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Video evidence of him throwing a Nazi salute; side-by-side comparison of him and Hitler throwing the same salute; he's boosting the fucking NAZI PARTY in Germany, but i don't think he means it, guys!
It was in another of the many threads discussing this topic. I'll link it if i can find it.
That wasn't the one, but it gets the point across.
if you dont mean to defend/apologise for musk. why did you even take the time to write this? As a german who studied the ns-regieme a lot in their life let me (and pretty much every expert on that issue who commented on that) tell you that this is a clear nazi solute. not greatly executed, the führer would have been dissapointed, but it features all the elements to that salute. as i suspect elon has a pr team, and 'educated' himself on the holocaust in Oświęcim, id say it is impossible he didnt know and accidentally mimiced it in that detail.
Your mental gymnastics are Olympic class
That's not how you throw something though
Okay, hear me out. What if the apartheidist xenophobe far-right suck-up with the media machine that front-pages Nazi shit on the regular... what if his arm just did that?
It has been known to happen.
Look, I get it mistakes happen. If a reasonable person had done something that might have given the wrong impression, they would have been like "sorry that was not my intent, I apologize to those that got offended".
This is not what Musk did AFTER being called out.
So, fuck this. This was a Nazi salute. Don't believe the gaslighting.
Best case scenario it’s a very bold dogwhistle. Which isn’t any better.