Elon Musk Roman Salute

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Despite literally having the ADL run cover for him, yes Elon Musk made a Roman Salute


He did it with plausible deniability following the salut with the phrase "my heart goes out to you"

He did it because he is a troll but he is quite obviously trying to goat the media into calling it a Nazi salute so he can sue them and it also may have been done to strategically distract from what no doubt is going to be some emotional imagery of mass deportations.

It's funny. The guy is a liberal, ask him about any specific view and you would know this, but this was a strategic move. It also helps rehabilitate his image with some right wing people

Remember how Tesla only appealed to vegans and lefties at one point. He strategically bought X and saved free speech and the public forum as we were all about to be ran off into ideological silos. This created appeal with conservatives whose speech was under attack.

He then had the full support of the most right wing people until he started talking about his stance on H1B1 Visas and then did a Roman Salute with plausible deniability to be memes into relevance the same way.

Something similar happened with Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is your typical Hollywood libtard but she made a Roman Salute on stage once and not the far right loves her.

So you can literally have any ideology and the far right will love you if you move your body in a certain way.
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T Swift Roman Salute for those interested

https://images.app.goo.gl/dyCPriUdZfHM7VRq7
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He did it with plausible deniability following the salut with the phrase "my heart goes out to you"
It’s a Nazi salute from the heart. He did it twice in case people missed the first time.
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I can tell you from experience, leftists are having the brain meltdown of the century over Musk's supposed sieg heil.

I'm active on a different forum, dedicated to a certain video game series rather than debating. It does, however, have one thread where political commentary gets a pass; whether or not it does officially according to the rules, that has been the de facto situation for quite a long time.  Anyway, yesterday evening I dared to suggest that, based on a number of differences between the historical sieg heil and Musk's gesture, there's no reason to assume that Musk intended to do a sieg heil, and that the only way to prove Musk's intent one way or another is to ask him.
The far-left users of that site, who were strangely quiet on inauguration day itself, lost their fucking minds over what I was saying. People got triggered that I was supposedly pushing "Nazi apologia", whatever that means. One guy declared "I'm not going to post in here so long as he's here", and of course I was being wolfpacked from several different angles and being verbally abused well beyond what I was dishing out.

To reiterate, I wasn't arguing "Nazism isn't bad, actually". I was saying "Musk's gesture is ambiguous and we can't prove it's a Nazi gesture". That's literally it. I said not the slightest thing wrong or ban-worthy. Mind you, I will admit that in at least one instance in the past, I deserved an internet ban imposed on me (on a different website). But that emphatically wasn't the case this time.

I could've forgiven the verbally abusive exchange, because I've had exchanges like it before; not all the time, but maybe once every couple of months or half a year, or even longer than that. But then that absolute mouthbreathing cvnt-wipe of a mod, apparently the only active mod on that forum, imposed himself into the conversation as if he was solemnly confronting some disturbance to the community's peace (I was arguing civilly, aside from once saying that X user was "slandering an innocent man", and in fact had already publicly stated that I was going to end the argument) and gave me 8-9 days for some fabricated crime, and told me I was "on thin ice" for this supposed crime and that "this is your only warning". Again, for doing absolutely nothing. In his delusional mind, of course, I did do something, but that doesn't change the actual facts. And of course, he took zero actions against the myriad of people who talked shit to me.

"Snowflakes" is beyond trite at this point, but liberals 100% deserve the label if this is how they treat merely disputing that it was, in fact, a sieg heil and not something else (as it plausibly could've been and probably was). It seems to me they're increasingly unable to cope with normal everyday reality where different viewpoints coexist, hence their needless gravitation toward echo chambers like BlueSky despite not being the victims of mass censorship on platforms like Twitter.
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To clarify also, the wording of his ban had to do with the specific content (defending Musk) of what I was arguing for, rather than any pattern of excessive argumentiveness on my part. I probably could've made that more clear in my original post.
I've gone since joining the site, which was 2+ years ago, without any moderation action against me (albeit with one completely unrelated warning back in mid-2023 because I used the word "trap" to describe a cute male character), but today they were apparently so triggered by a defense of Elon Musk that they stopped giving a crap about fairness altogether.
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Lol, yeah. It's why we need our own spaces. Anyplace not explicitly right wing will be infiltrated and turned insane by these bots
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@Swagnarok
the only way to prove Musk's intent one way or another is to ask him
And you just assume that he will tell the truth?

I guess we are entering a time when people make up excuses to deny what they see with their own eyes. Thats how it started with previous Hitler too.
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He did it with plausible deniability following the salut with the phrase "my heart goes out to you"
He needs to say "Hail Hitler". Otherwise, its a nazi salute only in body movement, but not in words. He needs to prove that he means it.
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Well, Hitler never lied about who he was. If you have to lie about what you want to do, then you will never achieve your goals. This applies to non-Nazis as well.
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Well, Hitler never lied about who he was.
Hitler was a nazi, but Elon refuses to admit that he is a nazi, even after doing the salute in public. Why does he hide his true nature?
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I think its was the Economic Summit in Switzerland this AM I saw a comment by woman and/or man USA can ' fuck off ' with their Nazi salutes.

I didint know what they were talking about. Now I get it. It was Elon Musk showing his heart is best expressed with Roman if not Nazi Heil Trumpet, MAFA or perhaps it is to himself projecting out his brad of narcissism.

The billionares have taken over the MAFA asylum in USA.....USA! USA! USA!.....and this is going to be interesting next four years, starting with president Trumpet being charged with violating USA citizens birth as stated in 14th amendment.

My apoligizes to the two tags. It was only to  notify you of this salute thingy with musk and someone in Europe's reply.

9 days later

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If you think about it, everyone at some point makes that mistake of a “Roman salute.” I’ve found videos of literally every well-known politician so far (Musk, Trump, Harris, Biden, Obama, Bush the Younger, etc) make that mistake. Musk just made it in the wrong place at the wrong time and he’s being completely victimized for it. Then again, Wylted, you could totally be right that he’s trying to make people think he did the Sieg Heil, because he’s done similar things before (ex: intentionally screwing up the Cybertruck unveiling to get more publicity).
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@Best.Korea
Well, Hitler never lied about who he was.
Hitler was a nazi, but Elon refuses to admit that he is a nazi, even after doing the salute in public. Why does he hide his true nature?
Because like Trump he evaded the South African military draft. But wants to look like a Nazi hero.
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Elon Musk.

Saint or sinner?

Dangerously clever or cleverly dangerous?


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Elon Musk.

Saint or sinner?

Dangerously clever or cleverly dangerous?
Autistic genius.
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And Trump's against DEI unless you are a autistic billionaire?
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And Trump's against DEI unless you are a autistic billionaire?
Who can do a Heli Hitler Nazi salute.
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Elon Musk. Saint or sinner? Dangerously clever or cleverly dangerous?

Saint is a joke, yes?

Technologically savy intellectual for sure.

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Yep. 

Credit where credit's due.
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Credit where credit's due.

I agree
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Yep. 

Credit where credit's due.
 Usk has good credit ratings. Better than Trump.
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I suggest this video. There is no good reason to believe that the salute wasn't a deliberate signal to the far right.
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I suggest this video. There is no good reason to believe that the salute wasn't a deliberate signal to the far right.
In the video Elon Musk says his heart goes out to those meaning those with the Heil Hitler salute. Like Trump he wants a united Reich.