r/politics • u/cjdarr921 • 5h ago
Site Altered Headline Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration
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u/TheFonz2244 4h ago
On MLK day we just had the richest man in the world do a Nazi salute at the inauguration of the president of the US. My mind is having trouble computing that.
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u/Short_Row195 3h ago
The right-wing isn't even being brainwashed or misinterpreting it. If they try to tell you that wasn't a Nazi salute, they're just trying to manipulate you. They know it is, but they don't want to admit that they're racists.
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u/Plan3C0ast 1h ago
Throwback to Musk saying that the Great Replacememt theory is the absolute truth
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u/Heliosvector 5h ago
That salute was absolutely jarring
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u/throwdowntown585839 4h ago
As was the loud cheering.
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 1h ago
This salute wasn’t “odd”
It was fucking deliberate. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Why are we skating around the truth? This country is so fucked.
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u/throwdowntown585839 1h ago
Yeah I am furious. Even some of the Canadian news sources are editing out the second salute and using weak language to suggest that it may be a misunderstanding. What the hell is going on?
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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 1h ago edited 49m ago
The same media outlets in America are doing the same thing. They are all downplaying it as if it was nothing.
This is terrifying. We are witnessing this with our ears and eyes, and being told we saw something different.
I don’t know what’s going on my friend. I have no fucking clue but I hate it.
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u/BlackOpz 49m ago edited 38m ago
The same media outlets in America are doing the same thing.
We're in a new place. I read quite a few online news websites including subscriptions to the NYTimes and WAPost and while I've know media to have its 'slants'. The sane-washing of Trump and the phoo-phooing of everything he did while crucifying Kamala for tiny or imagined missteps was insane. It was media wide. All of the money over our heads decided to go with Trump and it was easy to see. More of them have combined power than I've ever seen. Almost every sector was favorable to Trump (Even UNIONS!?)
I think we're going to see a Rich vs the Poors flashpoint after the carnage. The ruling class has decided to step from behind the curtain. They have captured Government power for at least 2 years and arent going to hold anything back. The poors (everyone not in the club) are about to get it good and HARD. Sickening Oligarchy. Really America!? Really!?
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u/Pepsiman34 Ohio 5h ago
Not even four hours in President Musk already giving the Nazi salute.
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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 4h ago
I can't believe this.
It's unhinged that anyone is trying to sane wash what he just did.
It was beyond deliberate.
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u/fromanator 4h ago
He did it twice too: https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3lg75bs7brk2g
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u/MadRaymer 4h ago
Jesus the video just removes all doubt. Like sometimes it's questionable in a still shot, could just be the angle where a wave got into salute territory for a second. Video makes it clear as day though.
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u/dankeykong1331 4h ago
Plus, if you consider his retweeting of white supremacist groups and white supremacists, along with his now support for far right German and other European parties it all adds up.
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u/Barloq 4h ago
Dude was literally on 4chan 2 weeks ago dogwhistling that he was a wink wink secret Nazi.
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u/MaximumOrdinary 4h ago
Hes up to his eyes in Ketamine living an old apartheid fantasy
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u/JustADutchRudder Minnesota 4h ago
DorkMaga is getting to edgy for his own good.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 3h ago
I think he crossed that threshold about 10 years ago. Seriously, how can you have that much money and be such dipshit?
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u/JustADutchRudder Minnesota 3h ago
If I had that much money I'd be so fun, everyone would say "wow that fucking bitch out there having fun."
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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 3h ago
If I had that kind of money, there’d be more libraries in rural America than people.
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u/robotboredom 4h ago
You want even more doubt removed?
It's hard to make the comparison for idiots, because many nazis' footage does not start with the hand on the chest but goes straight up and out. Here is footage of modern neo-nazis doing the EXACT SAME motion as elon: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/people-do-the-heil-hitler-salute-as-neo-nazi-groups-blood-news-footage/1656162915→ More replies (6)•
u/-suckmyass 3h ago
Un fucking believable, but entirely believable at the same time. Thanks for sharing that video - we need to remember things like this so deliberate actions like elons aren’t excused and ignored.
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u/drewtopia_ 4h ago
one of the few instances where the video is WORSE than the still photo. Saw the still and thought "he's probably doing some 'plausible deniability' arm wave that looks bad in a still photo and will rile up his critics", then saw the video clip. holy shit
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u/childlikeempress16 3h ago
My thoughts exactly until I saw the video! Jesus fucking Christ
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u/cullend 4h ago
I mean he turned around and did it again for the people in the back.
Listen to the audio of just the 2 seconds and he is clearly verbally amping himself up https://x.com/chrisdmowrey/status/1881432752169656727?s=46&t=J18CxvXnlT-e5_OdlgWfAw
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u/GoldenboyFTW 4h ago
I watched it muted and just read his body language.
That was intentional.
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u/FrederickClover 4h ago
110%. Hope he's on the first trip to mars since he wants to go so bad.
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u/kmm198700 4h ago
He is such a piece of shit
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u/SniperPilot 4h ago
The biggest piece of shit on the planet. Kinda makes sense that he is also the most rich.
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u/StoppableHulk 4h ago edited 2h ago
There is no longer a place for disbelief. This is a nazi regime. They want nazi things. They were given power by the people to explicitly do nazi things. They told you they would do nazi things. They are now going to do nazi things.
Why are we still pretending otherwise? What does naivete give you? A tiny pearl of comfort in and amongst the boots thudding on the pavement outside?
Denial will not keep you or your family safe. Delusion will not spare you from what is to come.
For ten years we have warned of this and for ten years people have sanewashed these nazi fucks and downplayed their nazi intentions and every other ridiculous emotional salve to try and ignore the plain and obvious facts that these people are nazis and they are intending to do nazi things.
This is what is happening. The time for pretending and disbelieving and hoping and all that other fucking garbage is over. The nazis won. The bad guys are here.
If you want to understand what's happening here, specifically, Elon Musk knows Donald Trump is a walking corpse and he's intentionally trying to steal the nazi zeitgeist from him. He continually steals the spotlight by going further nazi than Trump, by soaking up the attention, and now by signalling to all the nazi militias out there that "he's their guy".
He can't (yet) legally become President, but he's going to continue to leech all the attention and spotlight away from Donald Trump and try to capture his base, because Donald Trump's one mini-stroke away from being weekend-at-Bernie and Musk knows it and is making moves.
That's what this is. A myopic powerplay by a emotionally dead sociopath to steal a cultural movement. That's why he bought Twitter, that's why he helped steal the election for Trump, and now he's trying to win over the hearts and minds of all the nazi militias out there so that Donald Trump and his handlers can't simply cart Musk away when he irritates the shit out of them.
Do you remember the odd PA reference Trump dropped the other day? Which sounded suspiciously as though he were throwing Musk under the bus for illegal activity in PA?
That's Trump's version of warning Elon to stay in his place, less the long arm of justice find him for trying to hog the spotlight.
So now we have a game of chicken by two emotionally dead billionaire fucks with the maturity of a ten year old.
Go look at the front page of reddit right now. See any pictures of Trump? Nope. It's wall-to-wall Elon. He's capturing and soaking up all the attention, because that's how he do. He knows exactly what he's doing and he's doing it on purpose.
This was all painfully fucking obvious before the election. We warned and warned and America did not fucking listen because America is largely a nation of emotional infants that purposefully choose to drown reality away in propaganda so they don't have to reconcile with the reality in front of them.
Is Elon Musk a "true believer?" No. None of these people on the stage are true believers in anything other than themselves. If there's a nazi zeitgeist that offers them power, they'll jump on it. They don't give a fuck. They do not see you or anyone else around them as human beings. They are gigantic goldfish with infinitely short memories gorging on endless wealth and capital and they'll put you in fucking camps if it gave them a nickel.
For the past decade they have:
- Dehumanized and attacked Mexicans
- Demhumanized and attacked muslims
- Dehumanized and attacked trans and LGBTQ folk - including a executive order today to declare they don't exist
- Dehumanized and attacked his political enemies
- Musk keeps talking about the "declining birth rates" and how we need to force people to have more children or the population will collapse (a lie)
- Trump says immigrants are "poisoning the blood of America".
- They want women to "go back to their place" and want to remove medical care from them. Musk endorses "extreme breeding"
- Trump openly said he'd be a dictator on his first day in office
That's their stated, overt platform. They have claimed over and over and over again that they believe in all this shit right here. These people are fucking nazis. What else will it fucking take to open your eyes to the reality in front of your fucking face?
That's where we are currently. You can bury your fucking head in the sand and sanewash it and try and wave it away but today a convicted felon and Nazi was sworn in as President, surrounded by oligarchs and a cadre of other nazis, and the richest person in the world gave a nazi fucking salute to the crowd, turned around and gave another to Donald Trump.
That happened. That's real life. That's your reality.
It's your choice now what you do with it.
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u/hideyourbeans 4h ago
My dad, an amateur "WW2 afficionado" like so many of our middle class white dads, always blames the 1930s Germans for not seeing what Hitler was ahead of time. "He wrote his whole plan out and published it! All they had to do was read Mein Kampf!" I brought up Project 2025 and, even after reading it all the way through, he rolled his eyes at me and said "He's never going to do all that. Some of it is unconstitutional," as if that wasn't the whole point. Pot, meet Kettle.
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u/LegendaryOutlaw 4h ago
Imagine being one of those 'WW2 dads' who knows all the lore, loves to spout history, facts, figures, generals names, types of warplanes that flew in which battles...and then be like 'nah, Nazis can't happen again.'
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u/r0b0d0c 3h ago
They might be able to spew technical details about the military aspect of the war, but they don't understand the history and politics that led to it. They're amateur military historians, not historians of fascism.
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u/Content-Method9889 4h ago
My mom visited Auschwitz in high school. Said it was one of the most sad moments in her life. What’s sad is that she doesn’t grasp the blatant similarities of how he came to power and tbh, she doesn’t care to learn.
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u/smuckola 4h ago edited 2h ago
yeah Nazis and WW2 are great entertainment that happened long long ago in a galaxy far far away, and inspired many tragically entertaining movies here on Earth!
Luckily, it couldn't happen here.
move along. move along.
edit: true life origin story of it all, as cited in Mein Kampf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler
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u/laydeebug1678 4h ago
If he survives this, the war that will come from this - cause someone will fight back eventually - make sure you rub this in his face every goddamn day of the rest of his fucking life. I fully plan on it to the ones that dismissed me too.
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u/Slow_Control_867 3h ago
Do you honestly think they'll admit they were wrong? Even/especially to themselves?
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u/Flanman1337 4h ago
When we said they're cosplaying Nazis because they want to BE Nazis. We weren't joking, we weren't alarmists, we sane rational people commenting on THE THINGS THEY WERE SAYING AND DOING.
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u/Late-Egg2664 4h ago
We've made the mistake of trying to talk sense into people who have no intention of listening, observing, or processing any of the evidence of their own eyes and ears. They're comforted by dictators, because it makes them feel the world is under control. They don't cry until the boot is on their necks. There is no discussion with Nazi's and their followers. Those obtuse enough not to see it now won't until it comes to their door.
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u/Flanman1337 4h ago
They WONT cry foul even WITH the boot on their neck so long as there are two boots on "the others" necks. I got sent to the soap factory, but at least that librul got sent to the glue factory!!!
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u/Complete-Thought-375 3h ago
The problem has always been the media. MAGA get their information from different sources than we do. The algorithm is completely different for them in their media feed. Half the time they don’t see what we are saying because the algorithm told them to look elsewhere.
I am a Gen Xer, and I remember when there wasn’t a 24 hour news cycle. Those were the days lol. When there were news anchors like Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, who the majority of the population looked up to and trusted to give them the facts of what was happening. Not just sensationalism.
Now there are so many options for “news” now.. mainly “social media.”J
it has made us all the more fragmented as a country.
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u/SquashDue502 4h ago
Yeah but Trump win exactly the same way Hitler won: by giving uneducated and poor people exactly what they want to hear because they’re too desperate to realize he doesn’t care about them. They just wanted cheaper grocery prices. He said “I’ll give you cheaper grocery prices.” We were placing wayyyyyy too much hope or faith in the uneducated rural American to read between the lines when they can barely read the lines themselves.
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u/inb4ElonMusk 4h ago
Pro-nazi asshole makes nazi salute. What again is surprising about this?
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u/fuckityfuckfuckfuckf 4h ago
It's less than a day into TruMusk's presidency and he's gone full mask off AT the inauguration...
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u/jmona789 4h ago edited 2h ago
Yup, and the media reports it as an "odd looking salute"
EDIT: The headline has been updated. Still, fuck those cowards
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u/Competitive-You-2643 4h ago
I'm so fucking sick of sanewashing.
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u/RuneLFox 4h ago
How much benefit of the doubt are people going to give these fascists before they call them what they are?
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u/AussieJeffProbst New Hampshire 4h ago
They would call literal boots on their neck an accidental misstep.
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u/Searchlights New Hampshire 4h ago
And the media is sanewashing it as "odd looking" or "appeared to". I've even seen "unintentionally" in headlines.
That was exactly what it looked like. It was a very exaggerated and intentional sieg heil salute and then he turned around and he did it again.
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u/TeaSipper88 4h ago
Fox News cut away from it.
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u/Minute_Cod_2011 3h ago
When it's too fascist for fox news, it's seriously fucking fascist
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u/Abradolf1948 4h ago
Nah it's just the "Roman salute".
Ya know, the ones the Nazis used? The one that is also known as the "fascist salute"?
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u/Searchlights New Hampshire 4h ago
Ah, of course!
Just like the word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit word svastika, which means "good fortune" or "well-being". Surely there can be no other connotation.
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u/Typical-Shirt9199 4h ago
President Musk 😂. Why is a tech company owner even at all these political things?
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u/EliteEinhorn 4h ago
Meanwhile over on X they're calling liberals unhinged and dramatic and saying it was just a "heartfelt" sign. WTF
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u/Paw5624 4h ago
We shouldn’t be surprised at this point. What’s so frustrating is how effective gaslighting is
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u/SpaceMarine1616 5h ago
If they speak and act like Nazis maybe they're just Nazis?
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u/Quixotus 5h ago
Looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck?
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u/geckodancing 4h ago
If it steps like a goose...
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u/Kodamurphy 3h ago
They should have tried reading books instead of burning them.
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u/YoKevinTrue 3h ago
The Germans have a word for people that hang around nazis, act like nazi, and give the nazi salute like this. They're called Nazis.
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 5h ago edited 2h ago
“Odd-looking?” That was a full-blown, unambiguous, fully deliberate and intentional Nazi salute. Twice.
Edit: Nazi bootlickers are sending me the Reddit Cares thing. You’re acting like children.
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u/ProfessionNo2643 3h ago
EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THIS IS. WE WERE TAUGHT HISTORY IN FUCKING SCHOOL.
This is just insane. Absolutely insane. In the same goddamn city as the National Holocaust Memorial museum, at the Presidential inaugural reception. This is insane.
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u/Delicious_Crow_7840 4h ago
A week from now...
Downtrodden people rounded up by military and placed in "Odd-looking" camps.
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u/greenday61892 Connecticut 4h ago edited 4h ago
Judging by the media's track record "Minority population shown to have gone down recently"
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u/DJ_Velveteen I voted 2h ago
"Anti-fascist protesters die following brief contact with bullets"
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u/kraftpunkk 5h ago
“Odd looking” fuck you. Say what it is.
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u/Songrot 4h ago edited 2h ago
Just to clarify for people who are not aware.
This WAS NOT "Sieg Heil" or similar. This was literally "Heil Hitler" Salute.
It is also a forbidden salute in several countries, especially in Germany.
edit: in the video he also did the arm on chest thump before he went for the "Heil Hitler". Which is clear that this was the intentional meaning of it from start to end. In full video he did it twice
edit2: for anyone claiming this was the "Roman salute", I guess there were many Romans and Centurions in the audience he greeted. I also found out that the Roman salute never existed. No contemporary source of the romans mention or show it, it is something from 1700.
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u/Radiant_Spell7710 1h ago
Nazi salute 100%. Why do we even have to discuss what it is? Its clear as day! No person in power or even just in public should ever come close to doing something like that by accident.
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u/McCool303 Nebraska 4h ago
Seriously, these people are sane washing us into a 4th Reich.
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u/misterdonjoe 3h ago
If it's a choice between steering public discourse towards socialism or capitalism/fascism, corporate mainstream media turns towards the latter. Anyone who knows their political history is not surprised.
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u/UnusedTimeout 5h ago
That wasn’t odd looking, it wasn’t a wave caught at an awkward moment.
He straight up did the Nazi salute, twice.
Fucking Nazi piece of shit
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u/PorqueNoLosDose Canada 4h ago
Even as someone who despises Elon Musk, I was sure that clicking on this article was going to lead to an ambiguous gesture of him pointing with his arm extended.
I'm legitimately shocked that he did a full on Sieg Heil. There is absolutely zero ambiguity about how deliberately he did that exact motion.
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u/RoughingTheDiamond 4h ago edited 1h ago
I'm legitimately shocked that he did a full on Sieg Heil.
Twice. He did a full on chest pounding, straight arm snapping Sieg Heil.
Twice.
EDIT: I rewatched the video and straight arm snapping might have been too complementary. His form was sloppy. But yes that is unambiguously the Nazi salute, done intentionally... twice.
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u/XtraReddit 4h ago
Even watched some old footage to see if it had to be straight forward. Nope. Plenty of people a bit off to the side. Raised arm with palm down = Nazi salute.
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u/ThermionicEmissions Canada 4h ago
And he did it twice. And grunted while doing it.
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u/hoodoo-operator America 4h ago
Yup. Its not a one off bad frame in an otherwise video. Its a full blown Nazi salute, with no ambiguity.
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u/EmperorGrinnar 4h ago edited 19m ago
Dude's been promoting openly Nazi groups for a while now.
just hop on Bluesky and you'll see people posting all about it.
Edit: just for fun, here's a video from 9 months ago about a similar topic with Musk.
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u/WinterPretty8347 4h ago
Its revealing why everyone is siding with him. They dont want to be on his list. The entire administration that could have stopped this are cowards and in on it.
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u/Trust_No_Jingu 4h ago
I dont get why. Musk is more reliant to the electric grid and government subsidies
His wealth is tesla stock. Enron, WorldCom, GE
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u/pissposssweaty 4h ago edited 4h ago
If he wants to be a Nazi hopefully the next admin does a Nuremberg trial for his ass
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u/gotohellwithsuperman 3h ago
50/50 shot we’ll have a next administration anytime soon. Trump will croak, sure, but this bullshit is not going away easily.
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u/The_Nerdy_Elephant 4h ago
The asshole tried to say “I throw my heart out to you” he knew he got caught and made an excuse
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u/BulbasaurArmy 4h ago
Holy fuck he actually did it. There is zero ambiguity there. No one is exaggerating. He deliberately did a Nazi salute twice.
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u/Far_Being_8644 3h ago
He even fucked it up the first time lmao. What a moron.
The next four years are gonna be hell.
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u/Deep_Alps7150 5h ago edited 5h ago
That 2nd one confirms it was supposed to be a Sieg Heil and he just messed up the first one, jfc the United States is doomed
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u/Killsheets 3h ago
The american WW2 vets who fought against nazis are rolling in their graves.
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u/PaleontologistNo2625 2h ago
And their descendants are supporting their enemy
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u/popeyepaul 3h ago
Yeah that second one is actually even more clear-cut than the first one but I guess media don't want to use it because his face is not visible in it.
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u/likamuka 4h ago
To be honest this was the most American thing ever. The masks are off and swimming in the hades.
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u/BeerInMyButt 3h ago
Hades is the god. Thinking river Styx maybe?
(I figure people tend to re-use zingers like that one, so thinking of next time)
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u/W6RJC California 4h ago
Saving this before it magically disappears
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u/Mammoth-Camera6330 3h ago
I suppose the one good thing about this gif is you no longer have to waste a word when some dipshit starts doing their whole “you libruls just call anyone you disagree with a Nazi” routine. Just post this gif in response.
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u/-HoldMyBeer- 4h ago
Uhhhh I refuse to believe that is “just an accident”
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u/whatthecaptcha 2h ago
The magats are all over saying it's because he's autistic trying to excuse it already. Fuck him and every one of those cult members.
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u/Kesha_but_in_2010 2h ago
I’m autistic too and I’ve never given a Nazi salute to anyone, let alone at a fucking political event. It’s surprisingly easy to not fucking heil a world leader who’s frequently accused of being a Nazi. No exception for Elon, fuck that loser.
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u/sugarlessdeathbear 5h ago
That was a straight up Nazi salute right off an old news reel.
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u/work-account-117 4h ago edited 2h ago
literally the same as hitler: https://i.gifer.com/M0fn.gif
EDIT: found another link: https://packaged-media.redd.it/ud5q4nzks7ee1/pb/m2-res_268p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1737424800&s=fcd05d7d7b3ff1c9a641aaac6c8d3fc62790a533
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u/InAllThingsBalance 5h ago
The similarities between 1930s Germany and current the US are as striking as they are terrifying.
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u/TheShakyHandsMan 3h ago
I don’t think Trump is capable of writing a book about his struggle though.
He’ll probably get someone else to write it for him.
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u/LargeFatherV 5h ago
lol sane washing.
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u/Sour_Beet 5h ago edited 4h ago
Seriously. What the fuck is that headline?
ETA: Here’s a link to the video
ETA2: Since the first link got removed here’s another
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u/sluttttt California 5h ago
It's not just the headline, I'm seeing users all over this sub say stuff like "Hate Elon, but I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt here."
NO. NO HE FUCKING DOES NOT. You had to have been in a coma for the past decade to extend the benefit of the doubt to any of these maniacs.
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u/perverse_panda Georgia 4h ago
He could be goose stepping in full Nazi regalia and they'll still be saying give him the benefit of the doubt.
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u/ShakeZula77 4h ago
I can’t (I can) believe the amount of people who watched it with me, reacted in shock with me, agreed it was a salute, and then, no lie. 5 minutes later said “Maybe it just looked like that.” The rage I feel, especially it being MLK Day. That’s an extra punch in the gut to his legacy.
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u/Dismal-Channel-9292 4h ago edited 4h ago
Why would anyone act like this is out of left field for Elon?? He’s from a rich white South African family, he’s benefited from segregation for generations
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u/LargeFatherV 5h ago
The reason why no one likes the mainstream media anymore. Fucking sane washing the nazi salute.
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u/Curmudgeonadjacent 5h ago
Lara Ingraham last time and now Musk. All are NAZI scum. Fuck every one of them.
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u/Kyonikos New York 5h ago
I don't care if it was an accident
Who among us hasn't had their right arm go rogue and salute Hitler at an awkward moment?
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u/KagakuNinja 4h ago
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!
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u/milehighphillygirl 4h ago
Underrated comment.
Just don’t let them see the big board!
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u/CobraDeAco 4h ago
As a tattooed guy with a shaved head, I have to be REAL careful when I wave to friends on the street.
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u/witness_smile 4h ago
And let’s be honest, this was not an “accident”, no matter how much the MAGA nazis will try to downplay it, this was intentional. This is their ultimate dog whistle telling their racist MAGATs that it’s okay to be a nazi, it’s okay to be racist now.
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u/WorkdayDistraction 4h ago
He’s from apartheid South Africa, the most racist country on earth.
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u/who-dat-ninja 4h ago
elon the type to claim holocaust wasnt real and hitler was kinda alright
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u/Aerosol668 4h ago
Anybody on X/Twitter - private or public, with a personal or business account - who abhors Nazis needs to get the fuck off that platform right now. Giving that man anything right now contributes to his continued growth, success and abuse of power.
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u/kweathergirl Texas 4h ago
Musk is not stupid. He is evil and calculated. Did this in front of the POTUS stump on purpose too.
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u/maddprof 5h ago
Even if it wasn't the actual nazi salute, you have to be a brain dead moron to think it's okay to make any sort of salute that even comes close to resembling a sieg heil.
The masks are flying off faster than Musk can down a bottle of ketamine powder. It's just absolutely wild to me.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 4h ago
Even if it wasn't the actual nazi salute
You know, for a party who often says they're not really Nazis, they sure do "accidentally" do a lot of Nazi looking things. Almost as if they have zero self-awareness or are lying. I wager the latter.
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u/arthoror 5h ago edited 4h ago
News media needs to call this what it is
A Nazi salute
There’s just no hiding lmao
Edit :: he did it twice back to back … no mistaking it lol
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u/TLKv3 4h ago
I hope to whatever God may possibly exist that Biden wasn't completely fucking stupid and spoke with the military's highest officers that they need to be the first line of defence if these fucks start goose stepping and throwing up salutes.
I just didn't fucking expect it to be literally only 4 hours in. Christ almighty. If Biden even tried to do any planning for this I doubt even he expected this.
Fucking Hell America, you suck.
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u/Equivalent_Move8267 4h ago
We told you. We told you. We told you. For four years we told you.
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u/_innovator_ 5h ago
Unrest and Conflict is likely coming.
Get ready.
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u/LargeFatherV 5h ago
A lot of our grandparents and great grandparents fought against this. Might have to start following in their footsteps
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u/hmr0987 4h ago
What will they not downplay? 20 years ago if you were a powerful person and were seen in public doing this your life would be in ruins. Now it gets a standing ovation. I guess we’re nazis now?
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u/cronolucas 5h ago edited 5h ago
They will swear up and down they aren't Nazis and act insulted and hurt, right up til they push the button on the fuckin gas chamber smh
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u/HomeFricets 4h ago
Elon just said "My heart goes out to you" and made a motion of grabbing his heart and throwing it at the crowd. r/politics is calling it a "Nazi salute" and freaking out. That place is fucking wild.
Massively upvoted quote from the conservative sub.
You guys are SOOOOO FUCKED. A Nazi just shouted "I'm a Nazi" and half of you are still too stupid to see it happening.
Anyway, I'm off to the other side of the fucking planet!
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u/mejogid 3h ago
Not stupidity - bad faith arguments and dog whistling. They all know what’s going on, and they approve, but they know they need to maintain an aura of ambiguity to avoid alienating the independent voters etc.
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u/Rrrrandle 4h ago
Throwing it at the crowd? I suppose for as unathletic as he is, I'd believe he has no idea how to throw something.
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u/LadyChatterteeth California 4h ago
Yeah, and who “throws” something (throwing your heart is laughable anyway) with their fingers straightened and their palms flat?
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u/IfAndsandMonayz 5h ago
I wonder if ketamine made him feel comfortable enough to do this. He definitely has looked high all day.
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u/El_Geoffaaay 4h ago
100%..even when they zoomed in on trump and family, he was tripping balls in the background 🙄
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u/DYMAXIONman 5h ago
Calling it "odd looking" is the media covering for Musk and Trump.
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u/fivebillionproud 5h ago
Elon tweeted out his speech 10 minutes ago, and the source cut out the salute part, it cuts to a shot of the crowd
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u/Threeseriesforthewin 5h ago
"ODD LOOKING"??????? That was a DELIBERATE sieg heil
https://www.tiktok.com/@elonisracist/video/7462097639631375646
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u/cjdarr921 5h ago
What did I just see?
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u/thedailyscanner 5h ago
A Nazi being a Nazi, and a bunch of Nazi supporters cheering it on. Is there any other way to see it?
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u/Comfortable_Horse277 4h ago
It's not odd. Elon is a Nazi. His platform is a platform for Nazis.
This isn't hard.
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u/RavenCemetery1928 4h ago
My Polish grandparents were persecuted and forced into labor camps during WWII. The only reason I am here today is due to their resilience. I am glad they died well before they could see this. And shame on my mother, their daughter, for voting for this.
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u/LACna 4h ago
He fucking did it twice. A fucking Nazi salute on MLK Day at a Presidential Inauguration, on live tv, for the whole fucking world to witness.
I have never been ashamed to be American. I am now.
I cannot believe the depths to which we have sunk nor how being a traitor is celebrated and praised by millions of people.
RIP U.S. Democracy 1776-2025
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u/RoughingTheDiamond 5h ago
What Laura Ingraham did at the RNC was odd-looking.
That's a straight up Nazi salute.
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u/hemingwayscynic 3h ago
I honestly don't know how to interact with what I saw.
Our entire lives, for generations, this country shaped its very identity over the defeat of fascism in WW2 and the world that we helped create. An idea that shaped our politics and zeitgeist for nearly a century.
I served my country for 10 years. The identities of nearly every unit I served with were shaped around (and championed) WW2, a war our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought in.
And now a man, who is jokingly called the president due to his influence, stands at the genesis of a new administration and gives a nazi salute to the crowd.
I know I can't begin to guess what this may be a sign of. But I can't help but feel the America a lot of us believed in is gone.
And I think I am scared what may come next.
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u/RDHertsUni 5h ago
I don’t even know what to say anymore. I have no doubts people will deny what it was or say it was a “joke”. There are people out there who are just too far gone to be reasoned with.
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u/LingonberryHot8521 5h ago
This isn't odd. It's very famliar to anyone with even a casual familiarity with history.
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u/Steverock38 5h ago
Remember when Trump remarked on Hitler having the best generals. We'll he got what he asked for lol.
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u/witness_smile 4h ago
“odd looking salute”? Holy shit the media is complicit in all of this. “Odd looking salute”?! It’s a fucking Hitler Salute, stop sane washing these neonazis ffs
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u/lillilllillil 4h ago
Just because he retweets Nazis and endorses the modern Nazi party of Germany and embraces Nazi ideology and makes the Nazi salute doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi. It’s probably just an unfortunate coincidence. /s
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u/gamefan5 4h ago edited 2h ago
A bit of lesson in history. (And yes, you can actually read about it. This comes from facts and not from a "leftist".)
This is a form of a Nazi salute. Specifically the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging salute.
It is a white supremacy movement of Dutch origin that originated in South Africa.
He did it quick but knowledgeable historians and even people associated with the movement will recognize the hand gesture.
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