I love how certain media call it a Roman Salute in an attempt to defend him.
Like, do they think Hitler just made it up himself?
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He stole it from the Italians under Mussolini, who basically took it from a painting. There's no evidence the Romans used this salute, so it's always been associated with fascism.
Unfortunately, evidence isn't something these folks are worried about.
Their feelings don’t care about facts so to say
Even if it was a roman salute, that was a symbol of fascism.
That's what I'm saying, it takes literally four seconds to look up where the "Roman" salute came from.
But these kids aren't big on the whole "reading" thing.
Same people that say the swastika is a symbol of peace.
Also, I think Hitler took the salute from this. Which is similar to the Roman salute.
Hitler had no great ideas, he stole from everyone, and was overall a terrible person full of hatred. But, he did ban human zoos.
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I for one am absolutely amused that every reputable news source calls it a nazi-style salute, since Elon couldn't even get the salute right, despite his best efforts.
It looks like the halfway point between a Nazi salute and a dab
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Isnt this the wrong community? This is not an onion or onion like article... I know Chaser usually does that, but there are no jokes or lies in there really are there? All those quotes have been said/written by someone.
It's really not clear that he isn't just pointing at something/acknowledging someone with his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently
And when he turned around and pointed violently at the flag in the same style? Does that make it more clear?
It wasn't completely clear that my comment was pure sarcasm? Seriously?
That's been the conservative line all day. Repeating a partisan lie word for word is not sarcasm.
Nobody conservative was defending this by saying he was pointing his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently at someone
Actually no. Maybe include /s or something?
Who "points their thumb" at someone "violently"? What reality is this
Assuming you're operating in good faith, just take the feedback and try to learn from it.
Lol. This is a community about satire, right?
I mean, to be fair to you, I thought it was pretty clearly satire
I've found online that /s is almost always needed. May take a bit from the joke but also, clarifies for everyone that you are not actually being an asshole when you can't visibly roll your eyes and use the proper "sarcasm inflection"
I've found that people who can't detect obvious sarcasm are probably not worth the effort of explaining it
Fair. I've spent most my life working with the neurodivergent community, so even IRL I know some very intelligent people need a bit of help with implied meaning. I know I've had my fair share of "woosh" moments
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Tbh one of the things that makes detecting sarcasm vs actually just defending him hard is that normally you can use prior knowledge of a persons opinions to help, but here I have no clue who you are and what your positions are and you might just be a random Nazi.
If you really don't like just having the /s there, one options is to include a spoiler and put the /s in there a few lines down.
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Lmao sorry you're getting downvoted dude. How anyone took this comment, in this community, seriously... is beyond me!
:D
you really have to write a /s for a lot of these folks to not take everything at face value here it would appear :-/
Might be because people are actually making this argument in defense of musk
Eh, the richest and arguably most powerful man on the planet just did a Nazi salute, twice, on live TV. I think it's understandable that some of our nerves are a bit frayed when it comes to sarcasm/jokes about the subject.
Subtle sarcasm is really hard for a lot of people who comment in a community focused on satire, ironically.
The internet is a different place than it used to be. These days every third person you see might tell you the California fires are caused by having too many black folks in the movies and be completely sure of themselves that this is a fact. It is no longer safe to assume sarcasm when you see someone say something ridiculous.
And if you just laugh and agree with it (sarcastically) or ignore it, then you're going to get new people seeing this for the first time, not getting that it's sarcasm, seeing it get agreed with or at least not refuted, and now you have two people that believe this mess. Rinse and repeat. 4chan is basically a case study for this sort of thing.
Just throwing this in here, looks like he's pointing at something?
He's obviously grabbing his love from his heart and throwing it out to all of his supporters. I don't know how else you could possibly interpret this.
Now that comment felt sarcastic enough to me to need the /s. I'm still betting someone will take it seriously.
Oh wow, that’s even worse than I had guessed. He looks…well exactly like himself, which is to say an over-grown child who thinks being hated for being a nazi is “being a rebel”.
Incredible.
What the fuck even is this timeline.
My estranged uncle, who was a diehard trump supporter (I think he did it because he believed the system needed to be burned down, and he thought that somehow the dems were corrupt and that the republicans weren't)
that same uncle, Moved to Texas because its where Elon went, he idolized Elon, (I should add at this point, my uncle is a fucking CANADIAN WITH A GREEN CARD. NOT A CITIZEN) that same uncle who when he was a teenager, Identified as a NATIONALIST SOCIALIST... He idolozed Elon. and then all of a sudden one day, he told the rest of the family that would still listen to him, that he'd 180'd and isn't following Elon anymore, because Elon is "evil"
the mental gymnastics and thought process is literally giving me hyper brain aids.
and this is my own flesh and blood.
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In their defense, the party said its most important action item on the talking points memo was not to trust your eyes or your ears any longer.
"Don't look up!"
This is barely even satire at this point
the president:
the media:
Just an FYI, the real meaning of that salute is the statement, "I'm a kunt!"
This was the image I was thinking of when I first saw him do the thing
