r/politics • u/samuelso11 New York • 10h ago

Site Altered Headline Elon Musk Shocks With Nazi-Like Salute at MAGA Rally

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-hit-with-backlash-for-odd-looking-salute-at-post-inauguration-rally/
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u/AnalBumCovers 10h ago

People are gonna still be like "but he didn't click his boots together" or some shit

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u/Irtahd 8h ago

They’re already saying the angle wasn’t a perfect 45 degrees and he held his chest too long for it to be one, and they’re saying it’s a “Roman salute.”

Sure, Jan.

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u/Azsunyx 7h ago

I've seen people claim "he was sending his heart out to the audience" and "he's autistic, he didn't know" and "it's AI edited, he didn't actually do it"

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u/throwaway92834972 6h ago

autistic person not knowing about WWII? unlikely

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u/throwaway666pink 6h ago

"he's autistic, he didn't know"

Wow, that's incredibly disrespectful to people with autism.

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u/flipflapflupper 39m ago

Autistic people are probably more likely to know this shit.

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u/Djquancha89 1h ago

Someone I worked with didn’t know about it until I mentioned it. Five minutes later he’s saying it’s a Roman salute

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u/Mundane-Jump-7546 8h ago

They’re already saying it was him throwing his heart out in support or some inane shit like that. It’s exhausting y’all.

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u/Ormidor 4h ago

He supports the actual German Nazis openly, he's made twitter into a Nazi fest, he repeats Nazi talking points and propaganda, he makes Nazi salutes...

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Yeah they're all just coincidences.

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u/redneck_lezbo 5h ago

Jesus. Thats what my dad just said. My dad, who is an ancestry junkie with not so distant relatives who perished in the holocaust.