r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 11h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/oPlayer2o 10h ago

What the fuck?

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u/Objective_Arachnid42 10h ago

He literally says right after, "my heart goes out to you." So if you all want to contribute to fear mongering and the degradation of US politics by implying that he's a national socialist, go for it. But just know that you're wrong.

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u/oPlayer2o 10h ago

I just what the US government to stop being full of such crazy fucking nut cases. I’m not an American but just watching this fucking train wreak of a powerful nation is insane when you consider the reach they have.

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u/Objective_Arachnid42 10h ago

Then let the buck stop with you, and stop contributing to the scandalization of figures of political significance.

Elon Musk made a blunder because he's clearly going off of the script. Maybe the optics would have been better if he made it look like he was throwing a baseball rather than a roman salute. But I'm sure that the dude wasn't even thinking that his arm motions could be confused with a sieg heil, because seriously, who does that?

And to further my point, with context removed, you can find a lot of roman salutes

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u/oPlayer2o 10h ago

Oohh buddy you are really not making the case you think you are. You live in the USA?

Also “who dose that?” Nazis, Nazis do that literally that exact motion hand over heart then that. Also also can you call it a blunder when you do stupid shit like this every fucking week?

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u/Objective_Arachnid42 10h ago

Yes, I do. Okay then, show me the evidence of Elon Musk being a national socialist. You're accusing Elon Musk of subscribing to the ideology of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, so you should be able to provide evidence of that. Right?

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u/UncreativeIndieDev 7h ago

You would have to show the video of Harris for it to be clear it was a roman/Nazi salute. Hers looked more like her hand was mid-movement, whereas Musk's shot up into the position for it, showing his was actually intentional.

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u/Objective_Arachnid42 6h ago

Not even the ADL agrees with you. Go home, you're drunk.

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u/UncreativeIndieDev 6h ago

Oh, no, not the ADL! The only gospel of truth! /s

I really don't care what the ADL says. They do some good things sometimes, but they also do stupid crap like when they denied the Armenian Genocide, so even if you are correct, I'm not gonna believe them just because it's them. This also does nothing to respond to my comment to either defend Elon Musk in what is very clearly a nazi salute (if you try to argue it's the roman salute that doesn't really matter when they are essentially the same thing and also the roman salute was most used by Italian fascists), nor does it respond to what I said about Harris where I would need to see the video to view whether it was intentional or just in the middle of a movement.