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I saw a nazi just as clearly as you saw a nazi. And no, we did not just see a nazi salute, we saw a complete nazi piece of shit. There's no more to this story, nothing here is up for debate.
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Can we chill with the Nazi salute guys?
Like, I get it, Musk is a Nazi shitbag. Not much of a surprise there.
But I've seen like 100 posts about the damn salute and like 2 about the flood of EOs that Trump has put out the last two days.
Starting to wonder if the salute was an intentional distraction. Because of course the Internet would be on fire about that.
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What Elon did was a nazi salute, and Elon is a nazi.
Back in the early days of Trump 1.0, I was accused of accidentally making a nazi salute. I raised a pint glass in cheers with no open palm (a drinking glass was in my hand). This wasn't a nazi salute, but people were so keyed up to overreact and attack their friends and coworkers that it didn't matter.
People are not taking Elon's salute seriously because our society has lost its ability to take such accusations seriously. People remember the overreaction and baseless accusations being flung between people who should have had solidarity in Trump 1.0, and that undermines trust in similar claims today. This jadedness gives cover for the actual mask-off nazism in Trump 2.0.
People are so used to finding out that an accused nazi salute from the clickbait article was just someone trying to say cheers or making an awkward hand gesture that it takes extra evidence now to convince them that the AfD-supporting billionaire that just bought an election actually did a full nazi salute starting from the chest with no other justification (and then repeated it).
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Completely agree. High five!!! Oh shit. Shit shit shit I forgot How tall I am.
Just a joke. Not defending just a joke. That little weasel doesn't even have the balls to be an actual Nazi. Nazis are bad but He's pretending to be a Nazi and denying it. That's... Somehow... Worse. "Say what you want about the tenets of Nazis, atleast it's an ethos"
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Have yall thought that it's maybe possible he did it not because he's a Nazi, but to troll people and spark outrage?
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