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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.

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[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 376 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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.

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

This has to be the best comment I've seen on this today

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 251 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 185 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This dude manages to make his declarative nazi salute at the presidential inauguration and the world is watching look like he is a ten year old trying his best to be edgy in school assembly. How is it possible to be a central character in the midst of evil and be so fucking cringe?

[–] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 157 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How is it possible to be a central character in the midst of evil and be so fucking cringe?

The Edgelord of Cringe

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The original Nazis were like that too, though -- massive dorks.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

At least they dressed sharply thanks to Hugo Boss. The MAGA movement looks like a bunch of tramps - chief of which being Steve Bannon.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd think the richest guy in the world could afford a decent fucking suit and a remotely passable haircut.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 159 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

It takes them until the ~~third~~ edit: miscount, fourth paragraph to even connect it to Nazi Germany. “Straight arm salute” and “Roman salute” and not a single use of the term “Nazi salute”, is this a fucking joke?

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is this a fucking joke?

It's fucking fear of retaliation if they call it what it is.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Gotta be honest, I’m feeling real “then perish” about it when this is literally the function of the fourth estate and these news companies are probably one of the best poised, financially and legally, to actually do something other than bend the knee.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 150 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm mad. I'm mad as hell.

Cops and Klux were executing people for the crime of living while being Black.

Trump pardoned 1500 Jan 6 traitors. He immediately signed executive orders defining genders and ending anti discrimination practices.

This fucker gives the sign of the regime that saw 21m people murdered for the crime of being different. And that number doesn't include civilian collateral.

“We only need to be lucky once. You need to be lucky every time.” - IRA to Margaret Thatcher

[–] taytay@lemmings.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re mad, but are you armed?

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Nice try, Mr NSA

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a summary of the book Maus.

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[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... the future of civilization is assured.

That, combined with the salute, is bringing to mind all the worst things.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's not like it takes a very high IQ to have seen this coming for months. And I bet the magats still don't see it.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

It's not like it takes a very high IQ to have seen this coming for ~~months~~ years.

Years. This has been infuriating, being called hyperbolic when it’s been like watching a train wreck coming in extreme slow motion, with everyone constantly saying it’s not happening.

Holocaust survivors put out an open letter back in 2016 (I can’t find it now because it’s been drowned out by many more open letters since Gaza exploded) in which they warned what they were seeing with trump’s rise was exactly what they saw with Hitler, and people called that hyperbolic. That was 10 years ago.

We’ve had a decade at least to stop this and did nothing.

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

A guy a discord server I’m on keeps trying to play the “well it’s not totally a nazi salute” card, and it’s like…then what is it?

It’s not a wave. Not a single human on earth waves that way. No one waves by slapping their chest then throwing their arm out rigid into a point.

And him being “weird” doesn’t give him an excuse.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 109 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Regardless of whether the South Africa-born Musk intended the salute as a “Sieg Heil” salute favored by the followers of Adolf Hitler in World War II, as some online commentators have suggested, it was eagerly received that way by extremists online.

Yeeeah. If your target group is also calling it for what it is, it is obviously a fucking nazi salute.

The press is just going to roll over on this episode too. Spineless cowards.

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[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As much as I was hoping it would have just been something awkward taken out of context, I don't think there's really any other interpretation. He does it twice, even.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They keep defending him saying "it was on accident, he's autistic!"

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hitler would have put autistic people in the camps.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is living history at its finest: you can experience 1933 Germany like you were there!

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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not a straight arm salute, its a Hitler Salute. You don't have to be German to be a fucking Nazi.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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”

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Straight arm salute”

Right. Gotcha. And a swastika is an “almost grid”.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, I'm curious. Can a German chime in on this? I (US) understand that it's illegal to do this salute in public there. Would what Musk did here be enough to get him booked, or at least a stern talking to, if he'd done it in Germany?

[–] ANNOFlo@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Per § 86 StGB (our penal law) up to three years in prison or a monetary fine.

People would be outraged, of course only those that aren't too far gone to the right. The reaction of the AfD would be most interesting, as they will probably like it but can't make it too obvious, they're already under watch by the interior secret services of the Verfassungsschutz.

Would anything happen to Musk? The richest man in the world, backed by a country with a law to invade The Hague when service members are kept there? Yeah, I doubt that.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nooooooo, that is all one big misunderstaaaaaaaandiiiiiiiing.

You're just throwing the nazi insult at everyone you disliiiiiiike

/s

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

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}

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