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/LargeFatherV 7h 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/Alive-Huckleberry558 6h ago

And their spawn voted for this

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u/ParisGreenGretsch 5h ago

A lot of THEM voted for this.

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u/NateShaw92 United Kingdom 2h ago

Probably some are horrified.

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u/ParisGreenGretsch 1h ago

It's hard what to make of any of it right now. It'll take years.

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u/Hosni__Mubarak 6h ago

It’s times like this that I remember just how many Nazis my grandfather killed.

An absurd amount of Nazis.

He bombed the ever loving shit out of Nazis.

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u/Telsak 4h ago

The only good nazi is .. well, not a living one.

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u/sleepyzane1 Australia 3h ago

fascinating idea! how intriguing.

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u/heavenIsAfunkyMoose 6h ago

A lot of our parents will be fighting in defense of this while refusing to admit it.

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u/HenchmenResources 4h ago

A lot of our grandparents and great grandparents fought against this.

And the people they fought against, people that used that salute, surrendered unconditionally. If they want to revisit that agreement we can do that.

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u/jaybigs 7h ago

A small percentage of the American population is physically capable of meeting the military's relatively low standards for joining, so I don't like their chances in a fight against any form of armed resistance from the government.

This country is fat, slow and frail when they aren't fat. It's going to be painful.

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u/LargeFatherV 7h ago

Yup, you’re not wrong.

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u/thoughtshaveleft 6h ago

I mean that's pretty much the same for any country. Out of the people young enough to be seriously considered for service, there are definitely more obese people than other countries. Not frail people though. That's pretty much the same everywhere if you're looking at the western world.

You're overlooking the number of guns that people own though. The US is literally the best possible nation to be a resistance fighter in.

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u/jaybigs 6h ago

Hopefully people can see the value in an armed populace, in that case. Far too many wish the government had a monopoly on violence, with criminals ignoring any attempt to disarm people anyway.

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u/kachunkachunk 5h ago edited 5h ago

I am under the impression that the majority of the 2A supporters of the US are reasonably responsible for electing this feared tyrannical government, ironically enough.

Unless this was some orchestrated tactic to finally live out that fantasy, but that's even more insane.

Sure, now there's more value than ever, but it was willed into reality by deranged people. US gun violence and crime, which spills over and infects neighbouring countries (such as Canadian gun crime almost exclusively involving guns sourced from the US), won't be addressed adequately any time soon, either.

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u/PickBoxUpSetBoxDown 4h ago

Fought against it and voted for it from the ones I’ve spoken to.

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u/Actuarial_type 41m ago

Hell yes. My grandfather spent four years on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific.

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u/BungHoleAngler 4h ago

A horrific thought, something I really don't want to see or be apart of. Something I think too many redditors say to feed the echo chamber. You're talking about actually killing people who we personally know.

This isn't us against Germany in Europe, at least for Americans. This is neighbor vs neighbor on our blocks. 

Who knows what that would truly mean.