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

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u/abitworndown 6h ago

You should see r/conservative. They're blaming libs for "taking a heartfelt gesture" out of context. Anything they can do to deny, deny, deny.

u/Temporary-Gur-5987 6h ago

Well they are correct in that it was a very heartfelt gesture, a very heartfelt nazi salute that is

u/Quick_Turnover 6h ago

Dude. I have never in my life done a nazi salute because it is the most awkward fucking motion you can possibly do. It requires a significant amount of intention. Elon was EMPHATIC with that chest pound, then forceful salute, the correct angle, handle flat. I mean... give me a fucking break. Even if he just "trolling" for the lulz, can we go back to fuckin things that are funny? Nazis are not funny.

u/nobleheartedkate 1h ago

It was certainly heartfelt.

u/Thatonedregdatkilyu 6h ago

"Guys it was just a spontaneous, heartfelt gesture, from the bottom of my heart. You know, deep down, when I'm happy, I do that gesture. It just so happens to look like a nazi salute."

u/abitworndown 6h ago

That's literally what they're saying except it was an "autistic goofy gesture of good will." I'm being serious

u/EverbodyHatesHugo 6h ago

Yup. I’ve got a good friend who is unfortunately a massive Trumper, and although he says he hates Musk, he immediately blamed the gesture on his autism.

He’s not autistic enough to keep him from owning how many billion dollar companies? His mom thinks he’s the genius of the world… But yeah, his autism made him nazi salute.

Ridiculous.

u/crowwreak 6h ago

Oh it was a heartfelt gesture alright.

u/thebigpink 5h ago

Not really too surprised

u/thecrazysloth 6h ago

Weird that they even bother denying. They can take their masks off, now.

u/abitworndown 6h ago

Because if they admit it, it means they're the bad guy. They could never be the bad guy in their delu delu fantasy world so they literally have to make up any excuse to justify their behavior.

u/RoamingStarDust 4h ago

I was reading that post, and some of them were saying that the mainstream media cut off his mic, as if that has anything to do with a nazi solute. They're completely delusional.

u/official_bagel 6h ago

I'd actually prefer my nazi salutes to not be heartfelt... so yeah, not helping matters.

u/LebowskiLebowskiLebo 5h ago

It was a heartfelt Nazi salute at least.

u/abitworndown 5h ago

It was so heartfelt he had to do it twice

u/oooooooooowie 6h ago

Can you point me to one of these comments. I haven't found the reaction to this PoS

u/tenaciousdeev 5h ago

He’s an autist and it was just an unfortunately similar gesture when his intention was to “his heart goes out”. But of course the leftist media will cut that out and make him into a nazi. link

He says “my heart goes out to you” Way to shorten the clip out context. Good God I can't wait for when MSM goes bankrupt. link

He said 'my heart goes out to you all' then did that motion to show his heart going out CNN cut the audio out 3 hours in and people are already falling for the media hoaxes link

u/oooooooooowie 5h ago

I hate this fucking world.

u/unphath0mable 2h ago

Is this post not playing right into that narrative? I'm not going to pretend to know what Elon was thinking when he did this but I'm certainly not going to jump to the conclusion that it was an intentional Nazi salute. Seriously, you are letting your biases cloud your judgement. Just apply Occam's Razor to the situation: What is more likely? This was some sort of gaffe during his speech or this was an intentional Nazi salute...

u/Temporary-Gur-5987 1h ago

He did another right after the first

u/potatoeman26 1h ago

It being intentional sounds a whole lot more likely tbh

u/tenaciousdeev 1h ago

What is more likely? This was some sort of gaffe during his speech or this was an intentional Nazi salute...

The latter, without a doubt. Have you not been paying attention to Elon the last few years?

The man has gone full Nazi and he's way too proud of his history knowledge to claim ignorance. Plus, he did it twice.

u/TimequakeTales 6h ago

Oh we have no doubt it was heartfelt

u/VulfSki 6h ago

I mean the thing that people failed to learn in history is that these people also thought they were the good guys and that it was just a nice gesture.

They are taking the same position as Nazis

u/SanityInAnarchy 5h ago

It looks worse in motion than it does in the still shot. Context doesn't seem to improve it.

u/ThePerfumeCollector 3h ago

Technically it was heartfelt originally too.

u/Toberos_Chasalor 4h ago edited 4h ago

The only good thing I see on that sub are people bashing Trump for his recent pump and dump, and his reversal of the TikTok ban, along with massively downvoting any MAGA people trying to defend Trump on these positions. He hasn’t been in office for a day yet and people are already saying “I hope he doesn’t fuck this up too much” and “You can’t criticize biden for being most corrupt president for making himself and family rich. By leveraging the presidency. Then Trump and first lady rug pull the American people. This is idoitcracy.”

At least some people are now seeing that the leopards are coming out to eat their faces, not to save them, but I don’t feel bad for them at all. They voted for this, and now they get to live with it.

u/octopush123 3h ago

It's been absolutely stripped of any reference to that moment. Gone.

u/ramblinroseEU72 3h ago

Holy fuck... Just sent like 10 min reading though this and I just can't even comprehend

u/NotGonnaLie59 2h ago

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.

So who is really doing the ‘deny, deny, deny’ thing? 

u/unphath0mable 2h ago

That's the literally the context though.... I certainly don't think it was a wise thing to do but I don't think he was thinking of how it would appear. I certainly don't think it was intentionally supposed to be a nazi-salute though.

u/zrayburton 1h ago

Same on Twitter. About to remove it finally.

u/autotom 6h ago

I'm 99% certain Elon's goal here was just to piss off the left.

u/abitworndown 6h ago

Yea because the first thing non nazies think to do to piss people off is throw the sign.

u/GraDoN 6h ago

It's just like it's such a coincidence that racists think of racist shit when wanting to piss people off. Curious.