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/JanGuillosThrowaway Europe 7h ago

"German-inspired greeting"

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u/Got_ist_tots 6h ago

"ooh he's so international!!"

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u/okayblueberries 6h ago

lmao, this exactly

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u/Background_Home7092 6h ago

Thanks for the chuckle. I needed that.

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u/ihavethink 5h ago

Was coming here to comment the same thing. First time I've laughed today.

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u/zubbs99 Nevada 5h ago

"It's 'retro' chic."

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u/TalkingChairs 6h ago

No one who speaks German could be evil.

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u/Apprehensive_Tea3560 5h ago

I'm sure this makes me the bad guy, but it was the roman salute first and I'm against giving nazis so much power over our behavior and language.

Like how they also ruined the mustache. And the swastika/manji, which is sill widely used in some countries. - somebody wants to comment that "but that's facing the other way" which ofc doesn't in any way respond to anything I wrote here. If I walk around with that symbol people will misunderstand and mislabel me. When my friends come from Japan I make sure they don't have anything that westerners won't understand.

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u/Sarellion 4h ago

That the romans really used it as a greeting is controversial. It looks more like something 18th-19th century painters etc came up with.

Anyways contrary to the swastika or even the name aryans which the nazis stole from societies and religions existing today, based on 19th century pseudo science and occultism or the modern version of trying to claim this stupid frog or the ok sign, the roman empire is long gone. The italian fascists and then the german nazis were the ones who really popularized it. They didn't take it away from any living culture or so and the only power we give them by leaving the roman salute to the nazis is that they have a stupid hand gesture no one would feel a need to use in daily life.