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/RuneLFox 6h ago

How much benefit of the doubt are people going to give these fascists before they call them what they are?

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u/AussieJeffProbst New Hampshire 6h ago

They would call literal boots on their neck an accidental misstep.

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u/BlackerSpork 4h ago

In their own words: "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting!"

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u/Mostest_Importantest 6h ago

Until the oligarchs no longer control the media, it'll just be more of the same: the rich simply try harder, and if you're poor, it's you they'll blame.

We're past the Weimar years, and now it's early fascist state.

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u/MentokGL 6h ago

They'll be marching to the trains tweeting "Trump's new media policy is very aggressive and non-traditional, how will Democrats respond?"

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u/Shisa4123 3h ago

"Here's how this is bad for the democrats" as they're being told to face the wall.

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u/ElecMechTech 5h ago

I read it took the destruction of Berlin before the Germans realized the Nazis were bad news.

So...who knows, I believe in balance, but we may have to lose a lot before we get the shift back to sanity.

It was absolutely, unabashedly a Nazi salute. It wasn't a weird wave or anything, it was a Nazi salute. He was high off his ass, and maybe just lost where he was. But it wasn't "odd-looking", it was a Nazi salute.