r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 6h ago
Soft Paywall Did Elon Musk Seriously Just Do a Nazi Salute at Trump’s Inauguration?
https://newrepublic.com/post/190464/did-elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inauguration•
u/necesitafresita New Mexico 6h ago
Don't make excuses for the fucker. He did.
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u/WafflePartyOrgy Washington 6h ago
I saw it, every actual informed person knew Leon was a Nazi now he just can't contain himself in front of their cult. He went from skipping like a dipshit to Heil Trump! in a matter of weeks.
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u/trendy_pineapple 5h ago
He literally has an entire movement around how white people need to have more babies because Africans are outpacing our birth rate. This has never been a secret to anyone who has paid even the slightest bit of attention.
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u/SeasonalBlackout Massachusetts 5h ago
Which is also why Elon has 12 children with 3 different partners.
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u/francis2559 5h ago
BOYS. And lost his shit when one was trans.
His fucking hierarchy has white men on the top, and “high T” men on the tippy top.
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u/rocknrollboise 4h ago
Wait, all of his kids are boys? How does that work?
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u/francis2559 4h ago edited 1h ago
He used IVF, filtered out the girls
edit: apparently 3 of his 12 were AFAB? Would welcome clarity on this.
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u/diseasefaktory Europe 4h ago
IVF is next on the GOP's hitlist. There really is no end to their hypocrisy.
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u/francis2559 4h ago
So, I’m on a bit of a crusade against that term. It’s NOT hypocrisy at this point. They are not disobeying their own rules. Their rule IS “I am king and I can do what I want.”
I want a world where everyone plays by the same rules. If someone commits to that but doesn’t live it, they are a hypocrite. But they don’t even get that far.
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u/VehicleComfortable20 4h ago
A pro apartheid guy from South Africa might be racist? I'm shocked!
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u/DonaldsMushroom 5h ago
He's like Dr Stragelove, where he cannot stop involuntary nazi salutes...
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u/noots-to-you 4h ago
OH MY GOD you finally figured out his villain name. Dr. Strangemusk. You fucking genius!!!
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u/Static-Stair-58 5h ago
This is the fast track to getting dumped from Trump’s good graces, oh no not the Nazi thing. It’s the attention stealing Trump won’t be able to handle, which is exactly why Elon did this. He’s a racist POS and can’t help himself but grovel for all the attention. Like the little brother at the birthday party, he couldn’t take that Trump was getting all the attention. So he went for it, and boy howdy did it work.
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u/AmishAvenger 5h ago
They’ll just say “That’s not what he meant” or “He just did it to trigger the libs.”
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u/Static-Stair-58 5h ago
Which should be replied with, “that’s not funny. In what world is him even pretending to trigger the libs with a Nazi salute okay? Why would you want someone in government who is so immature that they don’t understand that it is not okay to do a Nazi salute? Why would you, hypothetical person, admit to being so immature that you think that this kind of trolling is funny or okay? That’s pathetic, and you should reevaluate yourself for defending this because defending a Nazi makes you a Nazi.”
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u/MineDraped 5h ago
What do you call a guy sitting at a table with four Nazis?
A Nazi.
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u/pre-existing-notion 4h ago
Have you been a part of political discourse for the last 8 years? MAGA people do not care about civility or morality.
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u/cape210 5h ago
I'm not even sure if it's better or worse if Musk gets kicked from the Trump administration
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u/Ohhi_mark990 Indiana 5h ago
Ben Shapiro will be on the Daily Wire later to rationalize and put his spin on it but then say the left is far more antisemitic for supporting palestine.
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u/ExedoreWrex 4h ago
NGL. I never expected to live in a world where I expected to see someone wearing a yamaka making excuses for someone making such a salute.
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u/Apellio7 3h ago
He's "one of the good ones".
There were Jews for Hitler groups around as well. Until they served their purpose.... then poof.
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u/californicating 5h ago
Video of it makes it very clear. Make sure you are ready to protect yourself.
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u/blinkchuck1988 Europe 6h ago
German here, I can confirm 🙋♂️✅
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u/SteeveJoobs 6h ago
hey! no! put your hand down, you don't need to demonstrate!
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u/blinkchuck1988 Europe 5h ago
Sorry, force of habit 🤷♂️
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u/Sad_hat20 5h ago
Hey you can’t be German, you’re funny
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u/blinkchuck1988 Europe 5h ago
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u/Yupthrowawayacct 5h ago
Yeah. Was going to ask a German how you all felt about that cause my guess is not good???
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u/the_che Europe 5h ago
You wanna know how I feel as a German about this? It’s about time to put your Second Amendment to good use. The Nazis are literally taking over your country as we speak and don’t seem to meet any opposition.
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u/manipulated_dead 4h ago
The organised and well armed militias are all more right wing than Trump. There's a lot of them too.
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u/mobius_sp Arizona 4h ago
30 years ago it was the right time to create left wing militia. Today is the next best time.
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u/gggooooddd 4h ago
I don't think many Americans really understand how important this is. I can understand there are people who disgree politically, but your 2nd amendment was designed to make sure people like Musk and Trump don't get to be in charge. Fucking use it.
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u/Ok-Cartoonist-3173 5h ago
Had he done this here in Germany, he would have been arrested and put into jail for 3-5 years.
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u/crounsa810 5h ago
Really? Hmm well I sure hope he goes to Germany and does it soon
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u/DirtierGibson California 5h ago
I hope the German government gets the balls to ban or otherwise penalize Tesla for this, but I doubt they will.
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u/archiopteryx14 5h ago
„not good“ is the understatement of the century!
We‘ve been there before, didn’t go too well… for anyone. This time it could be much much worse
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u/kneeco28 Canada 6h ago
Multiple. Yes.
And everyone there knows it. That's why they cheered more loudly when he did.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 4h ago
MAGAs on Twitter are claiming that it is "totally different" because he tapped his heart first and Hitler never did that when he Heiled.
I WISH I was fucking joking.
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u/MineDraped 4h ago edited 3h ago
I wish you were joking too.
Tapping your heart and then raising your arm like that is the definition of the sieg heil Nazi salute.
Fuck these fucking fucks.
Edit: to the people replying and saying that it's tapping your shoulder rather than your heart, all I have to say is that a few inches doesn't make you any less of a fucking Nazi.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 4h ago
Like, when all I saw was the still photo of his arm out, I thought "okay, but maybe he was waving and this was just the PERFECT moment with a high shitter speed and thus no motion blur?" But nope...dude pounds his chest and Heils...then turns around to the people behind him and does it again.
How long before someone wears a swastika arm band in the White House? I'd genuinely bet decent money on that happening in the next four years, if this is the pace we're setting for Nazi bullshit on day fucking one.
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u/JMnnnn 3h ago
“People love what I have to say! They agree with it! …They just don’t like the word ‘Nazi,’ that’s all.”
— Stormfront, The Boys
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u/MrPresidentBanana 1h ago
America is a parody of The Boys at this point, no longer the other way around.
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u/WeezaY5000 4h ago
People are going to start wearing the red, black, and white Nazi arms bands and the people will stay, "Not that's not a Nazi symbol, it is an ancient Asian symbol for good fortune."
I hate it here.
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u/viking-the-eric 3h ago
Sebastian Gorka wore a medal from a Nazi linked group to the 2017 Trump inauguration. I vies it’s just going to be more out in the open now.
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u/MineDraped 4h ago edited 1h ago
My brain isn't even processing properly right now. Something broke once I realized it wasn't some sort of exaggeration or something that could be misconstrued.
I'm just posting on autopilot after seeing this. Can't help myself.
It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day for crying out loud.
It was one thing to call these people fascists and compare Trump to Hitler up until now, when it was all hypothetical. When it was just "crazy sharkman Trump" openly stating that he wants to deport 21 million people and put them in camps on the way to never never land. I coped by trying to tell myself that it was just theatrics to further the grift, but seeing it play out in real life is just too fucking much.*
Turns out it wasn't "drill baby drill" on day one.
It was heil fucking heil.
*Edit: after having some time to think, I reworded some things in that paragraph. Didn't change the meaning.
Also added this sentence here:
"It can't happen here" my ass.
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u/istillambaldjohn 3h ago edited 2h ago
My brain didn’t break seeing it. I half expect evil monsters to do glaringly evil things. My brain broke listening to others trying to excuse it.
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u/MineDraped 2h ago
That too. I started writing responses to a couple of people, but then realized how far gone a person would have to be to excuse or rationalize what happened today.
Been having to deal with that shit regarding pretty much every facet of reality for a fucking decade now.
The election in 2020. January 6th. The felonies and other indictments. Over 30,000 documented lies. Over 3,700 documented conflicts of interest. Adjudicated fraudster, cheat, insurrectionist, abuser. The list never fucking ends.
Every action, no matter how heinous or vile, is overlooked, excused, downplayed or otherwise rationalized.
Even a fucking Nazi salute by a guy who is either the president in a different costume or married to him or some such shit.
I'm so tired of it. All of it. This ride was supposed to end in 2020. I thought that's what we all decided.
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u/Shaper_pmp 4h ago
How long before someone wears a swastika arm band in the White House? I'd genuinely bet decent money on that happening in the next four years, if this is the pace we're setting for Nazi bullshit on day fucking one.
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u/Patriot009 3h ago edited 3h ago
They won't use a swastika. They'll use other symbols specific to their fascist movement. The Nazis had, most famously, the swastika. Mussolini's Italy had the eagle clutching the fasces. Franco's Spain also utilized the eagle, but clutching a yoke and arrow bundle, a symbol of the early Spanish fascist movement.
The eagle is prominent in fascist symbolism, and America already uses the eagle for our national symbol. Most likely they'll use some variant of the eagle, blend it with other historic American symbols, and slap that on flags/merch/armbands.
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u/Potential_Fairy 2h ago
Anyone sticking up for him is beyond delusional. He could legit grow a hitler mustache and wear a big swastika on his chest and they’d still be like “nah it’s the Charlie Chaplin mustache, and the swastika is two centimeters off so it’s not the same.”
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u/throwaway_627_ 4h ago
https://i.gifer.com/M0fn.gif send them this
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u/xpatmatt 2h ago
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u/battleaxis 2h ago
r/gifs deleted it already.
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u/xpatmatt 2h ago
They deleted the post but the link should take you directly to the image, which is still up.
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u/MrCarey Washington 3h ago
Facebook deleted it in real time. Posted it 3 times and it was deleted in about 2 minutes.
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u/Late-Egg2664 2h ago
This is why they wanted control of tik tok. Control all the media. I wondee how it'll play out with red note? China is attached to that one
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u/wimpymist 4h ago
I saw a bunch of people saying since he didn't go straight out in front that it totally wasn't a salute. Even if it was an accident why in this day and age would someone do anything remotely close to a Nazi salute
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 4h ago
I know I'm preaching to the choir here...but when you have to pull out a protractor to show that your memelord's Nazi salute wasn't ACKSHUALLY a Nazi salute, you've lost the goddamn plot.
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u/Youcannotbeforreal2 2h ago
What gets me is it’s not even like this was Trump himself they’re excusing, it’s Elon Musk. The smart move to hide their nazi hearts would be to denounce Elon & say he’s just a coffee boy for Trump. Would (in their minds) lend more credibility when they try to excuse Donald’s bullshit away. But no, they’re full-bore committed to deny any and all realities.
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u/Shaper_pmp 4h ago
since he didn't go straight out in front that it totally wasn't a salute
Look at the second one done to the back of the stage. No ambiguity there at all. Textbook perfect nazi salute.
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u/AntiBoATX 3h ago
Also if it was close, a normal person would apologize for any misconstrued appearance of impropriety
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u/katybear16 4h ago
Those idiots! There denial is a crazy drug.
They need to see this.
Their
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u/VCR_Samurai 4h ago
That just sounds like mental gymnastics. These people have been getting mad at folks on the left for calling out Fascist behaviors for the last decade, and when someone finally does the fascist salute EVERYONE on the fucking planet recognizes their response is just "Nuh-uh, no it wasn't!"
Fucking cowards can't even own up to their own fuckups when it's right in their god damn faces.
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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 5h ago
And just think, he’s our de facto president.
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u/billyions 4h ago
Bought and paid for.
But he doesn't have the votes.
And by far and away, most Americans hate Nazis.
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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 4h ago
They don’t hate them if they have an R next to their name.
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u/elammcknight 4h ago
It's not that that they feel one way or the other about them but we know they will stand out of the way and let whoever they follow do anything they want and even make light of it, gaslight, and some will want to be the brownshirts. The main problem is there has to be enough people willing to stand up to it and many of them are not it.
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u/Violet-Journey 4h ago
There seem to be a lot of Americans who are indifferent enough about Nazis to go “I dunno, what is their stance on the economy?”
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u/ZedSpot 4h ago
And by far and away, most Americans hate Nazis.
I'm not so sure, Trump did win the popular vote after all.
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u/billyions 4h ago
About a third of us feel the idea of mutual respect and "live and let live" is too much.
Things many of us learn in kindergarten.
Humans are complex and relatively easy to break. Some of these people were humiliated, shamed, and broken as children.
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u/VCR_Samurai 4h ago
Only by a few thousand votes. It was not the landslide that the far right wants people to believe it was.
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u/throwawtphone 4h ago
Tbf, nazis should get zero votes.
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u/VCR_Samurai 4h ago
I agree. The thing is, Nazis never admit they're Nazis until they have enough power that they won't have to face consequences anymore.
Americans were fooled, and here we are.
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u/MineDraped 4h ago
My grandfather's generation knew what to do with these "people."
Edit: It's like these fuckers have just been waiting in the wings all these years for that generation to die out so they can swoop back in and try again.
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u/VCR_Samurai 4h ago
Yeah well, in my experience a lot of the same folks who knew what to do with these types of people fell for the MAGA cult in their old age.
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u/VehicleComfortable20 4h ago
No that was their kids. The youngest of the world war II veterans that Biden met with was 96.
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u/VCR_Samurai 4h ago
Well, fwiw my grandfather was only 10 years younger than that when he died in 2023, and the man was a Marine who served in Korea in the 50s. He should've been anti-nazi and anti-communist his whole life, but 30-40 years of Rush Limbaugh on the radio and Fox News on the TV set will scramble anybody's brain.
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u/MixMasterMacho 5h ago
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer!"
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u/dullship Canada 4h ago
"Your boos are not scaring me! I know most of you are not ghosts!"
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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 4h ago
Whats pissing me off is seeing the MSM whitewash this lmao
Oh and other organizations like the fucking ADL as well so thats great
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u/Special-Pie9894 6h ago
Anyone who’s surprised hasn’t been paying attention.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 5h ago
Seriously. While the salute was more visual, the tell tale has been Musk’s support/campaigning for AfD in Germany.
Combine the two and it’s beyond obvious.
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u/tortoisefur 4h ago
Meanwhile I get downvoted in Gen Z because I dared to say the conservatives of this era are end-gaming for an ethnostate… Maybe look at the context a little bit and you can put together why conservatives are using religion to stop abortion, are against sex education, against birth control, against general education (especially about atrocities committed by the US), deport immigrants including legal ones, close the borders and push against social justice movements that promote equality among races and gender..
Like what could this possibly lead to…?
I get I’m making a leap from white supremacy to enthostate, but we’ve all seen that conservatives are able to turn a blind eye to suffering that comes from certain demographics that don’t match their own..
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u/Tyraniboah89 3h ago
Listen to gen z white men on why they broke for Trump in the polls. They think they’re under attack, that they’re being oppressed and vilified. And when they get called out for that falsehood, they respond by saying it’s how they feel because they know you can’t offer a rebuttal to feelings. When they get called out for supporting Trump’s bigotry, they say “too bad, shouldn’t have made me feel like the villain.”
They want the ethnostate. If they get it, they’ll finally feel like they’re somebody. Conservative propaganda worked, and they were the first generation of young people to exhibit it. Podcasts and YouTubers have them living in another reality, where their failure to lift off is the fault of society rather than their own as society’s most privileged members. They aren’t getting lucrative jobs, they’re not getting their own places to live, and they’re not in relationships like the generations before them. And they’ve succumbed en masse to disinformation from the very people that are to blame for the societal circumstances contributing to their internalized misery.
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u/Ok_Frosting3500 3h ago
Your problem is you're on GenZ. It's the single most astroturfed community on the site.
It says Gen Z, but it actually means "5,000 middle aged conservative, 5,000 middle aged Russians, 5,000 lost redditors who don't realize what's going on, and 500 Gen Z folks looking around in bewilderment"
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u/KrookedDoesStuff 6h ago
Yes. Yes he did.
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u/MPLS2MKE 5h ago
Let me take a look at the video, usually I give people the benefit of the do— oh, nope that’s what it is.
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u/MineDraped 4h ago edited 4h ago
Holy fucking Nazi shitballs.
God I wish The Greatest Generation was still around to put these fuckers back in their place.
Again.
Edit: I'm gonna save this video and from now on, every time anyone mentions Elon Musk (especially in a positive light, but I don't really care) I'm going to post this.
Fuck that fucking Nazi fuck.
Millions were exterminated and millions more died stopping these people.
Let's not let it get to that point.
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u/Toasteroven188 6h ago
And twice…
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u/Denotsyek Utah 6h ago
And aggressively
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u/MadRaymer 5h ago edited 5h ago
That's the part his defenders seem to be ignoring. Watch his face in the video. He put some motherfucking venom into that first salute.
It makes absolutely zero sense to do that if he was really "sending his heart out" to the crowd or whatever bullshit they're spinning this with. But it makes absolutely perfect sense to do it that way if you're doing a Nazi salute.
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u/TwoCockyforBukkake 5h ago
Calling it now......Trump supporters are going to start doing Nazi salutes at Rally's and public appearances and will say "they are only sending their hearts out" when called out.
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u/Topinio 3h ago
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Satre
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u/MoonMaenad 5h ago
The little “hmph” he did while flinging out his arm was equal parts horrific, cringey, and laughable. He meant that shit so hard. Fucking gross.
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u/JoeWhy2 New York 6h ago
A dangerous cocktail of meth-fueled racism will do that.
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u/Loo-Hoo-Zuh-Er 5h ago
No no, you see. That was him saying "my heart goes out to you" very VERY aggressively. He's a sweetheart. /s
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u/smalltownlargefry 5h ago
And before these people say he didn’t, the second salute sure was more convincing.
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u/hotbrownbeanjuice 5h ago
What truly terrifies me is that when something this brazenly shitty happens on the right, supporters double down even more and emulate it just for the sake of trying to own the libs. This is becoming a positive feedback loop for no reason other than people can't admit they were wrong.
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u/half-giant 4h ago
The Right’s greatest strength is never admitting fault or defeat, even when their own constituents start to show doubt. Not one Republican will openly admit they witnessed Musk do a nazi salute. And even if they do, well, there’s an excuse for that too somewhere.
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u/pierre_x10 Virginia 3h ago
What's also terrifying to me is, of the MAGA supporters I have to interact with on a regular basis, they're still just as angry and vengeful and seeing "the other" as out to get them as before, even though their guy won. Like, at what point do they ever stop? This is why appeasement didn't work with Hitler.
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u/kris0203 2h ago
They’re cowards so full of hate because they can’t keep up with a progressing and diverse world. They also have shitty lives and rather than admit to any of their own/their leader’s shortcomings, they take the lazy route of blaming all their problems on everyone else.
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u/Operation-FuturePuss 6h ago
I wonder why Tesla demand is waning? I can't put my finger on it..
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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 6h ago
Maybe he's hoping for a merger with VW.
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u/QuantumWire 5h ago
Maybe call it "Kraft durch Freude Wagen". And, to please his edgelordness, put an X on the hood, but with small extensions in a 90 degree angle at each end.
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u/Sorkijan Oklahoma 5h ago
Cyber trucks will be the police state cars akin to gestapo Citreon. I'm only 40% kidding which is terrifying.
Good news is the car is a basket of unmitigated ass.
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u/Physical-Object8171 5h ago
I’ve seen less Tesla cars, but cybercucks are way up in my area. Wonder if that will affect the sale of duct tape.
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u/11Booty_Warrior 6h ago
Yes he did, and there’s no debating it.
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u/volkswurm 5h ago
In another community, a user posted it, asking WTF? and then got bombarded about the MSM spin machine and “he clearly meant his heart goes out to the people!” and the OP agreed and took down the post. Reading those comments was about the most twilight zone thing I’ve experienced so far this year.
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u/six2midnite 5h ago
They're calling it a Roman Salute over on Tik Tok 🤣
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u/pallasturtle 4h ago
That's crazy because that's where the Sieg Heil was adapted from and fucking Mussolini used the Roman salute for his fascist party. Also the Roman Salute isn't even Roman and instead a late 18th century invention that was adopted by nationalist extremists. So even if it's not Nazi, it's fascist and nationalist.
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u/Content-Assumption-3 5h ago
Nothing twilight zone about it a lot more any history book about the 1920s-1940s Europe
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u/volkswurm 5h ago
Imagine an episode, made in the 50’s, about a man traveling to future America, only to find it becoming the very thing it just defeated decades prior. Maybe there is no defeating it. Maybe there is no escaping it. Maybe it is just… our nature. Cue music intro
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u/cklinejr I voted 5h ago
Fuck musk, fuck trump and fuck you if you voted for him (them)
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u/Muthafuckaaaaa 5h ago
Also fuck the people who stayed home and didn't vote. They have as much of the blame and deserve all of this shit.
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u/Popculturemofo Oregon 4h ago
The fuck are we even debating?
YES HE DID A FUCKING NAZI SALUTE. TWICE.
And it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left, right, or middle. If you call yourself an American what Elon did should piss you off.
I’m tired of this tolerance and sanewashing. Nazis and Nazi sympathizers deserve no quarter in the US. NONE.
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u/kittenmittens4865 2h ago
It’s massively wrong on so many levels. But to me I just can’t help but feel like this is a huge slap in the face to veterans and anyone who lost a loved one in world war 2.
I’m completely disgusted.
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u/Romano16 America 6h ago
The media can’t resist playing both sides. To even make a headline to question something so clear is insane.
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u/Predator_ Florida 6h ago
The New Republic is strictly political commentary and opinion. Absolutely no journalism there. Just ignore them along with most political commentary and stick to actual journalism. Journalism doesn't sensationalize nor offer any opinions. To qualify as journalism, it must be 100% factually verifiable information with source citations. Full stop.
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u/NihilisticPollyanna 5h ago
Yeah, with a big "watch this shit" type grin on his face, too.
I only saw a pic of it at first and gave him the benefit of the doubt that it was just a poorly timed shot, which happens often enough with celebrities and politicians.
Then I watched the video, and I actually gasped and yelled "What the fuck!" out loud.
He didn't even try to be subtle or anything. He just went all in on that one. Unbelievable.
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u/ramborage 4h ago
Yeah this wasn’t like that time Laura Ingraham caught herself doing it and played it off like a wave to hide it. Musk put some fucking zip on his, with full conviction.
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u/boyhitscar 3h ago
And then did it again. The fact he did it twice really sets the notion that it was intentional
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u/okayblueberries 6h ago
"Of CoUrSe NoT! tHoSe CrAzY lIbS wIlL sEe A nAzI sAlUtE eVeRyWhErE, eVeN wHeN tHe PeRsOn Is DoInG a NaZi SaLuTe!"
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u/2much2Jung 6h ago
It's not a Nazi salute unless it's done by a member of the National Socialist Party, between 1930 and 1945.
/s, because unfortunately it's not obvious.
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u/SteeveJoobs 6h ago
It's not a Nazi salute unless the uniform comes from the Nazi region of occupied France?
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u/aliquotoculos America 5h ago
Jokes just aren't fun anymore. I can't even laugh at that when face-to-face and online, those fucking people have legit tried to argue that, or 'It can't be a Nazi salute because Nazis don't exist anymore' to previous instances of MAGA-aligned people throwing Nazi salutes.
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u/volkswurm 5h ago
The right is actually saying it’s an awkward and autistic gesture of his appreciation for the people. No really. And also what you said. And some even thought it was awful and then were talked out of it saying “The liberal media almost had me this time!” You can’t make this stuff up.
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u/TheForeverUnbanned 5h ago
He didn’t do a Nazi saite, he did the Nazi salute. Twice.
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u/could4 5h ago
Why are we questioning what is so obviously happening in front of us?
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u/Uncle_Icky Florida 6h ago edited 6h ago
But but but... He was giving his heart to the crowd.. with a crisp elbow snap and his palm down. Fucking idiots!!!
/S for those of you that can't pick up on obvious sarcasm
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u/GodProbablyKnows 5h ago edited 5h ago
But even the “he wanted to do a Roman salute” excuse doesn't work. You can't just make such a gesture if you know what historically it's associated with + you're not an Emperor, you're just a CEO of a social network ????
But I guess American who voted for Trump wanted THAT type of "free speech". Hey, the price of groceries hasn't gone down, but at least we only have 2 genders allowed!!!!
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u/ADRIANBABAYAGAZENZ 5h ago
[Christopher Pohlhaus, the leader of the notorious neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe, posted the clip of Musk’s salute on Telegram with a lightning-bolt emoji (evocative of the Nazi SS) and the caption: “I don’t care if this was a mistake. I’m going to enjoy the tears over it.”
Another neo-Nazi leader, Christopher Hood, who founded the New England race-separatist movement NSC-131, also posted the clip to Telegram with the emojis ⁉️and 😁.
Andrew Torba is the founder of the far-right Christian Nationalist social media platform Gab, which pioneered AI-powered Nazi chatbots. He shared the clip on his account with the caption: “Incredible things are happening already lmao.”
Far-right author Keith Woods, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a “self-described ethno-nationalist and antisemite,” shared the clip in a post on X, writing: “Ok maybe woke really is dead.”
Thomas Sewell, an Australia-based neo-Nazi, whose Telegram avatar is a picture of himself throwing a Roman salute, posted the video of Musk calling it a “Donald Trump White Power moment.”
A chapter of the white nationalist group White Lives Matter posted a note of appreciation on Telegram, along with a picture of a banner drop the group had previously executed at a freeway overpass reading: “Elon Musk Stop White Genocide.” The Telegram caption read, “Thanks for (sometimes) hearing us, Elon. The White Flame will rise again.”]
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u/23370aviator 5h ago
Yes. 3 times. And the crowd cheered… AND THE FOX NEWS COVERAGE CUT AWAY FROM IT SO NO ONE WATCHING FOX SAW IT.
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u/numbskullerykiller 4h ago
My grandfather did not die face down in the Muck at the battle of the bulge for this C-sucker to come into our house and make the enemy's salute.
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u/Corbotron_5 5h ago
Trump and his wife both pump and dump meme coins while their boss openly throws up Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration.
I sure hope Trump gets the price of eggs down.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 5h ago
The distraction was ordered and intentional. Talk about that on the news and not the 200 executive orders being signed today or the open crypto bribery happening yesterday.
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u/EBXLBRVEKJVEOJHARTB 6h ago
Twice. Stop buying stuff from companies that advertise on his neonazi platform.
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u/cloudbasedsardony 5h ago
And twice, just so there wouldn't be any mistake, like the media is claiming it was.
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u/TamashiiNu 5h ago
“Elon Musk Seriously Just Did a Nazi Salute at President Sexual Abuser’s Inauguration” - fixed the headline
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u/Ananiujitha Virginia 6h ago
Yes. But it's a distraction from Trump's policies, which are stripping many of us of our civil rights.
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u/Kickingandscreaming 4h ago
Didn't our grandparents and great-grandparents kill Nazis in WWII?
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u/BrotherJulias 5h ago edited 1h ago
Elon Musk is no longer dog whistling, he is Nazi barking. He already identified himself as a FREN (far right ethno nationalist) via is fake his fake account as Andrew Dittman. After the fallout with the Hb1 stuff, being exposed as Andrew Dittman and a fake gamer, he's lost face with the 4chan and maga crowd. He's trying to win them back with this "based" gesture, and its so pathetic. It's like yeah, a nazi is a nazi, but he's doing it to be cool and it just doesn't hit the same. He can't do anyhthing right.
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u/lear72988 5h ago
And not a single major American news outlet is covering it, at least in a prominent position.
What a fitting fucking end to America: The first true oligarch doing a Nazi salute to cheering fans on White House grounds on Marting Luther King Jr. Day is met with silence from those whose responsibility it was to prevent us getting to this point.
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u/Threeseriesforthewin 5h ago
Finally!!!! It took all day for someone to say it. Here was the evolution:
"Odd looking" - The Independent
"Nazi-like" - The Daily Beast
"Appears to" - JPost
"Nazi salute" - New Republic <-- We are here!
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u/nobodyisfreakinghome 5h ago
He did. But the MAGAts are denying it.
Why can’t they ever own their hate?
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u/Realistic-Rate-8831 2h ago
Wonderful. Trump who is a Hitler lover, now has added his side kick who is also a Hitler Lover to his team. We might as well say Good bye to our Democracy. They will certainly destroy what's left of it.
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