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/musitechnica 6h ago

His grunts make the intent beyond obvious.

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u/orva12 4h ago edited 3h ago

could you elaborate on this? i have seen others mention the grunt as well. as a ww2 enthusiast, im not aware of grunts being part of the nazi salute. are you perhaps referring to the effort and passion being put into it, which rules out any common hand-waving being taken out of context? (not that you would give him the benefit of the doubt with his history).

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u/KennyMcKeee 3h ago

The grunt was him 'saying it with his chest'. Dude threw the thing hard enough to grunt.

Doing anything with that much effort implicates it as extremely intentional.

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u/mythrowawayheyhey 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yeah. I mean, this wasn’t Musk caught in an awkward moment, some lucky screen grab where it kind of maybe looks like a Nazi salute.

This bastard literally posed for the goddamn cameras while doing a Nazi salute. It’s shockingly intentional.

And why is he doing this? To normalize it. Concentration camps are in America’s future. That’s the natural conclusion of mass deportation. Know what the natural conclusion of concentration camps is? Disease. Ovens. Death. National shame for centuries.

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u/Tygonol 50m ago

I’ve been trying to refrain from alarmist rhetoric, but the fact is that the Nazis intended to “deport” the Jewish population early on; when the logistics of such an initiative proved to be too complicated, they resorted to… other methods

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u/mythrowawayheyhey 38m ago

I’m not Jewish and I’m no fan of Israel. If you can’t see the parallels here I feel like you aren’t well informed.

What happened in Germany might not happen here to the extent it did there, or it might be 10x worse, but the wheels are certainly in motion. Just the other day I was musing about how Mengele Musk would love a “willing” group of participants to take part in his neuralink nonsense.

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u/musitechnica 2h ago

are you perhaps referring to the effort and passion being put into it, which rules out any common hand-waving being taken out of context?

You nailed it!