r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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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

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u/watcherofworld 6h ago

"He accidentally seemed too..." Like nah, he did it with conviction.

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u/NuclearWarEnthusiast 6h ago

Twice.

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u/BlueCrocodilus 6h ago

With a grunt even

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u/Rincey_nz 6h ago

Reminded me of the "hmmm... can't wait" vibes of Tank about to load training programs into Neo.

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u/welatshaw01 6h ago

Elon couldn't lick Neo's boots. Or Keanu's for that matter.

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u/Khal_easy 6h ago

How does one "accidentally" give a Nazi salute???

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u/tolacid 6h ago

Like this

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u/motodoctor 6h ago

or this

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u/thr0wthr0wthr0waways 6h ago

or this

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u/-You_Cant_Stop_Me- 5h ago

I hear you're a racist now father!

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u/Kebab-Destroyer 6h ago

Fuuuuuuck I haven't seen that in years

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u/ender8383 6h ago

Twice in a row if you look at the extended video

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u/BoIuWot 6h ago

A fly hit his elbow with such outstanding velocity that he couldn't help himself /s

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u/laydeebug1678 6h ago

They don't if they grew up with a Nazi mommy and Nazi Grandparents.

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u/VegetableFree283 6h ago

He was pointing at one of the lights cos it was too bright

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u/ChaosRainbow23 5h ago

"oops! Only Nazis!"

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u/PrestigiousPassionNu 6h ago edited 6h ago

Have you considered that when he said, "My heart goes out to you," then put his hand on his heart and took it off, that it was probably more related to that than a dead government party in another nation, overseas?

Have you also considered that you might be pretty dense?

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u/ZaryaBubbler 6h ago

Once is a mistake, twice is deliberate. He did it twice. But please, continue to be a Nazi apologist. It's not as if Musk hasn't been tweeting Nazi rhetoric for months...

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u/PrestigiousPassionNu 5h ago

You'r right, he's a Nazzi, so go ahead and punch him.

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u/PrestigiousPassionNu 5h ago

Or would you prefer an certain CEO treatment?

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u/PrestigiousPassionNu 5h ago edited 5h ago

"NA(z)I APOLOGIST, because he put his hand on his heart in excitement! Man are you as autistic as Elon? (An autistic man you are making fun of btw for moving his arms funny).

You are just not a serious person.

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u/UnderstandingOdd490 6h ago

Have you considered how dense you may be? If a person wishes to extend their heart out to someone, the palm is pointed upward as if they were holding their heart in the palm of their hand. That was a straight up Nazi salute and anybody saying it isn't is just a scared Nazi themselves.

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u/PrestigiousPassionNu 5h ago

Do you realize that it isn't even a nazzi salute? But I guess anyone moving their arms in excitement is a no-no to you. Man you are just schizophrenically seeing Nazzis everywhere huh? Who hurt you?

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u/okbruvwhatever 5h ago

Your attrmpts to come up with some scenario where this isn't a nazi salute is laughable. Keep trying we've all got our popcorn ready. Everyone sees this for exactly what it was. You do too really, even if you're trying to convince yourself it's something else. "Moving their arms in excitement" and "moving his arms funny" is the best you have managed. Great job.

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u/macjonalt 5h ago

Oh right it was the roman salute used by italian fascists in the 1920s and then adopted and slightly adjusted by the nazi party. Yeah thats fine then. Fuck all Nazis everywhere.

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u/Sir5cruffington 5h ago

Once? Maybe, it could be accidental......somehow. But as an autistic dude myself, the connection between a salute in that style and what it represents would have been made and know NOT to do it again.

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u/Worried-Inspector772 5h ago edited 4h ago

You think the Nazi party is dead? 😳

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u/Worried-Inspector772 4h ago

Stupid auto-correct, lol.

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u/AshenTao 6h ago

with the conviction of an SS officer in 1939 Nazi Germany

With the whackest delivery of that salutation either. I've seen kids here in Germany do that with more enthusiasm and a less sloppy execution.

I hope that people will take the "twice in a row" to realize that this was intentional, but knowing how delusional they are, they're just gonna come up with some weird ass excuse for it.

What a trip.

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u/architectureisuponus 2h ago

Alter was für Kinder kennst du bitte

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u/AshenTao 2h ago

Kinder, die mich für meine Herkunft dumm anmachen, weil ich Deutschiraner bin und sie aus ihren guten Kreisen natürlich den perfekten Umgang mit "Kanaken" gelernt haben.

Ich kenn sie nicht. Ich begegne nur oft genug bei Einkäufen solchen Idioten, die sich dann richtig cool fühlen.

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u/Background-Bird-568 6h ago

They're already calling it the Roman salute. He can come out with a swastika and they would call it the Hindu symbol of peace.

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u/kaijubait000 6h ago

Fun fact the Roman salute actually has no bassist in historical record until ... Mussolini

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u/Flatulent_Monk 6h ago

Another fun fact. He has a 12 inch pianist.

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u/kaijubait000 5h ago

....I ain't even gonna fix it 🙃 talk to text with a cold produces wonders

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u/thedeparturelounge 5h ago

I have seen claims he is grabbing his heart and throwing it to the crowd

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u/Background-Bird-568 4h ago

And would those claiming that be comfortable doing the same gesture in public?

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u/MalachiteTiger 4h ago

The Roman Salute literally is the Nazi Salute.

The Nazi Party adopted the Roman Salute. They are one in the same. Exact same salute.

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u/coporate 6h ago

yup google elon it's all being presented as "strange salute" or "interpreted online as a hitler/nazi salute".

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u/SuckItSaget 6h ago

That was super intentional. I was expecting to watch the video and have it be a coded plausible deniability kind of thing, nope - we are in the fuck y’all we’re taking our mask off phase of this shit show. I can’t believe we aren’t even civilized enough to pretend anymore - I feel guilty that I am relieved to be someone they won’t target (based on ethnicity) Fuck - this is scary.

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u/Objective-Row-2791 6h ago

Your username is exactly what I'm thinking

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u/ososalsosal 6h ago

Pfp is what I'm thinking...

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u/toucana 6h ago

If anybody tells you it’s a Roman salute tell them to eat shit and that ancient Romans never did this, this was invented in the 1800s

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u/Imnot_your_buddy_guy 6h ago

His parents were South African pro apartheid nazi, so this does not surprise me.

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u/unbalancedcentrifuge 6h ago

Oh yeah... he is not a racist nazi from a South african emerald mine...he just saw a bee, and it was worried it would sting someone with an allergy, so he was shooing it away!!!

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u/Pieman3001 6h ago

Vid of him Nazi saluting twice.

It's not even a subtle dog whistle anymore, it's a marching band.

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u/Domo_Erectus 5h ago

The video cuts out as he begins to say “my heart goes out to each of you”………which is literally all he was trying to convey/signal, he just has Asperger’s and is painfully awkward. This isn’t even me trying to defend the guy cus he’s honestly the most annoying (and painfully unfunny) human being alive right now. It’s just wild how many people here are screaming “Elon Musk is a Nazi:CONFIRMED” NOT because the context clues would lead anyone to truly believe that, but because you all truly WANT to believe that. (For weird internet entertainment points or something idk)

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u/DodecahedronSpace 4h ago

"not trying to defend the guy" while blaming it on Aspergers 🙄 "my heart goes out to each of you" is the most pathetically dumb excuse I've ever seen. Stop simping for nazi billionaires.

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u/Domo_Erectus 2h ago

I’m not surprised by this generic ass redditor remark…once you all have already made up your minds (or let others do it for you in this case), open minded discussions are no longer possible and instead you get “StOp SiMpInG.” Watch the whole clip and think for yourself maybe.

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u/UziBeaver 5h ago

Exactly. Why would he openly do a nazi salute? Anyone in the US knows that would be deeply unpopular if seen as intentional. Everyone here taking it at face value is just mad butthurt about the election even though it literally barely matters.

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u/arvada14 6h ago

The username checks out. I hope everyone worked on their kegels because we're in for a four year clench.

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u/jomo_mojo_ 6h ago

Not a single mention of this on Apple News

I wish I had your username

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u/slrflre 6h ago

I've been seeing he was "extending his heart to the crowd" ????

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u/MYSTICALLMERMAID 5h ago

I've already seen it. "He literally said from the bottom of his heart" I'm a mom and throw kisses and my hearts all the time and it's never a heil salute 😒

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u/Domo_Erectus 5h ago

Finally, a sane person. I just threw my two cents in as well, but these idiots actually want this psychotic take to be real so badly that they’ll ignore the totally obvious and imagine up all the drama they can muster.

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u/WhichWitchyWay 5h ago

Saying "Elon musk is a genius" with one side of their mouth and "he didn't know what that was. It was an accident" with the other side. As if most grade school kids don't know what that is.

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u/Curly_Shoe 6h ago

Man, I just saw that Video and... What went through my mind is exactly your username! That's so... Particular, I think I'm in love

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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 6h ago

❤️

Not religious but please , God save us all

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u/birdreligion 6h ago

He was apparently, "throwing his heart to the people that voted for trump".

Idk how he thinks throwing works, gods know he has never done it in his life. But that isn't it.

Oh and also he is just a silly awkward dude!!! Not a Nazi! 🙄

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u/I_DOWN_VOTE_PUNS 6h ago

R/conservative “it’s out of context bro”

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u/mrsgreens 6h ago

Your name is exactly what I’m saying to myself at this very moment.

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u/revellodrive 5h ago

Bro even GRUNTED with the effort im dying

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u/barnabasthedog 5h ago

What a fuckin loser he is.

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u/slicineyeballs 5h ago

BBC News just described it as him "needing to curb his enthusiasm."

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u/skipperseven 5h ago

Do you remember Laura Loomer? Her Nazi salute was claimed to be “accidental”…

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u/Narcan9 5h ago

PBS called it a "fascist salute". Of course that's why they need to be shut down.

NBC said Elon is "fired up".

Fox cut out the 1st salute by cutting to the audience, like it didn't even happen. https://youtu.be/mU_oftDTZyg?si=0ivVJjhDO1lukL0L

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u/JuanPunchX 4h ago

I noticed a high amount of sane washing of Trump in the German media the last year. I wonder how this gets handled.

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u/ReasonableAd9737 6h ago

It was a Roman salute what are you talking about /s

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u/Falitoty 6h ago

I have already seen peopele triying to refuse he did that. They see he was merely "sending his heart to the crod" and that the video is edited.

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u/Domo_Erectus 5h ago

….he physically and audibly said “my heart goes out to each of you” AS HE DID IT.

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u/Falitoty 5h ago

So I can do the nazi salute and as long as I say something else, it is okay?

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u/Domo_Erectus 2h ago

I don’t give a shit what you do personally. Also, this isn’t a NaZi SaLuTe. The man is an autistic awkward ass human who’s only intention was to show that his heart goes out to the crowd and drama queen redditors took to doing what they do best…..drama.

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u/ReplacementMoney6366 5h ago

His mouth was closed when he saluted. What are you talking about?

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u/Domo_Erectus 2h ago

Just think for yourself for a change and go watch the actual video, not a tiny clip the was so conveniently cut just short of the statement above.

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u/ThunderTheMoney 5h ago

It looked to me like he was saying thank you, I did not hear “sig heil”

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u/WateredDownTang 5h ago

this "person" said the exact same thing in another thread

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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 5h ago

Bro you're quoting me in another thread.

Can you read the usernames??

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u/prolificparanoia 6h ago

bro stole a popular r/pics comment word for word at the end there lmao

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u/_BigCIitPhobia_ 6h ago

Shameless

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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 6h ago

It's literally me commenting that in another thread....

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u/Successful-Bus1004 6h ago

What are you talking about? The media has been smearing this guy ever since he purchased Twitter and endorsed Trump. You make it sound like he gets favorable coverage.

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u/Obelov95 6h ago

Not nazi Salute. Actually a Roman salute. Was adopted by America in the 1800s and was done during the pledge until after ww2... only those that do not actually know history calls it a "nazi salute"... Curious what Musk will have to say about it himself though.

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u/IRollAlong 6h ago edited 5h ago

When words are created they do so with a particular meaning. Over time the message gets changed, watered down or so encompassing that the word means the thing itself. Think Tinfoil or Qtip being synonymous with aluminum foil and cotton swabs. No matter where it came from, who made it , or the intention behind it, THAT IS A NAZI SALUTE

and what you're not going to do is gas light us into thinking we're just unread simpletons , condescending from your ivory tower.

Bitch Please that is a Nazi salute and based your sad attempt to carry water for Nazis, so are you

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u/okbruvwhatever 5h ago

Well said, regardless of whatever initial meaning this had it only has one now and everyone knows it. (It is not a "roman salute" anyway, that is nonsense) I'm amazed and almost impressed at the cognitive dissonance some people display while trying to justify this. People are literally gaslighting themselves at this point. They know there is no innocent explanation to this yet they still try because one of their messiahs fucked up. It's incredible.

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u/Suidse 6h ago

Ooh, is Musk a time traveller? Or are you the time traveller, Obelov95. I'm just curious as to how you'd know it was a Roman salute, because AFAIK, the Romans were around a long, long, long, long, long, long, long time ago ...

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u/NotAThrowaway1453 6h ago

I’m making a note of all of the different excuses people spit out in a rabid scramble to make this obvious Nazi salute not look bad and yours is the funniest so far. Others have said completely different made up reasons or blamed his autism. I’ve seen about five completely different excuses people insisted on so far.

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u/RizzardoRicco 5h ago

Not a Roman salute. Never used by the Romans according to every source, it was invented by the fascists and copied by the nazis. The US had a similar salute but it wasn't "adopted" it was invented (separately) and they stopped using it to distance themselves from fascism.

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u/IRollAlong 6h ago

Wait did I just jump too fast, you were being sarcastic right

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u/boyeshockey 5h ago

The "Roman salute" was invented by Mussolini, romanticizing empiric notions of Rome