Journalist does everything possible to avoid calling this what it clearly is

I love how certain media call it a Roman Salute in an attempt to defend him.
Like, do they think Hitler just made it up himself?
- He stole it from the Italians under Mussolini, who basically took it from a painting. There's no evidence the Romans used this salute, so it's always been associated with fascism.
  
  Unfortunately, evidence isn't something these folks are worried about.
- Even if it was a roman salute, that was a symbol of fascism.
  
  That's what I'm saying, it takes literally four seconds to look up where the "Roman" salute came from.
  But these kids aren't big on the whole "reading" thing.
- Same people that say the swastika is a symbol of peace.
  
  the swastika remains a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain countries such as Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, China and Japan, and carries various other meanings for peoples around the world, such as the Akan, Hopi, Navajo, and Tlingit peoples...
  Also, I think Hitler took the salute from this. Which is similar to the Roman salute.
  Hitler had no great ideas, he stole from everyone, and was overall a terrible person full of hatred. But, he did ban human zoos.

Isnt this the wrong community? This is not an onion or onion like article... I know Chaser usually does that, but there are no jokes or lies in there really are there? All those quotes have been said/written by someone.
- Yeah, that's what nottheonion is for.

I for one am absolutely amused that every reputable news source calls ot a nazi-style salute, since Elon couldn't even get the salute right, despite his best efforts.
- It looks like the halfway point between a Nazi salute and a dab
- Isn't any salute Musk does a nazi salute?

This is barely even satire at this point

In their defense, the party said its most important action item on the talking points memo was not to trust your eyes or your ears any longer.

the president:

the media:

Just an FYI, the real meaning of that salute is the statement, "I'm a kunt!"

This was the image I was thinking of when I first saw him do the thing

It's really not clear that he isn't just pointing at something/acknowledging someone with his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently
- And when he turned around and pointed violently at the flag in the same style? Does that make it more clear?
  
  It wasn't completely clear that my comment was pure sarcasm? Seriously?
- this is sarcastic right
  right?
- you really have to write a /s for a lot of these folks to not take everything at face value here it would appear :-/
  
  Might be because people are actually making this argument in defense of musk
  
  Subtle sarcasm is really hard for a lot of people who comment in a community focused on satire, ironically.
- he just wanted to touch his heart and then salute the sun?
  
  Not the sun, idiot. Mars. He was saluting Mars.
- https://streamable.com/29p7q1
  
  He's obviously grabbing his love from his heart and throwing it out to all of his supporters. I don't know how else you could possibly interpret this.
  
  Oh wow, that’s even worse than I had guessed. He looks…well exactly like himself, which is to say an over-grown child who thinks being hated for being a nazi is “being a rebel”.
  Incredible.
- Lmao sorry you're getting downvoted dude. How anyone took this comment, in this community, seriously... is beyond me!
  
  I'll admit I got whoosed, but it's not a crazy assumption when you've got the fucking ADL describing it as an 'awkward gesture'
  
  :D
- Ok, so imagine that you're a billionaire and a really smart dude (as claimed by so many people on the internet). And you get into government and appear on TV and want to look good. You might hire a publicist, a PR team, some speechwriters, hell how about a body language consultant. When you go on TV you're going to project exactly the image you intend to. Anything less would be careless and stupid, right?
  So yeah. This was a Nazi salute. And if you really want to argue that it wasn't, that Musk doesn't even know what a Nazi is, you gotta also accept that he's grossly incompetent and should not be in government at all. Throw him out, we didn't vote for him.
- When you caught me fisting your mom did you think I was acknowledging her with my thumb and the rest of my fingers or when I was elbow deep and shouted, "I'm fisting your mom!" in your face was it clear what was actually happening?
  
  Weird.