Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.

In a statement posted to social media later on Monday, the ADL said: (…) “It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, (…)

Twice?

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    He doesn’t “appear to make”. He fucking makes a nazi salute. TWICE.

    Can we please start calling him a nazi? He supports a nazi party, he does a nazi salute, he doesn’t ban nazi swastikas from twitter.

    If he sounds like a nazi, looks like a nazi and behaves like a nazi, it’s a fucking nazi.

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        He’s supporting AfD in Germany, Reform and this piece of shit in the UK, and the Conservative Party of Canada under Pierre Poilievre, who loves to court the votes of neo-Nazis and speaks the same bigoted rhetoric as US Republicans.