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Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? by llm_nerd on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:41PM (#42773384)
Anyone making a gesture of that sort is going to get an enormous amount of media. It was outrageously poorly considered to anyone with any knowledge of history, especially in such a venue and situation.

Most people don't make gestures that can so easily be misunderstood as a sieg heil.

Now add in Elon's many, many weird overlaps with white supremacy -- not to mention that we can't ignore the weird correlation with Musk, Sacks and Thiel all being outputs of apartheid South Africa, all three showing certain predilections -- most recently heralding a notorious far-right German party AfD, and it takes just incredibly gymnastics to pretend this was benign. That the obvious interpretation was, as the other person said, wink wink nudge nudge encouraged.

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Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? by ceejayoz on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:51PM (#42773474)
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? by computerthings on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:08PM (#42773663)
Just for the record, because it irked me and I wanted to refute it: the flagged comment said anyone with a knowledge of history would know this isn't a Hitler salute, because that's not done at an angle. And yes, I guess the "most pure" form is doing it frontally, but here is an image of Hitler doing the salute -- at an angle, from what I can tell.

https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gettyim...

NSFW, I guess. actually, who wants to look at it even outside of work... but anyone who genuinely doubts that this could possibly be mistaken for a Hitler salute, do take a look.

Re:Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:51PM (#42783127)