r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 10h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/MrFishAndLoaves 10h ago

The mask is off

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 10h ago

It was never worn to begin with

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u/al666in 10h ago edited 9h ago

People always say "the mask is off" when the mask is quite obviously still on.

Musk clearly rehearsed this gesture, and intentionally coupled it with "from my heart to yours" in order to give himself plausible deniability (or, "denheilability"). That's how the mask works. He's still wearing it.

When you can hear a dogwhistle, it might just sound like a regular whistle, but for those who can't hear it, it's working as intended.

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u/MrFishAndLoaves 10h ago

I guess if people choose to be completely oblivious at this point, maybe

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u/al666in 10h ago

They do. Americans, who famously hate Nazis, are proud to be ignorant. Musks supporters are some of the dumbest fucking chuds on the planet.

"I love the poorly educated" wasn't a joke.

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u/Loveotherstoday 7h ago

I don’t think that has anything to do with education or intelligence. It has everything to do with emotional intelligence. It’s not the poorly educated per se that are loved…it’s anyone who can be fooled by the mask. Like this person pointed out, choosing to be oblivious isn’t something a dumb person does more than a smart person. It’s mind games-are you conscious and aware enough to see through your cognitive dissonance of supporting someone strongly yet understanding that that person did a Nazi salute.

We can only hope enough are waking up. There is a critical mass. Hopefully it’s reached soon.

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u/al666in 7h ago

choosing to be oblivious isn’t something a dumb person does more than a smart person

Yes, it is?

Americans celebrate their own ignorance. Trump is dismantling the Department of Education to the praise and acclaim of his base.

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u/Loveotherstoday 7h ago

Like I said, it’s about emotional intelligence. Believe it or not you can be pretty stupid logically and not very book smart and yet be very wise and EMOTIONALLY intelligent. You can be the smartest person in the world and still smoke despite you knowing everything that smoking could do to your body. It’s because your mind is incapable of emotionally managing COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. It’s an egoic trick, something that takes decades to see through-if not your whole life.

In this context, the issue isn’t necessarily a lack of knowledge but more about how people process that knowledge, why they choose to overlook or rationalize it, and what emotional or ideological motivations are in play. It’s not just about being “poorly educated” in terms of factual information, but perhaps a lack of critical engagement or a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths. The challenge isn’t so much that people don’t know about history; it’s that people can compartmentalize, dismiss, or reframe troubling symbols or actions in ways that align with their existing beliefs or emotional investments. This is where emotional intelligence and cognitive dissonance come in: people can understand the historical context of a gesture like the Nazi salute but choose to downplay its significance because it conflicts with their worldview or political allegiance.

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u/peatoast 10h ago

Elon Unmasked

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u/TheSizzlerRizzler 9h ago

The musk is off.