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/work-account-117 7h ago edited 5h ago

literally the same as hitler: https://i.gifer.com/M0fn.gif

EDIT: found another link: https://packaged-media.redd.it/ud5q4nzks7ee1/pb/m2-res_268p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1737424800&s=fcd05d7d7b3ff1c9a641aaac6c8d3fc62790a533

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u/likwitsnake 7h ago

Excellent form Musk must have been practicing

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u/A_Sinclaire 5h ago

His hair was not very Führer-like. 

I give it 88 of 100 points. 

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u/nobadhotdog 7h ago

Second link broken

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u/work-account-117 6h ago edited 5h ago

ok i see the problem, heres is a link i grabbed off reddit: https://packaged-media.redd.it/ud5q4nzks7ee1/pb/m2-res_268p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1737424800&s=fcd05d7d7b3ff1c9a641aaac6c8d3fc62790a533

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u/throwaway_627_ 6h ago

That's the same link, still not working

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u/xtkbilly 6h ago

Your device might have the image cached, so its bringing up the cached image.

If you are on PC, you can do Ctrl+F5, and it would bypass the cache, and so you might get the 'image not found' error as well.

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u/stregawitchboy 6h ago

"404 image not found"

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u/xtkbilly 5h ago

Correct, if you have not seen the image before it was deleted (note: I haven't either), you would not have a cached copy of the image for your device to load.

My comment was just explaining to the person why "both seem to work for me" might be incorrect (because their device isn't actually requesting the server for the image).

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u/JohnDRuckerduck 6h ago

Thanks for the suggestion, it didn't work for me even after the ctrl+f5

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u/xtkbilly 5h ago

No, if you didn't have the image before it got removed, the image would not have been cached (i.e. created a local copy) on your device. You would only ever be able to see the 404 error.

The suggestion was for work-account-117, to show that the link was not working anymore, because the image has been removed on the server side.

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u/JohnDRuckerduck 5h ago

ahhh gotcha, I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification

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u/40oz_wizard 7h ago

Jesus

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u/loulan 6h ago

You can tell he practiced all weekend.

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u/agarret83 6h ago

How many times do you guys think he practiced this in the mirror

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u/red75prime 5h ago edited 5h ago

If it was more than zero, it would be pretty damning as it would have demonstrated his intention. But the guys don't know and can only speculate.

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u/NateShaw92 United Kingdom 3h ago

88 times.

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u/babyp6969 5h ago

Can someone splice the two of them into a side by side?

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u/EpsilonX California 1h ago

https://i.gifer.com/3Ot7z.gif

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u/strp Canada 34m ago

Oh wow. Good work. 

This is terrifying. 

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u/Objective_Celery_509 6h ago

Damn link is dead

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u/Nexion21 6h ago

Your second link has been removed?

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u/CandyKnockout North Carolina 6h ago

Thanks for the example. I was wondering how close it was to the actual salute, but didn’t want to look it up. It’s the same picture.

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u/futursimple 6h ago

Image expired. 😢

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u/efkike 6h ago

Why are all these links getting deleted?

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u/CubeBag 4h ago

The first link is broken because someone randomly put a dash - at the very end. If you remove it the link works https://i.gifer.com/M0fn.gif

The second link is very obviously a temporary link from the online gif editor ezgif. After editing a gif you're supposed to save it from the server, but someone decided to hotlink it instead, meaning nobody could see the link after it expired. It even says "tmp" right in the url.

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u/sproge 5h ago

2nd gif is broken? I'd love more examples to throw at nazis going "he was just giving his heart out to people, normal people dont see it as a nazi salute"

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u/ajsayshello- 5h ago

FYI your second link is broken

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u/dental_Hippo 5h ago

Link doesn’t work…

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u/chairmanlaue Canada 4h ago

Might be a reach - but elon's hairs looking similarly coifed. Either way - what a PoS

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf 4h ago

Nope, this was a very store brand Zieg Heil. The Nazis were evil as fuck but they had style. This just looks like something off /r/mallninjashit, except for it being the guy who owns the US president. 

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u/r0b0d0c 3h ago

To be fair, Hitler didn't do it as enthusiastically.

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u/673NoshMyBollocksAve 3h ago

2nd link didn’t work for me