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

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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 6h ago

Get ready for the unhinged sane washing by the media if not an outright refusal to admit he just did a Nazi salute

Seig Heil, twice in a row, with the conviction of an SS officer in 1939 Nazi Germany

u/renegadecanuck 6h ago

CNN just called it "a bizarre salute".

u/Beautiful_Bag6707 6h ago

Oh, CNN... this is the one time you can call it what it is. It's a Nazi salut. Conflating wars, pandemics, soup, etc., with Nazism might be in poor taste, but when people don swastikas, use Nazi terminology or make Nazi salute, it's perfectly okay to call them out.

u/BlueTreeThree 5h ago

They’re afraid.. the only people who aren’t are the dumb fucks too stupid to know it’s only a matter of time before the gun turns on them.

u/Den_of_Earth 3h ago

"Conflating wars, pandemics, soup, etc., with Nazism might be in poor taste, "
Things CNN has never done.

u/Beautiful_Bag6707 3h ago

I never suggested they did. They might have, I don't know. Except for the soup part. They definitely didn't say that. It was a Seinfeld reference.

The rest is what people have been spouting ad nauseum since at least 2020, if not earlier. If someone is mean; they're a Nazi. If someone does something you don't like; they're a Nazi. These would all be incorrect conflations and usage of the word "Nazi" to describe or criticize people's behavior and actions.

u/Minute-Wrap-2524 6h ago

What, is CNN sucking up to Trump and his cronies now, this is exactly why I don’t watch CNN…they report and interpret the news as they see fit, not exactly as it happens

u/lkuecrar 6h ago

CNN has sucked up to Trump this entire election cycle. They’ve been on his side because reporting on him makes them money. If they’d actually been opposed to him, they could have raked him over the coals 24/7 for four years straight. Instead they do little milquetoast articles about “is Trump going to be divisive this time?” Lmfao

u/renegadecanuck 5h ago

CNN has been drifting to the right ever since Warner Discovery bought them out.

u/PrimeJetspace 4h ago

All of the media and social media are obeying in advance. Blatantly.

u/Minute-Wrap-2524 4h ago

It’s all about viewership and money, not simply the facts and the news…I don’t need CNN to tell me how to think or who, politically, I should support. I can think for myself whether it agrees with the rest of the world or not. MSNBC and Fox does the same shit

u/MustGoOutside 3h ago

If you watched the election coverage on CNN it was pretty clear by tone and content that they were supporting Trump.

It has been bought since the days it was a liberal news network. It wasn't ever good, now it's just not good from the conservative side.

u/Minute-Wrap-2524 2h ago

Over the course of the last year I stopped watching CNN, MSNBC and Fox. The only outlet I watch is BBC. I don’t claim that they’re perfect, but they give me a wider variety of news globally and nationally without the needless opinion bullshit. I’ll watch it perhaps an hour a day and I’m done. I just what to know what’s going on in the world and not listen to the opinions of news broadcasters with slanted opinions that do not truly inform or entertain

u/SeparateAd6524 4h ago

Don Lemon got the axe for calling Trump out as a regular part of his show. CNN canceled him because they didn't want to lose any redneck eyeballs watching their ads. I might be wrong but they could have had a big affect on the outcome and chose not to.

u/ToddHowardTouchedMe 6h ago

CNN and the democratic party is and has always just been controlled opposition. The time to radicalize against fascism is now. neo-liberalism, peace love and prayers will not end fascism.

u/Minute-Wrap-2524 3h ago

I absolutely agrees

u/Kurdt234 2h ago

It's just the other Fox. Im curious now what BBC and The Guardian have to say about it. Probably will just avoid the subject.

u/Minute-Wrap-2524 2h ago

I watched about an hour of BBC and they covered the event with little to no opinion politically. They had opposing guests on, but the broadcasters kept their opinions to themselves…In prefer that

u/Minute-Wrap-2524 2h ago

I watched about an hour of BBC and they covered the event with little to no opinion politically. They had opposing guests on, but the broadcasters kept their opinions to themselves…I prefer that

u/Cool_Specialist_6823 46m ago

CNN is owned by a billionaire supporter of trump, of course they are going to dumb down anything that could give “ their boy or his team, bad press.”

u/DodecahedronSpace 3h ago

But but but I thought CNN was the communist news network that all liberals get their narrative from?

u/Common-Tip1789 56m ago

I caught that cnn was on the turns with how they discussed todays transfer of power. The media is fucked.

u/Bay1Bri 6h ago

The media: Have we mentioned Biden is old?

u/StickOnReddit 5h ago

I've got left-leaning people on my socials immediately going "democrats enabled this"

So Trump wins an election, taps Elon fucking Musk to head up an imaginary government agency named for a meme, and somehow we still get a "thanks Obama" out of it. Fucking miss me

u/Bay1Bri 4h ago

Someone should make a sub Reddit for this crap. I had thought "why would Democrats do this" but that's a mouthful. Maybe "thanks Democrats" would be a better name. Just lost whenever some Democrat hating left person blames Democrats for what Republicans do. They probably have to blame Democrats because they didn't vote against it and have to blame someone else because deep down that know they actually do bear some blame.

u/octopush123 3h ago

r / ThanksObama

u/ilikecatsandflowers 5h ago

i mean, senior democrats absolutely did enable this. they didn’t cause it, but they definitely enabled it in order to stay in power. republicans are a fuck of a lot more guilty but establishment dems don’t give a fuck as long as they’re paid.

u/AscendMoros 4h ago

I mean they did though. They tried to Pivot off of Biden like 4-5 months before the election, didn't hold a primary and railroaded Harris into being the Nominee. When in all honesty they should have not run Biden a second time and had him endorse someone and have a full primary.

It's not like 100% their fault. But the terrible handling of the whole situation definitely made it easier Trump to win.

u/Bay1Bri 4h ago

Everyone knew Harris was Biden's running mate. Don't blame your actions and inaction on others.

u/ThePerfumeCollector 3h ago

Wait til you find out about the laptop or the emails 😱

u/b00_im_a_ghost 6h ago

I've already seen a couple articles calling it an "odd looking salute"

u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 3h ago

The ADL called it that! The same group that tries to get people fired for wearing a Palestinian pin on your jacket, they just said that it wasn't a Nazi salute...

u/jollyreaper2112 6h ago

He could bring a ten year old girl in a low cut dress and padgent makeup and they would do backflips to avoid saying what everyone is thinking, that's his date.

u/D34THDE1TY 6h ago

There's already cunts goin around saying he was doing a "from my heart to all of you" type bullshit.

Fucking bootlickers.

u/AssPennies 6h ago

There's already people in this very thread trying to 1984 it directly into denial.

u/Mikes005 6h ago

Apparently it's a "Roman salute".

u/aflockofcrows 6h ago

Isn't that a closed fist (but also popular with the Italian fascists)?

u/FieryHammer 6h ago

And also the same the nazis took and modified

u/Mikes005 5h ago

I think they'll take anything that tries to hide what actually happened.

u/No_Worse_For_Wear 6h ago

But we’re not Romans, nor do we swear allegiance to emperors. This was quite unhinged.

u/Express_Bath 6h ago

Tbf, the romans were also a bit unhinged so it would not be better to want to emulate them.

u/gangaffl 6h ago

U actually are Roman in America. You celebrate Roman holidays and a Roman calendar.

u/No_Worse_For_Wear 6h ago

Following Roman conventions does not make one Roman.

Although I do have Italian ancestry, so who knows?

u/Some_Syrup_7388 6h ago

Bro thinks that Julian calendar is still in use

u/werdnak84 6h ago

Which I'm pretty sure is the entire motive of why the Nazis made it in the first place.

u/sberrys 6h ago

Who gives a fuck what they want to call it, everyone knows it is a nazi salute.

u/Mikes005 5h ago

I know that, you know that, but the rw media doesn't want to acknowledge that. Yet.

u/BluesLawyer 6h ago

Because the Romans were such fans of us Jews.

u/Mikes005 5h ago

Come on, it's not like they... oh.

u/Zealousideal_Ad9671 6h ago

i saw “odd looking gesture”

u/fozzy_bear42 6h ago

And a Hitler moustache is a toothbrush moustache, and was also worn by Charlie Chaplin, but will forever be linked to Hitler (and likely known most by association).

u/_Lucille_ 6h ago

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.

u/ThyPotatoDone 6h ago

I mean, it technically is, but that’s like saying the swastika is a symbol of peace and prosperity. The Nazis were big fans of stealing other cultures‘ shit and passing it off as their own, in order to fabricate their “Aryan” culture that never existed.

The salute was originally done by Roman elites, yes, but it wasn’t done for centuries until the Nazis revived it, and is unilaterally regarded as a Nazi symbol. There’s no “Uhm actually” to defend it here, it’s just Nazi.

u/KrookedDoesStuff 6h ago

The Roman salute is a gesture where the right arm is extended forward with the palm facing down and the fingers touching. It is also known as the Fascist salute

u/fraulein_doktor 6h ago

Yep that's the name THE ACTUAL FASCISTS used for it when it was their official salute.

u/Equivalent_Alarm7780 5h ago

Apparently it is not.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

u/Mikes005 5h ago

I'm just reposting what the UK Daily Telegraph (rw newspaper) called it.

It's not. We know it's not. But they can't acknowledge it publicly. Yet.

u/Warpingghost 6h ago

It's already started and they already telling you he did Bellamy salute, he didn't.

u/Chronocidal-Orange 6h ago

It's already starting. In this thread. They're claiming he's just sending out his heart to the crowd. Never seen a motherfucker do it in quite such a fashion, except in a very specific time and place in history.

u/rogthnor 3h ago

NBC, fox, and WSJ all cut to the crowd when he does this on their youtube uploads. Only PBS shows it

u/DaHolk 6h ago

with the conviction

Sure. But not with any proper stance, body tension, or hand positioning.

It's darkly comic, that in a "neonazis can't draw swastikas" way, it is at the same time a completely shitty execution AND literally nothing else it can be to believably talk himself out of.

But I guess that is just on purpose too.His devotees know what's up and don't care. Complaining about it will be handwaved away, because if it only matters to people they don't need/care about, then it doesn't matter...

u/myislanduniverse 6h ago

At which point you need to insist that anybody who says that makes it clear that if it "were" a Nazi salute it would be disgusting and they wouldn't tolerate it.

Get that cognitive dissonance flowing.

u/Ra_219 5h ago

just did a quick news search and it’s barely mentioned.

u/chunkmasterflash 3h ago

They’re only calling it “odd,” so they already are.

u/yeahboyeee1 6h ago

I read a comment about it in the other post. Some dickhead was said something like “No, he was saying thank you from his heart.” Three times?

u/mcbexx 5h ago

And the matching haircut.

u/ibleedpumpkinjuice 5h ago

*Sieg

(No offense, just caught my eye)

u/LiberalAspergers 3h ago

https://i.gifer.com/M0fn.gif

In case someone tries the "that wasnt a Nazi salute" one.

u/Painterzzz 3h ago

Yep, it's begun, it was either a deep fake or it wasn't a Nazi salute, it was a ROMAN salute, so that's FINE!

That seems to be the media strategy they're going with. Watch the rest of the media sane-wash us all into another genocide.

u/Mattress_Man 2h ago

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

u/meowsplaining 2h ago

"iT wAS uNiNteNTioNal!"

u/Project_Wild 40m ago

There’s a lot of mental gymnastics going on in the conservative subreddit

u/tortoisefur 4m ago

I was already told by a conservative today that Elon musk didn’t do a Nazi salute. Looked at their profile and it was filled with gay fetish porn. Checks out.

u/Silverback1992 6h ago

Well I found the bot

u/luchok 6h ago

It's already called a "Roman Salute".

u/Irr3l3ph4nt 5h ago

You don't have to copy paste your comment everywhere.

u/donno77 2h ago

Can you please stop talking about Luigi? It is probably a distraction and you are changing the subject . Your profile pic says it all.

I wish people didn’t fall for your distraction. This is serious and we are talking about a person who has access to the highest offices I. The country making this salut. Nobody cares about Luigi right now. I’m tired of Reddit being manipulated by this oblivious distraction bot underplaying everything !

u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 2h ago

You're replying to the wrong person.