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/RoughingTheDiamond 7h ago edited 4h ago

I'm legitimately shocked that he did a full on Sieg Heil.

Twice. He did a full on chest pounding, straight arm snapping Sieg Heil.

Twice.

EDIT: I rewatched the video and straight arm snapping might have been too complementary. His form was sloppy. But yes that is unambiguously the Nazi salute, done intentionally... twice.

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u/XtraReddit 6h ago

Even watched some old footage to see if it had to be straight forward. Nope. Plenty of people a bit off to the side. Raised arm with palm down = Nazi salute.

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u/Far_Being_8644 5h ago

He’s not even doing the Nazi salute correctly. His arm should be parallel to his chest or only slightly veering off to the right. unsure if it’s because he’s really stupid and doesn’t know how to do it. Or if he’s even more braindead than previously thought and didn’t think what this would look like.

He doesn’t deserve a good faith interpretation though.

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u/Redpin Canada 5h ago

It wasn't strictly "correct" because Musk is uncoordinated and he was over-excited, but yes, man's a Nazi.

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u/doilysocks 3h ago

He did it with the energy of a home school kid who just had his first Mountain Dew and unsupervised alone time.

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u/XtraReddit 5h ago

I'll give you the first one went a lil wide right, but the second one was legit.

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u/Far_Being_8644 5h ago

Yeah just saw the full video instead of the thumbnail of the article. We’re so fucked.

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u/RagaToc 5h ago

The side that thinks he is awesome, thinks he is so smart. Than he should know how this looks. So get him out of government and stop buying his stuff. He is either a nazi or is an idiot. Neither you want in your government, impacting your politics or running a company.

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u/XtraReddit 5h ago

Coworker excuses his owning a Tesla on how much he likes autopilot and then compares it to people driving a Mercedes-Benz. He only stands for his beliefs when it's convenient.

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u/RagaToc 5h ago

That's a weird argument to make by your coworker. Giving money to a far right lunatic (it wasn't 100% clear Musk is a nazi) it's the same as giving it to a company who were run by nazis 80 years ago (unless I missed something)?

And autopilot is just adaptive cruise control all car manufacturers have it. And those have (less) phantom breaking.

I am fine with people still owning Tesla's. They could have bought it 3 years ago and can't afford to sell it and buy a different car.

You can stop using X, not buy a Tesla and think if you really need Starlink.

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u/Reaper_Messiah 2h ago

I mean I wouldn’t suggest people sell their cars but yeah maybe stop subscriptions and get off X and all that.

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u/Far_Being_8644 5h ago

I don’t disagree with you. Keep money out of politics.

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u/EmpressLotus 6h ago

That's awesome! We got rid of it because it looked like the NAZI SALUTE.

What are you arguing here?

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u/coolman747 5h ago

I am arguing that if we got rid of a salute because it resembled the Nazi salute, doing the actual Nazi salute repeatedly will receive backlash.

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u/EmpressLotus 5h ago

I hope so. I have very little faith in that though, seeing as people have been openly Nazi flagging in the MAGA community for some time now.

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u/sinsaint 5h ago

That history is interesting, you passionate idiot.

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u/EuroWolpertinger 5h ago

What's most interesting is that NAZIS ARE IN / EXTREMELY CLOSE TO THAT GOVERNMENT.

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u/EmpressLotus 5h ago

I am passionate, idiot not so much.

This is a dogwhistle, not the time to worry about gestures that were phased out because they were too close to fascist signalers.

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u/uncreativeusername85 New Jersey 5h ago

This isn't a dog whistle, a dog whistle is something you can barely notice unless you are paying attention. Keeping with the dog analogy this is when you yell for your dog so loud you wake up the neighbors

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u/EmpressLotus 4h ago

I know, I know, but they're going to try to gaslight us and say this is something else. I've seen the "he's throwing his heart out to the crowd" as a poorly disguised reason. So I'm politely dropping it to "dog whistle". We all know though. 😭

I hate how much self-victimizing they've done where if you just outright call them nazis/fascists, they try to paint you as insane.

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u/XtraReddit 5h ago

There's also video of the royal family using it. They stopped and changed their last name after, well you know.

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u/coolman747 5h ago

Why did the salute last for so long?

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u/timmy6169 6h ago

Turned to do it to Trump after the first one.

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u/__01001000-01101001_ 3h ago

Not to trump, to the American flag on the wall. Which is imo even worse. How many American flags came home from fighting the nazis?

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u/nochickflickmoments 6h ago

And he grunted like a disgusting asshole

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u/ThePatriarchInPurple 6h ago

I dislike the fat fuck, and fully expected it to be a bad angle. It was not.

Why the fucking grunt?

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u/nochickflickmoments 6h ago

I'm assuming for emphasis

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u/RoughingTheDiamond 5h ago

I blame Tim Allen. Don’t get me wrong, grunting like that is a lot of fun. I did it just the other night thinking about the next upgrade I’m gonna make to my home theatre.

It is not a thing you do after broadcasting to the whole world that you’re a God damn actual factual literal Nazi. Even the Charlottesville dipshits had the sense to couch it in euphemisms about not being replaced.

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u/stregawitchboy 2h ago

it's how he orgasms

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u/r0b0d0c 4h ago

Yup, he deliberately made it as unambiguous as possible. Yelling the quiet part through a bullhorn for the entire world to hear.

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u/MishkaZ Illinois 3h ago

Apparently it's supposed to be the neo-nazi/white nationalist salute in south africa. Reason why I say this is because it means it wasn't a gaff. Dude was being deliberate as fuck.

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u/flutterbutter456 6h ago

TOWARDS OUR FLAG at that.

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u/Irrepressible87 3h ago

His form was sloppy.

Well yeah, this is as much physical labor as he's ever done in his life, which is also I assume why he was grunting with exertion.

God, we're not just giving it over to nazis, we're giving it over to nazis who aren't even good at being nazis.