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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reminder that Fox News declared Michelle Obama a terrorist over a fist bump.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Is he flexing his "shoot someone on 5th Ave" moment?

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder how trump feels that the most viral thing about his inauguration wasn't him

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[–] [email protected] 201 points 1 day ago (18 children)

The ADL is defending him. Bootlickers.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

It wouldn't be a delicate situation if ONE GROUP WASN'T DOING NAZI SHIT

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Good for AOC, but I honestly fear for her safety in the coming years. I hope she can stay safe.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (4 children)

the ADL is a zionist organization that supports genocide. they're not bootlickers. they're the sole of the boot itself.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck the ADL

I was on the fence about them for past shenanigans but this is the final nail in the coffin. My friends are now telling me that musk did not, in fact do a Nazi salute because his fingers weren't pointed the right way

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Ask your friends why they're so familiar with the proper performance of the nazi salute.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Just when I thought the ADL couldn't be anymore useless, here's REAL Anti-Semitism and they're not doing anything about it.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait… that really happened? Reality just never stops to surprise me.

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[–] [email protected] 281 points 1 day ago (7 children)

fucking nazi asshole piece of shit

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

For once he's doing it wrong, not that it matters, and secondly he looks like he came while doing it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Forget all that story of different salutes and making fun of elon by saying that he is making the american "nazi salute"

Lets call a spade a spade.

Elon is doing the nazi salute and there is no other way to take it other than being serious.

That fucker must get down from power.

PS: I removed my previous snarky comment about bellamy salute and made this new one because it is a serious business

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

Are you suggesting that Musk had all of this nuance in mind when he made the gesture?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I now regretting making the previous comment.

I made the previous comment in a jesting tone like "same... but different... but still the same"

Also, I went into a rabbit hole seraching for variations of nazi salute (because I know from history that brasil integralist movement had their own version of roman salute called anauê) and found about the bellamy salute.

Seeing that the nazis are actually using the "roman salute" as an actual excuse, I'll take back what I said.

He is doing the nazi salute. Period.

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[–] [email protected] 234 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow. I was willing to believe that the still pictures were just perfectly timed to make it look like something it wasn't. But it totally is a Nazi salute.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Yeah, this was the first time I saw it in motion. How anyone could try to spin this as anything else is wild. We're to the part in 1984 where we're told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears...

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 day ago (7 children)

How did he make the Nazi salute look somehow even MORE uncool than the -9999999999999999999999 it was already at.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because he made it with the expression of a 16 year old in furious heat.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So he literally turns around and does it a 2nd time.

How can anyone deny it now? There's no way this is coincidence, like he's just really awkward with gestures and was bad at throwing his hand in the air to the crowd. This can't be explained away.

Wtf bullshit argument or defense is he and his supporters going to spew out?

They all say he's such a genius, but he's unaware of how close this gesture is to a nazi salute? There's no way this can be defended. It's just too obvious.

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

It's called post-truth and gaslighting in some developments of the phenomenon. I think this is, among other things, an experiment coming from the Donald administration.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's undeniably obvious what it is

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Well, get ready for a whole lot of gaslighting. He’s going to say that’s not what he was doing and his lil army of trolls are going to toe the line.

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