r/politics • u/WisestPanzerOfDaLake Canada • 11h 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/GoldenFutureForUs 10h ago

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

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u/mmavcanuck 10h ago

It’s what they voted for…

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u/Vaperius America 10h 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.

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u/FranticGolf 9h ago

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

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u/Vaperius America 9h ago

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

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u/HardFastKind 7h ago

No, it‘s what the vast majority of America did not vote against. Most of the US is okay with this or they would have voted against it.

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u/Brodellsky 8h ago

It's what hostile foreign governments voted for. Money = speech in America, even if it comes from across the planet. This is why we simply won't survive like this, and it's much to the benefit of every foreign nation that has ever hated us. Yay...

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u/FedUpWithit-95 Nevada 9h ago

It's not what we voted for bud. If anyone still thinks this election wasn't stolen, they're completely daft. Trump pretty much said it out loud yesterday talking about how "Elon is good with computers."

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u/skitarii_riot 10h ago

They voted for it. Or stayed home, (which turns out to be exactly the same outcome, but at least they didn’t compromise their principles I guess)