Musk presses H twice to perform the Nazi salute twice on stage at inauguration.
Musk presses H twice to perform the Nazi salute twice on stage at inauguration.
No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.
A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.
Shootouts to the lemming who made this excellent comparison that I'll be using anytime someone suggests it "wasn't really..." lemme just stop you there, look at this.
But also, godddamn, the nazis are loving this. they'll make this a sticker and put it up everywhere to celebrate. we're going to be so sick of this image.
This clip from bsky put it next to (I think) a clip from american history X, and he even pulls the same face
E: Dutch onion news site Historians: Hitler did the Musk greeting. lol. (The only 'news' in .nl which I so far have seen it call a nazi salute openly btw, so not going well here).
Finnish state broadcaster YLE thankfully doing a little better.
The arm wave has been interpreted as a nazi salute in social media. News media has described it as resembling a nazi salute.
Ultimately, the distinction does not matter.
Later on:
Many politicians and businesspeople in the last 80 years have managed not to make hand gestures that resemble nazi salutes at public occasions. Intentional nazi salutes have been more common.
Shorter ADL (with added subtext): Musk supports Israel so his antisemitism gets a pass
Words cannot describe my contempt for the Jewish misleadership class
Fucking hell, lol. Back in October '23 I reposted some pro-palestinian content on social media from the "jewish voice for peace" organisation, and a guy who recently went on Birthright immediately started DMing me and was posting links to the ADL page claiming that JVP is an antisemitic organisation. Because I am a well-adjusted person, I didn't need verification that the ADL was full of shit but vindication is always nice.
opinion: the AWB is too afrikaans for it to be likely that that is where he picked up his nazi shit. then-era ZA still had a lot of AF/EN animosity, and in a couple of biographies of the loon you hear things like "he hated life in ZA as a kid because .... {bullying}", and a non-zero amount of that may have stemmed from AF bullying EN
(icbw, it's definitely not something I've studied the history of the loon's tendencies, but can speak to (at least part[0]) of the ZA attitude)
(([0] - I wasn't alive at the time it would've mattered to him, but other bits of the cultural attitudes lasted well into my youth))
just to be clear: not providing excuses for felon. just think it's unlikely that that was the avenue
Musk heard about the 'gamer words' and because so many called him a fake game he went out and did nazi salute, he feels bullied really.
E: reality is even dumber, in what is prob an attempt to distract from the nazi salutes he admits to cheating, using the 'everybody does it' defense. Of course he also thinks he did nothing wrong, in a way that would make Sartres skin crawl. Poor Grimes, face bitten again.
Grimes has gotta stop drinking the brain-smoothing juice.
Was it? Was it? I’m tired of the fucking excuses. He’s a nazi doing nazi salutes. If that’s not obvious you should go back to school because you’re a fucking moron.
It would be good if European leaders reacted to this, but I don’t expect them to since they have no balls right now and don’t want to offend the new POTUS.
They’ll react to it … by swerving further right.
Proof? PM me your address.
Thanks for a cogent analysis with novel insight. I feared a shitpost but now I'm really glad I clicked.
No problem. But in case you were disappointed that you didn’t get the shitpost you feared, here’s tomorrow’s headline: “twitter character limit increased to 1488”