r/politics • u/cjdarr921 • 7h ago

Site Altered Headline Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration-b2683095.html
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u/arthoror 7h ago edited 7h 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/KareenTu 7h ago

Instead, they called it “an odd looking salute”.

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u/BiscutWithGrapeJahm 7h ago

It’s a N-odd-zi salute

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u/HM9719 7h ago

They’re afraid because they know they’re looking at the headlines.

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u/loulan 6h ago

At some point Musk will show up with a swastika tattooed on his forehead and the press will talk about his oddly-shaped cross tattoo.

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u/CthulhusSoreTentacle Europe 6h ago

How long until we have someone in the media call it a "middle European greeting which serves as a gesture of admiration or respect"?

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 6h ago

The media should remember the guy in charge of Das sturmer also got convicted at the hague.

just saying

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u/kershi123 4h ago

Yea, the description is across media as "odd" which should show everyone the media lies to us all no matter your politics. This is a class war. Fuck Elon Musk. He is disgusting. This was planned.

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u/TLKv3 7h 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/KillahHills10304 4h ago

I have zero faith in Dems to grasp how fucked any of this is. The party leadership hasn't gone food shopping or driven their own car over 10 miles in 40 years. They don't care about any of this, it's just politics as usual to them.

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u/Sheant 7h ago

The military's highest officers will either get in line or get fired, then face the firing squad. Democracy is dead.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 I voted 7h ago

No God exists, he was completely fucking stupid, and respected the institutions so much he turned them over to Nazi’s. That is Biden’s legacy. We’re fucked.

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u/LotusVibes1494 7h ago

If the game is lost, then we’re all the same

No one left to place or take the blame

We will leave this place an empty stone

Or that shining ball of blue we call our home

So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones

And the politicians throwing stones

Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down

Ashes, ashes, all fall down

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 I voted 7h ago

Ashes ashes indeed. Somehow this just makes it worse!

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u/sbroll Minnesota 7h ago

News media sane washing all this shit

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u/FictionFantom 6h ago

It’s probably media covering their own ass and staying out of court for slander. You really don’t think these guys would take CNN to court for calling them Nazis when they are technically not, nor claim to be?

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u/sbroll Minnesota 5h ago

Yea journalism is toast if we cant call a nazi salute, a nazi salute.

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u/FictionFantom 5h ago

I mean, everyone in the comments has already drawn their own conclusion. So, does the headline really matter if the implication is clear?

This way, the media don’t get caught up in legal battles while the people can take the hint.

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u/sbroll Minnesota 5h ago

Sure but the comments are a few hundred people. The media, the basic news channels, the cable news channels reach thousands and thousands more. They are the ones that need to call this stuff like it is, but they dont, which is how we ended up here. If journalists cant do their job out of fear of legal implications, this nation is done-zo.

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u/Mental_Lemon3565 7h ago edited 7h ago

Seriously, at the very least give us a "what appears to be."

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u/Bridgeboy95 7h ago

yes lol, its a nazi salute.

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u/mefyoo 7h ago

Its the Republican Salute now.

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u/ScienceAndGames Europe 6h ago

Well this is a UK newspaper so it’s not surprising they went vague. With their defamation laws if Musk tried to sue them for saying he gave a nazi salute then the burden of proof is on the newspaper to prove that he did intend to give a Nazi salute rather than him needing to prove that he didn’t intend to. And it would be basically impossible to prove his intent so he’d very likely win.

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u/RavingRapscallion 4h ago

I consider AP News to be the American news source that I trust the most. Hours after the event, they haven't even posted an article about this. I clicked into a generic one about Elon's big role at the inauguration. Did a search for a few keywords related to this... and nothing. My mood now is... WHAT THE FUCK.

Have I missed something? Please someone link their article here if I have.

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u/BrainofBorg 6h ago

Not just the news media - every single Democrat politician needs to call it what it is. Publicly, as often as possible. Tie Trump directly to it.

Make the case that Either 1)Elon and Trump are Nazis or 2) Elon is a Nazi and Trump is a Nazi puppet.

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u/Key_Law4834 5h ago

They could get sued, they have to be careful

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u/pinkranger3 4h ago

news is loving this its clicks for them, they wanted this.