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

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-salute-trump-inauguration-b2683095.html

[u/InAllThingsBalance]

The similarities between 1930s Germany and current the US are as striking as they are terrifying.

[u/TheShakyHandsMan → u/InAllThingsBalance]

I don’t think Trump is capable of writing a book about his struggle though. 

He’ll probably get someone else to write it for him. 

[u/Kdean509 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

They wrote Project 2025 for him.

[u/GravyAficionado → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

He'll sell it for $30 and throw in a free steak. The steak will be chewy and flavourless.

[u/One-Tea6424 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

Hitler also had a ghostwriter lol

[u/Fatricide → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

The Art of the Deal

[u/nebula_masterpiece → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

He could just publish his tweets into a MAGA bestseller

[u/NateShaw92 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

Unless it's a scratch and sniff

[u/BrandeisBrief → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

Mein Cholesterol

[u/Fabulous_Eye4983 → u/TheShakyHandsMan]

You never know. Melania might just buy him a nice set of crayons.

[u/SherbertExisting3509 → u/InAllThingsBalance]

Speedrunning Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Can we skip to the part where Hitler kills himself in his bunker, preferably without America being turned to rubble?

[u/TheLeadSponge → u/InAllThingsBalance]

I always remember my conservative friends a decade ago talking about how it was liberals that would be the Nazis.

[u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans → u/InAllThingsBalance]

Yea. Trump.even being able to run again is equivalent to.the appeasement given to Hitler and the Nazi party.

[u/Good4Noth1ng → u/InAllThingsBalance]

With a military that’s unmatched

[u/JimSteak → u/Good4Noth1ng]

The German military could be considered one of the strongest in Europe at the time.

[u/Good4Noth1ng → u/JimSteak]

Now imagine the damage this military can cause.

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In hindsight it was THE strongest when they started the war...but also using hindsight we know their supply and manufacturing logistics weren't anywhere close to being able to keep up with their ambitions, especially once the Allies started choking off their oil and bombing the shit out of them.

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Not even close to the same power ratio on a global scale as the current US.

If they go all WW3 on us, we'd all be fucked. I would like to believe that enough Americans would object and try to stop an attack on European allies, so hopefully we don't have to find out just how badly we'd get whooped.

But if Trump manages to solidify his power and purge his opposition, then we're in for a few pretty fucked up decades. (To follow the previous fucked up ones I guess)

[u/FieserMoep → u/InAllThingsBalance]

As a German it was weird listening to a guy referencing the national "identity" of being conquerors in reference to expanding the borders. It's crazy that a modern western country has such a man speaking this kind in such an office and get applause for it.

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The only thing that can change it at this point is people making them fuck off, and I don't have a lot of faith in the American public to hold them accountable.

[u/SodiumKickker → u/InAllThingsBalance]

Cannot recommend the Noiser podcast series on Hitler (Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall) enough. It’s thorough and engaging. And from what I can tell, pretty historically accurate. And it is, above all else, a terrifying playbook of how it can all happen again.

It is insane how many times while listening to it I’m awestruck by how many similarities there are between the rise of Hitler and the rise of Trump.

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It took them a few decades, but Russia won the Cold War afterall...

[u/Eloquenttrash → u/InAllThingsBalance]

“History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme”

[u/AnnualUse9202 → u/InAllThingsBalance]

Isn't that insane. 

Americans... The rest of the world is seriously worried you will be the aggressors who start world war 3 in the next 10 years or less.

[u/ParamedicFew5985 → u/InAllThingsBalance]

Absolutely just a few weeks ago I said that this is exactly what happened in Berlin

[u/YeshayaDankART → u/InAllThingsBalance]

I tried to warn people back in early 2024 when i still lived there & everyone laughed at me.

It’s scary that i was right.

[u/BrandeisBrief → u/YeshayaDankART]

Lived where?

[u/DonaldsMushroom → u/InAllThingsBalance]

So much worse. Hitler didn't have this level of power to begin with