• Imgonnatrythis
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          Damn. Right to the top- Furher level. This isn’t any SS bullshit. This is practice makes perfect, I might have paid a trainer to get this good level execution. His momma always said, “If you’re gonna do something awful, be the very best at it dear”

        • Majorllama@lemmy.world
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          …you do when you aren’t doing a Nazi salute and you want to properly address two half’s of a stadium.

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            Hitler had more people than trumps inauguration so he needed more salutes. Musk optimized it down to 3. What a genious. Truly the henry ford of our time, right down to the details.

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          15 hours ago

          Notice how one has a fist and the other has a palm.

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            Buddy, I get that you don’t want it to be a Nazi salute… But it obviously is. The Nazis salute is so recognizable, so taboo, and so utterly tainted by its history that other countries that used similar salutes before Nazi Germany changed their salutes to avoid the connotations.

            No one with any level of awareness would even come close to accidentally performing a similar gesture. Especially not someone who has had to defend themselves after making Anti-Semitic rhetoric in the past. Especially not at a large scale publicly viewable governmental event like the Inauguration.

            Its like the giving the middle finger in America. Everyone knows what it means, and avoids doing things even remotely similar unless they mean to express the intended sentiment.

            If your argument is “Elon didn’t know what the Nazi salute looked like” or “it’s just extremely similar looking but he didn’t mean for it to be so”, then you are trying hard to lie to yourself.

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              No one with any level of awareness would even come close to accidentally performing a similar gesture.

              Did you forget who you’re talking about? This is Elon fucking Musk. Retard king. I think he’s earned the right to be assumed an idiot.

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                13 hours ago

                Sorry, I meant actually mentally checked out levels of non awareness. Completely unaware of your surroundings style.

                No one who can use a word with as many syllables as “civilization” would even come close to accidentally performing a similar gesture.

                Do I think he is a true “final solution” style Nazi? No, but he knew damn well what it was when he did it. Was it to embolden his far-right base? Troll the media who would dive on the opportunity to talk about it endlessly, thusly shifting the media away from Trump’s awful day 1 executive orders? Just see if he could get away with it? All of the above? Who knows.

                But one thing is for sure, he intentionally and knowingly did a Nazi Salute.