tomenzgg
joined 2 weeks ago
This isn't related to the thread conversation, at all, but your username is fantastic.
Now knowing the context, it's so…Musk-like.
Oh, they won't realize what I'm doing if I pretend it's symbolizing my heart going out towards the crowd…
*throws the most awkward and uncoordinated Fascist salute, ever*
In the pre-Trump world, none. In this administration, I think it'll barely even register.
Honestly, most of his turn to the far right had felt like he's largely LARPing and sort of just trying it out (not that it doesn't have real consequences, of course, but it's felt more like someone trying to join a clique than a serious ideological conviction).
I don't know how to describe why but it has a certain trying-out-a-new-hobby approach to it. Maybe it's the way he goes to the very extreme, immediately. His endorsement of the Alternative for Germany party felt like pushing boundaries or, "Let me see how far I can get (in terms of influencing things, like he did with America)." His Nazi salute felt like he'd been rehearsing it because he thought it'd look so cool or he wanted to try it out for the first time (again, to test boundaries).
I could be wrong but it's all felt…unserious (in terms of his intentions; definitely not the consequences).