Who keeps saying Elon’s Nazi salute was a Nazi salute? Amongst others, a whole lot of fucking Nazi’s.
ETA: Wired has more coverage on how real goddamn fucking nazis are just as happy as pigs in shit right now: Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump’s Inauguration.
At a post-inauguration rally Monday, Elon Musk thanked Donald Trump’s supporters with a gesture that resembled a Roman salute, first putting his palm to his chest and then extending a stiff right arm toward the crowd, at a slight elevation and with his palm down.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me, Rolling Stone. Get the fuck out of here.
The Hitler salute is a “Roman salute”. The Roman empire is a big inspiration for Nazis. And Rolling Stone seems to be very aware of that in the article.
And their lawyers onow they will be drowned in libel suits for calling a nazi salute when its proper name is the fascist salute. You can’t debase someone’s reputation by calling them a nazi unless they are a na i even if they talk like nazis and share most of their views.
I don’t quite follow what you’re saying, but I think I largely agree?
In the USA they would get swarmed in lawsuits by Musk and his associated companies for calling him a Nazi which is an insult. It does not matter that he has a lot of Nazi adjacent opinions.
The safest thing for the press to do is call it “odd” and mention “historical significance” and maybe the fact that it came from ancient Rome and letthe audience figure it out. Most adults are not so stupid as to not see what he did.
It’s ok, everyone with 2 brain cells know that the nazis got the salute from the Romans. It’s the same thing.
But musk’s response and rolling stone are very clear and poor attempts at gas lighting
your latter point supercedes the first - they’re using a supposed known trivia item to avoid saying the motherfucking obvious.
It’s inexcusable.
Welp, they just made the do not read list.
They were already in the do not read list when their “top 50 games of all time” was AI generated
I fucking tested it myself with GPT 4o
If it walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi…
Punch it, before grandad sees and wonders why the fuck he lost so many friends fighting the fucken nazi’s, only for them to take over his country.
They keep defending him saying “it was on accident, he’s autistic!”
I know, and as someone who is actually diagnosed on the spectrum this infuriates me. His own mother is like “uh, he was never diagnosed with autism but he claims he has it”. Utter bullshit to excuse vile behavior.
Hitler would have put autistic people in the camps.
Child euthanasia (German: Kinder-Euthanasie) was the name given to the organized killing of severely mentally and physically disabled children and young people up to 16 years old during the Nazi era in over 30 so-called “special children’s wards”. At least 5,000 children were victims of the program, which was a precursor to the subsequent murder of children in the concentration camps.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_Spiegelgrund_clinic
Hans Asperger, who studied autism, was a doctor who was responsible for determining if these children lived or were put to death/experimented on (knowingly or unknowingly so).
Hitler would have exterminated Elon Musk!
Would have? He did!
And from what I know of trump, I wouldn’t be the least surprised if they end up in the death camps this time too
“Straight arm salute”
Right. Gotcha. And a swastika is an “almost grid”.
It’s a deconstructed “cool S” it’s just art!!
It’s going to be a window as soon as I can afford to finish the tattoo.
First this hat then the salute, what’s to debate, it’s fucking nazi scum.
So my guess is there are factions of the military about to be purged. If the people want a chance it better be soon.
I am reminded of the scene from The Great Dictator where the Hitler analogue delivers what is clearly a hateful rant in a gibberish language, and the english translation is a soft, milquetoast reinterpretation for the international audience.
My favorite buzz to hear from them would be from the electric transformer jacked into their chairs
Well, isn’t that a surprise.
Liberal media: {shocked pikachu face} - why no, it only APPEARS to be that Elon gave a Roman salute. Rest assured we’ll get a good explanation for this later on, you guys!
Nazi Musk fanbois: {permanent erection}
The good news:
If you ever wanted to travel back in time to kill the world’s most dangerous Nazi, you no longer need a time machine.
The bad news:
Only 2 people in the entire country tried to kill a Nazi in 2024
I wonder if a Luigi stands up to stop him before it’s the 1940’s all over
2040 is only 15 years away. Be a bit longer than round 1, but I think maybe we shouldn’t leave it to the same gunman as last time.
I’ve invented a time machine that can travel forward in time at 1 second per second
it’s called a chair
I’ve invented a time machine that travels forward 1 second in time every 2 seconds. I call it a bong.
That’s not a straight arm salute, its a Hitler Salute. You don’t have to be German to be a fucking Nazi.
Frame by frame it looks the same to me
https://leminal.space/comment/13048964
Another comment has more of a frame by frame comparison.
So there are people both denying it and acknowledging it.
“liberal media” desperate to be allowed to keep making money: deny!
Literal online Nazis: he’s one of us!!
That’s a feature not a bug
People keep saying this would get you arrested in X place, but being a convicted rapist normally gets you a prison sentence here. Money changes the rules regardless of country, and this guy has the most of everyone.
In most countires attempting a coup gets you treason charges.
You would get arrested in Germany for that: Using signs of terroristic organizations
Musk is a convicted rapist?
I think that one is referring to Trump. Musk won’t be punished for his Nazi salute, just as Trump isn’t punished for raping women.
Its called a nazi salute
Alternatively, Sieg Heil salute
Having now checked conservative spaces, it’s 30% “are we the baddies?” 30% “it was probably taken out of context” 30% “ugh” and 10% “based”
So… 90% is in denial, and 10% is openly embracing it… Great.
