Not a Nazi salute.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Reminder that Fox News declared Michelle Obama a terrorist over a fist bump.
I wonder how trump feels that the most viral thing about his inauguration wasn't him
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The ADL is defending him. Bootlickers.
the ADL is a zionist organization that supports genocide. they're not bootlickers. they're the sole of the boot itself.
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Fuck the ADL
I was on the fence about them for past shenanigans but this is the final nail in the coffin. My friends are now telling me that musk did not, in fact do a Nazi salute because his fingers weren't pointed the right way
Ask your friends why they're so familiar with the proper performance of the nazi salute.
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Just when I thought the ADL couldn't be anymore useless, here's REAL Anti-Semitism and they're not doing anything about it.
Worse than not doing anything about it, they're excusing it
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For once he's doing it wrong, not that it matters, and secondly he looks like he came while doing it.
Forget all that story of different salutes and making fun of elon by saying that he is making the american "nazi salute"
Lets call a spade a spade.
Elon is doing the nazi salute and there is no other way to take it other than being serious.
That fucker must get down from power.
PS: I removed my previous snarky comment about bellamy salute and made this new one because it is a serious business
Are you suggesting that Musk had all of this nuance in mind when he made the gesture?
I now regretting making the previous comment.
I made the previous comment in a jesting tone like "same... but different... but still the same"
Also, I went into a rabbit hole seraching for variations of nazi salute (because I know from history that brasil integralist movement had their own version of roman salute called anauê) and found about the bellamy salute.
Seeing that the nazis are actually using the "roman salute" as an actual excuse, I'll take back what I said.
He is doing the nazi salute. Period.
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Wow. I was willing to believe that the still pictures were just perfectly timed to make it look like something it wasn't. But it totally is a Nazi salute.
Yeah, this was the first time I saw it in motion. How anyone could try to spin this as anything else is wild. We're to the part in 1984 where we're told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears...
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So he literally turns around and does it a 2nd time.
How can anyone deny it now? There's no way this is coincidence, like he's just really awkward with gestures and was bad at throwing his hand in the air to the crowd. This can't be explained away.
Wtf bullshit argument or defense is he and his supporters going to spew out?
They all say he's such a genius, but he's unaware of how close this gesture is to a nazi salute? There's no way this can be defended. It's just too obvious.
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How did he make the Nazi salute look somehow even MORE uncool than the -9999999999999999999999 it was already at.
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Guy who grew up in SA during apartheid is a fascist and racist. Who know?
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Yeah, that's undeniably obvious what it is
Now he can use the government to make his financial empire/we-chat clone "x".