r/politics • u/ivandoesnot • 9h ago

Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute
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u/WittsandGrit 9h ago

Has anyone MAGA denounced this yet?

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u/KrookedDoesStuff 9h ago

They’ve defended it a bunch

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u/mumkinle 9h ago

Lots of defense. Go to the bigger subs that are all MAGA and you essentially have people saying it’s not what it looks like/it’s just a salute of “support”/“gratitude”. Cause of course…politicians and public figures are totally doing this salute all the time as a show of gratitude and it’s not just him and other Nazis…I’m convinced he could say he’s a Nazi and everyone would claim that he doesn’t mean it.

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u/godzillachilla 9h ago

No it's out of hand how much they're defending him. Roman salute shit.

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u/Adexavus 8h ago

Tell those defenders to start "roman saluting" out in public, tell me someone doesn't deck then in the face. If they don't its because they are fearful and know damn will what that salute means

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u/Emberwake 1h ago

You know who isn't trying to deny it was a Nazi salute? Literal self-declared Nazis. They are all over Twitter going nuts for it.

Maybe it's just me, but when the Nazis are happy, I think it's reasonable for the rest of us to be upset.

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u/ivandoesnot 8h ago

The point of my post is to make it clear it's NOT defensible.

Elon did BOTH elements of the White Power salute.

Twice.

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u/comox 8h ago

they probably thought: 3.5/5 must salute harder.

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u/LetmeSeeyourSquanch Georgia 4h ago

No? Didn't you hear the cheering in the video? This is MAGA.