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Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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Lol, no they haven't, and if you have a hard time seeing a chest pounding and sharp arm raising as a Nazi salute but buy a frozen frame of a wave as potentially equivalent you're deep into the conservative media ecosystem looking for a reason to excuse him.
It's not a hand wave, it's a frame-perfect Nazi salute with the beginning middle and end. There's nothing he could have done to make it more accurate a Nazi salute other than speaking German at the time.
https://gifyu.com/image/bzsAP
What I see is Elon haters clinging to this salute as if it's the one silver bullet that will somehow make him lose Trump's or the Republicans' support. But their insistence on this is like preaching to the choir, as right-wingers simply don't care—some even like Elon more for being gutsy.
If that's all they've got on Elon, then he's sure to keep his job at DOGE. And Trump is laughing all the way to the bank, as the anti-Elon sentiment shields him from criticism, as social media's attention is mostly spent on Elon instead of Trump.
Nazi symbolism is "gutsy". God Elon-stans are such fucking losers.
Sorry, English is not my first language. What I meant is that some may see him as wacky and irreverent.