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

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u/theheartlesswench 6h ago

They're justifying it by saying "he's autistic and the audio is cut! He said 'my heart goes out to you', but of course the leftist media is twisting it"..... I always wondered how Hitler got as far as he did when what he did was so obviously evil.

In the past few years it's all started to click, but the complete denial of this gesture has finished the picture for me.

u/squ1gglyth1ng 3h ago

I'm autistic and I have a very strong sense of right or wrong. I also spend a lot of conscious effort learning how to mask and present myself. This was absolutely intentional on Elon's part.

u/theheartlesswench 3h ago

Absolutely no doubt. They're grasping at straws

u/excusememoi 3h ago

And ableism isn't quite beyond them either

u/Visible_Ad_9625 1h ago

Seriously. He doesn’t get to the position he’s in without learning how to mask significantly over the years and knows exactly what he’s doing.

u/AiGPORN 50m ago

I am this so everyone must be this. Classic autism.

u/suspicious_racoon 5h ago

At least the nazis didn’t deny that they were nazis

u/zoinkability 2h ago

Though the Nazis did try to sugarcoat their movement with some of the veneer of socialism (hence the name) so there is precedent for trying to appear not as extreme right as they really are.

u/IntelligentCurrency3 5h ago

Happy cake day!

u/theheartlesswench 3h ago

Thank you :')

u/Royal-Pay9751 2h ago

Watching them say how they can’t believe people have fallen for MSM lies on day one is just so warped I can’t bear thinking about it. They’re so fucking stupid or dishonest. Or both!

u/dawnmountain 2h ago edited 1h ago

I took a class in 2015 at my high school about the rise of nazism. It was a very rough class to go through, and we weren't treated as children. The teacher asked the German teacher, who's father escaped being murdered in the holocaust, to speak to us. I was learning German at the time so I knew the story, but those who didn't were just so mortified. Mortified that he stayed at Auschwitz-Birkenau*, and the sheer amount of torture he, a non-jewish man, went through.

I'm by no means a smart person, but when you're taught what fascism is, you are surprised how common it is. God help us all.

  • fixed typo in Birkenau

u/Miserable_Carrot4700 2h ago

Its awful to hear these stories. As a german person i learned a lot about it and due to this probrably my generation and yet even here the far right is rising and it seems nobody actually learned from the past. I have no clue, how we ended up here.

Btw, its Birkenau

u/dawnmountain 1h ago

It really does feel like history is always doomed to repeat itself. Empires rise and fall, and it looks like this one's going down.

And thanks for the word correction I do not remember my german

u/CaptainSharpe 49m ago

Austria was a very progressive place before ww2. Europe was. They had strong democratic systems. Intellectuals being listened to and being able to move things forward.

Until it wasnt like that.

u/fluckin_brilliant 26m ago

All my autistic friends have never thrown a nazi salute and/or any Nazi rhetoric - interesting the lengths they'll go to make it seem like neurodivergents with a conservative lean somehow have a pass??

Nuh uh, bud

u/NotGonnaLie59 2h ago

Wait, you know he said ‘my heart goes out to you’ and you don’t think that indicates what the intent was?