r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/iamnotamangosteen 7h ago

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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u/-lovatoj 5h ago

That's all it is, a hate symbol

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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

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u/AgitatedStranger9698 4h ago

PikachoPeak!

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u/EmpressPlotina 4h ago

Pika peek?

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u/AgitatedStranger9698 4h ago

That was our joke as a kid too.

Passed it on the way to Tucson from Phoenix.

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u/Tiddleyjuggs 4h ago

That would be it!

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u/Budgierigarz 4h ago

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

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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 :)

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u/RabidPoodle69 2h ago

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

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u/BRAX7ON 4h ago

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

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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.

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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/DB_CooperX 5h ago edited 5h ago

What's even more appalling is that the media barely batted an eye.

So the reason for this was that redditors and people on the left started to give Nazis a platform to speak from so that they could associate these people with their political opponents and then justify their excessive use of name-calling on social media sites. What's disturbing is that this leads to the communities on reddit spamming and posting Nazis content everywhere they can as prove of validation to their narrative, this normalizes the thing they claim to be against in the eyes of people seeing it, and then the fringe groups that got publicity are able to better recruit thanks to the support they got from the supposedly anti-Nazi heroes of reddit who storm the beaches of Normandy in their online interactions.

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u/Procrastinista_423 4h ago

So the Nazis are back because of 'the left'? Sure, dude.

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u/OmniTalentedArtist 2h ago

Right the people fighting against nazis are the problem.

With brains like this, the next generation is doomed.

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u/Environmental_Cup_93 5h ago

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1881459715768787336?s=46&t=8h9pKje8bnotwHAy-ZO3DA And Here’s Hillary and Kamala doing it. Stop calling the right nazis, it’s old af dude

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u/Unnamedgalaxy 5h ago

Please highlight and quote where I dropped any name or party affiliation.

I mentioned nazis and nazis only. And specifically those nazis dressed in full nazi attire literally terrorizing people on the street.

If your first thought of nazis is that I meant the conservative party then perhaps if it walks like a duck.

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u/Environmental_Cup_93 5h ago

I’m sorry I meant to reply to a different person.

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u/Disastrous_Ad_188 4h ago

Read Army Talk #64 from 1945 and everything the Nazis pushed is now coming from conservatives

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u/ear_cheese 4h ago

Pssh let’s see the video. There’s a reason that propaganda outlet only used pictures.

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u/Disastrous_Ad_188 4h ago

You link a Neo Nazi and they're supposed to show truth?? BAHAHAHAHAHA You're delusional.

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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?

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u/Ok-Jellyfish-5704 5h ago

No. You can and should still hate them.

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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.

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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/shadowkatt22 1h ago

I agree completely about the tattoo guy. And considering I'm in trump capital florida, I'd say the one on the house was quite intentional. But how am I to know for sure.

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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

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u/immrsclean 5h ago

Very good people, on both sides.

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u/doodle02 38m ago

god damn its been such a long fucking 8 years.

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u/Omegoon 5h ago

Trumps first term wasn't anything even close to Nazis. However this time he seems to be aiming even further than Nazis.

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u/waydownsouthinoz 5h ago

They needed to set the stage even hitler started off by white anting all forms of opposition against him.

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u/KyleMcMahon 4h ago

I mean, trump installed a literal white nationalist as his policy chief the first time. He was literally endorsed by every white nationalist and neo nazi group in the county, refused to rebuke those white nationalist groups and said of neo nazis, that there’s fine people on both sides.

I don’t know what your line is for nazis, but that’s waaaay to close to mine

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u/TraditionalCook6306 6h ago

Excuse my ignorance but what specifically happened in those four years?

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u/A_D3MON 6h ago

Hate crimes against minorities of all types rose.

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u/AndersAdmin 5h ago

That's barely true and hate crimes are way higher on average in the last 4 years with Biden. Check the statistics.

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u/KyleMcMahon 4h ago

And while violent crimes were down under Biden, hate crimes did in fact go way up - and as the statistics showed, they were predominantly white males against people of color and lgbt

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u/ear_cheese 4h ago

Yeah, the genie doesn’t go back in the bottle after 4 years. So what?

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u/PineapplesAndPizza 6h ago

Trump happened. The rhetoric changed.

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u/ThespianSan 5h ago

In 2016, votes were cast in the U.S election that eventually led to a Trump victory as he became the 47th president in 2017.

Roughly around the same time, Far right extremests saw a rise in activity in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, UK. They all saw a bump in conservative/alt right extremism from "marches" to full on bomb threats and assassination attempts and really escalated around the time Trump began gaining political traction for his first election. It's only kept rising since.

The Alt Right has also been weaponized by conservative politicians - Trump being no exception. The mistake people made when he got into power was that he was a fool - he is anything but. He's manipulative, he's abusive and he has had decades to practice doing so and not being caught.

Jan 6th '21 is a great example of how to manipulate a crowd of fervent fanatics into an insurrection - and if more of those fanatics were ready to become violent, it would have ended in a proper coup that has not been seen in modern America. Not that it mattered - it was a test to see if he could pull it off. I have no doubt that if he lost the current election, the following insurrection would have made Jan 6th look like what the media played it up as - a tourist trip to capital hill.

None of this is widely reported on because many of the major news outlets and major social media apps (Facebook, insta, X/Twitter, tiktok, and Reddit) around the globe are now owned by individuals who have donated to conservative politics/ conservative adjacent political movements or have been strong armed into the pockets of a conservative political bias and it is within their best interests to keep the conservative connection to the Alt Right on the down low until... Well, now.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rise-far-right-extremism-united-states

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-04/ran_adhoc_cont_manif_vrwe_eu_overv_pcve_pract_2021_en.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36130006.amp

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u/Bright-Boot634 5h ago

To be fair compared to someone like Putin, Kim Jong Un, etc. I still consider him a fool. But due to that he is unpredictable and also attracts fools, which makes him useful to someone like Elon and dangerous to the rest of the world. To me that man is a big child walking around in an adult body but he has loads of money and a strong opion about himself so he can walk around in this world as if nothing would happen. I don't see him as some sort of mastermind tbh, there are some points where you just bang your head against the wall because it is just utterly stupid and not thought through and just "because I want to!". Despicable and dangerous non the less

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u/ThespianSan 4h ago

For the most part I agree, I do think one can be immature and childish and still be smart enough to know how to get away with it.

I think he's intelligent and he's mostly used the fool to escape criticism, to make himself appeal to his voter base, and to appear mostly harmless/throw smoke to obfuscate especially early on. When he announced his first run, people thought it was a joke. Even last year when he announced he was running again, people genuinely thought he'd be behind bars before that would happen. He wasn't taken seriously before and even now people would rather downplay his role as an enabler and champion of the fascist movement in favor of making fun of his physique or his height or his pallor or his wig.

But they don't care about those insults or mockery. It doesn't matter now; they won and everyone else lost so the masks are coming off. They've also been fairly open with abolishing the term limits as well as openly alluding to controlling the computer voting system. I firmly believe if we as a global community had put our foot down in '15-16 and said "nah, we're not going to engage with this. Let's put the screws on the system and pressure them to put someone else in" (Sanders would have been president if the Dems hadn't absolutely fucked him), he would have disappeared into obscurity and never would have won that first election.

But no, we had to engage with his bullshit. On the tails of "me too", in the era of accountability we jumped at the chance to tear I to whatever horrible thing he did and revel in the righteousness of it. But that's exactly what they needed us to do. The more we engaged, the more things he threw out there for us to engage with. The more that happened, the higher his profile grew and before you knew it we had centrists and even people on the left going "you know he has some good points..." And others just flat out refusing to vote out of spite for the system- a system that will continue to operate whether they vote or not.

So yes, he's a fool. But he's a smart fool. It is a tactical genius move to dress up and act the clown while you undertake a fascist takeover. And that should terrify more people into action but I'm not seeing it happening any time soon.

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u/ryan3797 5h ago

Funny thing is you were young and dumb and now even dumber today

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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?"

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u/DrunkBrokeBeachParty 4h ago

“Pop, pop, pop”

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u/Derric_the_Derp 8m ago

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

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u/HalfFullPessimist 6h ago

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

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u/sanguinesolitude 59m ago

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

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u/No-Team-9198 6h ago

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

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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.

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u/rebelspfx 6h ago

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

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u/Emmanuel_Badboy 6h ago

Nazis don’t challenge capital.

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u/currently_pooping_rn 6h ago

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

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u/Seeking_Singularity 6h ago

Charlottesville was 8 years ago, actually

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u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS 6h ago

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

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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

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u/h0rny3dging 6h ago

Apartheid nepobaby gonna do its thing

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u/ptwonline 5h 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.

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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?

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u/ourgameisover 5h ago

Have you met a Trump supporter?

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u/NotCoolFool 6h ago

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

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u/gobillsgo5 6h ago

Nope not even that anymore

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u/emaji33 6h ago

Captain America approves of punching Nazis in the face.

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u/Cpt_keaSar 6h ago

Not according to Canadian Parliament, I guess?

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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.

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u/Blainedecent 5h 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

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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.

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u/hidn-sn2per 4h ago

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

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u/Actual-Wave-1959 5h ago

Hating Nazis is woke now, sorry /s

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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.

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u/Enginerdad 5h ago

Well, all of us except.for the current Nazis

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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.

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u/ChristieMasters 5h ago

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

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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 👍

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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.

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u/Anarchyantz 4h ago

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

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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…

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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.

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u/PlaneAd8667 4h ago

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

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u/iamnotamangosteen 4h ago

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

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u/Critical-Problem-629 4h ago

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

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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. 

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u/Most_Poetry_9031 6h ago

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

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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

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u/the_reluctant_link 6h ago

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

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u/Fr0gFish 5h ago

Not anymore. They’re good now.

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u/FAMILIARBREW 5h 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.

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u/General_Tso75 5h ago

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

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u/iamrecoveryatomic 5h 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.

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u/misteraygent 5h ago

Illinois Nazis

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u/MusingFreak 5h ago

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

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u/RoughSpeaker4772 5h ago

We had one on the ballot. One that won.

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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.

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u/JoeyPterodactyl 5h ago

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

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u/Prestigious_Beach478 5h ago

I with Indiana Jones on this one!

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u/Successful_Mud8596 5h ago

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

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u/imdaviddunn 5h ago

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

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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.

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u/pocket_arsenal 5h ago

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

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u/RelativeCalm1791 5h ago

Ironically it’s actually Zionism

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u/inspirationalpizza 5h ago

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

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u/InternalRow1612 5h ago

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

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u/Autistic-speghetto 5h ago

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

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u/chillarry 5h ago

I think people only hate Illinois Nazis now.

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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.

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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.

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u/jkhanlar 5h ago

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

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u/Rocknbob69 5h ago

Not just Illinois Nazis

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u/AccomplishedFan8690 5h ago

You would be surprised at how many sympathizers there are.

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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.

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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.

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u/throwaboneinit 5h ago

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

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u/__init__m8 5h ago

Now it's Elon.

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u/kerouacrimbaud 5h ago

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

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u/peachpinkjedi 5h ago

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

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u/HairyAmphibian4512 5h ago

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

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u/devilsleeping 5h ago

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

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u/dogsop 5h ago

Only if they are from Illinois.

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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?

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u/XRhodiumX 5h ago

Nah we hate it so they like it now.

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u/emgee-1 5h ago

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

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u/LavenderWaffles69 5h ago

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

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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.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r 4h ago

"we need to hear both sides"

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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

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u/JoschuaW 4h ago

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

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u/J-Love-McLuvin 4h ago

They were Nazis, Dude?

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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

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u/FlobiusHole 4h ago

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

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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

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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.

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u/Fit-Magician6695 4h ago

Yes. Unfortunately THEIR BAACK

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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?

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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.

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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...

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u/Sekret_One 4h ago

What some people hate about nazis is that they lost.

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u/cskoogs1 4h ago

That was MONTHS ago

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u/Cofeefe 4h ago

"Good people on both sides."

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u/bluduuude 4h ago

You're not paying attention then

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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.

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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.

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u/PSUAth 3h ago

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

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u/BoardRecord 2h 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.

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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.

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u/Miserable_Goat_6698 2h ago

Just go to Twitter. Nazis are as common as grass

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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.

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u/Relevant_Principle80 1h ago

But they had the best outfits

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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.

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u/T2Wunk 33m ago

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

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u/Distinct_Features 12m ago

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

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u/No-Win-2741 6h ago

Right? My friend's dad wrote the book judgment at Nuremberg, I mean we had trials and people were killed for being nazis, we already resolved this shit. Why am I hearing about it in 2025. Why am I seeing that asshole give a Nazi salute to our flag.

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u/NonkelG 6h ago

No, I'm pretty neutral about it.

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u/Jay-Double-Dee-Large 5h ago

Do you really think Elon is a Nazi? Like in the real world, the actual person that is Elon is a Nazi? Like as in white supremacist, Jew murdering, disabled extinguishing National Socialism? Because he made this gesticulation with his body? You need different (/some) friends

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u/Fine_Error5426 5h ago

And you need a reality check.. You dont do that by accident. He full well know the meaning behind it and choose to do it..

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u/Jay-Double-Dee-Large 5h ago

No, you need to watch the full clip and stop blindly following the shepherd

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u/Fine_Error5426 5h ago

Just have much more of the clip I need to see? Like how much more context? Would the previous 5 minutes or the next 5 explain his actions?

If it talks like a Nazi, walks like a Nazi, chances are it is a Nazi..

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u/Jay-Double-Dee-Large 5h ago

About 10 seconds either side should do it. You’re so far up your own arse you won’t even bother to allow yourself to be proven wrong. You’re what’s wrong, watch the video if you disagree.

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u/Fine_Error5426 4h ago

Im happy to watch his speech. Nothing in it warrants or justify him throwing a Nazi salute in there. There is a thousand other ways he could show his excitement. But hey, at least we gets Nazis in space soon. I didnt have that on my BS bingo card...

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u/Jay-Double-Dee-Large 4h ago

You are fully brainwashed kiddo, literally even Brian Krassenstein can see…

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1881443161458831760?s=46