Elon Musk performs a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration celebration

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His fortune is built on seed money from apartheid south africa. How is it news he has a nazi fetish?

It's not news to anyone paying attention, but that weird Tesla fanatic uncle is going to find it a bit harder to rationalise an actual unambiguous world-famous Nazi gesture. We've even got those worshippers over here, and anyone reasonable who was on the fence with their pro-Musk proselyting can't overlook something this clear.
- but that weird Tesla fanatic uncle is going to find it a bit harder to rationalise an actual unambiguous world-famous Nazi gesture
  We're already seeing their responses in the wild. They're just denying it was a Nazi salute. And playing the "woke cancel culture leftists are taking him out of context" card.
- Many will find a away to overlook it. Even some commenters in this post found a way.
- They can and will ignore it.

there are 2 salutes in the USA, o7 and hand over heart. This was very explicitly what it "appears to" be, and there is no excuse.

I've always wondered what o7 was all about, thanks.
- you are welcome~
- O7 commander

Just in case anyone might argue it wasn't a Nazi salute, he turns to face his fascist lord and repeats the gesture with precision. A crisp and clean fascist salute.

The fuck is this shit?

No shit, he actually did haha

Or he fucked up his dab

he did it twice, with the hand going from the chest out. No chance it was accidental
- Video?
- If you've seen any leaked footage from neo-Nazi orgs, they're surprisingly garbage at performing the salute. It's actually amazing.
- The man has nothing but time and money. He has seen more videos of the Third Reich than most people, guaranteed. He is not an ignoramus, he's a well informed and highly effective grifter who needs an ideology that supports his self worth in the face of his contradictions and cog dis.

I cannot understand the true believers. The people who are saying (1) its a Roman salute or (2) its a "My heart goes out to you" gesture.

They can twist themselves into knots with any other conspiracy theory, but cannot imagine the richest/smartest man to ever exist could figure out how to throw out a plausibly deniable Nazi salute.

This is Sideshow Bob explaining his DIE BART DIE tattoo.

We are being gaslit by half a country. That was a Nazi salute.

The fact that he's a Nazi shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. He's named after a character in a book written by a very famous Nazi, his fortune comes from Apartheid South Africa, his grandfather was a leader of a pro-Hitler fascist movement in the '30s and '40s.

So at what point do you actually become a Nazi is it when start doing the seig heils or do you need to be like goose stepping down the street first?

Just in case you were unclear. Although some people will pretend to be confused and that this is ambiguous.

Death to amerikkka

I hope this finally persuades most European companies to "𝕏-it".

I'm glad one news site has the guts to say it

...how??
He even did it twice, as angrily as possible
- His arm goes out to the side, in a beckoning motion; the nazi salute goes forward.
the odds of Elon getting anything right approach zero. it was definitely his best attempt at two nazi salutes
I'm asking this genuinely, how did the salute Elon gave differ from what you think a nazi salute is?
- Okay, I reviewed what the actual Nazi salute looks like. Having done this, I actually do think this strongly resembles a Nazi salute. I think p>80% this was intentional.
- Seriously? You approve of this dirtbag enough to use him as a reaction image?

Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, attributed to the Roman salute, a gesture that was popularly believed to have been used in ancient Rome. This resulted in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States. It was officially replaced by the hand-over-heart salute when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.
But yes, an obscure salute that was only used for a couple of decades over 80 years ago is very American...
- lol i just knew elon simps were going to say "ackshually this is a roman salute 🤓🤓"
Unfortunately for you, context matters. No matter how American this used to be you can't plan to do a salute like this without planning for it to have clear connotations with the Nazi salute.
Exactly, America is racist
Unlikely he would have known that one, being from South Africa, even at his age.
So it's the Roman salute, it's the Bellamy salute, or... He just gave the fucking Nazi salute.
I'm aware your comment is probably sarcasm, can I'd rather not downplay something like this.

Genocide Joe & Kamala Cheney must be really proud