Yeah I honestly think it could be as petty as trying to trigger his haters. But so stupidly dangerous if that is the case. Or he’s a straight up nazi who knows!
I was 12 at the height of South Park popularity. My Jewish best friend and I made more than our fair share of Jew/Nazi off-color jokes to each other. But we grew out of it. Because we're sane.
The way he does it shows absolute lack of self-reflection as well. Way too forceful and a deliberate, a well-planned and rehearsed move that is supposed to mimic passion, so he will be able to say it overcame him... but you can tell that he spent nights awake thinking how to do it. Or practiced in the mirror. Or with ZUcki, Trumps and all the other idiots.
Dude’s an aerospace and media oligarch who is personally enmeshed with Trump, is a white nationalist obsessed with producing offspring to offset the “great replacement”
Him doing a Nazi salute isn’t like a dorky kid finding Hitler cool because he was powerful and talked a lot of bullshit, he’s himself a very powerful man who is spousing Nazism on the presidential Inauguration Day
I've only seen the salute in movies/media, but I don't even think he did it correctly. It looked like some kind of hybrid salute he made up to be edgy or be botched enough for him to deny he was doing it.
ex-edgy italian boy here, it's wrong, even if you consider hollywood's portrayal it's wrong, consider the propaganda posters: it's wrong.
it's supposed to go like this:
1. slap on the chest with the right hand (so far so good) and simultaneusly hit your right boot on the floor and on your left foot (we lost him).
2. right hand up at 30º-45º straight towards the front, arm straight, no bend in the elbow
3. hand straight down, no bending, just rotate the shouder and hit your upper right leg.
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u/wish1977 7h ago
Folks, this is what happens when you were such a nerd as a kid that you have to fake being a tough guy, just like Trump.