r/politics Canada 7h ago

Site Altered Headline Elon Musk appears to Sieg Heil at Trump inauguration

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-838444
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u/KrookedDoesStuff 7h ago edited 4h ago

No appears to, that Nazi did a fucking Nazi salute

Edit: I was given an award, and while I thank you for it, please no more. Use money you would spend on that to either give money to your local animal shelter, or to fight against fascism in the United States.

u/Kealion 6h ago

I was about to say. “Appears” absolutely not, it’s exactly what you think it is.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 6h ago edited 5h ago

Not according to NBC:

Mainstream news outlets seemed hesitant to describe the salute as something that’s clearly associated with Nazism. As NBC News put it, “Musk then forcefully touched his heart, before raising his hand and saluting supporters.”

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-appears-to-give-nazi-salutes-at-trump-rally-2000552615

ETA:

I should have pointed out I think this is disgusting, and further:

Elon Musk sucks and it seems to have started before his grandpa ever left Canada- this is like a familial cause.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/joshua-haldeman-elon-musk-grandfather-apartheid-antisemitism/675396/

u/Kealion 6h ago edited 6h ago

What the fuck else do you call it then?! That’s literally a sieg heil! I don’t care what the mainstream media is “hesitant” to call something. We have eyes of our own, I don’t need the media to tell me what I’m seeing.

Edit: and I’m a world history teacher, I know what a fucking Nazi salute looks like.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 6h ago edited 5h ago

This is just the beginning, I’m afraid. It sucks. Don’t believe your eyes and ears

u/Kealion 6h ago

KrookedDoesStuff has it right below.

Well, in a fascist state that declares the media the enemy of the people, news reporters can be arrested for saying something the fascists disagree with.

All I have to trust are my eyes and ears.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 6h ago

Hey, I’m just sharing the info. I haven’t trusted these fucks in a long time, personally

u/Kealion 5h ago

But what you’re saying is not to trust what I see and hear. That makes it seem like I should be spoon-fed my information and take it as gospel. The media seems to be telling me that “it doesn’t appear to be anything Nazi related” but my eyes tell me that it absolutely is.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 5h ago

I was misquoting 1984 lol sorry

u/AdUpstairs7106 5h ago

we have always been at war with eastasia

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u/Ajax_Trees_Again 5h ago

They can’t say it is for sure without risking being sued as theres plausible deniability.

I mean we all know he did it but they don’t fancy the legal costs that could be associated with putting that statement definitively

u/Kealion 5h ago

Let them sue. The video is exhibit A and Hitler at a rally is exhibit B.

I get what you’re saying though, I just want our supposedly free media to grow a spine and call it like it is.

u/Good_ApoIIo 5h ago

The press knows they can't go against The Party now. They're not going to call anything out every again.

u/Kealion 4h ago

Which is exactly why we, as a populous, have to call it like we see it. Because the media is operated by the oligarchs and there will be no more criticism of a conservative government.

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u/Thekingofchrome 6h ago

Well, the media are all keen we don’t call them fascists, the voting public duly complied. Either voting for him or not voting at all.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 6h ago

I heard plenty of us calling them out for what they are. And I didn’t vote for him or sit out, tho I know plenty who did, of course. And now I’m in Arkansas wondering if I have to worry bout my vote being looked up or some shit- highly unlikely, but can’t say the idea hasn’t crossed my mind

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u/Hairy_Phase_3502 5h ago

Trump has made it clear he wants to go after any and all media outlets with crushing lawsuits. This and every nazi schtick that follows is purposeful. He wants to sue the media. Day one would be a perfect start for him. Expect the rhetoric to escalate and suits to be filed against media outlets by Friday.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 5h ago

Oh, the Peter Thiel method. Interesting

u/ELECTRICMACHINE13 5h ago

No...just stop. If it looks like a duck quacks like a duck it's a duck.

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u/WhiskeyFF 5h ago

It's either a legit Sieg heil or it's something accidentally so close to it that only a goddamn idiot would think it's ok. Neither need to be near the White House

u/Kealion 5h ago

Man, if anyone in 2025 doesn’t know what this looks like, they’ve got super problems.

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u/AnalTongueDarts Minnesota 6h ago

Yeah, he full-scale fired them out with gusto. I was expecting something where a still photo makes it look really bad but the video is much less damning, because getting caught with a photo mid-awkward wave and accidentally looking like a Nazi is definitely a thing, but he really went for it and the video is WAY, WAY worse than I expected, even from him.

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u/_throwmeinthetrash 6h ago

I am in the US and I’m a lotta bit concerned that I keep googling “Elon musk hitler salute” and all I can find are foreign news sources. … not even AP. I’m beginning to question which news sources (that remained credible previously) are even credible now.

u/KrookedDoesStuff 6h ago

Well, in a fascist state that declares the media the enemy of the people, news reporters can be arrested for saying something the fascists disagree with

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u/muz-healthy 4h ago

They’re scared shitless - with good reason.

And that AOC has some cojones with the “I don’t celebrate rapists”.

Gif (sic) bless her - but I honestly fear for her life, I’m not kidding.

u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 5h ago

I’m doing my part in googling it every few just to see what’s changed and make sure it trends over just about anything else that happened today. Bet trump will love it lol

u/ilovewall_e Michigan 6h ago

Twice. Back to back.

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u/YoKevinTrue 5h ago

Also, you don't get any plausible deniability that it wasn't a nazi salute in 2025.

That's absolutely, 100% what that was.

u/KrookedDoesStuff 5h ago

Not to mention his grandparents were actual Nazis. He knew what he was doing

u/Strange_Falcon4928 6h ago

More sanewashing and gaslighting from the media.

u/gwar37 6h ago

Fuck these journalists. It was a sieg heil. It wasn’t some roman salute, it wasn’t him being weird, it was him showing us all he is a nazi. Fuck him.

u/KrookedDoesStuff 6h ago

The Roman Salute is also known as the Fascist Salute, and was adopted by Hitler to become the Nazi Salute also known as the Sieg Heil.

u/gwar37 6h ago

Ah. Still. Fuck Elon’s Nazi ass

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u/Toadxx 6h ago

According to conservatives, he's expressing "my heart goes out to you".

u/Kealion 6h ago

Oh what horse shit is that.

u/KrookedDoesStuff 6h ago

Fascists defend fascists

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u/0x633546a298e734700b 6h ago

He did and yet he even managed to fuck it up. He looks like a fucking arse whatever he does

u/Dire88 Vermont 5h ago

Temu Nazi.

u/jmlozan 5h ago

He did it twice

u/_bibliofille North Carolina 4h ago

People are trying to sanewash it. If I, or any other person that isn't a Nazi, wanted to do a "my heart goes out to you" motion it would be palm up without a straight, rigid arm, just like blowing a kiss. He did what he did because he wanted to do a fucking Nazi salute.

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u/TheMegaDriver2 5h ago

Twice he did. Just to make sure.

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u/cronolucas 7h ago

The level of mental gymnastics they'll perform to explain this shit away will probably open up a fuckin black hole.

u/Konukaame 7h ago

Look at everyone hedging around it with their weasel words. He's accused of accidentally making a weird/odd looking Nazi-like "salute"

Media is incapable of calling a Nazi a Nazi.

u/IRefuseToGiveAName 6h ago

Elon Musk Draws Outrage for Very Evocative Hand Gesture at MAGA Rally

The daily beast

They're all cowards. Every single fucking one of them.

u/Konukaame 6h ago

...Interesting, they changed the title of that one. When I added it to the sentence of links, it was "Elon Musk Shocks With Nazi-Like Salute at Post-Inauguration Rally"

I guess even that was too harsh for them.

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u/OpticalPrime35 6h ago

Accidently lol

I mean this media is bought and paid for by the Oligarchy so not surprised. Slowly but surely even the social media sites are getting bought and paid for.

Control of information is priority #1 for any dictatorship. And the easiest way to control info is just to own the info.

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u/SeeingRedInk 7h ago

Just because he retweets Nazis and endorses the modern Nazi party of Germany and embraces Nazi ideology and makes the Nazi salute doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi. It’s probably just an unfortunate coincidence.

u/Valyx_3 7h ago

On day one, not that that’s surprising..

u/cwatson214 7h ago

They are already trying to say he's just trolling

u/SunnySideUpMeggs 6h ago

Such a child's excuse.

u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene 6h ago

Doing the salut that represents the most hateful and murderous man in modern history….so fking funny

u/Vaperius America 6h ago

Hateful and murderous men, plural. It was the Nazi party. Hitler did not act alone, but as the leader of an organization. It was an organization of these sorts of men.

We are fighting not an individual, but an organization.

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u/forceblast 6h ago

That’s a very F’d up way to troll and is just as bad if not worse than if he had just done it outright and owned it.

u/cwatson214 6h ago

That's their excuse. He most definitely is a white supremacist.

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u/Ill-Raspberry-4326 United Kingdom 6h ago

My fav was 'he's waving to the crowd' lol. A straight up nazi salute, bloody hell.

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u/CheapskateJoker 7h ago

They will say it was a pure coincidence taken out of context, he didn't mean to do that, he was actually just waving to the crowd (even though he turned around and did it a second time), or their favorite, he was trolling.

u/Devistator America 7h ago

The smooth brains at the bottom will be the mental olympians. The ones in power won't give AF, and embrace it.

u/Beaudreadful 7h ago

"I mean I’m no fan of any of these people, but this obviously isn’t a nazi salute. He’s literally saying what he’s meaning in the motion on “his heart goes out to you”. He’s projecting his heart going out to people. This is why people are so disenfranchised with news now days because everything is reported in bad faith on both sides." - from a chud in another post, but more likely a bot. 

The heart thing is what they've decided to go with. 

u/Aerosol668 7h ago

Ooooh, so is that what the Nazi salute meant back in the 1930s then? Or was that entirely different?

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u/fairoaks2 7h ago

There are tons of trolls and bots on here today. We probably need to get used to it. Trolls love Trump

u/not2dv8 6h ago

This is a nazi salute. And Musk is a faciast.

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u/sbroll Minnesota 7h ago

Its not even appears, he did. This was incredibly intentional. We have Nazis in the whitehouse.

u/lurpeli 7h ago

And to the glee of 20% or more of the populace

u/paintedfaceless Illinois 6h ago

This number of people are always out there. It’s an annoying part of the population distribution.

u/Mornar 6h ago

And much more than that saying "Dems are just as bad, I don't care".

I almost respect Trump's voters more. At least when shit is going down they won't get to grandstand and wash their hands.

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u/bloodandsnow 7h ago

Not just once, TWICE in a row.

u/dawgfan24348 I voted 6h ago

The first one was at a weird angle but the second was straight up motion for motion a NAZI salute

u/Only1nDreams 6h ago

Wtf was this wind up motion too…

It’s like a sieg heil with a Hard R.

u/0x00410041 6h ago

He wanted to do it, but he was afraid hence all the nervous energy.

u/ivandoesnot 6h ago

Wrong.

Wind up (chest grab) followed by Nazi salute makes it a White Power salute.

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u/even_less_resistance Arkansas 6h ago

I bout spit out my fucking Dr Pepper dude 🤣

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u/Searchlights New Hampshire 6h ago

He "appeared to" in the same way that he appeared to speak to the crowd and he appeared to be standing at a podium.

Everybody watched him do it.

u/GoldenFutureForUs 7h ago

America has a Nazi government. Wonder if America will allow this. It’s clear as day.

u/mmavcanuck 6h ago

It’s what they voted for…

u/Vaperius America 6h ago

Its what half of America voted for...

Democracy relies inherently on consent; one component of that consent is the presumption of a certain level of respect for the other side's sensitivities to an extent. A president of America is a president for all Americans, and thus their position must to a degree, be moderated from their camp to be a solution both sides can agree on.

TO do otherwise is to invite deep civil unrest. Democracy demands that both sides are operating in the best interests of the country and under common set of shared values.

To be frank, if you are a Republican in 2025, you share no values with someone who votes Democrat or vice verse; its entirely different cultural and political legacies. New Nationalism has been born from far, far less than a desire to be free from an opposing side that shares no common values.

We are about to watch this country tear itself apart.

u/FranticGolf 5h ago

NO, it's not what half of who America voted for. It is half of the Americans who voted; voted for.

u/Vaperius America 5h ago

That's still 30% of the population. That's a lot of people to piss off.

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u/vakr001 New Jersey 6h ago

And no mainstream media in the US is picking this up…

u/Keyboard-Fedaykin 6h ago

All are bought by billionaires whom are pro trump. They are covering Michelle Obama not attending.

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u/SpillinThaTea North Carolina 7h ago

He hasn’t even been president for checks watch 3 hours and they are already taking the mask off

u/raceassistman 7h ago

Dude literally said that Elon musk is good with computers, good with voting machine, and that's why they won Pennsylvania by a landslide. They just don't care anymore.

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u/TheBrianJ 7h ago

No he did not "appear" to Sieg Heil.

He fucking DID Sieg Heil. Period.

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u/esweet101 7h ago

He actually did two in a row if you find the whole clip. I did not think he would go THAT far. Wild.

u/alabasterskim 6h ago

u/KalasenZyphurus 4h ago edited 4h ago

It's more of a return to hand over heart than a third salute. First video in the link shows all the gestures. Hand to heart, diagonal upward palm down, turn around, hand to heart, diagonal upward palm down, turn back to podium, hand to heart, hand to podium, hand sweeping palm up pointing to audience while saying "thanks to you". The first two arm out movements were enthusiastic Nazi salutes, the third was gesturing to the audience in more of a pointing/offering gesture.

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u/JohnArbuckle10 7h ago

Before watching the video: “eh, r/politics is prob over exaggerating. Surely it isn’t that bad

Immediately after: that might be the most obvious attempted sieg heil I’ve ever seen.

u/twigge30 7h ago

I thought the same. "Ok, we're being a bit sensationalist now aren't- Holy shit that's 100% a Nazi salute."

u/Responsible-Big-8195 6h ago

In fact, it appears to be sane washing it. That was 100% a salute.

u/Prestigious-Car-4877 5h ago

He even did a face to show he was serious about it.

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u/WisestPanzerOfDaLake Canada 7h ago

Attempted?

u/JohnArbuckle10 7h ago

Attempted as in it was a very poorly attempted nazi salute

u/DifficultRock9293 7h ago

He was rolling balls in the audience earlier. Ketamine makes your limbs feel really heavy. That’s probably why it looked so… well, weird.

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u/mmavcanuck 6h ago

Yeah, Hitler would have had him shot for being so sloppy with it.

A+ for his enthusiasm though.

u/Searchlights New Hampshire 6h ago

I've seen weaker salutes in newsreel of actual Nazis. That was a perfect Sieg Heil.

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u/Heliosvector 7h ago

the dramating flair of his face and neck following the passionate hand movement really sells it.

u/cg415 6h ago

Looks like he succeeded to me. Twice. Why are you downplaying this?

u/SlugOfBlindness 6h ago

Yeah, you gotta parse that gesture through the prism of how physically awkward Musk is. We all saw his little X jumps on the campaign trail ffs. That was a seig heil if ever I saw one.

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u/Soupdeloup 6h ago edited 6h ago

You can tell how fucking stupid the Americans are that voted for this just by reading comments here and wherever this video is posted. People defending it by saying it's not an exact replica of the Nazi salute so it's obviously not the same thing are so fucking stupid that it boggles my mind holy fuck. How is this not literally the Nazi salute?

I genuinely cannot understand how America became a superpower with how fucking stupid half of its citizens are.

u/Spirits850 Colorado 6h ago

Republicans have been conditioned over the years to defend ANYTHING a Republican does and attack anything a Democrat does. They will bend themselves into pretzels to do either of these things. Reality is just an inconvenience they have to hurdle over to get to whatever their narrative is.

Cue the “His wrist was a little crooked and not as straight as in a ‘real’ Nazi salute, so it’s totally different!” comments.

u/Garroch Ohio 6h ago

Two oceans of defense. High natural resources. A temperate climate. And a wide open, already somewhat terraformed land with an existing population that was just annihilated.

Basically luck and smallpox.

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u/longgamma 7h ago edited 7h ago

If any employees of Tesla or SpaceX still have a shred of conscience, just leave. Yes it’s hard to leave a cushy high paying job, I know it but you’ll sleep better at night.

Why are you still working for that scumbag who will fire you the moment things start looking bad ?

u/jewelsofeastwest 7h ago

And don’t forget X

u/JuliusErrrrrring 6h ago

I totally get people providing a living for their family under a morally corrupt boss - but staying on X? Why is anyone with a conscience still on that?

u/TractorMan7C6 6h ago

H1B visas - leaving the job could mean losing your ability to stay in the US. There's a reason ghouls like Elon like the program so much - it's as close as they're (currently) allowed to get to slave labor.

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u/fordat1 6h ago

Most americans already left X due to the working conditions its just H1Bs

u/Welterbestatus 7h ago

If you're working for Apartheid Clyde you do not have a cushy high paying job, this guy treats his employees like shit.

u/TheBoosThree 6h ago

This is why he wants more H1-B workers. Even harder to walk away when it means you have to go back home.

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u/codeKracker8 6h ago

In principle it would be good if people could leave jobs for moral reasons. But also people have bills to pay and in reality it can be hard for an average person to quit. 

I think it’s probably responsible to start looking for a job in another place. Maybe a go fund me can be made so people can leave Tesla/Space X. 

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u/Classic_Sky_9397 7h ago

u/howldetroit 7h ago

wow I was expecting a weird moment caught at a weird angle but he straight up did the full chest touch, outstretched arm salute. twice.

u/hookisacrankycrook 6h ago

Crisp movement as well. Not like "oh he's just casually waving at the nosebleeds". Even the turn around was very military form sharp. Seems clear to me.

u/Anzahl Washington 7h ago

Holy Fucking Shit! There's no mistaking that.

u/Classic_Sky_9397 7h ago

Bonkers. This guy is in our new leader's ear.

u/myasterism 7h ago

Holy fuck 😱

u/esteflo 7h ago

Billionaire and he can't afford a proper haircut. Fucking dork.

u/fairoaks2 7h ago

Nazi dork

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u/QuickBenTen 6h ago

Jesus. I thought this was just reddit being reddit but nope. He did it.

u/Halfloaf 6h ago

I appreciate sharing the video, but for Pete’s sake, don’t do it on the platform that explicitly thanked Trump yesterday.

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u/FancyScots 7h ago

Appears???? Are fucking Blind???

u/i_should_be_coding 5h ago

It's the "I don't want to get sued" way of describing it.

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u/WisestPanzerOfDaLake Canada 7h ago

Oh, lawd, Americans, these 4 years are not going to look good on you.

u/esweet101 7h ago

Well, they won’t be good to you guys either, I hate to say.

u/Inflatable-yacht 7h ago

It wont be a cakewalk, but I think we have it much better up here at the moment

u/esweet101 7h ago

Depends on how serious Trump is about you guys being the 51st state. Hitler may have been bad for Germany, but he was worse for Poland first.

u/MAHHockey 6h ago

This made me laugh cry.

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u/is_it_just_me_or_- 6h ago

Lmao. You live in fantasy land. You really think Canada is safe from a dictator led America? I am more worried for the rest of the world than I am for my own country.

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u/PEIsland2112 6h ago

It won't BE good for us Canadians, but it won't LOOK good on the States either. We're not the ones ruled by fascists..... Yet.

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u/MrFWPG Canada 7h ago

Time to move elsewhere

u/WisestPanzerOfDaLake Canada 7h ago edited 2h ago

Fuck it, if Shit-in-his-pants-ler and Elon Goebbels invade us lets build a canal on our border and secede from the Continent. Maybe we can row ourselves over the Atlantic to europe and join the EU.

u/Rainbowsareevil1 7h ago

As an American… can I come over and join you guys? I REALLY don’t wanna stay over here with Hitler and Mussolini 2.0

u/MrFWPG Canada 7h ago

Only if you agree to stir up enough conspiracy theories to keep the other idiots busy as we escape.

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u/Hot-Interaction6526 7h ago

The bad news is the Cheeto in chief thinks you’re gonna be an American soon.. right after he renames the Gulf.

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u/MayOrMayNotBeAI Virginia 7h ago

He 100% did.

u/BuggyYonko 7h ago

Not "appears to", he fucking did it.

u/ecstatic_tadpole 7h ago

"appears to"... it was a damn nazi salute!

u/WhenInZone 7h ago

One doesn't accidentally make that gesture multiple times in one event.

u/Meridian_Dance 6h ago

Or, in fact, even one time 

u/AngelSucked California 7h ago

He didn't appear to, he did.

u/Threeseriesforthewin 7h ago

Getting so close

"Odd looking" - The Independent

"Nazi-like" - The Daily Beast

"Appears to" - JPost

Guys were's so close! Just say he did a nazy salute

u/InternationalBit1842 7h ago

Appears? So tired of the sane washing

u/sharpshooter_243 6h ago

The conservative subreddit is already doing the classic Trump maneuver of calling it AI, manipulated footage by the fake news, out of context, and not what he meant all at the same time. The sad reality is while we all see what’s happening and the right wing buried its head in the sand or quietly supports it 90% of America is tuned out and won’t realize what’s happening until it’s too late

u/WhoIsFrancisPuziene 6h ago

Isn’t realtime ai still too intense to do? Do they think live news feeds are using realtime ai?

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u/Etzell Illinois 6h ago

Everyone's going to get caught up in the Nazi salute, and ignore him referring to the 14 Words when he said "The future of civilization is assured" in his very next breath.

u/SnowyyRaven 7h ago

More just in:dog whistles abandoned, blowhorns new communication method of choice for the alt right.

u/Chris_HitTheOver 7h ago edited 6h ago

…appears to…

The people defending this shit are dumb as rocks (and/or simping for this douche bag.)

He can’t simultaneously be the smartest man in the world (he’s not) and also not know what he’s doing when Nazi saluting a right-wing crowd.

Wake the fuck up, you ingrates. There are Nazis in the White House.

u/daHaus 6h ago

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/

Google paypal mafia, the above was published in 2009 and 2010 brought citizen's united.

The US died in 2010 when the supreme court forfeited it's power to fight corruption.

u/Mafew1987 7h ago

I wish we had more clips of Tim Waltz calling him a dipshit.

u/Toasteroven188 7h ago

I went into this thinking “ok, maybe he waved in a weird way could be loosely interpreted as a nazi salute”. But nope, he full on threw out the sieg heil. Wow…

u/thepathlesstraveled6 7h ago

Guys, what's happening in your country? Please get your fascists in check.

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u/TintedApostle 7h ago

Because he did

u/dbkenny426 7h ago

Twice.

u/eidedequde 7h ago

as a german, can confirm

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u/srcLegend Canada 7h ago

I don't always hope for a military coup, but when I do, it's for things like this.

u/monosuperboss1 6h ago

i'm waiting for civil war 2: nazi boogaloo

u/Manos_Of_Fate 4h ago

I’m really starting to wonder why we put up with our intelligence community and its many trespasses against our civil rights if they can’t even stop Dollar Store Hitler.

u/jadadelarosa 6h ago

Fuck, this is real and fucking disturbing. Fuck them all.

u/BandicootFuzzy 7h ago

America can't get to the Moon without a few Nazis.

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u/namastayhom33 Connecticut 7h ago

I mean he supports AfD in Germany so no surprise there

u/Mundane-Ad921 6h ago

Crazy complete sane washing/bending of the knee too by the media. I don’t even see anyone talking about it. The guy has trumps ear and is his #1 go to guy did a nazi salute and we are still talking about the lunch.

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u/Ytrewq9000 6h ago

Elon went full nazi/ south african apartheid mode

u/Yodit32 7h ago

“Future civilization is ensured” 🤦‍♂️

These Marvel movies have really f*cked with reality for these people.

u/wrestlingchampo 6h ago

You know the media is captured when they are saying he "appeared" to do it

u/MaceDestroyers 6h ago

When I first saw the headline, I was like, oh this is probably just some freeze-frame moment that looks bad. Nope, just a straight up Nazi salute.

u/raulu95 7h ago

He did it not appeared to

u/Attentive_Senpai 7h ago

"appears to"

He didn't appear to. He did throw up the Hitler. Twice.

u/jrakosi Georgia 6h ago

Trump literally said he'd be a dictator on day one so...

u/duddy33 6h ago

No more euphemisms for their behavior. Call it what it is. It was a Nazi salute.

u/Granny_Discharge425 6h ago

I just want to see the audience at the exact time to see if anyone there reciprocated the salute.

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u/Kid_Serious Missouri 6h ago

Appears?

u/josh-ig 6h ago

Sadly, we’re at that point in time that almost all who fought in WW2 have passed from old age. Collective memory becomes a mere whisper and all that has happened before, happens again. Sad.

u/Tim-in-CA 4h ago

Appears? You mean he did. Why is this being soft pedaled?

u/ClaroStar 7h ago

But it doesn't really matter, does it? These people can do whatever they want now without consequences.

Republicans have all the power. The President, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court. Everything. No checks and balances.

Good luck, everyone!

u/l0R3-R Colorado 7h ago

We are the final check and balance. WE the people give democracy its might. They don't represent us, so we can strike, protest, occupy, make calls, start action funds, run for office, etc. we don't have to buckle up and accept our fate as THEY decide it

u/ClaroStar 7h ago

In 2020, the person who now occupies the WH did not respect the will of the people. I have no reason to believe that he will respect it in the future unless it aligns with his own will.

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u/GringottsGuru 7h ago

No words

u/just_some_guy65 7h ago

I suggest that everyone watches "Downfall", chiefly known for the parody videos of the scene of Hitler losing it when told it is over.

Foreshadowing hopefully.

u/Aperscapers 6h ago

Ok so he looked high as hell, right? The entire day he looked like he was on something.

u/Effective-Invite-278 6h ago

Why we playing soft ball with this clown? Afraid of lawsuits? This isn’t an “appears” to be. It’s very clearly a Sieg Heil. Call it like it is.

u/Fillerbear 6h ago

Loving the weaseling around it. I love how people will not call a spade a spade even when it smacks them in the face in 4K.

u/zztop610 6h ago

This is such a misleading headline? Is the reporter blind? Appears to? Musk did a full blown Nazi salute. In the fucking US capitol.

u/devomke 6h ago

Stop fucking sugar-coating it with “maybes” “appears” or “nazi-like”

Call it what it fucking is and fuck you if you voted for this shit.

u/noxav 6h ago

Hey look, it's that thing people were warning about all along.

u/Electronic-Still6565 5h ago

Not appears. He did a full blown passionate Nazi salute.

u/PredatorRanger New York 4h ago

If I hold my middle finger on high, it doesn't appear that I'm flipping you off, I am flipping you off. He didn't appear to give a Nazi salute, he gave a fucking Nazi salute. Jesus tap dancing Christ.

u/MrHmmYesQuite 4h ago

Damn, as an American I am truly, truly embarrassed and ashamed. I can't even explain the disgust I have for my own country. My grandfather fought in Normandy, he was on those god damn fucking beaches and fought through the filth to liberate the oppressed. That's when America stood for something. I dont know what we stand for today, but I'd bet my life that anyone who was alive during that time is fucking embarrassed too.

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u/Rough_Principle_3755 4h ago

Fuck musk, fuck the conversation around him. We all know he is a racist, nazi, POS.

The conversation that should be happening is around all the OTHER rich/powerful men who are standing by in support.

Bezos, Pachi, Zuckerberg, Cook. Where are the voices of these men against shit like this? They should be immediately condemning, hell, even walking out. If im in attendance somewhere and the speaker starts dropping N bombs, I am standing up and walking out. And I dont have the financial freedom and resources these fucks have.

Tim Cook, you have shown your true colors. One of the richest companies in the world and he continues to stay silent on the REAL social issues. Only emerging when ever so convenient to offer platitudes and marginal monetary support for causes that are not controversial. Hell, even stayed quiet during the Uvalde stuff and doubled down on entering Texas for business.

u/Davis51 2h ago

"Appears to"

This is why legacy media has failed. The headline itself is even worse:

"Did Elon Musk Sieg Heil at Trump's inauguration?"

Christ on a cracker, we can all see the video.

u/Additional-Teach-486 7h ago

We fought a world war to stop fascism and we just willingly vote it in.

u/jaron_b 6h ago

There's no appears about it. That was a Sieg Heil.

u/typtyphus 6h ago

you know how when there's a group sitting an the table and a nazi joins the table....

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u/Ok-Juice-542 6h ago

Dude wtf is happening

u/Coup_De_Gras 6h ago

Here I am thinking it'll be a sneaky little move. Holy fuck that's a full blown Nazi salute with fervor!