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Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by cbeach on Monday May 19, 2025 @12:04PM (#44031279)
Amazing, the power the media has to conveniently freeze-frame a video of a man saying "my heart goes out to you all" in order to make the false claim that he is a Nazi based on where his arm was pointing at that moment.

Either a powerful media or an ignorant, tribal population. Maybe both.

Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by CyberMacGyver on Monday May 19, 2025 @12:13PM (#44031382)
In this case you don’t need to freeze frame a video. You should watch it infact he did it twice so you don’t miss it.
Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by guywithahat on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:09PM (#44037102)
You mean he extended his heart out to the crowd twice? Yes, I don't think anyone debates that. Saying he made a nazi salute is the misinformation, Elon isn't a fascist any more than Biden was a communist or Michelle Obama was a man. This sort of low-IQ name-calling is exhausting
Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by sillyfluke on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @03:52PM (#44045239)
What's amusing about your comment is that Musk is on video doing a literal "my heart goes out to you" gesture in an older press event recording where he does not in fact give a nazi salute but instead does a heart shape with both his hands and extends it outward from his chest, showing that he's informed about the accepted version of that gesture.

And you may be misinformed of the context as well. He did the nazi salute because him and Vivek were being raked over the coals for their H1-B stance by the Bannon wing of MAGA and his bruised ego was clearly throwing a bone to the base of that wing to get into their good graces again.

Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by cbeach on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @08:45AM (#44050891)
> the accepted version of that gesture

Could you provide me with a list of "accepted" hand gestures for all the different phrases in the English language please?

I don't want to accidentally use the wrong hand gesture and have the entire mainstream media and the Left paint me as a Nazi.

Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by factual on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @07:07PM (#44057158)
It's pretty easy. Just don't do fascist salutes at political rallies, or anywhere else for that matter.

Musk failed at that. Maybe you can succeed.

Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by tomhow on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:53AM (#44062076)
Please don't comment like this on Hacker News. HN is not for political/ideological battle, and whatever you're commenting about, we need you to avoid snark.
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Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by tomhow on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:00AM (#44070859)
There's nothing to be gained by continuing to discuss the topic, as nobody is interested in change their minds about it. All comments about it should be flagged equally for being off topic. People who want to keep discussing it have much of the rest of the internet in which to do so.
Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by tomhow on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:51AM (#44062064)
Please don't engage in flamewars like this on HN. It's not the kind of topic that can be resolved with this kind of back-and-forth, and it's against the guidelines to use HN in this way, so please just avoid participating in them in future.
Re:Tesla Regret Syndrome by CyberMacGyver on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @05:44PM (#44056597)
So you wouldn’t mind “extending your heart out” same way and posting it online or doing it in work meeting ?

Also can you show a video of anyone else doing it the same way ?