Because liberals only under fascism through its aesthetics. It's the Umberto Eco school of fascism identification where it only counts if they're wearing Hugo Boss and marching Jews into camps, otherwise it's just sparkling oppression. It's why they fall over so easily to "respectable" fascists smart enough to mask their genocides under a facade of respectability. And it's why they cannot ever truly oppose fascism without fundamental changes to their core ideologies.

Yes, the richest man in the world MAY HAVE done a Nazi salute during the presidential inauguration. But at least unlike in communist China we had orderly elections and a peaceful handover of power to a known felon and con artist.

He did a nazi salut while saying "the future of civilisation is assured", that gun is smoking tire fire smoke.

The crazy thing for me was that he started talking about how “civilization is saved.”

the allegation that he didn't do a fascist salute is frankly quite silly. i know a sieg heil when i see one, that shit was textbook. anyway i hope he dies painfully

really well put comrade. that third paragraph is actually a banger.

Something about the online reaction to this rubbed me the wrong way, so genuinely thank you for clarifying my own feelings to myself. All these liberals love to feign shock and outrage over melon's juvenile antics and insist that copmala, the other pro-genocide candidate, would have been a superior choice because this specific behavior wouldn't happen at her inauguration. They're mad that the eye of the storm is a little gustier than it's supposed to be.

Side note, internet boy's HH moment was so goofy and stilted and awkward... I wonder if someone tripled-dog dared him to do that or if he just got a little too giggly or hesitant when the time finally came. It was kind of cringe.

yea i agree, it's as if material reality didn't matter just aesthetics, tho even the aesthetics of the US have been outright fascist for its entire existence.

the symbols are so reified no one even remembers to think about the contents of the ideology, great post I agree completely

It has the energy of a middle schooler seeing how far he can get away with it, but having a shitty excuse to backpedal with.

"But, teacher, I wasn't doing that! I was giving my heart out to the class! They're totally different!"

Absolute banger post holy shit

i mean, the not-so-subtle wink to fascists is just to tell to the libruls "yeah we're far-right" if the former evidence wasn't hamfisted enough to send the message

a billion articles will be written about “Did Musk do a Fascist Salue?” rather than the much more necessary “is Musk a fascist?”

I mean, isn't it obvious that he is? He's constantly boosting openly hitlerite Twitter accounts (garbage human, conscious philosopher, end wokeness, etc.) and is well known for QTing JQ posts with the thinking emoji or whatever. I think he thinks he's dogwhistling and is just too stupid to realize how obvious it is.

Quoting myself:

It’s hard to distinguish between the gormless ignoramuses and the crypto-fascists testing the waters for a new Nazi bar.

I’m erring on the side of crypto-fascist in my moderation right now. Sorry for the false positives, witless crackerlibs.

Fascism will not win. The current United States Government might not last long.