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Elon Goes Full Sieg Heil In Clarifying Moment

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I was at the gym this afternoon when I saw out of...

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Literally the richest man in the world, who's now got the President of one of the richest countries in the world with the strongest military, in his pocket. Doing a Nazi salute twice on a national stage with very likely no repercussions whatsoever. Not to mention all the other billionaires at the inauguration. This is truly a cursed timeline.
That Doomsday clock must be very close to midnight by now
- It's an arrestable offence in Australia.
  
  Rich people don't get arrested.
  
  In most countries, the KKK would be considered a terrorist organization. Here in the US, they're a "political group."
  The call has been coming from inside the house for over a century.
  
  Same in many European countries.
  
  Some things make execution the public's job. And I'm tied of pretending otherwise.
  I should be able to post a video of myself killing Nick Fuentes, for example, and receive nothing but favorable responses.
  I don't understand the argument when someone is a total negative in every way, with absolutely zero redeeming characteristics.
  I am not typically a violent person, but with someone out there causing actual harm to people, promoting more harm, with a completely objective negative amount of humanity and worth, there is definitely a line where the cost of keeping them alive outweighs every single good thing they've ever (and will ever) do.
  The line for this is really murky down here in peasant world, but the leaders should be the absolute peak of humanity.
  And when their death provides an amazing benefit as well, then I say bring on the Luigis. I don't say that lightly either. This isn't a "kill everyone meeting this criteria" kinda thing. This is very specific.
  The ones not quite worth messing still deserve the next worst punishment forever. And there are plenty of groups that fit into this. Nazis is the obvious one. That specifically should be a crime by itself, but that argument has issues too, but that's just my opinion until I hear a better one.
  You don't deserve to participate in society just for being born. You deserve it by being a contributor to it. All you deserve for being born is a fair chance not to be evil. The price for crossing that line should be everything.
  I realize the line of thinking is dangerously close to theirs. But it isn't based on arbitrary issues like beliefs or race. It's just being a decent person. That line should be pretty clear and obvious.
  Nobody should be intentionally harmful to anyone- except for evil people. I don't think we'll ever evolve to that point though. Not inside of at digit number of years at the very least.
- That Doomsday clock must be very close to midnight by now
  Goddamn better be.
  
  I'm pretty sure it's been 5 after since 2016
- What's worse, this happens at a time when there are already certain issues genuinely bigger than humans as a species (in some regards), like climate change, that ought to supercede all other issues and really need everyone to pool all of their resources and be smart about it.
  Instead we get Chucklefuck McDoofusface doing a Sieg Heil as he accepts his de-factor presidency of the Unites States of Assholery.
- In Greek theater, when the events on stage looked like they were headed for certain tragedy, there was a trope that could salvage the situation and turn it on its head.
  The deus ex machina.
  The Doomsday clock is definitely ticking down, but there's also some curious things taking place beyond the edge of where most people have been following in that vein.
  We live in interesting times, but the variables at hand are different from the history that seems to be repeating in very important ways.
- Just gonna buy some of those goggles those dudes wore wearing at the Trinity tests, grab some popcorn, and watch the world burn.
  
  "We'll all burn together when we burn"

Weird how the ADL is nowhere to be found when someone does a Nazi salute on a national stage. I guess it's more necessary to dunk on anti-genocide Jews instead.
- Fucking stunning.
  
  this is appeasement, you shitfuckers at ADL...
  
  Jesus Christ. Mask off... Maybe if we had a halfway decent education system, people would see this for the bullshit it is
  
  So he's not a Nazi, he just awkward. O_o
  
  Benefit of the doubt, eh? When have republicans ever done that for democrats?
  
  Not a Nazi salute
  Oh fuck OFF!
- It's worse than that, they said it wasn't a nazi salute. :/
  
  Remember, it's only a Nazi Salute if it occurs in the Weimar region of Germany between 1938-1945. Otherwise it's just Sparkling Fascism.
  
  Got a link for that? I'm surprised they even acknowledged it instead of ignoring it.

My theory: a test to see how easily their media apparatus can explain this away or ignore it entirely. Effectively shaping reality in realtime.
- Shockingly easily. Here's the New York Times
  
  Don't believe your lying eyes.
  
  Peak gaslighting
- I think they're going to pull a strategy of just doing everything so fast that people won't have time to react properly to anything before the next, worse things comes along. Trump virtually admitting that Musk interfered with voting machines yesterday, Nazi Salute today, 200+ executive orders dropping tomorrow. Sort of like a Gish gallop of Nazism.
  
  Trump virtually admitted that Msjk interfered with voting machines yesterday
  Got a souce for this?
  
  Goebbels Gallop.
- This whole.election was just to see how much they could get away with

- "Fell for it?" "Fell for it?" They intentionally voted for that.
  
  Beyond comprehension how the brown and black ppl who voted for him are able to reconcile all of this shit.
  
  It's not like they stopped cheering when Musk gave two Nazi salutes.
  
  Hey, now. Not all Republicans are just plain evil. And not all Republicans are just plain dumb either. Some of them happen to be both.
  
  When the other shoe drops, they'll be saying they were tricked
- It was their goal. The rubes that fell for it were the ones that legitimately thought that it would lower prices.

Somebody's upset that he wasn't the center of attention for a few hours.

I don't understand these people at all. If I had 10 million dollars I'd be living the high life in a tropical country banging hookers left and right. Why is someone worth 600 billion so interested in something so boring and shitty as politics? Does he have no actual interests?
- People like him are not really interested in money. They’re interested in recognition, validation, and power.
  
  Maybe at some point money is no longer enough. Or, maybe when one gets so much money, they start thinking they are better than the others and need to rule them to make the whole world better?
  
  They could save us from climate change and be remembered forever as heroes of humanity. But instead, they go on a path of destruction. 🙄
- That's the thing: if you or I got 10mil we'd live it up and not worry about accumulating more wealth. Beyond that it's just collecting for collecting's sake. Clearly, when you're the richest man on earth, the only way to collect more (of anything) is to collect power by buying the president.
  
  Obviously their hobby is collecting more, and since they don't actually do any work to collect more - they just get to play the game, they are happy to keep.on doing it
  
  Nah, I'd contintue accumulsting wealth and use that money to fight climate change, fund anti-big-oil propaganda, I'm gonna steer humanity to a brigher future. Fund progressive politicians, get a progressive elected POTUS. Get socialist policies implemented (yes it will impact my wealth too, but fuck it lol, YOLO). Try to influence other countries too. And I'm gonna get a big statue of me in front of the UN building. I'll be remembered as the one who save the world from climate change. My name will be remembered longer than anyone else in history. 😎
- You don't share his daddy issues
- Got a good laugh. Banging hookers sounds like a hell of a dream.
  
  Don't let your dreams be dreams, come on down to Amsterdam
- I would be trying to invent a super soldier serum that turns you into catgirl if I had 600 billion dollars
- Good point I don’t think he has any interests at all what an enormous red flag

Did he actually or is this just a lucky still of a movement?
Ah yeah saw the video now, pretty clear.
- There is video. He did it more than once. Either it's so ingrained his muscle memory that he just moves like a Nazi salute, or he did it with intentionality. Both say he's a Nazi
  
  It was obviously a Nazi salute. You can't make this shit up twice...
  
  Looked to forced and awkward to be muscle memory. Looks more like a 14 y/o boy who knows he’s doing something he shouldn’t but he wants to look cool n badass in front of his friends.
  Source: I knew a few kids who did just that.
  
  Twice in less than 6 seconds. Like, I really wanted to believe it wasn’t that clear.
  It’s so fucking clear.
  
  It’s the same shit they always do where it’s obvious what it is but they just make it just different enough that they can claim it’s a misunderstanding while dogwhistling to their Nazi supporters.
- He did it twice
- There’s video. He did it twice.
- The second one to the back was even more Nazi-form.
- It was very much deliberate, it's hard to explain away but of course most of America will just laugh it off while the leopards get ready to eat their faces.
  I'm just waiting for the Maga idiots to make this their official gesture now, like the whole ear bandaid shit.

I'm calling it. In 2 months he will be proudly wearing a toothbrush mustache. And the headlines will say "Musk is brining back Charlie Chaplin's mustache".
- Hes gonna release a book about how much he has had to struggle

I'm looking at r/Conservative, Gab, and other far-right outlets to see what is happening with the incoming administration, and all I can say is what the actual fuck
- Coworker keeps tuning into some inauguration party (has real "house party where the parents are gone" energy) and the lady Waters was talking to was just talking about the "patriotism" and how democrats lost track of the normal, reasonable people because of tampons in the boys room and men playing women's sports. SSDD.
- Absolutely incredible to see the ADL defending overt Nazism. I guess these days the only way you can be antisemitic is to oppose genocide.
- What's it like in those outlets? I don't have the courage to go in there myself, those idiots make me feel angry and sad.
  
  Trump doing tons of shit was the first thing I saw. The "Migrants weep in Mexico as Trump admin cancels all appointments for Biden's CBP One app immediately after swearing in" one in particular though, they're not even pretending to not be horrible people anymore.
  
  Gab is largely similar right now but in Twitter format instead, and people posting super Christiany stuff also. Apparently their founder was one of the people resharing the Elon salute, while r/Conservative likes to pretend they aren't Nazis while still being Nazis
  
  Yeah I need closure on this anecdote as well

Doesn't surprise me that he is a Nazi. Just surprised that he can pull this off so openly.
Have we learnt nothing?
- Oh, we learned things. But you aren't going to like them.
  
  Lesson 1: America has a much better map position than Germany and the navy you need to really get a world conquest going

Surely it must be better than Harris still !
...right ?
- At least Harris didn't have to listen to anyone to her left.
  
  Please explain what you mean by this

Fucking wow... I had been telling myself that it was probably an out of context still, a photo that was a bad look for sure but it couldn't really be THAT bad.
It really is. It really fucking is that bad. There really is no excusing it, no depth of delusion that can cover it. It really is exactly what we thought it was.
- The gif also cuts off before he does it a second time facing the crowd behind him. Once could maybe be called an accident, but twice? 100% intentional
  
  The mental gymnastics I've seen excusing this in the hour or so since i got online have been... something.
- Same, I thought "Oh he was doing some other gesture and you caught him in mid pose or something..."
  But no he straight up did that

This dork wants to be darth vader, and it kills him that it isn't working. Instead of becoming a cooler person and being good to people, which might make him cool, he does what weak people do and does increasingly horrible things.
It's like he thinks "if you can't be strong, be weak, louder". He needs to go the other way.

Great. They've gone from dog whistles to bullhorns. :|
- They've been using bullhorns for quite a while now.

You just know Don is going to be furious that Elon has stolen the limelight today.
- He's going to start with it too just to get more attention

So, if Space Channel 5 Part 2 is any indicator of reality, we can take control of the President from Elon Musk by having Lady Gaga copy Elon's moves perfectly in a dance battle. We can then proceed to use Starlink to fire a laser back at Elon by channeling the power of the 83 million or so people watching this and dancing along into one funkified force, saving the world once and for all, though on occasion we may need Lady Gaga to race in a futuristic vehicle with Sonic in a few racing games..
Look it's less ridiculous than the shit hat's actually going on, so I think it's worth a shot.
- Left Right Left Right Chu Chu?
  
  https://youtu.be/F3GZDq8RSdw

This is just to distract us from the debacle over his PoE 2 characters.

The Constitution should have been amended after WW2 to ban fascism, Nazism and all of their symbols, slogans, and ideas.
- It would be weird with the literal golden fasces in the halls of government.

https://youtu.be/b1N6fcUIHEY
- Privacy peeps look here, I got you: https://youtu.be/b1N6fcUIHEY

Would be an absolute shame if someone was to, say, make a video edit showcasing his salutes and claiming President Musk should be the one in office.
Would be worse if it would to get a lot of traction. It would be absolutely terrible if during this fragile time, some video like this would cause friction between some stupid manchild and a demented idiot. It would pain my heart heavily if such a video would help convince non extremist voters that Musk and the new powers that be are of a certain affiliation.