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Can we chill with the Nazi salute guys?
Like, I get it, Musk is a Nazi shitbag. Not much of a surprise there.
But I've seen like 100 posts about the damn salute and like 2 about the flood of EOs that Trump has put out the last two days.
Starting to wonder if the salute was an intentional distraction. Because of course the Internet would be on fire about that.
The distraction is the people saying things like "it was just an awkward gesture", "it's just a Roman salute", "it's no big deal", "why are we still talking about this", etc.
It is absolutely not a distraction to acknowledge and bring attention to the fact that the most powerful nation on the planet is now being run by a fascist Nazi oligarch.
This is a big deal. The executive orders are also big deal, but those don't diminish this one. If you don't think there are enough posts about the executive orders, you're free to create them.
I don't disagree, but I do think that the deliberate part is to get everybody talking about Elon while Trump goes through and destroys America unchecked.
They know we've got the attention span of goldfish, and they know we're much more apt to focus on a controversial person doing naughty things.
These people literally control the narrative. Everything is deliberate and malicious.
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No, they do it so we talk about it instead of the actually dangerous executive orders etc.
And damn is it working exactly as intended because, like my sister when she was 10, we can't help but take the bait.
Completely agree. High five!!! Oh shit. Shit shit shit I forgot How tall I am.
Just a joke. Not defending just a joke. That little weasel doesn't even have the balls to be an actual Nazi. Nazis are bad but He's pretending to be a Nazi and denying it. That's... Somehow... Worse. "Say what you want about the tenets of Nazis, atleast it's an ethos"
Framing being a Nazi as having a defining rubric of out and proud suggests a false spectrum linking being brave and cowardly to a range between Nazi and Not Nazi. It's more of a boolean function. A Nazi coward hiding in linen cupboard and an audacious Nazi in the streets willing to take a punch are still both just Nazis.
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The Nazis had great fashion sense as well. I mean, they murdered millions and all, but looked fantastic doing it.
This new crop has the fashion sense of a neckbeard living in a college dorm.
If you're going to trample the rights of my loved ones and myself, at least have the decency to wear some spiffy shiny leather boots and accessorize with some skull jewelry.
What if you're really drunk and you're trying to hail a cab but you can't rustle up enough strength to get your arm outside of the danger zone?
He wasn't drunk or hailing a cab so I don't know what you are getting at.
That it is possible to do it accidentally. But a normal person would realize their mistake and apologize profusely.
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Yep. There was a myriad of options to end such speech, including humble waving or nice gestures.
No, that Nazi chose to show a Nazi salute. It was intentional and calculated.
With no intention to defend Elon Musk.... Jude Bellingham doing a Nazi salute by mistake and Toni Kroos lowering his arm.
In any case to me Elon's gesture looks very much intentional(either because he wanted to stir the pot or he actually means it), and even if there is doubt, he is not the kind of man that deserves benefit of the doubt.
Okay so first technically that's not true. It's possible.
But Elon 100% did that shit on purpose.
Have yall thought that it's maybe possible he did it not because he's a Nazi, but to troll people and spark outrage?
He should take a big fat shit on the american flag, set it on fire. Would also be pretty based and trollpilled. Maybe next he should say "lmao get rekt" to all school shooting victims. That would also be really trolly pro gamer move I want a public figure who is also now in politics to make. Very based.
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