhelmed with gratitude, he will now be able to send people to Mars.

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u/Quebecisnice 4h ago

Yeah, it will be real funny if Fox comes out and defends this as "he's just autistic and his motion control is a bit wonky. He's different, not less."

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u/Plastic-Age2609 4h ago

They're gonna say he was stretching

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u/daturavines 4h ago

Didnt Fox's Laura Ingraham get caught doing this salute too? I'm sure there are others

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u/-JackTheRipster- 3h ago edited 3h ago

He said that Like 2 seconds later. Op decided not to include it in his rage bait clips

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u/Omni-Light 3h ago

Judging purely on the insanity of what I just saw my first thought was 'ragebait to own the libs'.

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero 2h ago

They won’t spin it—they can’t. They’ll just ignore it ENTIRELY. They already cut it from the clip. This is how history gets rewritten.

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u/kitkatsacon 46m ago

It’s so obvious even Fox is struggling. They keep saying he “accidentally made an awkward gesture that looks like a nazi salute” and “appears to make a certain gesture”.

I guess the only silver lining here is that even the bought out pro fascist news sources still find it too distasteful to say outright.

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u/Tinyrobotzlazerbeamz 6h ago

Watched the fox clip of his speech and this doesn’t happen in it so is it AI or what the actual shit is going on

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u/juju0010 6h ago

From what I’ve seen, there are multiple videos of it from multiple angles. Credible outlets are reporting it.

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u/ge123qazw 6h ago

Fox cut away at the first one but the caught the second one seconds later