Elon Musk draws outrage over 'odd-looking salute' at Trump inauguration celebration
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Jesus Christ, Liberal Media, just call a spade a spade. "Odd-looking?"That was the angriest Seig Heil since 1945 wtf
They're sanewashing a literal nazi salute.
The right wing media are using nukes, while the liberal media are playing with sticks.
The "liberal" media are bending the knee. They are editing that part from the footage, apparently Facebook is removing posts with this. They are showing that they never were on liberal side, they just existed to control liberals.
Yeah, the liberal media is owned by the right wing.
There is no need for scare quotes around liberal. Bending the knee is what liberals do.
The quotes are apt, as they never were truly liberal. They existed to capitalize on that market and to guide liberals to do what their owners want.
Look how for example they ridicule progressives like Bernie or AOC, how they ignored net neutrality during Obama and trump.
Look how they get Biden to cancel campaign when he was promising to raise taxes on $400k+
They are "liberal" but only in a way that it doesn't interfere with billionaires wealth.
If you want reliable news sources support non profit ones.
They were never true scotsmen.
Most of the rest of your comment describes bog standard liberal behavior.
Look up who owns them.
That's what happened during Nazi Germany too
We now know that racism is a very bad thing. Unfortunately, realpolitik ensures that the main consequence of this is that it is absolutely unacceptable to accuse anyone of racism unless they’re already serving several consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole or otherwise have no clout. Therefore, this is “odd-looking” or perhaps “awkward”. Press them and they’ll scramble for explanations to do with obscure medical syndromes or the esoteric corners of history (could Musk be obsessed with ancient Rome like Zuck is?). It won’t even get to “racially charged”, as that’s for peons who let a slur slip.
The libel suits would come very fast for anyone claiming someone is a Naxi without evidence of support for Nazism.
There is no mainstream liberal media. It doesn’t exist and never did, only Republican propaganda.
Are you going to cover the costs of the libel suits filed by Musk? If you aren't maybe understand what they are doing when they call it odd and mention the historical significance.
The headline currently seems to be:
Which, I mean, isn't really much better, as you can clearly see he is indeed giving a nazi salute.
‘People with functioning vision have reported seeing Musk give a Nazi salute. As the news, we’ve decided to not investigate this any further.’
Just out of curiosity, what do you expect them to investigate? We have the video of what happened. We know (more or less) what his response is going to be. And any deeper story of his previous Nazi-like actions have already been published.
Not them, but I expect them to do the most cursory of investigation: looking with their eyes and saying what happened unambiguously, and without weaseling about it:
"Elon musk gives Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration."
is what the headline should be, because that's what happened.
Instead they're playing this "we're not saying he gave a Nazi salute, but others have said he did" bullshit games.
I was mocking the company that published the article for not titling the headline to reflect what it is (a Nazi salute), I agree it’s not a big mystery what he did or why.
IT'S A FUCKING NAZI SALUTE! STOP PANDERING TO THE FOURTH REICH!
This is a man who has been in the public eye for decades. He has given speeches to crowds before. At no point has he spontaneously seig heiled as a means of expressing emotions before. He knew exactly what he was doing. He felt secure surrounded by this crowd and took the opportunity to make a statement.... and they fucking cheered.
It makes me want to throw up. I am exhausted by these articles. It reminds me of the narcissits prayer. -That didn't happen. -And if it did, it wasn't that bad. -And if it was, that's not a big deal. -And if it is, that's not my fault. -And if it was, I didn't mean it. -And if I did, you deserved it. They give him an inch and he takes a mile.
No news organization will call it a nazi or fascist salute as they will get sued for doing so. Instead they will call it odd and mention historical significance and let the reader put two and two together.
That headline is why I prefer actual liberal media
Nazi punks fuck off
What the fuck is "odd-looking" about a Nazi salute?
He did it like he's never been in control of a human body before.
Oh god don't tell me it's another case of Elon getting carried by a hire to level him up.
It's like a cross between a nazi salute and a dab, I shall call it the nazi-musk salute or the elofacist salute
Give the guy some time. He probably hasn't done this in front of a crowd this big before and was a bit timid. Practice, practice, practice.
He absolutely looks odd. Like he's trying to hold in a wet one. The salute is just plain vile.
There is nothing "odd looking". Everyone who has ever seen a documentation about Nazi Germany should be able to identify the gesture.
Remember the times when real Americans shot at Nazis instead of voting for them?
The white dude from apartheid South Africa whose father owned an emerald mine there is a Nazi? So surprising.
*and whose maternal grandparents were nazis
Odd looking Nazi salute, yeah but it's Elon he always looks like the skin wearing badguy from MiB
It wasn't odd, it was very normal. For a Nazi.
“Odd looking salute” for fucks sake to be more blatant than that you’d have to start talking enthusiastically about ovens
Capitalism enters end stage
"I stay on X because it's a safe space!"
Outrage? His cult is "praise be", overjoyed.
America has a long storied tradition of killing Nazis. It’s like a national pastime. It permeates our film and literature. We have been celebrated the world over for decades because of our talent with killing Nazis. We have monuments about this. Just sayin’.
I know it isn't going to happen, but can we see if Harrison Ford is busy? I can think of nothing I'd enjoy more right now than Indy doing what he does best.
Actually, I think I'll enjoy it more because he's old. These nazis are weak.
Very odd looking indeed. Whatever could he have meant by it?
If it's true he was on the outs with the online neo-nazi crowd because of the H1B visas thing, this might have been a way he was trying to get back in their good graces.
CNN be like:
Odd-looking salute.
You're not in your Klan duds now, buddy boy