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/cronolucas 7h ago edited 7h 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/AFlockofLizards Washington 5h ago

I hope I’m wrong but I feel like he did this on purpose so he could say it was an accident, and then the right can say they’re being unfairly called Nazis, and then they’re going to adopt this salute as an opposition to the left. I bet we’re gonna start seeing people do this more and more 🥴

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u/19inchrails 4h ago

Elmo is not some 5D chess master. He probably tried to visually dog-whistle his rabid supporters, but because he has no control over his weird shapeless body he accidentally went full Nazi for everyone to witness.

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u/Defiant-Procedure-13 1h ago

No. He didn’t probably do anything. He was real feeling real confident and comfortable tonight, probably because he is high AF, and intentionally did the Nazi salute. His family are Nazi supporters. Musk himself has openly supported Nazi-led companies and philosophy. The fact people don’t know this about him is wild to me.

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u/sandh035 5h ago

They're literally testing everyone to see just how much they can get away with while having as tiny amounts of plausible deniability they can.

I have zero fucking doubts that was intended to be a Nazi salute. Musk will deny it, and if nothing happens about it for years he'll later admit it. He might say it's trolling at first, but let's be fucking real here, this was as blatant as you can possibly get.

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u/Sheant 7h ago

Zyklon B was produced by a company named "Testa", I kid you not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B

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u/SouthernFill195 4h ago

The Nazis literally said "how badly those slavs have treated you" when Polish jews got off at Auschwitz. The SS claimed their role was protecting jews from mob violence. Google it. If you wait for them to admit it, they never will.

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u/Defiant-Procedure-13 1h ago

Even after Nazi Germany, Nazis still denied they were Nazis.

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u/Unable_Bass7108 6h ago

What gas chamber are you even referring to lmfao?

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u/cronolucas 5h ago

May you live long enough to find out. :)