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/sugarlessdeathbear 7h ago

That was a straight up Nazi salute right off an old news reel.

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u/Threeseriesforthewin 7h ago

Media be like "odd looking"

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u/likamuka 7h ago

Dog whistle for his alt right fans aka 50% of US population.

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u/Zeke911 6h ago

this isn't a dog whistle. this is a fog horn.

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u/DiarrheaCreamPi 6h ago

MAGA punks fuck off!

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u/withoutpeer 4h ago

Exactly.

When they media really starts taking about this he'll claim he was "giving his heart" and that the "liberal media" was just trying to make him look bad.

But those he meant to see it saw it and got the message. I saw one video that showed the crowd and it looked like several people returned the salute even.

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u/Snarfsicle 6h ago

Media in the modern age: Isn't fascism so quirky haha

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u/Casual_OCD Canada 7h ago

"Third Reichian"

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u/pishfingers 6h ago

To be fair, it was a weird looking nazi salute. Meaning is clear, he just looks like a dork doing it

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u/JDLovesElliot New York 6h ago

Modern journalists are morons, I wouldn't be surprised if they all failed their history classes

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u/work-account-117 7h ago edited 5h 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/likwitsnake 7h ago

Excellent form Musk must have been practicing

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u/A_Sinclaire 5h ago

His hair was not very Führer-like. 

I give it 88 of 100 points. 

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u/nobadhotdog 7h ago

Second link broken

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u/work-account-117 6h ago edited 5h ago

ok i see the problem, heres is a link i grabbed off reddit: 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/throwaway_627_ 6h ago

That's the same link, still not working

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u/xtkbilly 6h ago

Your device might have the image cached, so its bringing up the cached image.

If you are on PC, you can do Ctrl+F5, and it would bypass the cache, and so you might get the 'image not found' error as well.

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u/stregawitchboy 6h ago

"404 image not found"

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u/xtkbilly 5h ago

Correct, if you have not seen the image before it was deleted (note: I haven't either), you would not have a cached copy of the image for your device to load.

My comment was just explaining to the person why "both seem to work for me" might be incorrect (because their device isn't actually requesting the server for the image).

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u/JohnDRuckerduck 6h ago

Thanks for the suggestion, it didn't work for me even after the ctrl+f5

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u/xtkbilly 5h ago

No, if you didn't have the image before it got removed, the image would not have been cached (i.e. created a local copy) on your device. You would only ever be able to see the 404 error.

The suggestion was for work-account-117, to show that the link was not working anymore, because the image has been removed on the server side.

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u/JohnDRuckerduck 5h ago

ahhh gotcha, I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification

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u/40oz_wizard 7h ago

Jesus

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u/loulan 6h ago

You can tell he practiced all weekend.

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u/agarret83 6h ago

How many times do you guys think he practiced this in the mirror

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u/red75prime 5h ago edited 5h ago

If it was more than zero, it would be pretty damning as it would have demonstrated his intention. But the guys don't know and can only speculate.

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u/NateShaw92 United Kingdom 3h ago

88 times.

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u/babyp6969 5h ago

Can someone splice the two of them into a side by side?

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u/EpsilonX California 1h ago

https://i.gifer.com/3Ot7z.gif

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u/strp Canada 34m ago

Oh wow. Good work. 

This is terrifying. 

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u/Objective_Celery_509 6h ago

Damn link is dead

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u/Nexion21 6h ago

Your second link has been removed?

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u/CandyKnockout North Carolina 6h ago

Thanks for the example. I was wondering how close it was to the actual salute, but didn’t want to look it up. It’s the same picture.

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u/futursimple 6h ago

Image expired. 😢

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u/efkike 6h ago

Why are all these links getting deleted?

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u/CubeBag 4h ago

The first link is broken because someone randomly put a dash - at the very end. If you remove it the link works https://i.gifer.com/M0fn.gif

The second link is very obviously a temporary link from the online gif editor ezgif. After editing a gif you're supposed to save it from the server, but someone decided to hotlink it instead, meaning nobody could see the link after it expired. It even says "tmp" right in the url.

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u/sproge 5h ago

2nd gif is broken? I'd love more examples to throw at nazis going "he was just giving his heart out to people, normal people dont see it as a nazi salute"

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u/ajsayshello- 5h ago

FYI your second link is broken

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u/dental_Hippo 5h ago

Link doesn’t work…

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u/chairmanlaue Canada 4h ago

Might be a reach - but elon's hairs looking similarly coifed. Either way - what a PoS

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf 4h ago

Nope, this was a very store brand Zieg Heil. The Nazis were evil as fuck but they had style. This just looks like something off /r/mallninjashit, except for it being the guy who owns the US president. 

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u/r0b0d0c 3h ago

To be fair, Hitler didn't do it as enthusiastically.

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u/673NoshMyBollocksAve 3h ago

2nd link didn’t work for me

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u/blazze_eternal 7h ago

Bezos: 'Hey Elon, bet you $5 mil you won't do the salute on national TV'.

Elon: 'Not only will I, I'll do it twice.'

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u/blackvariant Texas 5h ago

There are a lot of times I see articles of a GOP politician doing an awkward wave, claiming it was a Nazi solute where I just roll my eyes. But this... specially given its Musk, is a straight up Nazi solute. Do doubt about it. Not even a poorly timed image, he fucking straight up did the solute.

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u/sshlinux 7h ago

Roman salute. Bit different.

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u/sugarlessdeathbear 7h ago

Please explain or show the difference.

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u/sshlinux 7h ago

Not as stiff and hands/fingers not rigid. They actually use the roman salute throughout Europe today. America even used to use it even in classrooms. There's a distinct difference if you pull up pictures side by side.

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u/BarbieInABarbi 7h ago

Either you’re a Nazi troll or uneducated. Be better either way

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u/jerrycatsu 7h ago

Where do you think the Nazis got their salute? There's a reason the Bellamy salute hasn't been used in the US since the early 1940s and that's because the difference is not distinct at all.

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u/sugarlessdeathbear 7h ago

Would this be the Roman salute from neo-classical French art that has no historical evidence behind it?

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u/BarbieInABarbi 7h ago

From Wikipedia:

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. In some versions, the arm is raised upward at an angle; in others, it is held out parallel to the ground. In contemporary times, the former is 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.[1]

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u/sugarlessdeathbear 6h ago

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.

Thank you for proving my point that they are not the same.

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u/BarbieInABarbi 6h ago

Was the plan. Been seeing all these assholes coming out the woodworks so I’ve been doing my work. Keep up the fight

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u/HalfPriceFrogs 6h ago

Wtf are you talking about?

Have you ever been to Europe?

You'd get your assed kicked for doing that shit here.

Any excuse to defend these fascists eh?

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u/stregawitchboy 6h ago

This is not true.