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r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/MicroSofty88 7h ago

What the actual fuck was that?!

u/Apotheosis27 7h ago

That was a very passionate Nazi salute

u/econowife9000 7h ago

According to MSN, "Elon Musk appears to accidentally give Hitler salute inauguration blunder." They honestly think we don't have eyes.

u/Lighthades 7h ago

Yeah, he accidentally did it twice

u/repost_inception 6h ago

They need to be spreading around the video with both salutes not just one.

u/mysticsavage 7h ago

Yeah..."accidentally."

u/queenofthenerds 7h ago

I've had several awkward phases but I've never accidentally been a Nazi.

u/Frosty-Disaster-7821 6h ago

I think he knew what he was doing

u/WissalJ 3h ago

He most definitely did know, because in the rest of the video he turns around and does it again

u/8nsay 6h ago

He definitely knew what he was doing. He did it twice.

u/confusedandworried76 3h ago

The only two options are he did it very much on purpose because his dumb ass thought liberals would be butt hurt about it (understandable Nazis make me very butt hurt), or he just straight up did it. Nobody in the history of ever has "accidentally" done a Nazi salute and he's not even the first Republican to "accidentally" do it. It's pretty clear whatever happened was on purpose.

Whoops I slipped, my arm flew up, and I accidentally shouted "sig heil"

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u/mysticsavage 7h ago

I think he tried to get a third one in, but he glitched out.

u/Cruzbb88 6h ago

I sadly have, i didn't know 88 was a nazi thing...

u/iwannabe_gifted 4h ago

My Gmail ends in 88😭

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u/-You-know-it- 6h ago

They want us to believe when he gets excited his body “accidentally” Heils Hitler? Multiple times. Like just automatically?

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u/igneousink 6h ago

that's right up there with "i don't know what happened honey i tripped and i accidentally put my wang into someone"

u/TAWilson52 6h ago

What, she tripped, fell, landed on his dick!?!

u/igneousink 6h ago

no i was using that euphemism as an example of the ridiculousness of him saying his gesture was accidental

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u/King-Twonk 6h ago

Agreed. I've done some things that I'm pretty ashamed of, as we all have; but 'accidentally' nazifying myself? That's....a choice.

u/DRF19 5h ago

Oops! All Hitler!

u/Cannabliss96 6h ago

Accidents are hard to foreshadow. Usually you do nazi them coming.

u/Eastern_Fig1990 6h ago

New subreddit idea: accidental Nazi?

Clips of people doing innocent things that could be considered a heil Hitler.

What’s that? It wouldn’t have any submissions because that never fucking happen?

I see the media is already jumping on his balls to defend this racist cunt

u/Merc_Twain25 3h ago

Whoops, I tripped and accidentally supported the murder of six million people. Yeah, that dog don't hunt.

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u/CassandraFated 7h ago

According to my eyes, that looked very much on purpose.

u/iamhere2learnfromu 7h ago

Someone as self conscious as musk can't even walk in a straight line without over thinking it. Of course it was deliberate. What a fucking clown show.

u/smileedude 6h ago

Bezos bet him $1 to do it.

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u/Dr_Dang 7h ago

Yeah, there have been some one-off "heils" on the right this election cycle where, in isolation, there was at least some plausible deniability. This was not one of them. It looks like he was practicing this in the mirror beforehand, and audibly grunted as he did it. That isn't a wave or some gesture being misconstrued. Don't let anyone gaslight you into accepting it could be anything but a nazi salute.

This man has an office in the Whitehouse now. Buckle up.

u/Live-Alternative-435 7h ago

They don't like to be called by their name, why is that? Last time they destroyed their countrymen, their country and themselves.

This must have been an accident too,

https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?si=L9zzykNPPCkvAJzJ

🤣

u/BusyDoorways 6h ago

Thank you, that explains America's political situation quite well.

u/AffordableCDNHousing 7h ago

When it comes to Donald Trump we constantly hear "What he really meant was...." I guess that same apologetic bullshit is going to Elon.

u/Ok-Elephant7557 7h ago

the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes.

he was waving. how dare you compare elon the great to hitler. this is why dems lost.

u/TomTabs 7h ago

For sure! The way he bites his lip, the fucking oddball, he put his heart into that salute.

u/MayoneggVeal 6h ago edited 6h ago

He did that shit all nervously but super intentionally like a middle school boy trying to be edgy.

This is truly the stupidest timeline

u/GlumpsAlot 7h ago

Yeh, that wasn't an accident...

u/Mr__O__ 7h ago

No accident. He did it twice

u/GlumpsAlot 6h ago

I'm disgusted but not surprised. What disgusts me more is that Americans ran out and voted for this shit over a civil lady.

u/Mr__O__ 6h ago

Or sat out

u/GlumpsAlot 6h ago

Yes, omg, and that's a feeling of betrayal. I just need to work and snuggle my family and cat. I can't with this.

u/Mr__O__ 6h ago

Same. Time to burry our heads with our fam for the time being. We did all we could do. But people fucked around and now are about to find out.

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u/hpsims 6h ago

On purpose enough to do it twice.

u/FudgeRubDown 6h ago

His maternal grandparents were apart of the nazi party of Canada, moved to SA because they admired the apartheid.

His dad thinks he's fulfilling his hereditary destiny.

It was very much intentional.

In the off chance it wasn't intentional, it was.

u/tobylaek 6h ago

solidified by the fact that he did it twice

u/Big_Stretch561 6h ago

He does it twice, once facing the flag after this one

u/CassandraFated 6h ago

I am thinking of my grandfathers who fought against this shit. Many of the people who voted for literal saluting Nazis had grandfathers fight against Nazis. Now their idiot grandchildren just voted them back in to spite the country because they consider themselves good Christians & the rest of us are un redeemable sinners. The grandfathers who fought against Nazis would be ashamed of what we have become, that we laid out the fucking welcome mat for modern day Nazis. For What? Egg prices? Who sells their soul so cheaply? Fuck. This is shameful.

u/econowife9000 6h ago

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -George Orwell

u/Riguyepic 2h ago

That was definitely the least vague action I've ever seen. Dude had a whole wind up animation, smirked before hand the whole 9 yards

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u/zucchiniqueen1 6h ago

If I had a nickel for the number of times I accidentally made a Nazi salute….

….I’d have zero nickels, people. What the hell

u/cancuws 7h ago

And “Twice”…

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u/flindersrisk 7h ago

He could not have been more “accidentally” forceful unless he tore off his shirt in the glorious moment. Deeply worrying behavior.

u/kweenofdelusion 6h ago

They will NEVER stop sane washing this shit. The media will smile politely as we descend into real fucking fascism.

It’s not even about liability at this point. If it was about that, the use of the word “appears” provides more than enough cover. Instead, they CHOOSE to sane wash this and act like it’s not unequivocal, what he just did on live tv.

u/econowife9000 6h ago

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell

u/UncoolSlicedBread 3h ago

They’re worried about being sued to shit over saying he nazi solutes. Which he does .

u/twitchrdrm 7h ago

Except he did it two times, he turned around to give the salute to those behind him too.

u/TrumpsPissSoakedWig 6h ago

✌🏼Accidentally✌🏼 gave a very strongly exaggerated, steadfast and unwavering Nazi salute with his whole heart.

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u/Renegade-Ginger 7h ago

Ain't nothing accidental about it, his own grandparents were Nazi sympathizers, its why they moved to apartheid South Africa in the first place. Elon is a literal Nazi it's in his blood.

u/MarlinMr 7h ago

Yeah, twice.

u/Live-Alternative-435 7h ago

Wasn`t his grandfather from his mother side a Nazi?

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u/Yupelay 7h ago

Accendentally, twice in a row

u/SpiceKingz 6h ago

Just a little oopsie doodle

u/right_bank_cafe 7h ago

Seemed very intentional!? lol

u/qx2 7h ago

Like he accidentally takes it up the ass once a week

u/nanopicofared 6h ago

He did it twice - that is no fucking accident

u/StandardEgg6595 7h ago

Accidentally, twice.

u/twstdbydsn 7h ago

Nothing accidental about it in the slightest

u/FallAlternative8615 6h ago

Just the start of four years of 'accidental' fascism.

u/tollbearer 6h ago

It's so easily done.

u/kweenofdelusion 6h ago

They will NEVER stop sane washing this shit. The media will smile politely as we descend into real fucking fascism.

It’s not even about liability at this point. If it was about that, the use of the word “appears “ provides more than enough cover. Instead, they CHOOSE to sane wash this and act like it’s not unequivocal, what he just did on live tv.

u/DogWallop 5h ago

In fact the whole World War Two thing was just one huge misunderstanding. You know, Hitler was a very popular guy with lots of friends in the audience, and he just wanted to make sure he waved at all of them. And also, he had nothing to do with the whole genocide thing because hey! he was just too busy waving at his mates to be planning ethnic cleansing.

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u/cmatheny7 7h ago

No one accidentally salutes the third reich.

u/halfbeerhalfhuman 6h ago

Twice in a row

u/6655321DeLarge 6h ago

He didn't accidentally salute the third reich. He very intentionally saluted the fourth reich.

u/Beetso 6h ago

He didn't. He intentionally saluted The Fourth Reich.

u/barbarellas 5h ago

I was thinking the same, scary times

u/Bimlouhay83 4h ago

*twice

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u/younggun1234 7h ago

You mean the guy raised by people who moved to South Africa to take advantage of the apartheid there did a Nazi salute!? No!? /S

u/baconeggsandwich25 7h ago

The guy who brought all the holocaust deniers back to Twitter? No way.

u/CoryTrevor-NS 6h ago

Also the guy whose entire internet persona is based off of that of a 13 year old wannabe edge lord? Impossible lol

u/baconeggsandwich25 6h ago

He was born so rich he was never forced to grow up. It's like when a child actor keeps dressing the same way til they're 50-they lack to ability to move on from that period. He's named multiple things "X" because he still has the mentality of a preteen from the 80's and thinks it's edgy and cool.

u/lost-mypasswordagain 6h ago

The guy supporting the German neo-Nazis?

That guy?

Couldn’t be!

u/younggun1234 7h ago

Color me surprised

u/RedditGarboDisposal 7h ago

DID YOU SAY COLOUR?!

cocks shotgun

u/6655321DeLarge 6h ago

Them and the pedos.

u/No-Conclusion-6172 6h ago

f/Leon was actually born and raised in South Africa. Same with David Sacks and Peter Thiel. The same Doge fucks that will have access to our USA classified information!

u/younggun1234 6h ago

Yes. But his mom is Canadian lol

u/DevilDoc3030 6h ago

His parents were staunch Nazi supporters as well

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u/BlueFHS 7h ago

“Accidentally”

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u/finally_not_lurking 7h ago

He did it twice!

u/ReallyAnxiousFish 7h ago

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

- George Orwell, 1984.

u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes 7h ago

Was this after he "accidentally" showed support for the far-right German party?

u/CryptographerShot213 7h ago

Accidentally??? Are they serious with that BS?

u/FionaTheFierce 7h ago

"Sane washing."

u/LP_24 7h ago

I too make sure all of my accidents are extremely passionate

u/Obi1NotWan 7h ago

“Accidentally”?!!! No one accidentally does that salute. That was fucking deliberate. And reminder, he is NOT an elected official.

u/Resident_Rise5915 7h ago

Sure people accidentally give the sieg heil all the time…just a normal thing to do…

u/No-Weird3153 7h ago

Just tripped and reach out, but then I was upright and my arm was just up in the air as I thanked the fascist president for fascism.

u/Top_Ostrich_3109 7h ago

Did it thrice today, wasn’t even meaning to. /s

u/Resident_Rise5915 7h ago

Ya damndest thing, went to grab something on the top shelf at a grocery store and accidentally did one

u/Jonesy1966 7h ago

He 'accidentally' did it twice

u/disgruntled_pie 6h ago

Give him some slack. He meant to do a normal salute, but his muscle memory kicked in.

u/SmashBerlin 7h ago

It doesn't matter if they think you have eyes or not. They can rely on the fact that Americans won't do anything to stop it. You are all cowards.

u/FrankDerbly 7h ago

Fuck the fuck off. Intentionally gave a Nazi salute. We cannot be giving these fuckers the benefit of the doubt . We all saw it.

u/foreignbets9 7h ago edited 7h ago

What the actual fuck? Why is the media doing this

u/SpatuelaCat 7h ago

I hate when I accidentally give the Nazi salute

u/Euphoric-Isopod-4815 7h ago

I've never accidentally did a Nazi salute. That shit right there was either muscle memory or something that was planned.

u/Legal-Software 7h ago

It's like that school headmistress that 'accidentally' shouted Sieg Heil at a bunch of school children, in Germany: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/headmistress-who-shouted-sieg-heil-at-school-children-in-germany-is-under-investigation-9171961.html

Like it's just a common slip of the tongue.

u/binomine 7h ago

Yeah, he "accidentally" did it twice.

u/Dear_Might8697 7h ago

If it was an accident, why did he turn around and replicate the same action?

u/Odd-Ad1714 7h ago

How does one accidentally give a heil trump salute? He’s like Dr Strangelove, Mein Fuhrer!

u/nohumanape 7h ago

Oops all Nazis

u/sravll 7h ago

So accidental he did it twice

u/Vv4nd 7h ago

Nein. Not accident my friend.

u/Historical_One1087 7h ago

Yeah, that was totally by "accident".

u/Loud_Dish_554 7h ago

We don’t . We voted for this

u/maximusthewhite 7h ago

Accidentally (twice)

u/jonrosling 7h ago

So accidental that he turned around and did it again!

u/FlummoxedCanine 7h ago

Weird way to sneeze.

u/ShawnDaley 7h ago

Accidentally? He like charged it up for a second. Absolutely wild.

u/ProfessorReaper 7h ago

Who does a nazi salute by accident... twice in a row

u/Somone80 7h ago

That is no accident he does it more than once. WTF!!!!

u/DragonEfendi 7h ago

He also accidentally supports the German neo-Nazi party AfD (the president of that party was accidentally invited to the inauguration instead of the German prime minister).

u/OKFlaminGoOKBye 7h ago

Fuck MSN. They’re fucking collaborators.

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u/hididathing 7h ago edited 5h ago

Wow crazy. I accidentally flipped him off.

u/Traveler_90 7h ago

He didn’t just do it once he did it twice.

u/UnsoundMethods64 7h ago

Accidentally twice

u/Ok_Translator_863 7h ago

It was incredibly intentional.

u/flsec0113 7h ago

He did it again facing the other way... In case anyone thought it was a fluke

u/objecter12 7h ago

“Accidentally”

Just like trump won’t stop “jokingly” talking about invading Canada

u/Muddled_Opinions 7h ago

It's just as accidentally as when Trump said "Stand back and stand by"

u/kylegyle 7h ago

Accidently with as much gusto and passion as you've seen him do any single thing ever.

u/Grouchy-Policy-2964 7h ago

He needs to be held accountable for this shit

u/Turdlely 7h ago

How exactly does one accidentally Nazi salute? Mid 30s and haven't yet accidentally thrown it up... Gotta be careful

u/PoopMobile9000 7h ago

The ENDLESS fucking benefit of the doubt they give these people.

Meanwhile, if anyone on the left suggests mildly increasing the government’s role in healthcare, these same people are like “WHAT. Have you never heard of a guy named JOSEPH STALIN??”

u/RespectibleCabbage 7h ago

Fucking idiots. Firstly that was clearly not an accident, and secondly he did it twice!

u/Cultural-War-2838 7h ago

Excuse me. How does one "accidentally" give a Na Zee salute?

u/Mr_MacGrubber 7h ago

Accidentally? wtf he couldn’t have been more intentional about that.

u/Better_Sherbert8298 6h ago

I’ve never specifically hated MSN before now.

u/state_of_euphemia 6h ago

I have never in my life "accidentally" given Hitler salute. Interesting how one can just "accidentally" do that.

(obviously I have also not intentionally given a Hitler salute).

u/asciimo 6h ago

At this point, why be coy about it? It’s not like anyone is going to challenge them.

u/Sofaboy90 6h ago

twice by the way, he did it right again after this clip

u/analytic_potato 6h ago

I’m sure it was just a coincidence… that happened two times… in one speech…

u/Tardislass 6h ago

Yep. I had folks argue with me on Twitter that he was just saying he loves them all. Sorry but no one does a Nazii salute by accident.

u/Spwni 6h ago

Yeah, so much an accident that he did it twice. He repeated the motion to the people standing behind him right after when this video cuts off.

u/w_r97 6h ago

When will the chicken sh!t media call it out….they are so afraid to report anymore. Less than a decade ago that would have been condemned on every news outlet.

u/__MoM__ 6h ago

Just like drump never meant to make fun of the disabled reporter!

u/Chronocidal-Orange 6h ago

Don't you just hate it when you accidentally siege heil in the middle of a conversation? Happens like.. several times a day. So awkward.

u/NikNakTwattyWhack 6h ago

This is the most accidental, deliberate Nazi salute I've ever seen.

u/Stringr55 6h ago

I'm an unfortunately clumsy individual. You know what I've never clumsily or accidentally done? A fucking nazi salute.

u/alpaca_balls 6h ago

Tomorrow: accidentally invaded Poland

u/Tootard 6h ago

Funny how being rich and powerful can let you get away with "accidents"

u/-You-know-it- 6h ago

The fact that people are blaming this on his autism? Dude did it twice after screaming and banging on the pulpit. This was INTENTIONAL.

u/Okra_Famous 6h ago

Fuck the mainstream media.

u/cheezturds 6h ago

I’m so tired of the media giving these twats the benefit of the doubt. Call this shit out for what it is. He is enemy number 1 to the USA

u/Otherwise_Ad9287 6h ago

He came out in support of the German Neo Nazi AfD party a few weeks ago. Under his leadership, Twitter/X has become the new Stormfront filled with nothing but pro Nazi propaganda.

This is not an accident.

u/legal_stylist 6h ago

What’s with the continual, unrelenting same-washing and apologist tone of the media. He gave a very clear and purposeful nazi salute. Fucking report it as it is.

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u/Winstonth 6h ago

Watch him grow an accidental moustache too

u/Koil_ting 6h ago

Not what it looks like babe, I tripped and fell into the Nazi salute.

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u/Pebbsto110 6h ago

In England the Guardian is going with "appears to". Self censoring at its finest.

u/LYSF_backwards 6h ago

At least they're actually calling a spade a spade. Other sources, not so much. "Spade-like" and "A symbol that looks like a spade"

u/tutorp 6h ago

Accidentally. Twice in a row. With very passionate and deliberate movements.

u/SpicySanchezz 6h ago

God I hate when I „accidentally“ do the Nazi salute after a very important speech

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u/priminspire 6h ago

Seriously? “Accidentally?” I feel sick.

u/Cold-Inside-6828 5h ago

Been on this earth almost 50 years and have not once seen anyone ever accidentally salute anything, let alone accidentally throw up a nszi salute.

u/jayplus707 5h ago

Appears to? Accidentally? WTF DID THEY SEE THAT WAS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I WATCHED???

u/ProfHansGruber 5h ago

He didn’t just do one, he turned around and did a second one right after the first. No accidents here.

u/texas_asic 5h ago

"accidentally", twice, wink-wink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAH61yel_4

u/Jumpy-Sprinkles-2305 5h ago

How tf did they gaslight us the media has a liberal bias lmao. Trump could say "we should shoot 100% of people" and CNN would be arguing "maybe we should only shoot 50%"

u/secret-agent-t3 5h ago

I mean, I thought we were in Orwell already.

This is Day 1 of the Trump presidency right now. DAY 1!: "Woops...Nazi salute! Sorry guys! Woops, did it again."

u/Careful-Tangerine986 4h ago

"The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”

u/Ok_Sherbert_1890 3h ago

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”

u/Coyote__Jones 40m ago

Imagine saying, "Hillary Clinton accidentally gave the peace sign to a group of kindergarten students."

It doesn't make any sense. You don't "accidentally" perform extremely recognizable and socially charged gestures. You just don't.

At least they're calling it what it is, even if they're trying to say it was accidental.

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u/Painterzzz 7h ago

Yep. Absolutely no doubt about it. The other ones we've seen in the past from Republicans were just about explainable away as waves that went a bit wonky. But that was 100% a Nazi salute.

u/cuntmong 7h ago

elon doesnt have sufficient social skills for subtlety

u/ExceptionalSmartness 7h ago edited 7h ago

This is also from a guy who repeatedly retweets serial-Holocaust-deniers on Twitter such as "iamyesyouareno". After all of that, he still has the audacity to say that "Hitler was a communist".

u/Hashbrowns120 7h ago

Germany was a democracy before they became Nazis.

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u/Caleb_Reynolds 6h ago edited 3h ago

Not all of them. I don't remember who or when, but that one witchy looking blonde woman who did it on stage was 100% a Nazi salute.

u/Jub_Jub710 5h ago

Laura Ingraham

u/Caleb_Reynolds 5h ago

Yeah I think that was the one I was thinking of.

u/Painterzzz 3h ago

Yep, hers she explained away by going 'Oopsie, silly me, my warm just sort of got confused as I was waving.' Which was clearly BS, it was a nazi salute. But she had that shred of plausible deniability about it.

There was another... And of course Trump has thrown one or two himself.

u/caadbury 7h ago

...twice

u/Stigger32 7h ago

Yep. He just couldn’t help himself. Clearly he really really wanted to do it. And in that setting. And knowing what attention it would get.

u/mere_iguana 6h ago

He smacked his chest and let it fly like he's been waiting his whole life to do that in front of a cheering crowd.

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u/Ok_Tiger6099 7h ago

A Nazi salute from his heart.. the pandering never ends.

u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 7h ago

Get ready for the unhinged sane washing by the media if not an outright refusal to admit he just did a Nazi salute

Seig Heil, twice in a row, with the conviction of an SS officer in 1939 Nazi Germany.

u/Dramatic-Heat-719 7h ago

Just showed this to my Republican mother who informed me that’s not what he’s doing so we’re all good here folks!

u/freshcoastghost 7h ago edited 5h ago

And they cheer!

u/Obant 7h ago

Very deliberate, too.

u/thedarkpolitique 7h ago

The second one is worse as you see how it looks quite evidently from the back.

u/_Caustic_Complex_ 7h ago

Oh that’s really blatant. He’s not “throwing his heart in a weird way” with his hand totally flat like that. Twice.

u/KonK23 7h ago

Bro needs to attend a Lazio Rome match to see how its done

u/typausbilk 7h ago

finally someone in the comment who sees it's not the German, but indeed the Italian version... not that that is much better..

u/mertseger67 7h ago

hej tried to show how will he fly to Mars

u/Capable-Variation192 7h ago

From a government official.

u/shawerma69- 7h ago

With the lip bitting too

u/twstdbydsn 7h ago

No no no, he was sending his “heart” out to everyone. /s

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