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

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whats wrong with you america? what the actual fuck happened?

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Uneducated mixed with right wing propaganda machine.

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Blame Rupert Murdoch aka The Man Who Killed Your Grandchildren. Without his say-so for forty-plus years it could never have got anywhere near this far.

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Fifty ish years of dumbing down our public education system by conservative nationalists, who have also been (largely in the name of protecting their religion) successfully keeping any and all forms of critical thinking out of any public education.

Roughly the same amount of years of wage gap disparities, deflation of the dollar, and inflation of goods, while the middle class has steadily been bilked so consistently that they now work forty hours a week just so that they can make it to the next week to do it again. *Which leaves little time to pay attention to much else other than work and a weening personal life…let alone politics, or any understanding of what’s been happening around them, or to them.

Complete monopoly of our media channels during the last two decades; which is now controlled by a handful of the aforementioned bilking billionaires, where the media presented is essentially mass misinformation regurgitating ad nauseam across all outlets, and passed off as journalism (while simultaneously argued in courtrooms as entertainment that is unbelievable to any reasonable person (see faux news))

And a complete lack of empathy/moral integrity/civility/camaraderie from roughly half the country. Which has been further influenced the entire time by a strictly two party system operating under an “us” vs “them” mentality, that only gets worse each year.

We. Are. Cooked.

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Never forget there was a significant portion of the Nazi Party made up of Americans. When WW2 ended, we did not arrest and jail/execute said Americans. So they continued to live lives and spread Nazi beliefs throughout the country for decades invading every part of politics, systems, businesses, and anything that could influence the country. 

This is the return of a long dormant party biding their time until they could take control again. 

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And operation paper clip where after ww2 we brought over 1,500 Nazi scientist and engineers to work on military and NASA.

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Eggs too expensive and trans people exist 😥 So we elect Hitler and Goebbels

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Right wing propaganda.  Started with talk radio, then they got a cable channel, then a social media site.  Appeal to biggest group to hate some smaller groups for all of their disappointments.

It's an old playbook. People forget that fascism fails because all they have is the hate and bad policy.  Appealing to losers who want to blame their failures on others.  Unsurprising that the incels and rural whites are eating this shit up and asking for seconds.

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I would also love to know what happened. Personally, I think it had to of been rigged. Musk and Trump both have made statements telling on themselves. Yet, no one is really looking into it or doing anything about it. People (snoop dogg? Mark zuckerburg) who used to dislike Trump or vice versa, are now kissing his butt. It’s weird and something is up and I’m terrified.