• vonbaronhans@midwest.social
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      23 hours ago

      I’m unfamiliar with the context for most of these. Plenty don’t look like Nazi salutes. To me, anyway.

      But literally every word that has slithered out of that moldy potato’s mouth for the last two decades is all you need to know he’s a white supremacist.

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        23 hours ago

        Yeah a lot of those look moderately benign (waving away media, for example). Best case scenario it’s an unfortunate habit what happens to make him look like a Nazi… At the same time, I’d expect someone to break the habit to distance themselves from it.

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          Also, in this case we are discussing here it is crystal clear that this was an actual intended nazi salute. Those other ones in the photos probably were not – at least each picture has visual cues that point towards the hand gesture having had a different meaning than on this one now.

          On first one the fingers are much more open than now. On the second one the arm is quite low and the facial expression looks mostly worried. Probably he’s just waving his hand there. And the same goes for the rest of the pictures. Especially the facial expressions are very different from the video shown now, where there is nothing ambiguous.

          Of course, if the context is shown, some of those photos could prove to really have been hitler salutes, but I highly doubt they were.

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          16 hours ago

          Oh yeah I first saw that on a miniminuteman YouTube short. At first I thought, no way, then he played the clip in context. And uh. Yeah. Woof. That’s a Nazi salute alright.

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          The video is always the important bit.

          In the wake of the Elon Nazi salute, the internet was swarmed by images of Democrats also “doing a Nazi salute” which were all just stills of them waving at people and captured at a specific frame that could make it look like a Nazi salute.

          But on video, there’s no denying what these are. And his awkward fucking little pause like “Yeah you see what I just did here, that’s right, I’m on your side, wink wink”.