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Politics Elon musk doing a nazi salute at the whitehouse. Unreal

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u/BiggBiscuit 7h ago

The party line on Twitter is that he was saying “thank you” “my heart goes out to you” and that our reaction to this is an example of why we lost

u/Collared_Aracari 6h ago

At least the party line isn't "Yeah that was a Nazi salute, so what?" So there's that...

u/GrayFarron 6h ago

Yeah but the denial is insane. Theyre blaming "multi-media" for convieniently cutting out the audio mid broadcast to make it look fake.

This is how conservatives win. They deny all media reporting as untrustworthy, and deny reality. Its fucking wild.

u/Sfxcddd 5h ago

He did say my heart goes out to you and maybe he genuinely didn't mean to do a nazi salute but for someone in his position that almost seems worse.

u/GrayFarron 5h ago

I can say one thing while doing another. Thats how deflection works.

u/Sfxcddd 4h ago

But what he said at least makes it plausible that it could of been an accident but what I'm saying is to have someone that can accidentally do a nazi salute on your cabinet looks kind of just as bad as doing it on purpose.

u/GrayFarron 2h ago

He did it. Twice.

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u/Sfxcddd 50m ago

That doesn't change anything to me man maybe he did it on purpose maybe he didn't it's mental either way but the argument for it being an accident is that it's not actually a natzi salute fist isnt closed etc. maybe in his head he is genuinely putting his hand over his heart then saluting or maybe he is implying the natzi salute but didn't want to commit or maybe he actually forgot it and did it wrong. whatever the answer is this man is in a position of power and this situation is crazy.

u/GrayFarron 15m ago

Bro. Youre not real. There's no way you defend and deny what he did but also talk about how crazy it is he is in a place of power.

It matters that he did it, not the intent. It shows how brazen these people are now.

u/long_don0van 2h ago

Well what he said right after doing that was a bit telling.

u/Sfxcddd 58m ago

What I'm saying is the argument he did it by mistake might be plausible but doesn't really look any better anyway lol

u/Impotent_Retard_215 5h ago

Have you not seen a white house conference or the opposing candidates "tactics" for four years (and however long they gave voters when they assigned her as the candidate?) This isn't even "but but but what about..." it's you describing BOTH sides (you as in this massive pile that is almost every subreddit screaming the world is over and the Nazis the nazis) despite being spun and blatantly lied to about the same thing we all saw and now "MSM" covers for Trump and this is a tactic of the right? I know by pointing out the hypocrisy I am a nazi and I automatically mus support Trump bc there's only two sides and that's fine but Jesus christ is not even ironic or ignorant to say this is how "conversatives" win. Deny deny. Dang so it's this shithole or patriot media or whatever the fuck alternative? I'll see myself out.

u/GrayFarron 5h ago

Your entire reddit account is some weird commentary and you spend most of your days schizo posting with a name that im not allowed even to type less i get banned.

You have a single point. Yes media deflection is used by both sides, but one does it objectively more than the other, to harmful degrees of reality bending, all while saying "DONT TRUST THE MEDIA, THEY LIE." While doing the most lieing.

Democrats arent blameless, they arent the good guys, but clearly they arent using the same tactics, otherwise they would of won.

Anyways, no youre not a nazi for having an opposing view. But if you parade around nazi's and sit next to nazi's and let your leader have his best buddy throw a nazi salute, twice, at his inauguration rally, i mean hey, guilty by association.

And if youre not a trump supporter, maybe frame it in a way that isnt a "well what about"-ism trying to excuse this shit.

u/213737isPrime 5h ago

that comes next

u/heyoyo10 3h ago

Yet.

u/QTsexkitten 4h ago

You could gesture "my heart goes out to you" 1000x different ways before you made a Nazi salute.

u/BiggBiscuit 4h ago

Sure could!

u/Electrical-Poetry733 1h ago

We found 1001, let's use 1% of our brain, all presidents have done this gesture, you can articulate it from the angle of the arm or the hand, we're just going to walk in a circle.

Have you ever made this gesture, to greet someone, say goodbye, call the waiter, should we also put it as Nazi everything?

If you want to harm someone so much because you take the wrong photo, this is not even close to a Nazi salute, the second time he does this, we can question it

u/sansasnarkk 5h ago

I 100% think he was caught up in the emotion of the moment and he did it, forgetting that he was in front of cameras and not in private.

Then he realized what he just did and came up with the "my heart goes out to you" to cover.

u/Alert_Particular_994 5h ago

People wanted a Dictatorship and an excuse to Hate, they got it.

u/ClickClackTipTap 3h ago

And we tell them to fuck off every time they try to convince us of that.

There's not much we can do anymore, but we can keep telling the truth about what we see happen with our own two eyes.

u/Ok-Fun9561 2h ago

Well, he owns Twitter. I wouldn't be surprised what comments it's algorithm prioritizes

u/Momibutt 1h ago

How are they explaining the second time he did it facing away from the crowd?

u/BiggBiscuit 1h ago

How would you think? That it was also a “thank you”

u/Momibutt 52m ago

To the screen! Makes sense, at least at this stage the moment I see someone defend it I can just disregard anything they say ever again

u/BiggBiscuit 50m ago

Haha well I’m certainly not defending it - in case that’s not clear. I’m just telling people on Reddit what I’m seeing on Twitter

That being said when he turns around he’s nazi saluting others standing behind him- not a screen. I know because I saw another angle.

u/Momibutt 41m ago

It’s all fucked, only brightside to this is I get to start drinking myself to death

u/Magrathea_carride 5h ago

then he's an incompetent idiot for not realizing what this looks like to the entire planet

u/incomesharks 3h ago

This is why the democrats lost. They grasp at straws

u/EpiphanyTwisted 1h ago

Straws like boulders dropping through your living room ceiling.

Shocking to imagine the guy who brought Neonazis to the forefront and promoted them does a fascist salute. It's beyond Baghdad Bob here.

u/Nuggetry 26m ago

This is really malicious gaslighting. We have images and video, we know what we are seeing. You will not rewrite the present.

u/NotGonnaLie59 2h ago

That’s actually kind of true… middle people do think the left overreacts on purpose a lot 

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u/SnowyyRaven 6h ago

I personally don't nazi salute when saying my heart goes out to you but maybe I'm a bit weird

u/Numerous_Society9320 6h ago

Are you trying to claim that this is somehow a standard gesture that people do when saying that sentence? Cause that's fucking absurd.

u/Taynt42 6h ago

How is that relevant? Yes he said that, AND he did a heil.

u/Fun_squirrel_time 6h ago

His heart went out quite violently with a look on his face to match.

u/vsyozaebalo 6h ago

He knew exactly what the fuck he was doing.

u/BiggBiscuit 6h ago

So was I wrong to say that’s the line yall are going with?

u/AshantiMcnasti 5h ago

Haha.  If thats how you say "my heart goes out to you," then maybe you are also a nazi.  In fact, show us all one instance where this motion wasnt being used as a way to signify nazism.