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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.
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.
That Doomsday clock must be very close to midnight by now
Goddamn better be.
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.
"The Party told you to reject evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final and most essential command."
This is exactly how modern fascists operate. The majority of people will brush it off with "It's just a joke" or "It was an accident", but the extremists in the crowd know that it wasn't, and they feel right at home. There was a video on youtube called something like "the pewdiepipeline" that explained this perfectly.
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
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.
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.
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.
You don't share his daddy issues
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.
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.
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
"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.
You mustn't have read up a lot on the history of fascism then.
Plenty of people deported by Hitler, supported Hitler. Including the guy who wrote the famous "First they came..." poem. It's not just a turn of phrase, it's plainly autobiographical.
Somebody's upset that he wasn't the center of attention for a few hours.
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".
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
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.
He did it twice
There’s video. He did it twice.
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
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.
Doesn't surprise me that he is a Nazi. Just surprised that he can pull this off so openly.
Have we learnt nothing?
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.