Journalist does everything possible to avoid calling this what it clearly is
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I love how certain media call it a Roman Salute in an attempt to defend him.
Like, do they think Hitler just made it up himself?
He stole it from the Italians under Mussolini, who basically took it from a painting. There's no evidence the Romans used this salute, so it's always been associated with fascism.
Unfortunately, evidence isn't something these folks are worried about.
Their feelings don’t care about facts so to say
Even if it was a roman salute, that was a symbol of fascism.
That's what I'm saying, it takes literally four seconds to look up where the "Roman" salute came from.
But these kids aren't big on the whole "reading" thing.
Same people that say the swastika is a symbol of peace.
the swastika remains a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain countries such as Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, China and Japan, and carries various other meanings for peoples around the world, such as the Akan, Hopi, Navajo, and Tlingit peoples...
Also, I think Hitler took the salute from this. Which is similar to the Roman salute.
Hitler had no great ideas, he stole from everyone, and was overall a terrible person full of hatred. But, he did ban human zoos.
Ok, how often do you see Hindus, Buddhists, Nepalese, Indians, Thai, Mongolians, Sri Lankans, Chinese, Japanese, Akans, Hopis, Navajo, and Tlingit peoples spray paint it on walls or get it tattooed on their bodies in AMERICA? This isn't any of those countries you listed. The next time I see someone with a swastika on their neck and a Nazi salute here in America am I supposed to assume it's a peace loving Buddhist with an interest in Roman history?
No, but if you see it from a person or that ethnicity and religious background, you shouldn't assume it's an ode to Hitler.
You did not read a single thing I posted. I did not praise Nazism or Hitler. Your lights might be on, but no one is home.
No they know they will be sued. Because it's not a nazi salute.
I wish you guess out this much energy into criticising the genocide in Gaza.
I guess we know why that is.
I for one am absolutely amused that every reputable news source calls it a nazi-style salute, since Elon couldn't even get the salute right, despite his best efforts.
It looks like the halfway point between a Nazi salute and a dab
Isn't any salute Musk does a nazi salute?
Well played.
Sorry, replied to the wrong comment…
Isnt this the wrong community? This is not an onion or onion like article... I know Chaser usually does that, but there are no jokes or lies in there really are there? All those quotes have been said/written by someone.
Yeah, that's what nottheonion is for.
In their defense, the party said its most important action item on the talking points memo was not to trust your eyes or your ears any longer.
"Don't look up!"
This is barely even satire at this point
the president:
the media:
It's different Elon puts his hand on his heart.
I wish the genocide in Gaza got this much exposure.
I wonder why that is
your entire comment history is flimsy excuses and impotent obfuscation in the name of nazis, including the afd, and you concern troll about Gaza as if we can't be both against genocide and nazis at the same time.
hmm I wonder if there might be another (((reason))) a nazi apologist would insist everyone talk about Gaza only and not pay attention to out and about nazis doing nazi salutes and saying nazi shit all the time.
fuck all the way off.
Because you're delusional.
It's not a nazi salute.
He's clearly throwing his heart out to the crowd
Yet idiots like you make a huge deal about it for no reason.
You're so stupid.
And yes Gaza should get way more exposure than this bullshit story that you've cried about for days.
Gaza is way more important. But bellends like your self waste precious time on non existent things like this.
no he's not. first of all throwing your heart isn't even a thing as a gesture. but even if it were, no one would do it in a such violent manner, pounding the chest and making a perfect nazi salute with the hand flat, not even how a hand would be shaped after throwing literally anything.
he did it with such force, in fact, that he grunted while he did it. and a lip bite. because he's a fucking dork and he was too excited to win back the nazis after the visa debacle. none of this follows a so called heart throwing sentiment.
and also that's not a fucking thing.
oh and he alludes to the 14 words as well.
and one of the first things he did when he was forced to buy Twitter was unban nazis.
and also he highlighted several nazis and publicly agreed with them when they openly posted jq shit.
you can't gaslight normal people on this. we're not fascists like the republican party and its constituence, and we're not corporations that would benefit from a fascist state. fuck you.
"no one would" so you speak for everyone now?
lol
i guess you think that way that everyone must be how you think... delusional
no, just people who can think.
funny how you ignored everything else. what a stupid way to say "I have nothing". he's a nazi. we knew he was before this.
No he made an awkward gesture. This isn't definitive of anything.
You guys just hump to conclusions and only see one thing
Just an FYI, the real meaning of that salute is the statement, "I'm a kunt!"
This was the image I was thinking of when I first saw him do the thing
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0121/1491948-musk-gesture-trump/
It's really not clear that he isn't just pointing at something/acknowledging someone with his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently
And when he turned around and pointed violently at the flag in the same style? Does that make it more clear?
It wasn't completely clear that my comment was pure sarcasm? Seriously?
That's been the conservative line all day. Repeating a partisan lie word for word is not sarcasm.
Nobody conservative was defending this by saying he was pointing his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently at someone
I've found online that /s is almost always needed. May take a bit from the joke but also, clarifies for everyone that you are not actually being an asshole when you can't visibly roll your eyes and use the proper "sarcasm inflection"
I've found that people who can't detect obvious sarcasm are probably not worth the effort of explaining it
Fair. I've spent most my life working with the neurodivergent community, so even IRL I know some very intelligent people need a bit of help with implied meaning. I know I've had my fair share of "woosh" moments
Likewise. I appreciate your service
Tbh one of the things that makes detecting sarcasm vs actually just defending him hard is that normally you can use prior knowledge of a persons opinions to help, but here I have no clue who you are and what your positions are and you might just be a random Nazi.
If you really don't like just having the /s there, one options is to include a spoiler and put the /s in there a few lines down.
Actually no. Maybe include /s or something?
Who "points their thumb" at someone "violently"? What reality is this
Assuming you're operating in good faith, just take the feedback and try to learn from it.
Lol. This is a community about satire, right?
I mean, to be fair to you, I thought it was pretty clearly satire
It was abundantly clear to me. Cheers, buddy!
No
Dude, he was asking sarcastically.
I mean, you're not wrong.
if I may interject with a suggestion going forwards, I usually add one of these to a comment when I'm being a smartass
::: spoiler for the intellectually challenged /s :::
then again you may find it funnier to omit that, I'm not your dad, do what you want.
I really do find it funnier to omit clues to idiots who read my comments
Just throwing this in here, looks like he's pointing at something?
you really have to write a /s for a lot of these folks to not take everything at face value here it would appear :-/
Might be because people are actually making this argument in defense of musk
Eh, the richest and arguably most powerful man on the planet just did a Nazi salute, twice, on live TV. I think it's understandable that some of our nerves are a bit frayed when it comes to sarcasm/jokes about the subject.
Subtle sarcasm is really hard for a lot of people who comment in a community focused on satire, ironically.
The internet is a different place than it used to be. These days every third person you see might tell you the California fires are caused by having too many black folks in the movies and be completely sure of themselves that this is a fact. It is no longer safe to assume sarcasm when you see someone say something ridiculous.
And if you just laugh and agree with it (sarcastically) or ignore it, then you're going to get new people seeing this for the first time, not getting that it's sarcasm, seeing it get agreed with or at least not refuted, and now you have two people that believe this mess. Rinse and repeat. 4chan is basically a case study for this sort of thing.
Lmao sorry you're getting downvoted dude. How anyone took this comment, in this community, seriously... is beyond me!
:D
https://streamable.com/29p7q1
He's obviously grabbing his love from his heart and throwing it out to all of his supporters. I don't know how else you could possibly interpret this.
Now that comment felt sarcastic enough to me to need the /s. I'm still betting someone will take it seriously.
Oh wow, that’s even worse than I had guessed. He looks…well exactly like himself, which is to say an over-grown child who thinks being hated for being a nazi is “being a rebel”.
Incredible.
What the fuck even is this timeline.
My estranged uncle, who was a diehard trump supporter (I think he did it because he believed the system needed to be burned down, and he thought that somehow the dems were corrupt and that the republicans weren't)
that same uncle, Moved to Texas because its where Elon went, he idolized Elon, (I should add at this point, my uncle is a fucking CANADIAN WITH A GREEN CARD. NOT A CITIZEN) that same uncle who when he was a teenager, Identified as a NATIONALIST SOCIALIST... He idolozed Elon. and then all of a sudden one day, he told the rest of the family that would still listen to him, that he'd 180'd and isn't following Elon anymore, because Elon is "evil"
the mental gymnastics and thought process is literally giving me hyper brain aids.
and this is my own flesh and blood.
…at least his brain could catch onto some of the more recent stuff? Man it’s amazing what people need in order to see blatantly obvious shit.
Ok, so imagine that you're a billionaire and a really smart dude (as claimed by so many people on the internet). And you get into government and appear on TV and want to look good. You might hire a publicist, a PR team, some speechwriters, hell how about a body language consultant. When you go on TV you're going to project exactly the image you intend to. Anything less would be careless and stupid, right?
So yeah. This was a Nazi salute. And if you really want to argue that it wasn't, that Musk doesn't even know what a Nazi is, you gotta also accept that he's grossly incompetent and should not be in government at all. Throw him out, we didn't vote for him.
When you caught me fisting your mom did you think I was acknowledging her with my thumb and the rest of my fingers or when I was elbow deep and shouted, "I'm fisting your mom!" in your face was it clear what was actually happening?
Weird.
You shouldn't have tried that
She loved it