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> I don't think Elon gave a Nazi salute He gave two fascist salutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc >
by zfg 2y ago
> I don't think Elon gave a Nazi salute
He gave two fascist salutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc
> I think that comparison is based on superficial mechanistic similarities
It looks exactly the same. These guys think so: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...
This guy too: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_learned_nothing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_l...
Sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be.
- scarab92 2y ago[flagged]
- epakai 2y agoThose similar gestures are people waving. Most of them aren't even clips, but still shots of the wave when the hand was extended forward. It is really disingenuous to compare them. It is disappointing that we are pretending someone with the responsibility Musk carries couldn't foresee what his own body movements portray. He was at best trolling, and that is a pretty shitty thing to troll with.
- scarab92 2y ago[flagged]
- zfg 2y ago[flagged]
- AlecSchueler 2y agoThere's no point getting into a discussion with someone who refuses to admit the sky is blue. You know what you saw. The difficulty with arguing against someone who doesn't care about their beliefs matching up with reality is that you have to rely on factual arguments while they do not.
- defrost 2y ago> You can find clips of many politicians doing similar gestures. Really? Since Musk made his two salutes all I've seen in response have been highly selective still photos taken at low angles that make it appear Obama, Harris, etc. have been making Nazi salutes. I've yet to see a dynamic unfaked video lengthy video clip of, say, Joe Biden, throwing a Nazi salute. Do you have such a clip with details of the time and place, hosted by a major media outlet?
- wahnfrieden 2y agoOf course they don't - they're referring to those still photos you've seen already which look nothing like a fascist salute in their original videos
- AlecSchueler 2y agoHave you tried looking up videos from Germany in the 1930s? There r plenty of politicians and even normal citizens giving the same salute.