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[–] [email protected] 153 points 1 month ago

Awww, people are realizing a Nazi salute has consequences. Good for him!

Like all billionaires, Elon can (unfortunately) do whatever the fuck he wants and he will be okay. If your boss isn't fasscy then you're gonna get wrecked.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Elon's salute. The famous salute. Sounds OK to me if it's just a salute. Is there some simple way to describe this salute, to give the reader an idea if it's a good or a bad salute? I wonder if there would be a precise description for this salute, my dear journos?

Ah yes it's a nazi salute, of course. Easy to forget this adjective, since it's completely harmless and very mundane.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh yes, some people did recognise that the arm gesture in question may have been used by the Romans. Very neutral, we all know the Romans were around a long time ago, so..

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

You're clearly trying to paint Elon in a bad light! Why did you leave out the footage of the Romans doing it huh?

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can just say "Does a nazi salute"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, stop giving Elon a perpetual boner by calling this an "Elon" salute. Give credit where credit is due. Like you could say, I just took a giant Elon and everyone would indeed know what you meant, but you really should just say you took a big shit.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I do find it crazy that pcgamer is reporting this, because the rest of the news media has just faceplanted on journalism. Reminds me of the Bush Admin, when Rolling Stone Magazine was one of the only reliable sources of news thanks to the extreme corruption within the major publications.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

During the first trump presidency, teen vogue was doing the actual journalism and it was crazy

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.

Oh the memories.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

Need more of this. More pointing out the consequences which exist for anyone but the super rich. More pointing out how we are gaslighted to believe "it's not a Nazi salute".

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

It’s a Inauguration Day nazi salute. Tell it like it is.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is very funny that there are so many examples of people basically saying, "It wasn't a Nazi salute, watch I'll show you," and then immediately ruining their lives by doing it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They were already one half lost if they believed it was innocent in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I'm sure most of them just believed they could get away with it and then abruptly realized they did not have the same power and influence as the richest man on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

They don’t really believe it’s innocent, they just want it to be ok to hate.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This guy worships the "Turn the other cheek" guy, right?

The "love your neighbors" guy?

The "unconditional love" guy?

Just want to make sure I fully understand.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

No. He's lying about that part. He worships his own ego.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

"While we cannot say what was in Mr. Robinson's heart when he did this, his action appears to have been an attempt to curry favor with certain elements of the American political right by provoking its opposition," reads a statement posted by the Anglican Catholic Church on Wednesday. "Mr. Robinson had been warned that online trolling and other such actions (whether in service of the left or right) are incompatible with a priestly vocation and was told to desist. Clearly, he has not, and as such, his license in this Church has been revoked. He is no longer serving as a priest in the ACC."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Well, the great news is that this guy doesn't look anything like a god-damned villain...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He looks like he stuck his tongue in the toaster.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you asked me what Thunderf00t would look like if he became a priest instead of a scientist/youtuber this is what id imagine.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

"Nazi salute"

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it was just a joke bro, just get on the train, trust me bro

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Proverbs 26:18-19

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, “I was only joking!”

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... Gamer Priest?

I am just imagining like a Christian BF42 server that bans you for swearing, but a lan party of such people, in a church.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

They only play Christian games, like Binding of Isaac

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

People with no billions to protect them are finding out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's hilarious to me to see something actually get a priest kicked out of the Catholic church.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Wouldn’t “Anglican Catholic Church” mean he’s Catholic? (Genuine question!)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The "Anglican Catholic Church" is actually not affiliated with either the holy see (the "actual" Roman Catholic Church) or the Anglican Church (as headed by the Archbishop Canterbury and the King of England).

He joined it because he didn't make the cut to become an actual Anglican Priest because of

concerns about Robinson's "libertarian anti-woke, anti-identity politics, Covid-sceptical" political views and his use of social media, particularly Twitter, to disseminate them."

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Not according to the Catholic church. They're not Anglicans according to the Anglican church either.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Say Nazi in the title, you fucking cowards. Sprinkle on some allegedly if you have to. You know goddamn well what it was.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

lol! Basically it’s-

Nazi Sympathizer Does Nazi Salute. Watch It Now On X!

I’d say you can’t write shit like this… but here we are, reading an article about a Nazi that links to video of the repugnant act- hosted on a Nazi-run social media platform.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The irony is, just by looking at him, this is exactly the type of person Hitler wanted to exterminate.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

This guy looks like he tried to fuck a power outlet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I mean church in the loosest sense of the word since it was literally only created in 1997 as an offshoot because they didn't like women becoming ordained.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

No, that's a church in every sense of the word. That is a normal thing for Christian Churches to do.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Good. Fuck nazis.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the fact that two mostly unrelated consequences are tied together with "and" in the title had me laughing

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I saw the video of this a little earlier. He smirked with the "My heart goes out to you" part. 🤢

I heard he almost wasn't confirmed in the church in the first place, but I didn't know about the gaming website editorial staff resigning. Wow.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

How old is this photo? He definitely didn't have that hair in the actual clip. Why is this the shot being used instead of one from the actual day of?

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