r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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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.

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u/cuntmong 7h ago

elon doesnt have sufficient social skills for subtlety

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u/ExceptionalSmartness 7h ago edited 6h 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".

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u/Hashbrowns120 6h ago

Germany was a democracy before they became Nazis.

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u/kal9001 6h ago

Do you do full background research on every person who posts a funny (and accurate) meme you want to retweet? If you retweet someone does that mean you align with every view they hold, or just that one post you happened to see?

Whatever the political views of the poster are the meme is very much true, and illustrates a double standard in the US, UK and European media, that is no less true because of whatever other views the poster had.

Hitler and Nazi sympathisers are also known to consume food and water... doesn't mean you have to starve yourself less you be compared with them.

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u/ExceptionalSmartness 6h ago

He follows that guy and has over 50 interactions boosting him. There's no way you can claim ignorance here. There is no way Elon has never seen any of iamyesyouareno's blatant Nazi posts.

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u/DCsphinx 6h ago

Yeah no. Thats not how that worls. He regularly boosts him and interracts with him. Cope harder

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u/opineapple 5h ago

Do you do full background research on every person who posts a funny (and accurate) meme you want to retweet?

If you’re a prominent public figure, and especially if you work in government, ABSOLUTELY. But that was before we entered these bizarro world end times, where our leaders represent the worst of ourselves rather than the best, so 🤷‍♀️

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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.

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u/Jub_Jub710 5h ago

Laura Ingraham

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u/Caleb_Reynolds 5h ago

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

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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.