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Just went to LinkedIn just to see bottom of the barrel bootlickers defending him.
” He’s autistic”, ” that picture is taken out of context”, ” it’s a Roman salute”, ” look at these out of context pictures of other politicians making the gesture”, ” how can he be a Nazi if he supports Israel?”
No he did a full on deliberate Nazi salute at a far right event.
there is no proof in roman writing or painting of this salute, there is no doubt about Musolinis fascist movement using it in 1919 and later the german nazis adopting it
There is a painting from the 1700s that depicts Romans using the salute. So the myth that this salute has Roman origin predates the Italian fascists.
The Bellamy salute in the United States dates to 1896. It too predates the Italian fascists, and it seems to draw on the same Roman-origin urban legend.
The Roman salute is also known as the fascist salute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute
It’s the oath of the Horatii and asterix - both well known for being reliable historical sources
I’m genuinely curious: who the fuck defends Elon and Nazis on LinkedIn? Are we so far divided as a country that it’s ok to associate employment with a penchant for Nazism?
Probably simps who can’t accept that Elon isn’t the real life Tony Stark they thought him to be.
And nazis don’t forget the nazis
Is there any difference at this point?
What’s decent about defending a Nazi?
He's not a nazi. It's questionable at best. And yet you guys go out of your way to shout that he's a nazi
He looks like a Nazi
Talks like a Nazi
Acts like a Nazi
What would convince you?
That he did something that's actually bad.
Like killing people.
But just reaching his hands in the air once that might be related Nazism, didn't make him "definitely a nazi"
Surely we can find hints that somebody is a Nazi before we find out that they've killed people.
But jumping to conclusions is bad right?
There's definitely interpretation to this gesture he did. This doesn't make him a nazi. The people aggressively trying to push the users that he's a nazi are acting more like Nazis than him.
This could be a mistake or a silly blunder or even just him trying to throw his affection out. But people shouting and screaming, calling people names and being derogatory is disturbing
giggling at this 😂😂 ur so silly
Famously exclusionist, the National Socialists gained popularity for their (checks notes...) inclusionary stance on who could be a nazi.
Sounds wrong to me, but I'm not a Histrionics professor, so I could be wrong.
Elon, is this you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyPSKLy5E4&t=706s He sure doesnt smell like a heckin nazi. Im sure he has apologized and interperted the gesture.
Maybe people are calling names because you are staring at a duck and saying it is in fact a camel. Oh wow would you look at that, literal nazi communities love the shit out of musk for doing the nazi salute.
He's posted in support of far-right extremists in Germany and the UK multiple times, he's 'liked' antisemitic posts on his shitshow of a site, he's used avatars that are used by the alt and far right. And now he's done this. A nazi salute. He's a nazi. Nobody needs to 'go out of their way' to call him a nazi when everything he says and does shouts the fact from the fucking rooftops.
He's not a nazi. You think he's a member of the nazi party? Show me these terrible tweets your talking about
Are you genuinely suggesting you have to be a member of a club to be a nazi?
BBC "new profile image which depicts the character Pepe the Frog - a meme that has been used by far-right groups."
You can't take this seriously.
So he had a picture of Pepe that makes him a nazi?
Mind blown
Well done. You managed to fixate on one and only one thing and somehow find that that totally exonerates Musk from being a nazi despite everything else. That's quite a feat of cognitive dissonance.
Tommy Robson, calling for investigation of r.ape gangs not that bad of an idea.
Adf gay female leader, doesn't sound that nazish
Ah, got it - you're trolling. Well done, you got me.
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Fuckin yikes
It's not anyone else's responsibility to pry your eyes open so you can move the goalposts. Don't think he's a Nazi because he's not a party member? That's fine, but he's throwing Nazi salutes and talking about how the AfD can save Germany so a lot of us are going to call him a Nazi because he seems to want to be a Nazi, or even enjoys being called a Nazi.
The leader of the AfD is a gay female. Doesn't sound very nazish to me
You don't think gay people can be right wing nationalists or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
Oh he makes big tweet where he agrees with tweet that say da joos are bringing in minorities to destabilize america, is from a literal nazi family, he doesn't apologize for the literal nazi salute at all.
There are thousands of politicans all around the world that don't do the gesture at politcal events.
You're welcome to do the questionable gesture infront of a synagouge, israeli embassy or really any busy public place.
What lies are being spread?
Go back to sleep troll
Care to elaborate?
He made a heart thrown out gesture and now there's all this hysteria probably artificial. That states he's a nazi for one at the very least questionable event. Yet people are treating him like he's gasing the Jews
Nazism isn’t limited to hating Jews. They were targeting other marginalized groups at the time. This time they’re targeting a different set of groups, most notably transgender people.
The Nazis targeted the trans community the first time around too. Camps, death squads, the whole nine yards...
There was a big chunk of scientific research on the topic that was simply lost because it was literally burned.
I've got to say I don't like that he likes posts that are anti trans. There's no need for that.
huh, funny google analitics fails to find literally anything on this common "heart thrown out" gesture.
Thanks for proving again he did a nazi salute.