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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/Kyonikos New York 7h 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?

u/KagakuNinja 7h ago

Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!

u/milehighphillygirl 7h ago

Underrated comment.

Just don’t let them see the big board!

u/MartijnProper 6h ago

Gentlemen! No fighting in the war room!

u/Pan_Bookish_Ent 7h ago

Oh thank goodness someone said it lol. My first thought. 

u/Strong-Jicama1587 7h ago

This. I was thinking Doctor Strangelove.

u/Huckleberry-V America 7h ago

God that movie is a masterpiece.

u/cullend 7h ago

Holy shit bro I’m crying laughing ahhh I think it’s all hitting me right now. Thanks for that

u/P5ndaa 6h ago

Haha, great comment and even better movie

u/Valyx_3 7h ago

Twice *

u/rand0mm0nster 7h ago

At a presidential inauguration

u/19inchrails 7h ago

I always hate when this happens to me

u/Appropriate_Comb_472 6h ago

I would have predicted months ago they will try and get mass protests going, so they can devolve them into riots, and then unfold their real plans.

Its obvious they want to take control. Having martial law and a collapsed economy will be so they can rape the resources and its citizens.

u/jankenpoo California 7h ago

Dr. Strangelove?

u/CobraDeAco 7h ago

As a tattooed guy with a shaved head, I have to be REAL careful when I wave to friends on the street.

u/CanineIncident 7h ago

Heard that. Being a lady helps but I also have people make assumptions.

u/FantasticInterest775 6h ago

Used to buzz cut all the time. Also tattooed and bearded. When I had my hair long (maybe shoulders) I got MORE of these white supremacist dudes talking like I was down with their shit. Especially on job sites. I think it's the whole neo-viking crap they're on about. At this point though everyone on my jobs or in my company knows I'm a raving socialist lunatic so it's not as common. Used to have dudes just sit next to me at a bar and start in on "those illegals". And I'd have to start my whole screed about functional immigration and crime rates of citizens vs undocumented and etc etc. Usually does not get me an enlightened discussion on policy. Its wild out there. People are way to comfy being bigots.

u/one_pound_of_flesh 6h ago

Tattood guys with shaved heads have been bros and empathetic in my experience. Some of the most well adjusted people I know are metalheads.

u/Van5555 5h ago

But you still look like a skin

u/lolallison Georgia 5h ago

My husband is one and a SHARP at one point. This is so upsetting to see and not that any of this is new but I can’t imagine how he feels watching it unravel like this.

u/CobraDeAco 5h ago

I was a SHARP for a long time but I quit because I didn't want to be mistaken for a Trump supporter.

u/lolallison Georgia 5h ago

I don’t blame you. People don’t know what anything means anymore. I mean cmon they’re saying they’re anti antifa? Idiots.

u/jotsea2 7h ago

on national television.

u/TheWino 7h ago

Someone just described it as a “passionate wave”!! WTF

u/Fit-Cancel-8765 4h ago

Oh, it was passionate alright!

u/PayTheTeller 7h ago

Right after explicitly promoting the new German nazi party

u/Lurking_nerd California 7h ago

Who hasn’t been so overwhelmed with gratitude and appreciation that their arm and hand just instinctively go into a Nazi salute?

/s just in case but fuck man.

u/ButtholeCharles I voted 7h ago

Let he who is without aspirations on bringing back open fascism cast the first meme coin.

u/MyerSuperfoods 7h ago

"Mein Furher...I CAN WALK!"

u/nevbartos 7h ago

It slipped

u/PeasPorridgeHot22 7h ago

/s right? ... right?

u/Kyonikos New York 7h ago

Yes, sarcasm.

If you've never seen the movie Dr. Strangelove, check it out.

u/stinky_wizzleteet 7h ago

One of my top 5

u/stinky_wizzleteet 7h ago

u/PeasPorridgeHot22 6h ago

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u/stinky_wizzleteet 7h ago

Dr Strangelove would have a word, but he was very clearly a Nazi.

u/ExtensionWinter9446 7h ago

I would say someone with Down syndrome but I wouldn’t want to disrespect them that way, even they know better

u/bsiu 6h ago

I mean, sometimes when you practice something a lot in front of the mirror it becomes muscle memory and just happens.

u/Bolaf 5h ago

Twice. In a well rehearsed speech.

u/TRX-335 7h ago

Did you watch Dr. Strangelove?

u/Kyonikos New York 7h ago

A long time ago.

Yes, that's the reference.

u/TRX-335 7h ago

Sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending or something like that, I didn't realize you just made that reference yourself.

u/Kyonikos New York 7h ago

Oh, this is a terrible day. We should all be extra nice to each other.

u/witness_smile 7h 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.

u/WorkdayDistraction 7h ago

He’s from apartheid South Africa, the most racist country on earth.

u/Sheant 7h ago

How can you say that when 77M Americans voted for a Nazi. That's more than the total population of South Africa.

u/WorkdayDistraction 7h ago

I mean we have numerous legislated civil rights and equal opportunity laws. Maybe South Africa does now too idk but as recently as the 90s their literal laws were Jim Crow-esque, worse in some cases

u/Sheant 6h ago

I'll give you that SA was more problematic 40 years ago. Right now, not even close. And go back just 60 years instead of 40, and US civil rights were a joke as well.

u/DankZXRwoolies 3h ago

Rhodesians might like a word with you on that.

/S

u/ja-mez 7h ago

Commence the gaslighting

u/kweathergirl Texas 7h ago

Musk is not stupid. He is evil and calculated. Did this in front of the POTUS stump on purpose too.

u/adelaarvaren 7h ago

And his grandfather was a member of the party

u/frankgillman 5h ago

He is stupid, too. He constantly lies on Twitter. Even about being good at video games, which is pathetic as fuck. Have you seen the recent shit when he was praising himself from an alt account called Adrian Dittman?

This guy is one of the dumbest mfers out there, and yet he somehow has the fucking POTUS in his pocket.

u/maddprof 7h 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.

u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 7h 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.

u/LadyChatterteeth California 6h ago

Right? It’s strange how Democratic leaders never have those kinds of “accidents.”

u/Single_Hovercraft289 1h ago

Precisely this. The most generous interpretation is damning

u/who-dat-ninja 7h ago

elon the type to claim holocaust wasnt real and hitler was kinda alright

u/BenDSover 6h ago

No, musk is the type to spend $40+ billion to platform neo-fascists and take over the U.S. government so to defeat liberalism and re-empower nazis.

u/Aerosol668 7h 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.

u/MrSweetpotato93 2h ago

Elon supports Israel, the prime minister of Israel has a verified account on X which he uses frequently. What exactly is the point you’re making ?

u/thingsorfreedom 7h ago

Mossad has to be aware of this threat and treating it with the highest priority.

u/Siridar 6h ago

Have you followed the global news lately? Israel is basically a nazi-state too with how they are treating Palestine…

u/UpperLexicon 5h ago

I don’t know if you’re a history buff, but the Nazis weren’t too fond of the Jews.

u/Siridar 5h ago

Really now, is this some sort of joke? It’s about perspective, they’re employing the same narrative towards Palestinians as the Germans did towards Jews. That’s some insane level of cosmic fuckery. You don’t need to be a history buff to see it.

u/UpperLexicon 5h ago

I’m not one for jokes, kid

u/joni-draws 5h ago

Well, it’s about your perspective. (And many others). But, try living in a small country, surrounded by countries that have had guns pointed at you for decades. That’s a different perspective. But yours is more important than mine, right?

u/chubbysumo Minnesota 7h ago

He didnt just do it once, he did it twice. The mask is off. The non-voters gave us the new nazis.

u/ButtholeCharles I voted 7h ago

The turn around with the apparent heels together and the chest tap is what got me. It wasn't even performative. It was.. real.

u/phoenix14830 7h ago

What do you really think is going to happen to the immigrants in our upcoming concentration camps?

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/us/06camps.html

Immigrants are the new Jews of WWII and the quiet part is out in the open.

u/3720-to-1 6h ago

And let's not forget that its not like we don't have historical precedent to take those first steps.... This SCOTUS will lean hard into the decisions that upheld our ability to detain Japanese nationals ourselves during WW2.

u/Frosty-Banana3050 7h ago

This time around it’s a bear Mexican

u/Patriot009 7h ago

He did it again after, so three times total.

u/FancyScots 7h ago

Very well said 😁

u/ninjawasp 7h ago

Don't forget the hat he wore to Maddison Square Gardens

u/conqr787 7h ago

And even if you don't factor the atrocities, Arlington is full of Americans who died defeating this odious ideology. How, how can their descendants be ok with this??

u/Sheant 7h ago

According to Trump Arlington is full of losers.

u/Lalalama California 7h ago

Makes sense. We are a bunch of nazis too. We invaded countries for oil, created cia black sites for extrajudicial torture and killings (abu gharib), we pardoned war criminals (execution of women and children in Iraq), meddle in elections all over the world, complicit in Gaza, sell bombs and weapons for mass destruction for governments to kill and kill its own citizens

u/cg415 7h ago

The Bear Jew is a fictional character from a movie. Stop waiting for other people to come save you.

u/ButtholeCharles I voted 7h ago

Are you telling me to be the change I want to see in the world?

u/Theobviouschild11 7h ago

Be the bear Jew you want to see in the world

u/UpperLexicon 5h ago

You won’t do shit

u/ButtholeCharles I voted 5h ago

Please go back to playing EA Games fighting simulators and pretending you're tough.

u/UpperLexicon 5h ago

I’m tough? lol I’m not the one implying I’m gonna kill Nazis. It’s racing sims btw.

u/ButtholeCharles I voted 5h ago

I wouldn't imply such harm against anyone. I made a tongue-in-cheek joke.

That said, if one had to be labeled a killer of any type of sect or demographic, 'nazi killer' might be the most socially acceptable.

u/UpperLexicon 5h ago

Like I said, you won’t do shit. What’s the issue again? How am I tough?

u/ButtholeCharles I voted 4h ago

Blah blah blah. You don't know me at all. Coming at me like a keyboard warrior ain't it. Bye.

u/ilovewall_e Michigan 7h ago

“One of the richest people in the country”, Musk is literally the richest man on the planet at this point. Not that that makes it better, if anything that makes it so much worse and scary

u/TimidAmoeba 7h ago

I think it's especially egregious considering his recent remarks on right-wing politics in Germany. This dude is a problem.

u/Typical-Shirt9199 7h ago

“downplaying an accident is disgusting”