• GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    I kinda get the feeling that part of this was a loyalty test for main stream media to see how they were going to report on something that was obviously a nazi salute.

    Was it going to be “Musk is swatting at fly, the liberal media goes off the rails with crazy nazi conspiracies.” Or “Musk is a fucking nazi, he needs to be deported”

    Which is going to get the “love” of this administration?

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      the ADL is a zionist organization that supports genocide. they’re not bootlickers. they’re the sole of the boot itself.

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        ADL do not care about anti semitism at all. Their only concern is anti zionism.

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          Zionism is the same kind of ideology as Nazis, just with different “superior races” (“the chosen people”) whom they claim to represent and sub-humans (“human animals”) whom they claim to be both inferior and a danger to them.

          So it’s absolutely natural for a pro-Zionist organization to side with other Nazi-like ideologies as long as the “superior” and “subhuman” ethnicities of both do not collide, and in this case they both share the view of the Northern African Islamic people as subhumans and they probably see their own “superior” races as being a kind of White - so White Jews and White Christians (if you have any doubt of this for the Zionist side, go check out how Israel treats Ethiopian Jews).

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            just to give historical context, Germany, Japan and Italy supported each other in their nazi-fascism for the exatc reason you already said. So there is no surprise that it is happening again with America and Israel

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      Fuck the ADL

      I was on the fence about them for past shenanigans but this is the final nail in the coffin. My friends are now telling me that musk did not, in fact do a Nazi salute because his fingers weren’t pointed the right way

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      Just when I thought the ADL couldn’t be anymore useless, here’s REAL Anti-Semitism and they’re not doing anything about it.

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      You guys are lucky to have AOC. I’m a non-American that only knows her from memes and screenshots like this but I’m a fan. Especially compared to all the other dead fish.

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      the ADL

      Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish non-governmental organization based in the USA

      … will now be known as the “Advanced Defamations League”

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      Same ADL that says anti-genocide protests are categorically foreign agents funded by Iran and Hamas.

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          Same here, AIPAC lobbied against a locally popular Rep after they criticized Israel though. It worked and they lost their seat to a more friendly Rep.

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      Are their last words going to be “see? You were overreacting.” right before someone pushes a button on their gas chamber?

      Or have they already booked their tickets to some recently-confiscated house in the West Bank?

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        Neither. They have money. They will not be subjected to the gas chambers and will live their lives free of consequences.

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      these gas lights aren’t even lit. why are you making such a big deal?

      this is obviously sarcasm

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      If he has any sense that overcomes his pride, he should be grateful that someone else is taking some flak for him.

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        Well, we know he doesn’t have any sense, but if he did, it would most certainly be overcome by his need to be the center of attention.

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    Wow. I was willing to believe that the still pictures were just perfectly timed to make it look like something it wasn’t. But it totally is a Nazi salute.

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    How did he make the Nazi salute look somehow even MORE uncool than the -9999999999999999999999 it was already at.

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    So he literally turns around and does it a 2nd time.

    How can anyone deny it now? There’s no way this is coincidence, like he’s just really awkward with gestures and was bad at throwing his hand in the air to the crowd. This can’t be explained away.

    Wtf bullshit argument or defense is he and his supporters going to spew out?

    They all say he’s such a genius, but he’s unaware of how close this gesture is to a nazi salute? There’s no way this can be defended. It’s just too obvious.

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    Well, get ready for a whole lot of gaslighting. He’s going to say that’s not what he was doing and his lil army of trolls are going to toe the line.

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      Spot on. We all know exactly what we saw. But…

      “This is just a distraction from [the class war / taxes / Russia / China / the Koreas / India / … ]!”

      “Allegedly, he seemingly did a gesture that resembles a fascist salute. He could’ve been having a heart attack and pointing at a paramedic. You don’t know.”

      “It’s a tic. He’s had it since he was a child. I read about it on this random screenshot of a news article from 2018.”

      “The Roman Salute, as it is known amongst historians, can be seen in many statues. Here’s a link to one. Things have history, Alex. God. Not everything is nazis.”

      “So his views are a little extreme. Most people would argue they’re vile. I certainly don’t agree with them, but people. Please. Civility and decorum must rule. I’d fight for his right to blahblahblah…"

      “I’m sorry; we can’t hear you over our Economic Anxiety. Groceries are too expensive and people are homeless! That’s why we elected nazis. Please be more understanding of our extra special circumstances and ignorance.”

      “It’s legal to do that in the USofA. Where is it not legal? Germany? Interesting! Gosh their freezepeach laws are a bit restrictive, eh? Controlling how we move our bodies? Sounds like something a nazi would want.”

      And on. And if you engage with it, they’ll just turn on some kind of AI bot thingy to continue the “conversation,” taking up even more space online.

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        Truly… They might be past that. Some of them at least. That was all for show so they can get to this point. This is the end game. They got what they wanted and can go mask off. Elon doing the salute is just the first evidence of that. Expect a whole lot more to come.

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    For once he’s doing it wrong, not that it matters, and secondly he looks like he came while doing it.

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      Forget all that story of different salutes and making fun of elon by saying that he is making the american “nazi salute”

      Lets call a spade a spade.

      Elon is doing the nazi salute and there is no other way to take it other than being serious.

      That fucker must get down from power.

      PS: I removed my previous snarky comment about bellamy salute and made this new one because it is a serious business

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          I now regretting making the previous comment.

          I made the previous comment in a jesting tone like “same… but different… but still the same”

          Also, I went into a rabbit hole seraching for variations of nazi salute (because I know from history that brasil integralist movement had their own version of roman salute called anauê) and found about the bellamy salute.

          Seeing that the nazis are actually using the “roman salute” as an actual excuse, I’ll take back what I said.

          He is doing the nazi salute. Period.

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        I see, I’m from Germany so I only really know “our” salute. That’s actually quite an interesting article.