On BBC Newsnight the panel of journalists and politicians were discussing Elon Musk’s emphatic salute at US President Donald Trump’s triumphal inauguration rally in Washington.
Probably most people have seen Musk’s Dr Strangelove moment by now but none of the panel would say what it most clearly was: a Nazi salute.
Musk did not just involuntarily raise his right arm and point his fingers to heaven. He slammed his right hand into his chest, paused for a long moment, and then thrust his arm outwards as tens of millions watched nationwide, and thousands of Trump supporters in the auditorium cheered.
At this point, many people were no doubt watching stunned and wondering if they had just hallucinated Musk’s gesture, but helpfully, he then turned his back and did the same salute to those in the seats behind him.
And yet somehow Gabriel Gatehouse, a seasoned BBC observer of US politics and the far right, played down the moment, as did the great sword-carrying failed Conservative leadership contender Penny Mordaunt. Gatehouse suggested it could be a “Roman salute” and compared it to a cartoon frog that appeared in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Firefox Pocket thought this nonsense was “Thought-Provoking”
https://apnews.com/article/musk-gesture-salute-antisemitism-0070dae53c7a73397b104ae645877535
Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although his intention wasn’t totally clear and some hate watchdogs are saying not to read too much into it.
It’s no longer on the front page, but here’s the source anyway.
Nazi salutes can be anything, apparently, but pronouns were too far. Got it.
It’s like these people can’t even be bothered to read the opening paragraph of a fucking Wikipedia article
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Removing this comment is sympathizing with a Nazi.
Make a choice.
The Nazis appropriated the “Roman salute” as the Nazi salute. Known fact.
Just like no one is buying that your swastika tattoo is the auspicious footprints of the Buddha.
Elon could literally have a tattoo of one on his chest, and his dumbfuck supporters would legitimately start claiming this to be the fact.
And the Roman salute harkens back to Mussolini, so it’s not exactly a huge improvement.
If anyone wants to see more context here’s some video of what he did: https://youtu.be/h9ytfBg953Q
And for comparison’s sake…
Democrats will keep losing at this pace when they can’t move past things like this when there is no easy way to prove either way. Plenty of pictures & videos of popular Democrats making similar gestures. This whole concept that if you move your arms in a certain way makes you a Nazi is dumb. PC police will be telling you everything you do offends someone.
Being from a nazi family, being found guilty of having an openly racist workplace multiple times, bbacking a party on which the europes stance is they are nazi, agreeing with some pretty nazi ass statements on twitter, having the twitter become overflowing with antisemetisim and racial hate shortly post your takeover, employing a lot of things nazi party did to your companies, engaging in censorship, throwing two nazi salutes at a political rally and not saying a peep about it makes you pretty nazi, idk about you.
Stop being such a snowflake if you can’t handle the facts. You should worry about your new life as a woman.
I found elons lemmy account
I wanna see those democrats salute too! I heard a bunch of people claim this but I can’t find a video :/
It’s because they’re everywhere. Most people will see them & know you’re not trustworthy, but you’ll still be pretending they don’t exist.
There aren’t any. Get cancer. In case youre an easily offending snowflake, that word combination was me sending my heart out to you. Very common american expresion everyone does. You heard all the dems say the same thing as well, very easy to find.
Are you on meth or something, lol? You’re unintelligible
They’re claiming there’s videos of democrats doing the nazi salute everywhere. And they claim that I am not to be trusted because I’ve not seen any
It’s because there aren’t any. All the stupid responses are photos which can easily be taken out of context. Just a frame out of a video can be sufficient to achieve the look.
But what he did left zero room for misinterpretation. There’s no need to isolate the movement–it’s right there plain as day. He did it twice last to make sure everyone saw it. We will not find any Dems doing that because it would be political suicide to do so.
Anyone trying to claim that was anything but a seig heil is full of shit
Please provide video evidence of anyone in democratic party doing the same gesture.
No, I don’t mean waving with an outstretched arm in a fashion that would look like it in a still photo.
I mean the hard hit to the chest followed by the straight arm and hand that musk displayed both to the people in front and behind him.
“Please provide a video of a Democrat doing that thing with their arms, but I’m a scared that it might exist so they have to look like Elon, double tap their heart & hold out their arm exactly at the angle Elon did, and they have to turn around after & do something similar in the other direction where I can’t see. If it is at all different then I get to decide, which clearly I am not biased. Wink wink”
Man everywhere I turn there you are running your ignorant mouth again. You know you don’t have to grace us with whatever shit take you have.
You look like super Karen’s to about 80% of the population, but hey you must love Trump & Elon cause all you do is help them win.
No easy way? False.
Anybody who intentionally makes a Nazi salute is a Nazi. Absolutely no chance of doing that accidentally.
So, whether your delicate sensibilities like it or not, anybody who moves their arm (not arms, pathetic attempt at distraction btw) in a certain way is, in fact, a Nazi.
Deal with it, snowflake.
I saw the KKK shake each other’s hands so if you shake someone’s hands your now a KKK member. Lol, really this is 100% projection on your part. I guess this is your way of dealing with the massive election loss that you caused by being a genocide enabler. Give yourself a big pat on the back… Oh wait, that means you hate women. Prob shouldn’t move at all else you’ll offend the PC police.
So you attend bigot parties. Got it.
