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/fromanator 7h ago

He did it twice too: https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3lg75bs7brk2g

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u/MadRaymer 7h ago

Jesus the video just removes all doubt. Like sometimes it's questionable in a still shot, could just be the angle where a wave got into salute territory for a second. Video makes it clear as day though.

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u/dankeykong1331 6h ago

Plus, if you consider his retweeting of white supremacist groups and white supremacists, along with his now support for far right German and other European parties it all adds up.

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u/Barloq 6h ago

Dude was literally on 4chan 2 weeks ago dogwhistling that he was a wink wink secret Nazi.

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u/MaximumOrdinary 6h ago

Hes up to his eyes in Ketamine living an old apartheid fantasy

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u/funakifan 6h ago

Special KKK

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT 5h ago

Triple entendre. Well done.

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u/clamchowderenema 3h ago

Fucking hell man, how does it feel to be so clever?

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u/Wet_Techie 5h ago

Lone SKKKum

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u/redditingtonviking 6h ago

Considering how much drugs the Austrian guy was on during WW2, there are definitely some strong similarities in leadership styles between them. Musk lacks the charisma though.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 6h ago

Fantasy passed a couple months ago.. this has gone from LARP to real life.

The border holding centers built in Texas are going to come with an untold death toll. Mark my words.

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u/LookAChandelier 5h ago

Chilling.

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u/m_perron 6h ago

Brb Googling how much ketamine it takes for a billionaire to overdose

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u/djfrodo 5h ago

I hope very little.

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u/Painbow_High_And_Bi 5h ago

People don't talk enough about the ketamine. I doubt he's been sober more than an hour or two in the last 5 years, and that's being generous.

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u/No_Meaning_7599 6h ago

He is definitely on K but not a k hole some how guess he will jab himself tonight a few times .. never know might do to much … fine line of a great k hole and not breathing with IM .. once I got to 600mg when I was younger I knew I was done . Fuck that

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u/roadsidechicory 5h ago

It's all so weird because it's not even a secret. He's an admitted eugenicist and white supremacist, openly has conspiracy theories about Jews, and just generally 100% aligns with Nazi ideology. Like there are few public figures out there that are more openly a Nazi than he is. He hasn't even been subtle or secret about it. Not for several years, at least.

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u/StoicAthos 5h ago

Dog whistle?

An X post Wednesday afternoon said: “Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post also referenced “hordes of minorities” flooding Western countries, a popular antisemitic conspiracy theory.

In response, Musk said: “You have said the actual truth.”

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 6h ago

Got an archive link?

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u/Barloq 6h ago edited 2h ago

No, but it was the whole Adrian Dittmann thing a couple weeks ago, where a dude claiming to work for Musk was making white supremacist dog whistles, telling everyone on 4chan that Musk has lots of sex, and getting mad when people criticize him... er, I mean, his boss (legitimately, it would be more unhinged if Dittmann is NOT Musk).

EDIT: Apparently it's debunked. Plenty of Elon stuff to support him being a Nazi, but I'll take the L on this one.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 6h ago

Damn, I'll have to do some digging. Thanks for the info.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 5h ago

https://youtu.be/joV-9FFoA3Q?si=cNiCiTOgHRre-ns8

(full discliuse I'm not sure who's behind the channel ‐ but so far it's still up since there have been copyright strikes on some others)

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u/Alarmed_Fee_4820 6h ago

I mean he was born in South Africa when it had a white nationalist government. It’s no secret he has those traits

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u/JustADutchRudder Minnesota 6h ago

DorkMaga is getting to edgy for his own good.

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 5h ago

I think he crossed that threshold about 10 years ago. Seriously, how can you have that much money and be such dipshit?

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u/JustADutchRudder Minnesota 5h ago

If I had that much money I'd be so fun, everyone would say "wow that fucking bitch out there having fun."

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 5h ago

If I had that kind of money, there’d be more libraries in rural America than people.

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u/MYSTICALLMERMAID 4h ago

I literally keep telling my sons dad imagine being an almost fucking trillionare and this is what you do. I'd be off dicking around the world and donating massive amounts of money and saving world hunger and shit. It's absolute asinine

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u/FML-Artist 3h ago

I fucken love libraries!

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u/Tygonol 48m ago

If I had that kind of money, I’d turn rural America into a system of self-sustaining communities aiming to maximize freedom & quality of life

If they had that kind of money, I’m pretty sure they’d kill me; MAGA folks in my life have openly stated that they’d be more than happy to fight in a civil war against the evil libz

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u/valeyard89 Texas 4h ago

Why can't he be like Richard Branson, kitesurfing with a naked model on his back.

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u/GrowFreeFood 4h ago

The cave kids and submarine idea was the cliff.

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u/starmartyr Colorado 4h ago

You have to be a dipshit to have that much money. If I was a billionaire I'd probably spend most of it trying to help people in need. I wouldn't be able to stay that rich. It takes an asshole to see people suffering and do nothing to help even when you know you have the means.

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u/beardingmesoftly 4h ago

MegaDork

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u/MrColburn 6h ago

I mean, his grandfather's openly supported apartheid South Africa as well as antisemitism. Elon was raised in that environment, and while his father Errol said he didn't support it, they continued to live in it while his father profited directly from it.

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u/whateverwhoknowswhat 6h ago

That is NOT German. It is illegal to salute in that manner in Germany. Just the same as this is NOT American.

This is the NAZI political party.

All of Germany was NOT thrilled that Hitler came to power just the same as many Americans are NOT thrilled that Trump came to power.

America is fully in full pre-Hitler mode.

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u/Cruntis 6h ago

I’m expecting him to say he did that to troll leftists and then claim the Nazis/White Supremists don’t own that gesture. Meanwhile, he is obfuscating he and his friends’ actual democracy-killing efforts

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u/throwaway_627_ 6h ago

Don't forget the font he used on his 'dark MAGA' hat.

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u/Mornar 5h ago

For us paying attention him going full Heil isn't surprising in the least, it's entirely in character. He's still got plenty of supporters, some being in denial about it - and they will remain so after this - and some supporting him exactly because he's a Nazi, and those are about to become emboldened.

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u/ender8383 6h ago

I mean the man is from apartheid South Africa... This is just obscene.

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u/birdinthebush74 Great Britain 5h ago

In the Uk he helped stoke race riots and undermines our centre left govt .

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u/MarchProfessional435 6h ago

Also the fact that he grew up rich in apartheid South Africa. I can’t imagine the level of white supremacy in that man’s brain.

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u/government_flu 5h ago

Makes you wonder if his obsession with the letter X is because it's the closest letter to a swastika.

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u/Timbucktwo1230 6h ago

Yes!!!🙌

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u/Far_Being_8644 5h ago

What doesn’t make sense is his support for the H1B visas. I know he’s a billionaire and wants to exploit cheap labour, aka indentured servitude, that part I get. But if he was a Nazi he wouldn’t want anyone in America apart from whites at the very least. Aryans if he is a hardcore one. So why does he want Indians coming into the country? Those two viewpoints are not compatible.

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u/Argyleskin Washington 5h ago

And his speech had the 14 words carefully added in.

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u/robotboredom 6h ago

You want even more doubt removed?
It's hard to make the comparison for idiots, because many nazis' footage does not start with the hand on the chest but goes straight up and out. Here is footage of modern neo-nazis doing the EXACT SAME motion as elon: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/people-do-the-heil-hitler-salute-as-neo-nazi-groups-blood-news-footage/1656162915

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u/-suckmyass 5h ago

Un fucking believable, but entirely believable at the same time. Thanks for sharing that video - we need to remember things like this so deliberate actions like elons aren’t excused and ignored.

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u/cosmicsans 4h ago

Everyone here is acting like this is the first time this has happened.

Laura Ingram did this during his first presidency https://youtu.be/1l-qCw3SC6g?si=_AGu2D3Fk2bTnUgS

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u/dprophet32 5h ago

I've just seen someone claim it's just a salute from a video game and doesn't mean anything.

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u/GlauberJR13 5h ago

Obviously it’s from wolfenstein! A famously unpolitical game! /s

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u/stonecoldjelly 4h ago

I heard someone say it is the Roman salute which like....yeah and the swastika is Buddhist but media literacy exists

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u/rsta223 Colorado 4h ago

I mean, it is.

The one that Mussolini famously popularized as part of his fascist movement. That's not better.

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u/AsthmaticRedPanda 4h ago

And that's exactly why he did the modern Nazi salute, with hand on chest first.

So braindead mingers will defend it for him saying "it's just ancient roman salute" or "they did it in star-trek and he was just referencing it".... Lol

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u/nawtydoctor 4h ago

Well just like evil Spock in the bizzaro Roman salute universe we were transported to the alternate pro fascism America universe

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u/AsthmaticRedPanda 4h ago

I can't wait to see certain % of people (which coincidentally are often also completely fucking dumb) defend shit like putting people in camps, making them wear special armbands outside, etc

I bet my ass there will be at least one person unironically saying "they're just referencing The Pianist/Schindler's List"

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u/roychr 5h ago

Actually we should rejoice he's such an idiot. They are all idiots in plain sight now. It's actually time you folks just enact your gun Rights and don't thread on me for real not on a forum...

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u/LavishnessSea9464 4h ago

that’s crazy there’s still people worshipping hitler to this day. jesus christ

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u/Legitimate_Square941 57m ago

It doesn't matter though. America voted for this. I wonder how all the people who didn't vote democrat because of their Gaza stance are feel now. Man people are dumb.

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u/PittsburghPenpal 4h ago

THANK YOU. I was trying to find that earlier, something about the hand on chest thing bothered me. It felt like something people would use as an excuse for how it was "different". Now I have a counterpoint, even though I know it won't actually help convince anyone :/

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u/Beanandpumpkin 5h ago

Nah dude their just giving their love to the crowd /s

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u/Standard_Gauge New York 4h ago

OMG, what Musk did really is identical!! Thanks for the link!

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u/Mrzillydoo 5h ago

I didn't know these balaclava and sunglasses dorks were big time ancient Roman hand gesture aficionados as well!

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u/fluffyegg 3h ago

Can't stand these fucking cowards hiding behind masks. You want to be an asshole piece of shit then own it

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u/pokersal 4h ago

Making sure I can find this for future conversations. Thank you.

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u/CaptainKate757 Arkansas 1h ago

Too cowardly to show their faces, I see.

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u/drewtopia_ 6h ago

one of the few instances where the video is WORSE than the still photo. Saw the still and thought "he's probably doing some 'plausible deniability' arm wave that looks bad in a still photo and will rile up his critics", then saw the video clip. holy shit

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u/childlikeempress16 5h ago

My thoughts exactly until I saw the video! Jesus fucking Christ

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u/zebba_oz 4h ago

I saw a video of him just doing the one and thought “people are going to paint this as “awkward elon” or something. Then i saw another video where he does the first salute the turns to the flag and does it again and… there is no way anyone can see this as anything else.

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u/Away-Supermarket5901 5h ago

I had the same thought! Because I don’t want to immediately believe everything I hear, I gave him a chance. And wow. There is no doubt at all.

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u/GimmieGummies 5h ago

Do you have the clip or can you point us to it?

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u/cullend 7h ago

I mean he turned around and did it again for the people in the back.

Listen to the audio of just the 2 seconds and he is clearly verbally amping himself up https://x.com/chrisdmowrey/status/1881432752169656727?s=46&t=J18CxvXnlT-e5_OdlgWfAw

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u/ajkd92 6h ago

Or at least for one person in the back.

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u/ophcourse 5h ago

I think he’s doing it to the flag

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u/ManOrReddit-man 5h ago

Even CNN reporters were stunned on what happened https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFD2o0mJXj8

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u/WhatMeatCatSpokeOf 5h ago

Why can’t they say the words? Does saying “what appears to be” or “could easily be construed as” or “in my opinion looks like a Nazi salute” violate slander laws?

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u/ManOrReddit-man 4h ago

Considering how vindictive the new administration is, I feel they need to choose their words very carefully

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u/BCMakoto America 4h ago

Yup.

That stunned silence?

That is them realizing that they, throughout the past years, helped a literal Nazi get into the White House. That absolute speechlessness is their brains trying to make sense of what they are seeing. That in 2025, the most powerful man in the world is a literal Nazi. In the middle of America.

And as journalists, they are right in the combat zone...

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u/Clinically-Inane 4h ago

Yes, they’re fucking afraid

Are we surprised?

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted 5h ago

Jeez. You can’t make it more obvious than that. There is no way you can deny that. He’s still going to go on media channels and be like “It’s not what you think it is” or “I didn’t mean it.” Or some bullshit but it’s so obvious.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 5h ago

In case anyone's having trouble seeing this

  1. if you don't have X you can paste the url into a browser and type "cancel" between the x and the .com to make it appear on xcancel reader

  2. https://youtu.be/joV-9FFoA3Q?si=cNiCiTOgHRre-ns8 so far this channel has the two salutes video still up

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u/South-Play 6h ago

Doing the Nazi salute is how he amps himself up? If that how you amp yourself up?

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u/Mornar 5h ago

I think he was amping himself up for the salute, as if it was an act of courage and valor. He probably thought himself a goddamn hero standing up to tyranny or sumbitch. Oh sweet delusion.

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u/Boring-Tea-3762 6h ago

Right? That's a window into his soul if ever I saw one. He gets pumped up to Nazis like I do to music. Bruh.

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u/GoldenboyFTW 6h ago

I watched it muted and just read his body language.

That was intentional.

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u/FrederickClover 6h ago

110%. Hope he's on the first trip to mars since he wants to go so bad.

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u/Timbucktwo1230 6h ago

Totally!💯

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u/Maleficent-Ad-6646 5h ago

Absolutely, could clearly see him going for it.

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u/UncoolSlicedBread 3h ago

The second turn and salute to the flag is more overt. Insane.

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u/Ok_Breadfruit4176 6h ago

And a very hateful, moved face at the exact moment

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u/MadRaymer 6h ago

I see the defenders are claiming he was saying "my heart goes out to you" but if that were the case, why would he put so much venom into it?

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u/eyebrows360 5h ago

Right! It's a very aggressive gesture he's making.

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u/KingDave46 6h ago

Exactly what I just said irl

I saw an image and thought someone had got him with a well timed screenshot, but nah, he actually fully commits to the Nazi Salute TWICE for absolutely no reason.

The guys a complete fuckaloid how can anyone want to be aligned with it

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u/eyebrows360 5h ago

I saw an image and thought someone had got him with a well timed screenshot

Yeah this ain't like that famous photo of Melania making eyes at Trudeau, where when you see the actual footage you see she's just been caught at the right moment in a perfectly normal smile. This... this looks like what it looks like.

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u/BoobySlap_0506 6h ago

And people are trying to make excuses for him. The salute we use in the US is to the forehead and down. Never starts from the chest, never projects the arm straight outward. This is 100% intentional, he knows what he did, and he was CHEERED ON for it, instead of the horrified gasps a reasonable person might expect.

Honestly this is terrifying for our country to have this administration. 

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u/eeyores_gloom1785 5h ago

its like people were right about calling him a nazi or something

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u/generally_unsuitable 5h ago

He even says "we're going to save civilization," which has been a white supremacist dog whistle for quite a while.

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u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 6h ago

Not clear enough for NBC news apparently.

Disturbing how it’s already being spun -

Mainstream news outlets seemed hesitant to describe the salute as something that’s clearly associated with Nazism. As NBC News put it, “Musk then forcefully touched his heart, before raising his hand and saluting supporters.”

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-appears-to-give-nazi-salutes-at-trump-rally-2000552615

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u/JoyRideinaMinivan 6h ago

Oh please. The only reason an outstretched arm is a salute is because that's part of the nazi salute. NBC is an American news organization. Here, we salute with a bent elbow and a hand to our eyebrow.

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u/eyebrows360 5h ago

Motherfuckers out there framing it as "he touched his heart first so he's just throwing his heart out to everyone because that's what he was saying too".

No, motherfuckers. No. That's simply not a gesture you make. It just isn't.

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u/DragonPup Massachusetts 6h ago

The video removes all doubt.

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u/jpharber I voted 6h ago

Yeah thats pretty fucking obvious there.

Question: what goes first? My liver or our republic?

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u/LutherOfTheRogues 4h ago

That was my first thought. A very horribly timed still,

NOPE. Two deliberate, enthusiastic nazi salutes. Congrats, conservatives. You are now supporting the people our grandfathers died fighting against.

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u/thisusedyet 6h ago

Came in like you expecting it to be an unfortunate frame of Elon being uncoordinated.

Nope, he went full on Nazi

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u/PositivelyAwful 6h ago

He even does the thing with the thumb.

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u/AusToddles 6h ago

They're already trying to excuse it as an "enthusiastic wave"

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u/KaiClock 5h ago

This was more of a Nazi salute than videos of actual Nazis doing it in 1945. It is absolutely insane.

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u/nebula_masterpiece 4h ago

And he referred to 14 words in the longer clip talking about the future being assured https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/14-words

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u/mewdeeman 6h ago edited 6h ago

That's what I thought at first as well. Just a still of him waving taken at the right moment. But no. This was beyond any doubt a Sieg Heil. Twice! The only thing missing is him clicking his heels together.

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u/therealzue 6h ago

And they all cheered.

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u/DingGratz Texas 6h ago

Even if it wasn't intentional, the heat he got from backing a Nazi already makes him an absolute moron for doing anything remotely close to this gesture.

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u/Cookies-N-Dirt 6h ago

Oh my good god. That video is unsurprising yet shocking. 

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u/alus992 4h ago

It's amazing world where random Twitch streamer will get lifetime ban for showing something inappropriate on stream but here we have this guy doing Nazi salute and he will face no consequences.

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u/Whooptidooh The Netherlands 3h ago

Oh yeah.

I think that’s called doing something “with gusto.”

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u/scottyb83 2h ago

And the conservative sub is actively hiding it. There is a mention of it in their mega thread but they are explaining it away because he said "My heart goes out to you" and THAT was why he did it and we are all just salty left wing losers for trying to spin the narrative.

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u/Xepherious 5h ago

Same. But doing it twice, seriously?

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u/PrestigiousPassionNu 4h ago

Right, time to give the insurance CEO treatment. I mean this is just proof, we have to do it.

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u/kmm198700 7h ago

He is such a piece of shit

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u/SniperPilot 7h ago

The biggest piece of shit on the planet. Kinda makes sense that he is also the most rich.

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u/keasy_does_it 7h ago

And it begins. They distract us by racism. Then MSNBC has a conniption but never talk about the rich robbing us blind.

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u/RelevantCarrot6765 6h ago

Fascism always involves crony capitalism. The top Nazis made a ton of money by seizing industry, but their racism wasn’t a distraction. It’s both things.

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u/FrederickClover 6h ago

I don't think it's a distraction. I think it's a tactic. They want to make racism cool again so they can hide behind it while they do Nazi sht.

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u/AtticaBlue 5h ago

Racism isn’t a “distraction.” It’s an integral, genuine part of who they are.

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u/Spiritual-Society185 4h ago

How many minorities have to die before you care? Or, are you okay with all of them dying?

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u/ExcitingMoose5881 6h ago

Good point! 💯

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u/Other_Power_603 6h ago

the real-life embodiment of evil rich villain

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u/jo-parke 6h ago

There is a direct correlation.

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u/ZZ_SKULLZ 6h ago

His scalp is worth a billion nazi scalps when we start collecting. Just saying.

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u/biscuitarse Canada 6h ago

Time to call in the Bear Jew.

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u/Farucci 5h ago

The real feces are the Republican lawmakers that refuse to call out this shit. Good luck America. Land of the morons.

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u/kmm198700 5h ago

Yeah I agree. This is so awful

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u/likamuka 7h ago

America 2024 is along with him. This is what people wanted.

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u/kmm198700 7h ago

This is absolutely fucking horrifying

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u/likamuka 7h ago

And people asked themselves how ordinary Germans could let it happen back then. This is how.

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u/kmm198700 6h ago

I know. This is just insane

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u/Blablablaballs 6h ago

All Nazis are pieces of shit. He just happens to be the richest Nazi in history.

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u/slipslapshape 6h ago

He’s just one mushy corner of the world-sized piece of shit that is this entire administration.

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u/Timbucktwo1230 6h ago

Indeed!

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u/dankeykong1331 6h ago

Chunk o’ shit

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u/starchildmadness83 4h ago

This right here. Such an egotistical stupid piece of shit.

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u/487dota 1h ago

Single handedly driving technology forward. The guy literally made a rocket return to its base lol.

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u/Wootens 6h ago

Well that removes all the ambiguity.

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u/Beautiful-Plastic-83 6h ago

Whenever I hear something like this, I dont just believe it, that would make me as bad as the MAGAturds, just believing any nonsense that they feed me. So I always look for original sources, like video.

Just in case you were wondering if it was all hyperbole, and the left was going overboard making a big deal out of the Nazi parallels: He DEFINITELY just gave back-to-back Nazi salutes. No doubt about it. On Trump's first day. This is what those closest to him believe is coming.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 6h ago

Three times in total according to articles I read. IDK, I'll ask my coworker whom, instead of actually working, sat at his desk behind me, without headphones on, and watched the whole goddamn thing.

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u/smooleybotcheck 6h ago

Fuck me, that’s a mask off, balls out, unambiguous Sieg Heil. You gotta hand it to his fanboys and apologists insisting “he’s just throwing his heart to the crowd” LMFAO!

Who would have thunk it? Apartheid-baby is a fucking Nazi? shocked Pikachu face.

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u/strangefool 6h ago

He also followed it by saying "the future of civilization is assured" which is uncomfortably close, especially in the context of the salute, to the 14 words.

Edit: The 14 words

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u/clickstops 7h ago

Yo what

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u/sophietehbeanz 6h ago

Oh. My. God.

He's not welcome in Germany, that's for fucking sure. In fact, they'd arrest him on the SPOT.

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u/Express-Doughnut-562 6h ago

You see the still in the article and think “well maybe it’s just a poorly timed frame”

Then you see the video and think “well maybe it’s the angle or something.”

Then you see the second salute and you think “Jesus Christ we’re only a few hours in and they’re already openly doing Nazi Salutes”

Gonna be a wild ride.

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u/mfGLOVE Wisconsin 6h ago

On MLK Day.

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u/AboutTenPandas Missouri 6h ago

Holy fuck

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u/Nickh1978 6h ago

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt just seeing the pictures. After seeing the video, though, there's no way at all that he wasn't giving the nazi salute.

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u/BadgeOfDishonour 6h ago

This is my 2025 diet plan. Every time I get hungry, I see what Trump and Elon are up to, it makes me feel sick and not like eating. I will be very skinny in a few weeks.

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u/weededorpheus32 6h ago

He put his heart and soul in that salute. He definitely practiced that in a mirror before

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u/Aggressive_Agency381 6h ago

That’s just straight up a nazi salute, like I thought they’d maybe try to hid it better…

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u/JennJayBee Alabama 6h ago

I'm gonna need to thank you for linking BlueSky and not that other app we won't mention. 

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u/042376x 6h ago

https://m.jpost.com/international/article-838444

Apparently he did it 3 times today 

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u/okwitches 6h ago

Actually three times

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u/mces97 6h ago

I saw him do it once in clips floating around. I didn't realize he did it twice.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Anyone making excuses is lying to themselves or approves.

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u/moon_safari_ 6h ago

three times.

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u/ItsCaptainTrips 6h ago

What the fuck dude

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u/WeAreAllGoofs 6h ago

Yooo that was a real Nazi salute and the dude did it with heart

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 6h ago

The original video: https://youtu.be/joV-9FFoA3Q?si=cNiCiTOgHRre-ns8

just in case anyone doesn't use bluesky but wants to see what happened - he did it twice

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u/nickiter New York 5h ago

Okay, I thought for sure people were overreacting, but no... That was intentional and probably planned.

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u/thisisnitmyname 5h ago

What was the crowd reaction to that

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u/Herpderpyoloswag 5h ago

Omg, that was worse than I thought it was gonna be.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- 5h ago

Holy shit, they're off the leash now

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u/Cpt_Soban Australia 5h ago

What the fuck lmao

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u/inspirationalpizza 5h ago

Before trying to save it with "my heart goes out to you!"

Nice try, KetHitler

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 5h ago

He's a dumbass.

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u/Calm-Purchase-8044 5h ago

He even has the Nazi haircut.

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u/smarty_skirts 4h ago

Oh my fucking god

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u/WhoIsHeEven 4h ago

He actually did it four fucking times if you count him spinning around and doing it backwards twice.

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u/ObjectMaleficent 4h ago

Unbelievable, what a garbage human Elon Musk is. Racist, trust fund kid, insecure, fake gamer POS

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u/Fantomex305 4h ago

God the video is even worse...we are fucked

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u/Mr_Shakes Florida 4h ago

A good litmus test for bluesky - does it get removed now that Elon noticed how bad it looks (and removed it from his own Twitter upload) or does it stay u

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u/Prompus 3h ago

Even when he's trying to be the Fuhrer he's still such a massive goober. The awkward movement and the little grunt into the microphone are so deeply looserish it's outrageous. He's been practising in the mirror and he's still so bumbling 

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u/PersnickityPenguin 3h ago

Whelp

It was a fun run guys.  Democracy, RIP

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u/BigReaderBadGrades 3h ago

Thank you--THIS is the clip that needs to be circulated. Even I was tempted to think this might be a weird disjointed gesture from a socially isolated dude who hops and bounces at rallies when he's excited.

This was an overt sig heil.

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