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Anyone making a gesture of that sort is going to get an enormous amount of media. It was outrageously poorly considered to anyone with any knowledge of history,
by llm_nerd 2y ago
Anyone making a gesture of that sort is going to get an enormous amount of media. It was outrageously poorly considered to anyone with any knowledge of history, especially in such a venue and situation.
Most people don't make gestures that can so easily be misunderstood as a sieg heil.
Now add in Elon's many, many weird overlaps with white supremacy -- not to mention that we can't ignore the weird correlation with Musk, Sacks and Thiel all being outputs of apartheid South Africa, all three showing certain predilections -- most recently heralding a notorious far-right German party AfD, and it takes just incredibly gymnastics to pretend this was benign. That the obvious interpretation was, as the other person said, wink wink nudge nudge encouraged.
- impulser_ 2y ago[flagged]
- ceejayoz 2y ago“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
- computerthings 2y agoJust for the record, because it irked me and I wanted to refute it: the flagged comment said anyone with a knowledge of history would know this isn't a Hitler salute, because that's not done at an angle. And yes, I guess the "most pure" form is doing it frontally, but here is an image of Hitler doing the salute -- at an angle, from what I can tell. https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gettyimages-95602542.jpg https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gettyim... NSFW, I guess. actually, who wants to look at it even outside of work... but anyone who genuinely doubts that this could possibly be mistaken for a Hitler salute, do take a look.
- ceejayoz 2y agoAnd here's video: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1i6nylm/the_resemblance_is_uncanny/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1i6nylm/...