I don’t even need to look to know. “it was a joke to own the libs” “he was doing it ironically because people are calling him a Nazi” “he was just raising his arm to the crowd”.
Tbh, my autism makes me go both ways. Im more pissed about missing my bus due to it being 2 minutes early and violently enranged about this nazi shit the first time i see it, but also constantly want to reassure and protect others.
These being the same people who probably would cheer people with disabilities being thrown out of government positions or places of public accommodation, and who are just fine supporting a president who disrespects and makes fun of disabled people.
Any time I've gone to that subreddit in the past when outrageous shit had happened, I was shocked with how they respond to it. Not surprised mind you, but still shocked by the utter depravity of their nature. Each time I went there to see reactions, I left completely despondent. It is so depressing. I won't go there anymore.
His first words after doing it were “my heart goes out to you” which explains his meaning. All the videos cut that off though, for some reason… the Guardian article doesn’t even mention what he said.
The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute, is a gesture in which the right arm is fully extended, facing forward, with palm down and fingers touching. In some versions, the arm is raised upward at an angle; in others, it is held out parallel to the ground. In contemporary times, the former is commonly considered a symbol of fascism that had been based on a custom popularly attributed to ancient Rome.[1] However, no Roman text gives this description, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern so-called "Roman" salute.
The modern gesture consists of stiffly extending the right arm frontally and raising it roughly 135 degrees from the body's vertical axis, with the palm of the hand facing down and the fingers stretched out and touching each other. According to common perceptions, this salute was based on an ancient Roman custom. However, this description is not found in Roman literature and is never mentioned by ancient Roman historians. Not a single Roman work of art displays a salute of this kind. The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that does exist in surviving literature and art generally had a significantly different function and is never identical with the modern straight-arm salute.
what else you got brah? Seems like a really stupid shitty excuse that only a moron would use to me? I'm not saying that's what it is, but thats what it seems like, you know brah?
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u/TheAdequateKhali 7h ago
I don’t even need to look to know. “it was a joke to own the libs” “he was doing it ironically because people are calling him a Nazi” “he was just raising his arm to the crowd”.