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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.
What's the line? Something about becoming rich so that they don't have to follow the rules.
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.
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.
https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403
If you don't wanna click the x link, here's what it says in full:
This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.
It seems that @elonmusk
made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.
In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new
beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
I like how they had to turn off comments on it after getting dunked a couple of times.
"Fell for it?" "Fell for it?" They intentionally voted for that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Doesn't surprise me that he is a Nazi. Just surprised that he can pull this off so openly.
Have we learnt nothing?
Great. They've gone from dog whistles to bullhorns. :|
They've been using bullhorns for quite a while now.
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.
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.
You just know Don is going to be furious that Elon has stolen the limelight today.
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.
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.