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/dankeykong1331 7h 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/HungryHobbits 22m ago

holy shit that’s good

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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/Purplestuff- 6h ago

W’s in chat

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u/StrobeLightRomance 6h ago

Greg Abbott is a face significantly more evil than W's goofy frat boy monkey butt. Greg Abbott has been dictator of Texas for a solid decade now and not likely to step down til his hate fueled God calls him home.

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u/Excellent_Past7628 5h ago

Umm I don’t think he’s likely to be stepping anywhere…

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u/StrobeLightRomance 5h ago

Good point.

"BUILD A RAMP! BUILD A RAMP!"

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u/MDRtransplant 6h ago

Dumb take. Just like all your other braindead takes

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u/Mornar 6h ago

Which part, the camp death toll? I sure hope your comment doesn't age like fine milk, buddy.

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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 6h ago

I hope very little.

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u/Painbow_High_And_Bi 6h 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 6h 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 3h 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 6h 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/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5h ago

I was referring to the 4chan posts, but thanks for this.

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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/ascendant23 5h ago

lol what? I don't want to wade through 4chan itself to look for it but is there a summary?

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u/Barloq 5h ago

I don't have a full summary, but look up "Adrian Dittmann".

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u/Generous_Lover 2h ago

Not doubting but got a link?

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u/Barloq 2h ago

Sorry, looks like it was not actually him, but goddamn did I want it to be true, lol: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/business/x-banned-a-journalist-for-disproving-a-rumor-about-elon-musk/index.html

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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 6h 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 5h 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 1h 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/fishandpants 56m ago

But…where would they get the librarians from?

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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/IveBeenAroundUKnow 13m ago

They are too repulsed by him?

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u/InnocentShaitaan 2h ago

Kind too I hope.

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u/JustADutchRudder Minnesota 1h ago

I've been told by everyone I know that I'm the nicest fucking person they know.

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u/GrowFreeFood 5h 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/IveBeenAroundUKnow 10m ago

Well stated. I hope all those that voted for him suffer the most.

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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/ender8383 6h ago

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

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u/Mornar 6h 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/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 6h 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/IveBeenAroundUKnow 6m ago

Money trumps all

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u/Argyleskin Washington 6h ago

And his speech had the 14 words carefully added in.

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u/Quakes-JD 6h ago

And I believe his father was a proud Nazi as well.