Doesn’t matter if he didn’t intend it to be a Roman salute (fascist salute) because that’s how it understood. And if he didn’t mean it then he’d be rushing to explain the mistake. He’s perfectly happy to have people think he’s Nazi. That’s enough in my book.
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a childish act for sure.
He totally meant it. It’s pretty clearly visible in the video that he knows what he’s doing, and has this split second doubt of he should go through with it.
The most benign explanation is that he made a bet with someone that he’d throw a nazi salute in front of a crowd on Inauguration Day “for the lulz”
love this perspective on groupthink 😂😂
https://babylonbee.com/news/village-people-accused-of-doing-double-hitler-salute
Regardless of whether he meant it or not, this headline is comedic gold.
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whether it’s a dog whistle or a very disrespectful joke, enough in my book too
Exactly. Also it is highly likely that he did it to get attention.
Who cares, time to get over being triggered by the Nazi bogeyman
When people attack you in bad faith, it's almost never a good strategy to defend yourself.
I think he should get some serious media and public speaking training. He's no longer just being watched by Tesla fanboys. Or stay out of the media entirely, but that's impossible for a narcissist.
Yeah I don't get this angle where people believe he's a nazi and this is him secretely coding to the world. We don't need weird conspiracy theories to hate Elon Musk, he's done tonnes of other stuff to hate him already.
Bad taste but he wants to trigger all the mainstream media and politicians to get a reaction about being a nazi which is idiotic.
The amount of backslash politicians and media are getting for calling him a nazi is crazy. And that’s not from people necessarily on board with Elon. A lot of people are tired of media and politicians being dishonest.
This
elon is a national socialist, heaven forbid. Hes not anyway
same with Hillary, AOC and Obama. All these have done the same salute
Well, seems to be a bit provocative
You should check out how real fascist salute looks like. He is not rushing to explain because he knows most people konw he is not nazi and is trolling the rest.
He is probably trying to take over the news cycle so that people forget his fail with claimg to be a top gamer.
Here is your leader performing the salute. Doesn't Elon's attempt look close enough?
No
Come on, he tried his best. He was just a little bit awkward because this was his first time publicly performing it.
Yea, especially stuff he did and told before and after that 1 sec video destroyed the performance.
But I understand, huge part of population can fit max 1 sec of context into their brains in these days of tiktok.
