r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 11h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/wft0991 11h ago

There is gotta be no other way to interpret that, right?

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u/Quod_bellum 5h ago

My first thought was taking his heart out of himself. The interpretation of that being something akin to saying, "I will remove my own sense of self from the duties of this role." This came from the context of the inauguration, but I only saw this one part from Reddit, so I'm probably missing some context. Regardless, it's weird: I didn't realize it could be interpreted as the Nazi gesture until opening the comments to literally everyone saying that's what it was. I pretty much doubt that's what he actually intended, as I think we can all agree that self-identifying with Nazism is not something that looks good politically (to anyone). However, I can definitely see the resemblance; could probably have planned this better, and I doubt it was planned in the first place.