• magic_lobster_party
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    Just went to LinkedIn just to see bottom of the barrel bootlickers defending him.

    ” He’s autistic”, ” that picture is taken out of context”, ” it’s a Roman salute”, ” look at these out of context pictures of other politicians making the gesture”, ” how can he be a Nazi if he supports Israel?”

    No he did a full on deliberate Nazi salute at a far right event.

    • @not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      there is no proof in roman writing or painting of this salute, there is no doubt about Musolinis fascist movement using it in 1919 and later the german nazis adopting it

      • @mkwt@lemmy.world
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        There is a painting from the 1700s that depicts Romans using the salute. So the myth that this salute has Roman origin predates the Italian fascists.

        The Bellamy salute in the United States dates to 1896. It too predates the Italian fascists, and it seems to draw on the same Roman-origin urban legend.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak
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      I’m autistic, I’ve never done this gesture. Everyone’s different, of course, but I’ve never seen anyone at all do this by accident. I’ve seen the defence that it’s a “from my heart to yours” gesture, but if that was true, it would be palm up. Palm up is the giving gesture. Palm down is a saluting gesture.

      • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Yeah, excusing it by saying he’s autistic is ableist by itself. We’re not incapable of understanding dog whistles or concepts, you know?

        Especially when people in the same breath call Elon a genius. You can’t have it both ways. Either he’s clueless and shouldn’t be in a position of power, or he’s actually a nazi… and shouldn’t be in a position of power

      • @casmael@lemm.ee
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        It’s the oath of the Horatii and asterix - both well known for being reliable historical sources

    • @Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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      I’m genuinely curious: who the fuck defends Elon and Nazis on LinkedIn? Are we so far divided as a country that it’s ok to associate employment with a penchant for Nazism?

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              That he did something that’s actually bad.

              Like killing people.

              But just reaching his hands in the air once that might be related Nazism, didn’t make him “definitely a nazi”

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                  But jumping to conclusions is bad right?

                  There’s definitely interpretation to this gesture he did. This doesn’t make him a nazi. The people aggressively trying to push the users that he’s a nazi are acting more like Nazis than him.

                  This could be a mistake or a silly blunder or even just him trying to throw his affection out. But people shouting and screaming, calling people names and being derogatory is disturbing

                  • @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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                    82 months ago

                    The people aggressively trying to push the users that he’s a nazi are acting more like Nazis than him.

                    giggling at this 😂😂 ur so silly

                  • @endeavor@sopuli.xyz
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                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyPSKLy5E4&t=706s He sure doesnt smell like a heckin nazi. Im sure he has apologized and interperted the gesture.

                    Maybe people are calling names because you are staring at a duck and saying it is in fact a camel. Oh wow would you look at that, literal nazi communities love the shit out of musk for doing the nazi salute.

              • Leraje
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                He’s posted in support of far-right extremists in Germany and the UK multiple times, he’s ‘liked’ antisemitic posts on his shitshow of a site, he’s used avatars that are used by the alt and far right. And now he’s done this. A nazi salute. He’s a nazi. Nobody needs to ‘go out of their way’ to call him a nazi when everything he says and does shouts the fact from the fucking rooftops.

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            Oh he makes big tweet where he agrees with tweet that say da joos are bringing in minorities to destabilize america, is from a literal nazi family, he doesn’t apologize for the literal nazi salute at all.

            There are thousands of politicans all around the world that don’t do the gesture at politcal events.

            You’re welcome to do the questionable gesture infront of a synagouge, israeli embassy or really any busy public place.

              • @daltotron@lemmy.ml
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                nope, I’m totally morally vacuous and hypocritical, for sure that’s the case. definitely, I look at the nazis organizing into an ethostate much like israel, killing like 20 million people, and think. yeah, that wasn’t what was wrong there, and my sympathies shouldn’t be extended out to the gazans. I just find their aesthetics offensive, that’s the real problem. I definitely haven’t seen people collecting pieces of their children in plastic grocery bags and talk about how they would rather be dead online and talk about how they can smell the rotting bodies trapped under the rubble 24/7.

        • @Internetexplorer@lemmy.world
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          He made a heart thrown out gesture and now there’s all this hysteria probably artificial. That states he’s a nazi for one at the very least questionable event. Yet people are treating him like he’s gasing the Jews

          • magic_lobster_party
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            Nazism isn’t limited to hating Jews. They were targeting other marginalized groups at the time. This time they’re targeting a different set of groups, most notably transgender people.

            • @mkwt@lemmy.world
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              The Nazis targeted the trans community the first time around too. Camps, death squads, the whole nine yards…

              There was a big chunk of scientific research on the topic that was simply lost because it was literally burned.

          • @endeavor@sopuli.xyz
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            62 months ago

            huh, funny google analitics fails to find literally anything on this common “heart thrown out” gesture.

            Thanks for proving again he did a nazi salute.