basically how the news covered this

[@potatomining4806]

He got called out for being a fake gamer. So he had to prove he’s the real deal

[@cthulhucrews6602]

I'm autistic. I'm a gamer. Shit... am I a man carrying fascism?

[@beastmaster6943]

He didn't say the N-word in a COD lobby He directly gestured it, for the world A true gamer at heart We need more people like him

[@SeanUCF]

@@beastmaster6943 You had me until you said we need more people like him.

[@tonylittleton8549]

Haaaaaaaaaa

[@Carmines_liveon]

​@@cthulhucrews6602 depends on which trains you're interested in. Perhaps the ones that run on time?

[@maxmustsleep]

the cybertruck ad at the end was truly the cherry on top

[@desdenova1]

More like a flambe at the end of a three-course meal.

[@chonachona1507]

Actually it was the cherry at the end.

[@xelaander8429]

Peak Man carrying thing

[@Pehz63]

Big brain analysis makes you realize that the reason every news agency is fine painting him as a Nazi is because Tesla doesn't pay them money for advertising...

[@NootNoot718]

They’re compromised

[@annabellwoods2799]

my arm also does stuff sometimes. holding the steering wheel. opening the door to a 7/11. pullig out my gun. pointing at the cashier. grabbing the cash. etc.

[@AK-Drakoin]

You ever do that where you raise your hand up in greeting And then it’s “oh crap that’s Sieg Heil not ‘hello!’”

[@alexsiemers7898]

I like the idea that it literally is just the one arm doing all of this like you’re the guy in endoparasitic.

[@FDL_1401]

I told the judge that the arm stabbed the victim seventeen times, not me, but he didn't believe me. I also said i was autistic but that didn't help. Guess these excuses don't work if you're not the 0.1%

[@MightBeBren]

so random 😇

[@Gouda992]

Me too, I’m a singer, and sometimes I randomly yell “I love Hitler!!” On stage, you see, that’s because I have autism, so obviously you should overlook everything I do

[@stonedpossum69420]

He was stimming your honor

[@omoriref]

LMAO THIS IS UNDERRATED

[@user_kH9bw3ns1]

He's just highly regarded. Its not HIS fault he is in the white house and wealthy.

[@PWNDON]

i understand stimming can do funny things and i know because I said "What the sigma" ten times over at some point but there's a difference between modern slang and That

[@withmygoodeyeclosed]

*slow clap*

[@TheSpeep]

No he wasnt. Republicans are in favour of hitting autistic kids so they stop stimming. Elon did not get punched in the face, thus we know this wasnt a stim.

[@HumanPersonYes]

"some theorize that his arm just does that" is probably my favorite line said by the man who carries thing

[@thefacethatstares]

greetings fellow yellow staring entity

[@echoharmony926]

Some theorise that he just carries things

[@Sharkio93]

some theorize he is a time traveller from 1945 april 30

[@gisobo]

Just like Dr. Strangelove... Mein Führer, I can walk!

[@alcedob.5850]

Dr. Strangelove moment

[@vulturre5078]

This reminds me of the time in middle school I tried to draw a ferris wheel and it came out like a swastika and I knew I had made an embarrassing mistake and apologized. And also I was 13 instead of the richest person in the world.

[@mrbushido56]

Reminds me of that scene from community

[@inkonpaperhero]

@@mrbushido56 it's going to be a maze

[@robynthethird4776]

​@@inkonpaperhero that other community scene

[@ZamrayzRayzoray]

I did this but a different picture and my teacher legit called the cops on me.. My parents had to come in and get me while the cops were deciding whether or not I needed extensive therapy 💀

[@tombadrick]

No, you definitely did it on purpose. Protestors are mounting outside your window as I type this.

[@speedwagon1824]

I got a notification with just the title and I immediately guessed what it was about

[@NoBrainer7]

me too

[@TySchmidt]

Same. I figured it was about the thing Elon Musk did the other day during that event in front of all of those people.

[@MDE_never_dies]

Me too 😁

[@GrimmReaperRL]

Same. Granted I was wrong, but I still guessed immediately

[@roggos3668]

Elon was so ashamed of the fake gamer stuff he just had to do the forbidden emote

[@origami604]

exactly my thought when I saw that

[@littleguy-ij8jf]

he wanted to prove he truly was a gamer (specifically cod)

[@johano-go]

At least people aren't talking about him being a fake gamer anymore.

[@fartemis]

Jake didn’t record this video intentionally his arm just accidentally hit the record button

[@Titopaivag3]

And he didn't intend to edit it either, but he's autistic

[@t888hambone7]

His name is Fucking JAKE!!!

[@Ishenutsnohesinsane]

And as he flinched, his arm also accidentally edited and published the recently recorded material

[@merlinkater7756]

Let's not jump to conclusions now

[@Molo4ov]

I think you mean “man” not jake

[@Yoloyoshi225]

Man Carrying Arm Into Air At A Close To 135 Degree Angle That Has No Historical Significance Whatsoever

[@nauticaltardigrade7520]

oh god I wonder if 135 will eventually become another dogwhistle number

[@basileus-pr6jh]

In Taiwan they do an actual roman salute for presidential inaugurations.

[@KameronJ7]

​@@nauticaltardigrade7520Watch out for those dog whistle letters, numbers and hand signals. Communicating is offensive so we'd best stop for the betterment of our society.

[@davidBubencikova]

@@basileus-pr6jh They did in the USA classrooms until the 1940's. Plenty of photographs of them online.

[@nasafo8292]

@davidBubencikova now if we all think really hard we can maybe figure out why they stopped doing that

[@TheKz262]

"it was just a one off thing" "He did it twice" "He's adopted"

[@thecyanadon]

Kamala did it too!

[@tacothedank]

"he's autistic, be kind to him 😢😢"

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

​@thecyanadonexcept she didn't. She waved at someone which is a completely different action to performing the full Nazi salute. Of course fascists like you don't care about truth and should just shut up.

[@m3t4l_sh1dd3r]

​@thecyanadon watch the fucking clip irs clear that shes moving her arms while she speaks as in her way of expressing when talking what elon did wasnt even waving around his arms, he just straight up did the 88

[@jameslafand2718]

@thecyanadon doesn't excuse it tho

[@shivamjaiswal439]

Refreshing to see media still doesn't have the balls to call out a rich person.

[@user_kH9bw3ns1]

If it was a high schooler now that would be some crazy news!

[@papermangd]

Because they don’t want to get sued for defamation, what do you expect?

[@TerrenceNowicki]

One of the many reasons we need more Luigis to "call out" rich people instead.

[@RenegadePlayingGames]

​@papermangdthey would rightfully be sued and lose for defamation because it obviously wasn't a n*zi salute unless you're sharing your braincells with the rest of the psyche ward.

[@shivamjaiswal439]

@papermangd shouldn't have gotten in the business of telling the news then.

[@callistified]

"it was just a one off thing" "he did it twice"

[@employee4275]

three, actually

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

everything is hitler if i dont like it

[@pridefulmaster1390]

“let’s go to commercial” *cybertruck bullshit intensifies*

[@zebra1327]

@@employee4275 when was the third time? I heard that so often, but haven't seen a clip or screenshot

[@GregHuffman1987]

​@@employee4275how many times did ya say? you said 3 reich?

[@projectx5154]

I feel like these politicians and billionaires are just doing a social experiment on us to see what level of mental gymnastics we're capable of doing

[@DiamondAppendixVODs]

they aren't clever enough for that

[@condedooku9750]

It's 1984 no joke, they want to test how much doublethink people can do at the same time and how much they have managed to destroy political discourse with their deliberate actions to undermine democracy, we are literally watching the death of the world's oldest democracy in real time, it's happening and we are being F****** gaslighted that this is not the case by some shameless people.

[@MammaApa]

Hypernormalization

[@Seal_Enthusiast_]

Seeing how many times they’ll fall for it again. Context: we’ve been falling for it since the start of human history.

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

you can see alot of it all over hopefully they stretched before they started reaching

[@moriaty123]

He did it like he thought he was dogwhistling, but he was just whistling

[@KaiaBrodbecker]

Not even a dog whistle. That was a foghorn.

[@klctht6606]

he rawdogged that whistle

[@blaineholt1589]

@@KaiaBrodbeckerdammit you beat me to the joke

[@iller3]

And now everyone is talking about this instead of the proposed Social Safety Net "changes"

[@dontpokethebear3893]

There’s no such thing as dog-whistling. Nobody who wants to spread an ideology does so with a wink and a nod but then out loud states the opposite belief as clearly and strongly as possible. It’s never happened in the history of human verbal communication. See Elon advocating for infinity H1-Bs just 3 weeks ago lol.

[@robinbennett1686]

Guys. The Roman salute is also a fascist symbol. It was adopted by Mussolini. It was never used in Rome, the earliest appearance of it is a painting from the 1700s. Search it up.

[@larvesquareandfriends6940]

So it was a thing before the nazis? But yeah, holy moly I can’t believe he did that.

[@robinbennett1686]

@larvesquareandfriends6940 yeah. Hitler adopted a lot of symbols from other places. The swastika was actually originally a symbol of good luck and peace in many cultures, and the word comes from sanscrit svastika, meaning "good fortune". He twisted an insane amount of symbols and practices.

[@larvesquareandfriends6940]

@robinbennett1686 Damn, I didn’t know that it used to mean good fortune. Thank you for teaching me something new.

[@IGNACY-fp8zo]

Even more importantly, the Bellamy salute predates the existence of fascism and is a uniquely American patriotic gesture, made for the pledge of allegiance, and was an official part of the USC

[@_clorp]

​@@IGNACY-fp8zoBellamy was a Nazi sympathizer too tho

[@b4ttlemast0r]

Funny thing is the "Roman" salute actually wasn't used by Romans, it comes from an 18th century painting that people misinterpreted as being an actual ancient salute

[@AK-Drakoin]

Jacques Louis David is such a silly billy

[@frenchtantan]

Yup! Also, it is technically even less defendable than the svastika, which as many know has a religious and cultural significance in Asia, particularily in India. The "Roman" salute doesn't have any such current cultural attachment, it is exclusively used in fascist circles. Think about this. Elon Musk did, in front of millions of Americans, whether accidentally or on purpose, the exact motion of a symbol whose SOLE USE is fascism... TWICE. And what do we get for an acknowledgement? A snide remark and historically challenged people defending him online. Now, I don't know about anyone else, but personally, if I accidentally displayed a fascist symbol less ambiguous than the fudging SVASTIKA in public, I would follow that up with a sincere, heartfelt apology. The fact that he didn't is TELLING.

[@kommunevonberlin7611]

Oh, i mean it was used by Romans just not the ancient ones

[@InsufficientGravitas]

@@frenchtantan The roman salute (also known as the fascist salute) is also literally the proper name of the salute used by the italian fascist movement and then copied by the german Nazi movment. Saying its not a nazi salute and is just a roman salute is like saying something isnt a car it's an automobile.

[@vinlolship3308]

​@@frenchtantanWell, all your conclusions are based on the unsubstantiated premise that he was doing a fascist salute. He may have been giving his heart out to the people, as he said. He may have been doing a Roman salute; whether the salute was a thing or not is irrelevant, as what he thought he was doing matters. He may have done a fasc*st salute. But unless he says that he was doing a fasc*st salute, we have to take his word for it, as we can't read his mind.

[@oguzalb]

He did not raise his arm, rest of the universe moved except his arm

[@toxicbavariankitten]

Now this is a theory I can get behind!

[@spelcheak]

You can clearly see he didn't

[@Swiftninjatrev]

THE LORE EXPANDS

[@TheMajorStranger]

In other news, Man Carrying thing finally found some use of his Dictionary and Thesaurus.

[@idontcareaboutyouropinion8999]

Man Carrying Vernacular

[@Mordal1222]

In different reports, Adult Male Bearing Article ultimately encountered a certain application for the lexicon and synonyms wordbook that are his.

[@Kunori]

He was just throwing his heart out to the audience! With thumb tucked and his fingers held out together and making his idea of a stern fierce face.

[@EmyN]

And he was throwing his heart to the wall too guys

[@magicalfetus729]

"left wing extremists briefly pause chanting "death to Israel" to call elon musk a nazi" nazi is when arm go in air

[@heijimikata7181]

@@EmyN …Just like Mussolini, the most impassioned politician known to the Italian community!

[@groetaer]

@@heijimikata7181 it's hard to believe the man-child billionaire has empathy for anyone

[@EmyN]

@@heijimikata7181 That’s what Mussolini is most known for

[@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli]

ok but the blinks at 0:15 when he says "ambiguous"～

[@VincentVanJoYT]

sorry how did your tilde get big ~

[@Tues_Thurs]

Dawg huh

[@cosmicalize]

​@@VincentVanJoYT Tilde Amplification: Enlarged Tilde

[@catfell6976]

youre little dumb

[@whitepumpkinenthusiast27]

- ahh character

[@Sir_Howie]

He just failed the quick time event

[@Cynsham]

He rolled a nat 1 on the performance check

[@GTron13]

@@Cynsham And the charisma check

[@Valkia-the-demon]

His joystick is drifting so he took the wrong emote

[@Biscotum]

Failed Encyclopedia, Authority and Reaction Speed red checks back to back.

[@ludwigvangaming1822]

Kim ain't saving him after those snake eyes. ​@@Biscotum

[@professorhazard]

here's a gesture for you

[@ManCarryingThing]

Thank you!

[@MarcusKovesi]

We still pretending Musk has autism? His own biographer said that he diagnosed himself. He chose Asperger's because, in his mind, that just means “quirky genius that no one understands”.

[@Adam.Frazier]

I am personally perfectly fine with reserving Asperger’s for people like him because he, like Asperger, is a, well, ass burger

[@flarpo11]

Most ASD diagnoses _are_ self-diagnoses, since your family doctor can't read your mind to tell whether or not you're answering their questions accurately or honestly. A doctor will typically send a patient who thinks they might be autistic to an online questionnaire form that can narrow it down (or rule it out) based on like, a bajillion questions, and the doctor's formal diagnosis is just them saying "yep, I have no reason to doubt the validity of this result". A doctor's role in an ASD diagnosis is literally just certifying the diagnosis you found on your own (using provided resources). That said, Aspergers is *very* distinct and pretty hard to misidentify, and Elon doesn't really match the behavioural traits I would expect from someone with that specific type of autism. (Source: am autistic, went through the whole process as an adult, might be different depending on region or age) Edit: probably also varies based on level of independence and capacity to actually fill out the form unassisted. I imagine in the event that a patient is _severely_ autistic, it would fall to a psychologist to determine what specifically is going on with them as their ability to accurately self-analyze would be in question.

[@badgermcbadger1968]

​@@flarpo11genuine question, if Asperger's is so distinct why is it not diagnosed anymore? From what I understand it's considered a part of the asd spectrum now, but it may have been because of the background term rather than scientific reasons

[@flarpo11]

@badgermcbadger1968 That I don't actually know. I have a friend who has Aspergers, but his diagnosis was a long time ago so it might not be classified the same way anymore, (it may have been split up into multiple concurrent diagnoses that don't always come as a full package or something). Most of my knowledge of Aspergers is based on talking with my friend, whose experience was long enough ago that the understanding/definition of the disorder may have changed considerably since then. Now I'm curious... Edit (after a quick google search): Yep, it was just folded into ASD since it's not always the exact same set of symptoms and having it as its own standalone thing was detrimental to comprehensive and thorough diagnosis. It's super weird that I never put that together despite actually going through the process myself. It wasn't relevant to me at the time, I suppose.

[@badgermcbadger1968]

@@flarpo11 I always assumed they got rid of the name since it Hans Asperger was a nazi who was involved in the Holocaust

[@MastaBaitaAmbatukam]

Elon was just petting his giant invisible pet dog named Jerry

[@victorherrera6714]

I coulda swore elons dogs name was Blondi.. maybe I’m confusing him with someone else 🤔

[@p.f.4716]

The worst thing is, that GERMAN news coverage sounded the same...

[@F0XD1E]

Well he's probably paying them

[@-Alarion]

Most of the german articles I saw were like "Was it the salute?" "Could you define it as national-socialist?" "Here we asked a historian ..." Except one greatnewspaper who went: "Lets talk clearly, we all know what it is and that he meant it. So, what does that mean for us now?" To normalize the idolisation of one of the worst and brutal dictatorships that ever existed is really, really dangerous.

[@mist3995]

​@-Alarion Which newspaper reported it correctly?

[@novelseeker4410]

@@mist3995 Dropping this here so i'll be notified of the answer too.

[@ShortSkullDog]

Do you know what newspaper?​@-Alarion

[@carpedm9846]

"Is that the man carrying the thing?" "No his arms just do that sometimes, wheter he is or isnt carrying is up for debate, some say he is merely preventing thing from falling, which may be reminiscent of carrying, if you interpret things in bad faith."

[@DarthGTB]

Well, maybe in the USA, but here in Brazil they straight up said he did "what appeared to be a Nazi salute". They wouldn't call it by the actual name of the salute because nobody here knows that name

[@RGC_animation]

This is like when a book tries to foreshadow some major plot event or the return of a major character but the author isn't really good at foreshadowing so everything is incredibly obvious.

[@condedooku9750]

Yes, but still a part of the audience has 0 media literacy and doesn't see the facts being written in capital letters in front of them, and when the forshadowed event ends up happening they will be in disbelief and wondering how it could have happened, and then all his fellow readers will yell at him that they tried to explain it to him but he, being stubborn, didn't want to listen.

[@Fadexpl]

@@condedooku9750 It's just as if the event could've happened 8 years ago and had 4 years of opportunity to happen, but didn't.

[@condedooku9750]

​​@@FadexplIt's almost as if the event couldn't happen before because the Orange Man didn't have absolute power over the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court, now he has it plus the support of a bunch of techno-oligarch billionaires and various social media platforms with algorithms working in his favor... You know who said the same thing as you about not worrying about all the hints? The Association of German National Jews in the early 1930s, and look how they ended up.

[@gemknight9889]

What kind of rock were you living under? 'Cause their soundproofing system must have been top notch

[@jackienorris6606]

@@Fadexplcompletely different this time dude. He got rid of the law preventing government contractors from discriminating by sex, race and ability. Basically the government can ban black people and women from accessing it. Is that good to you? You like that?

[@MagicAndWires]

Author of "Resist oligarchy" kowtowing to an oligarch was a great touch

His follow-up will be "Oligarchy Is Good Now, Actually".

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Great revolutionary thinkers when chaching in their face🥵🥵🥵 *George Orwell on his way to write off a list of "suspect communists" in hollywood to the British government shortly before he dies*

[@mf2825]

Ah yes the soft pundits

[@Ponkdonker]

"No, you guys, it was totally just a "Roman Salute! You know, the common gesture that people do every day and always talk about!"

[@loutre583]

"Wait what, you're telling me the roman salute was appropriated and mostly used by fascists, and was never used in rome? nah it's just a silly lil gesture"

[@Vinxian1]

The Roman salute, the gesture invented by Italian fascists and contributed to the Romans to construct a great history. The same Roman salute that was later adopted by Adolf Hitler. So see, it's totally not a Nazi move to salute like that! Happy we should clear that up

[@vasilgevezov3424]

What they do not wish to discuss is how the "Roman salute" was never a thing in ancient Rome, but comes form a 18th century French painting. Then Mussolini used it for his "Bringing back the glory of Rome" propaganda. They are counting on people not being able to do a simple google search.

[@RichTapestry]

@@vasilgevezov3424 And they'd be right to count on people not being able to do a simple google search in fairness. That's in part how we got here.

[@MDE_never_dies]

He was just waving. Get over it.

[@Orson_Welp]

Clearly he was doing an impression of his favorite film character "Dr. Strangelove"

[@chimominino]

Or, "How I Learned to Love the Cybertruck"

[@gisobo]

“Mein Führer, I can walk!”

[@zbelfour]

Was looking for this comment

[@computeraidedworld1148]

This is what I immediately thought of when he said “some theorize that it just does that” lol

[@NobodyC13]

And Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Inglorious Basterds, and Schindler's List.

[@thefoxessockess8239]

As an autistic person I often, accidentally praise fascist regimes. I mean just the other day I was walking down the street and I suddenly transformed into a swastika.

[@RocketPal]

troll

[@LorenzoCassaro]

@@RocketPal Idiot

[@BlaZay]

​@@RocketPal That's disgustingly ableist of you, I'm on the spectrum too and just the other day I went to pick up a book and it turned into Mein Kampf when I touched it, you just don't understand how stressful it is. Learn to show some empathy to others and educate yourself.

[@slawless9665]

Neurotypical people just don't get it, this is something that happens from time to time. In fact I think mustache man in the 1930s was also probably on the spectrum and didn't mean to attempt to turn the Earth into a fascist dictatorship - that's just something his hands and mouth did. All just a big misunderstanding.

[@omoriref]

As an autistic person with ADHD, it happens to me several times a day and I start spinning uncontrollably as a human morphed swastika entity

[@cm1545a]

People are saying it’s the greatest salute. Make salutes great again. They are saying.

[@VSpoodle]

Perfect impression, I heard it in my heard.

[@enzolabre6295]

Many people are saying this, that this was the greatest, biggliest salute for the biggliest nation of the world yes we are

[@jonpower9728]

Geez! Things are so weird right now I'm not surprised anymore if people are actually saying that!

[@raidenakajacktheripper5988]

Yikes

[@vannsylten6765]

With tears in their eyes. Big manly tears, at that.

[@Apoc2K]

The water has evaporated, the frog has been reduced to a charred husk caked to the bottom of the pan. "Well he didn't MEAN to do a Nazi salute" some guy with an American flag avatar says. The room fills with the stench of burnt frog.

[@ben-m2d8m]

his mom even defended him on twitter lol

[@dan_asd]

This writing kinda is fire ngl. WIsh it wasnt about real life however

[@hannahbrown2728]

Those frogs were lobotomized too, thats why they let themselves get boiled, just like 77 million americans.

[@DonutMaster56]

what

[@Quinn-he3vn]

​@@DonutMaster56It's a metaphor. Frog in a boiling pot means you're in danger

[@Yelloweyedrobo]

Finally shut down the people saying elon wasn’t experienced in videogames

[@Asrahn]

He has finally shown us his Gamer credentials, haters in shambles

[@imaginationanimations8737]

Said credentials are proven fake

[@rickydinto]

​@@Asrahn Elon is the true gamer, haters gonna hate.

[@bongibot1104]

A true gamer: Absolutely dog shit and can't learn the game, likely blames others for his failures... Also the gamer words

[@bardwayer]

When it's more damaging to be revealed as a fake gamer than a Not See

[@fernandodecarlosmalcher7977]

you know I was suspecting that this news were biased, but then they showed the tesla add and I thought, "man, I could really buy one of those"

[@The-Legend-of-P]

made me completely forget what I was watching lmao

[@winterbliss4459]

the tesla is such a good car for the american people. yknow. like a people’s car, what do the Germans call that again?

[@fernandodecarlosmalcher7977]

@@winterbliss4459 a train?

[@gringoboy701]

At least Musk didn't take a knee. That would have really been an insult to our fallen veterans.

[@mark6302]

xD

[@johtajakansio]

They like the ones who didn't get caught

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

You had me going for a minute there. The trouble with subtle sarcasm is that the people who need to won't understand it correctly.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

I want to scream. I can't believe what is being allowed to happen in America.

[@doibantikov2486]

God help you if you're white and side with the downtrodden. It just makes you a reverse racist, and you're pushing propaganda.

[@Respectable_Username]

Don't forget, it wasn't just the outstretched arm, but what he did with it beforehand that happens to precisely replicate a certain gesture from history!

[@thecyanadon]

First: It isn't at all parallel to the body, Second: Kamala did it, like, not even like, elons, arm and hand straight, arm at ~40*

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

​@thecyanadonme when I lie.

[@thecyanadon]

@@andrewgreenwood9068 I'm not lying! There are plenty of videos and images showing Kamala doing the salute along with other Democrats. If you are going to warp your mind so much to say he did a Hitler salute, at least be consistent!

[@Respectable_Username]

@thecyanadon Bruh, that's why I said that you have to take the whole gesture and compare it to the whole gesture. The salute isn't _just_ the out-raised arm, but the hand on the heart that then snaps out at a certain rhythm afterwards. Kamala gesticulated while she was speaking and her arm happened to pass through that final angle. Elon did the whole move, in the correct rhythm, twice. Go watch the videos showing Elon's gestures playing alongside historical uses of that gesture, the _whole_ gesture, not just the arm's final resting place. The only way to deny what Elon did is via a deep ignorance of history. Even just the fact that most folks don't know about the first part of the salute, that Elon also performed, shows most people's extremely shallow understanding of the past.

[@thecyanadon]

@@Respectable_Username I knowwwwww... I'm sorry... I have a huge migraine (yeah I know I am stupid for watching youtube, I was bored) I probably meant to comment on someone else's. Sorry to bother you. Have a good evening.

[@somerando8615]

1:01 This is true, I'm a gamer and we do these all the time.

[@grantlauzon5237]

But Musk is a fake gamer.

[@sus_shark]

Followed by ethnicity centered lexicon that contains concentrated emphasis on the pronunciation of the last letter R

[@freddiefishton]

as a gamer, whar?

[@somerando8615]

"Well done Dragonborn, you have mastered the first syllable 'NI' I will now teach you the second syllable of this powerful shout."

[@AFKitsune]

Regular autistic gamer behavior. He probably just wants gamers who vote to think he's cool.

[@JCW7100]

They're trying to convince me my very own eyes are not to be trusted 😂

[@AlexReynard]

Correct. Like when your eyes told you George Floyd was being murdered, but the toxicology report showed he'd taken a lethal dose of fentanyl. Sometimes eyes aren't enough, you have to look at surrounding context.

[@Pk-io6xe]

@@AlexReynard the coroners report concluded that he was in fact murdered. funny how you left that out.

[@AlexReynard]

@@Pk-io6xe That was his second report, after the first one where he told the truth. I didn't forget. I just also didn't forget the months-long democrat-sanctioned mob violence that might have made him feel like his life was in danger if he didn't lie.

[@Pk-io6xe]

@@AlexReynard Lmao wow, you have no idea what you're talking about so you just made that up. There were 2 reports from 2 different sources. Both concluded with the same cause of death. Clearly you haven't bothered looking at either and fell for fake news. But if you think I'm wrong prove it, cute your source for this elusive third report

[@the_aaaa]

What did Alex Reynard say, I can't see his comment but clearly it had something interesting

[@jayer.]

If it talks like a duck and walks like a duck it's a bird that irritates people with duck like behaviours.

[@beastmaster6943]

Unless it's someone from the politically opposite party, whose views align with mine Then we're gonna pretend it's not what it looks like it is

[@Pan-demic]

@@TyocityUsually, when people make gestures after saying “my heart goes out to you,” they put their hand on their heart and directly gestures to the audience from the heart. I’m pretty sure they don’t deliberately psyche themselves up into then doing a Hitler salute way off to the side. And also, they don’t tend to do overly passionate gestures twice in a row to make sure everyone in the back can see it. Plus, (after rewatching) Elon didn’t put his hand over his heart. He put his right hand very close to his left shoulder, and then (literally jumping with excitement) overdelivered on the sieg heil. Given that Musk is a known anti-Semite and far-right provocateur who has a history of overt far-right politics and rage baiting/dog whistling, the excuse that he didn’t mean it that way is moot. The reason I say this is becuase modern Nazi fascist salutes follow the EXACT SAME formula as Elon’s. Putting your right hand near your left shoulder, and then thrusting out your right arm at a 135* angle with the palm facing down. This has been extensively documented! So I think Elon boy over here wanted to dog whistle by following the neo-Nazi formula but make the arm thrust just vague enough to claim plausible deniability, but he, overflowing with glee, blew his load - one might say. You can really tell he FELT that sieg hail, as can be ascertained by his very distinct and loud grunt from the physical activity, and his suit comically sticking out of his right out of tje end of the podium

[@LorenzoCassaro]

@@Pan-demic And, most importantly, they don't say "my heart goes out to you" AFTER they made the gesture

[@randomdudeoninternet7376]

@@Tyocity he also said "selfdriving cars in a year" for like a decade, he lies everytime

[@adamperdue3178]

@@WeirdWimp "bro literally did a HORRIBLE THING(THE SALUTE IF YOU ARENT SURE)" Did the salute hurt people? Did it kill people? If I make the salute right now in my room with nobody else in it, is it harming people? Really, even if he made the salute that people think he made, and if he did make it because he's trying to show support for a certain ideology, the salute itself isn't going to jump down and go grab a weapon and go on a rampage.

[@MarKBBQ]

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

[@RussianBot4Christ]

From people who took 4 years to identify dementia

[@tarascoterry]

What are you talking about?

[@Milonification]

Yes, this book should be obligatory to read and the words should be taken very seriously.

[@winterbliss4459]

@@tarascoterry something that you can’t understand, because you’re a bot

[@tarascoterry]

@@winterbliss4459 A bot trained to seek stupid people that don’t know that they’re stupid. Was I successful? Do you in fact not know?

[@SarcyBoi41]

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -Man Carrying 1984

[@brianwilkowski9754]

If you wanna know the strangle hold the oligarchy has on both old and new media, just look how these companies are playing defense for a literal Nazi. Shit is beyond fucked up

[@Jim-Bagel]

Democrats be like that. They ignore evidence and just jump to insane conspiracies.

[@AlexReynard]

The Party told you to judge people from short video clips with their audio deliberately removed, and to not ask why they'd edited them in such a way.

[@Jim-Bagel]

@@SarcyBoi41 leftists believe anything they’re told

[@KarlTheExpert]

​@@AlexReynardLike news media cutting out the salute? We've seen the whole thing. It's bad, real bad.

[@Dogmeatwest]

This is why Wikipedia is the best, they actually said it looked like a Nazi salute which is as close as you can get to directly saying he did the Nazi salute without him suing you

[@no_name4796]

Wikipedia is LITERALLY the only big website left not bough by corporations and not doing misinformation Remember 10/15 years ago teachers saying wiki was unreliable, and they would penalize you for using it? Yeah, now the exact opposite is true: THERE IS NOT A SINGLE WEBSITE OF THAT SIZE NOT EVEN AS CLOSELY TRUSTWORTHY AS WIKI

[@haroldshea3282]

"gesture was viewed as a Nazi salute" is as factual as you can get and he still cried about it like a little manbaby he is

[@DanielLarkins-x9h]

Surprise, surprise they’re going after Wikipedia now, download it while you still can!

[@Ukaran]

@haroldshea3282 I'm only seeing the Left crying like babies. 😆

[@DanielLarkins-x9h]

@@Ukaran yeah the silly left, it’s like how the Jews were crying after Hitler got elected, like lmao get over it

[@sitfish1113]

Like the ferris wheel guy, this reminds me of a time in elementary school where I tried to say Niger 🇳🇪 while reading a globe. I wasnt the best at pronunciation...

[@search895]

In case of doubt say Nigeria.

[@_ikako_]

as an autistic girl, I frequently have to stop my limbs from spontaneously doing things that could be easily interpreted as "hate speech". it's very annoying and I wish it would do literally anything else.

[@toxicbavariankitten]

Have you considered being reprogrammed to calling people racial slurs instead? Worked for me, since then, I havent done any movement like just randomly transforming into a swastika because of the tism obviously big /s here, blaming it on autism is an attack on/defaming anyone actually being on the spectrum

[@MultiZernez]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell 1984

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

You mean like how most news stations cut out the mic feed of him saying "my heart goes out to you", and like the fact that he didn't do it in the rigid manner that the actual salute is done?

[@Luzgar]

@@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 The most charitable interpretation is a total lack of self awareness, which is already deeply worrying and would justify a public apology and his immediate firing. When you are a public personality, your actions have consequences, even when they are not intentional, and will be over interpreted by various groups. Even if it was not what he meant to do (which I find improbable given his prior actions and publicly expressed views), it would still be horrifically bad.

[@michag7163]

After he "throws out his heart" to people to whom he wants express gratitude to, his hand returns to his heart and stays there for few seconds. For some reason no clips include that. There is no sound either so you never hear "I just want to say: Thank you for making it happen! Thank you! My heart goes to you!". ADL is defending Musk calling it awkward gesture becouse it was. They know what happens when people give in to hate.

[@nomisunrider6472]

​@@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932 The "my heart goes out to you" gesture doesn't go that way. You hold your hand to your heart and then offer it underhand. He did this because he knew he could do a Nazi salute on national television and if he had even the thinnest of excuses his supporters would convince themselves they didn't see what they saw. Remember when he made a flurry of tweets spreading fake info about the congress spending bill, WITH the spending bill in the link contradicting everything he said, because he KNEW you would believe him before your own eyes even if he put it in the tweet? Elon Musk thinks you're all idiots. And he's right.

[@williamjewell6247]

@@michag7163 facts

[@costanzapolastri]

on a serious note: it is infinitely more productive to use your time for direct action than to debate if this is actually a dogwhistle or not. Join your local DSA or tenant's union, search Food Not Bombs in your area, message your local representative and ask them what associations in your area are concerned with the causes that are most important to you. Every political decision in your city is taken by like 15-20 men in their 60s who actually show up to a local council on a Tuesday evening, you can do SO MUCH on a local level to minimize the damage for your fellow humans that these nutjobs are trying to do. Don't let them convince that there is nothing that can be done, please!! To dig ourselves out of this mess (or even just to not let them make it worse) we're gonna have to display as much solidarity as they display cruelty, that's a tall damn order. Let this be the thing that makes you act on your ideals!

[@asmallphd9648]

I agree, people should be doing things in their communities.

[@AceSpadespoken]

Replying to boost

[@RichTapestry]

YEPPPPP!

[@AnonP-t6i]

you assume these people actually want to make changes. in truth this system affords so much privilege that they do not truly want to fix anything, they just want to virtue signal. This man here is complaining about oligarchs, using a platform that makes the same oligarchs billionaires (and you bet he wants all the ad money they can give him). just an example. It is like buying cotton from a slave owner whose farm is operated by slaves and then making #freedomForAll tshirts with that cotton! We don't actually want to do good, we just want to appear to be doing good (which funny enough is an Elon Musk quote)!

[@tonylittleton8549]

Or revolution.

[@tyranitar8u]

"Man doing a very suspicious gesture in front of a large group of people" always makes such good videos.

[@GravitasZero]

“It was just a one off thing” “He did it twice and has been in contact with far right parties, some often refered to as “basically Nazis but with a different name””

[@slaw1448]

tbh "some often refered to as X" is a very weak point. If you're going to refer to a party, list out its program and beliefs rather than quote the opinions of random people who you don't even specify. That being said, AfD is pretty far on the right.

[@JaydenLuna-bw7ce]

It's funny because we have photographs of both Obama and Kamala doing the same salute

[@HellHazAtTheZoo]

@@JaydenLuna-bw7ce Hillary as well.

[@tlpineapple1]

​@@JaydenLuna-bw7ce Actually we dont, we have still images taken out of context, but please show us the full video where they make a sieg heil, nit just having their hand pointing at an upward angle.

[@techietisdead]

@@JaydenLuna-bw7ce THOSE, were actual accidents, or taken in middle of the wave. They were not done with the force of anything like a salute. Plus, none of them subscribe to the far RIGHT nazi ideology, unlike Elon

[@imallfordabulls]

“See the arm angle isn’t quite right” is not the defense some people think it is

[@bramvanduijn8086]

Yeah that just means he's uncoordinated, which we already knew.

[@callsignapollo_]

​@bramvanduijn8086 i would never accuse musk of being competent, if anything the first one bejng so sloppy was from hesitation, not a lack of ability

[@mac19999x]

Im sure the salute void of nazi salute characteristic features is a nazi salute. Anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong.

[@rainpooper7088]

Idk man Regirock got canceled for it and he wasn't even using the right arm

[@TheFantasticJoe]

"He's also a gamer" is the best explanation given.

[@camcrock347]

"Gesture".....

[@Chuck_Normies]

Jester made a gesture...

[@AbbohBoh]

"It's a Roman salute" if you're Italian you know that's literally what the fascist salute is called.

[@dominikhaba695]

At least we now know he is a true gamer

[@1-800-PlsAdoptMe]

Nice

[@yusayldrm08]

He did it twice just to make sure

[@haldalas]

The news doesn’t want to be more specific because they’ve decided they’re morally opposed to calling out the president of the United States, even when he does bad or weird things. Anyway no idea why that trump guy was at Musk’s rally, kinda strange that he keeps hanging around.

[@Br3ttM]

They spent years doing nothing but slandering Trump, and it got them sued, so they have to be less direct about the slander, now, because it literally is just baseless slander.

[@caramelcake733]

hahaha

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Nice.

[@axel665]

Is this a joke or are people too in their echo chambers to realise something, in fact how does this comment even have likes again trump is the most criticized guy on media and here you are telling media doesn't call him out is weird because that's what they been doing since 2016 .

[@Br3ttM]

@@axel665 They got so used to the extreme persecution of Trump that even toning it down is seen as actively supporting him. They can't see the reasons why the media cooled down, because they aren't open to any consideration that their side might have made a mistake.

[@Sterlingx11]

This is hilarious, but truthfully when the media is too scared call out a Nazi… we’re heading to a scary place.

[@alphasigmaohioskibidi]

media shouldve obsessed about kamala or obama doing it. i seem to remember them obsessing over trump doing it though. am i the only one who doesnt have amnesia or isnt a lobotomy patient?

[@Sterlingx11]

@ I don’t care about your lobotomy. Go away weird guy.

[@alphasigmaohioskibidi]

@@Sterlingx11 thats what i thought🤣

[@WilliamAfton-n7d]

@@alphasigmaohioskibidi Video proof?

[@alphasigmaohioskibidi]

@@WilliamAfton-n7d yea im sure you could find it if you use both your brain cells. im not gonna bother looking because my point isnt that theyre fascists, im not dumb enough to think that 🤣

[@Brambrew]

Bro hit the wrong emote 💀

[@blucie9768]

Meanwhile my local french radio was like "yeah it was a nazi salute, no questions about it"

[@Ryroe]

European countries don't sugarcoat this. America pisses me off with people literally defending an intentional nazi salute in a political country leader setting. You would get rightfully persecuted for doing that in my country.

[@beastmaster6943]

Guess who was in Paris 🙊

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Lafayette, please send reinforcements 🙏

[@Jnnewsman]

Reinforcements from France lol

[@notaspeck6104]

The older I get the more I appreciate how blunt the French can be.

[@EuropeanEmpireEU]

People: Hey, I see a Banana on the table. News: Some say there appears to be a curved object that rests quietly on a flat surface, its smooth exterior is marked by faint gradients of color. But, we can’t be quite sure what it is.

[@toxicbavariankitten]

I think the described object must be a long apple

[@wonderland9601]

​@@toxicbavariankittenno.is a very long and spiffy strawberry do your reserch better

[@Freerogueboss3]

EU is just the fourth reich

[@luketheskymarshall4472]

He did it twice... Once could be a tributed to arm stiffness if you wanted to play it off. Twice is a full-blown declaration that apartheid Africa was not going far enough for him.

[@tarascoterry]

So that gesture means he wants apartheid back in South Africa? What are you talking about?!

[@Ryan11-pd8zm]

​@@tarascoterryprobably. His dad made his money during the apartheid and is very much pro it. Apple/tree metaphor come to mind? Plus there's a lot of evidence he has extreme views.

[@aluisious]

For people who used to wonder what they would have done in 1930s Germany: don’t wonder, you’re doing it

[@DougFu69]

LOL ok

[@randomrandom450]

Yeah the trope of "would you go back in time to get rid of Hitler". I hope those people arent saying yes, cause they definitely not doing it today.

[@charasmaticcritic1731]

​@@DougFu69He's right though 😂😂😂

[@AFellowCyberman]

Yep and I voted for it 😂

[@nachgeben]

What? Oh God, that's why you support Palestine, you don't even know the basics of how the Nazis took power. Holy shit.

[@SodaDjinn]

He basically showed the world a deer, called it a horse and the media doesn't know which side to be on. It's embarrassing to watch as an outsider.

[@KarlTheExpert]

I wish I was an outsider living on the moon. 😢

[@justforplaylists]

Do you listen to Lateral?

[@XDrotkon]

I think about if he actually did as experiment just to feed his ego and try if he can buy people that much that he can literally do a fascist gesture openly and noone will do anything, also risk and get adrenaline rush from it. That just says a lot about our current state of countries in general. Corruption is everywhere, value of money is above life and morals, and everything else.

[@jaxonsevero1045]

Blackwhite. “NO ITS A HORSE. HORSES HAVE FOUR LEGS AND A RICH GUY WHO HATES ME SAID ITS A HORSE.”

[@justforplaylists]

​@@XDrotkon "Showed the world a deer and called it a horse" is a metaphor for a test of loyalty. OP is saying that he's using it to see who calls him out on it, to identify people he considers his enemies.

[@HotCrossB1S]

Higher than "call taxi" but shorter than "call waiter" 😔

[@Craft2299]

huh? I noticed that they instantly called it a nazi salute.

[@hamelconsultancyllc]

Don’t worry, in a month the crowds will be doing it back

[@Ariel_thenotsolittlemermaid]

They already do, it's just that nobody talks about it when it's not Elon Musk doing it. Antisemitism rates have been skyrocketing recently, and I don't see anyone who isn't Jewish talking about it.

[@bradenhagen7977]

Just commenting to come back here in a month.

[@asmallphd9648]

totally dude...

[@tardybloomer]

might even be less than a month… 👁️

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

“My heart goes out to you” is going to be a new dogwhistle I guarantee it.

[@cinemalover2009]

Elon musk probably likes wolfenstein.

[@MalkuthSephira]

presumably he's the world's best Wolfenstein player and has lots of records.

[@misterbennnn]

Based on his Elden Ring builds, he's probably terrible at Wolfenstein and had to set the difficulty to baby mode.

[@bshap495]

Nah, he'd probably call the game 'woke'.

[@ZeyLogger]

but that game is more like anti-nazi, I'm not sure about the more new titles but it probably didn't change that much

[@A6by]

"I think he was the first guy to ever beat Wolfenstein, it says right here that he had a final solution!"

[@DiamondAppendixVODs]

I'm autistic, and, in my experience, my arms don't just do that

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

you dont even know what he ways trying to do

[@ThrarmTalks]

@@mr.fahrenheit7009 regardless he still did it, this is going to end up a discussion of intention vs outcome

[@joshuaizly5502]

​@@mr.fahrenheit7009 I'm pretty sure we all know what he was trying to do.

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

@ im sorry you guys lost in the election but find something more legit

[@Testimony_Of_JTF]

You're also a man

[@DippKlippGuy]

"It was a harmless gesture, to say otherwise is a blatant display of anti-semitism." The ADL. No really,

[@nebeskisrb7765]

At first I just saw the picture and thought it was taken out of context, but nope I saw the whole vid and the context makes it even worse.

[@mr.fahrenheit7009]

your delusional

[@tyldrthepark64]

@@mr.fahrenheit7009You’re* illiterate.

[@comfycloudangel]

@@mr.fahrenheit7009 my delusional

[@unnamedenemy9]

​@@mr.fahrenheit7009you're a lying waste of oxygen. You know exactly what he did, you know his history of boosting Nazis on his platform -- including agreeing with posts about Jews "destroying" civilization by importing brown people -- you just don't care.

[@notlucas6859]

@@mr.fahrenheit7009 my delusional what?

[@thrawncaedusl717]

I read two articles about it. The first had the ADL defending him. It was the only one I had seen, and I’d assumed they were the expert, so I thought the criticism was exaggerated. The second was from bbc and actually had historians talking about and explaining how it 100% was the “sieg heil”. The fact that American news and experts still won’t weigh in actually confuses and concerns me even more than the salute does.

[@leonardusrakapradayan2253]

The ADL can't be trusted since Elon threatened them with a law suit that's impossible to beat due to the money he has.

[@donovian111]

"You guyzzzzz he was throwing his heart to the audience" WHO THE FUCK HAS EVER DONE THAT

[@rumpeltyltskyn]

He’s just an uwu awkward little awtistic boi haven’t you heard? (Actual explanation people are giving)

[@itayeldad3317]

​@@rumpeltyltskyn I really don't know who should be more offended by that excuse

[@JamesLockerby]

Usually it's people who say, "I throw my heart to you."

[@Nodiee1]

​@@itayeldad3317 I think everyone should be more offended by that excuse.

[@donovian111]

​@@JamesLockerby Friend, I just googled it and there is only one other instance google could find from only four months ago, on Tik Tok, on a page that appears to be bilingual. So is that a cultural thing? Because it isn't a cultural thing here, and here is where he saluted. What people say that? Why did you speak in plural?

[@ANTX81]

I can't believe the ADL, who to this day go after Pepe, were like "Eh it probably doesn't mean anything"

[@thepoetesskhansaa]

The ADL employs christian zi0s who want to get all the j3ws into the holy land as Jesus bait, and after Jesus kills all the unbelievers they will ascend to heaven. No this is not satire, Katie Halper interviewed a jewish ex employee of the adl. This is a common belief among their employees. L-on-musk ans his salutes are nothing to them

[@carnigoth]

Man carrying heated gamer moment

[@jultejock7185]

Oh, so you can't even do a nazi salute anymore without being accused of doing a nazi salute? What has this world come to...

[@jultejock7185]

"He said he was throwing his heart out to the audience!" Write a limerick about bees.

[@RocketPal]

it was not a nazi salute, its called a wave.

[@daviebananas1735]

@@RocketPalYeah everybody waves like that. Face contorted with hate. Pumping their hand and straight into a full on 135 degree straight arm. Everybody does that. 🤨

[@jultejock7185]

@@RocketPal I feel we're going to see a lot more "waving" from you in the coming years...

[@BuildinWings]

@@RocketPal Do that wave on-base for your COs. Such valor in you.

[@Zeldarulah]

Him being the author of Resist Oligarchy and still doing all this is the most accurate part

[@zacharyconfer1828]

Genius social conmentary and ended on making me actually laugh 😊 I didn't know he did it twice, that hit so good

[@ombrezz7030]

He did it towards the audience, and then immediately turned around and did it to the wall.

[@zacharyconfer1828]

@ombrezz7030 That guy went from cool memelord to goofball joke loser with money to absolute PoS trash everyone hates pretty swiftly, all things considered.

[@adrianen9440]

He did it and there are no consequences. Future getting darker and darker.

[@BuildinWings]

I wouldn't say that. He has no secret service and some people in our country are very frightened.

[@SamuelAfonso-q5q]

@@BuildinWings The Second American Civil War is inevitable.

[@VanessaMagick]

You know what gets me about this? If it wasn't a Nazi salute, Elon would have just... said so. He would have been like "Hey nazis are bad and I didn't mean to do that". Instead he just gets straight onto twitter and starts talking about how multiculturalism is evil. Like... he doesn't even want to PRETEND it was toootally an accident because it would piss off his nazi fans.

[@maximk9964]

I find this to be more telling than anything else, if it was an accident, why not clear that up?

[@TheDarkLasombra]

I think you need to be absolutely lost in the sauce to think that guy literally was trying to give the salute. I've accidentally thrown a heil out by accident. All you have to do is throw your hand out till your arm is straight. People do it accidentally all the time. Get off the internet dude.

[@cicimimi741]

​@@TheDarkLasombra he did it twice

[@VanessaMagick]

​@ No. Politicians raise their right arm all the time. There's photos of Trump doing it. There's photos of Obama, Clinton, Biden and Kamala doing it. Politicians do not thump their chest and quickly raise their right hand, fingers outstretched, thumb in. Twice back to back. I've only ever seen two prominent political figures do that at a speech. Elon was the second one.

[@jebes909090]

he gave far more kickback to being called a fake gamer than a real nazi 🤣🤣

[@paugirones6083]

Presumably human male holding, or bearing one might say, what someone would describe as "things"

[@theBuilder10000]

That ain't a dog whistle. That's a dog megaphone.

[@MammaApa]

It's Spongebob's alarm clock

[@MacMizuxo]

Bro please bro it's just him showing love by touching his heart, like suuuper aggressively bro, and extending his arm very specifically in a flat outward motion with all fingers joined, it's not THAT salute bro, he did it more than once exactly the same way to show love bro you're not getting bro please bro come on

[@DiscoKnack]

He was throwing his heart out with his thumb tucked in bro, everyone holds their thumb like that when they're throwing something trust me.

[@maciejkamil]

Man carrying thing is becoming my main and only source of info about US politics.

[@cardboardconnoisseur9155]

Apparently he has more integrity than major news outlets.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

I recommend limiting yourself to this channel for the next 4 years. You will be happier that way.

[@KirbywithaGun64]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE DID IT TWICE?!

[@jokx4409]

Three times actually. There's a picture where it's even closer to the salute. Like actually IDENTICAL. That one's not on video though, so we don't know what the motion was.

[@azreales2451]

Back to fucking back.

[@charlesthin4621]

The news was shouting Nazi from all corners. This is a great and funny caricature of a report I have seen nowhere.

[@Cupit29]

You don't watch the news, bro. How tf would you know?🤣

[@timetraveler7]

Richest man in the world, associated with the AFD, does a yatzee salute? Don't mean nothing.

[@unnamedenemy9]

Man who also boosted and agreed with posts about how Jews are destroying civilization by importing brown people last year. On the site he brought Nazis back on to and allows free reign. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

[@AlexReynard]

Correct. The ADL said so.

[@peanutbrainedbuffoon7913]

@@AlexReynard Well if the famous henry kissinger fanclub is fine with it i guess its ok

[@AlexReynard]

@@peanutbrainedbuffoon7913 You are your username.

[@RichTapestry]

@@AlexReynard The ADL are not the authority on this you think they are.

[@brainhem]

oh my god thank you for making this, the way the news covered it made me so upset lol

[@XDrotkon]

He did it twice and I heard people say that he endorsed actual neo Nazi party in Germany weeks ago. If that doesn't alarm any bells to the people, then you're doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

[@sclair2854]

Don't forget that the republican party pardoned neo nazis after the event as well.

[@JoseManuel-is4yc]

If it really was a "Roman salute", meaning he shares the political views of ancient Rome, it would be even worse.

[@paultuck]

"Sometimes his arm just does that", immediately made me think of the German scientist in the wheelchair from Dr Strangelove.

[@jimjimmers8571]

Let’s not forget how the News mainly covered him gesturing to the side, but not when he turned directly around a few seconds later and did an exact, unmistakeable, more incriminating version?

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

When the news talked about how Plankton farted and died on live television, I was aghast.

[@40088922]

headphones? on Steam? open account? boosted hand? salutin' oh, yeah, it's gamer time

[@droningandgoing9286]

That salute better be the Super Earth salute. FOR SUPERRR EARTHHH

[@whitehawk6437]

It was like a middle school kid, scratching his nose with a middle finger and then trying to deny flipping off the teacher... We all know he did it, he knows he did it and I bet he loves it... Trolling, stirring the pot, creating controversy and low-key signaling where he actually stands ideologically.

[@ittixen]

low key? I literally cannot conceive of any higher key than that. this wasn't middle finger nose scratching it was full body hip thrusting

[@ithinkiknowme6450]

​@@ittixen😂😂

[@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel]

Genuinely curious what you would consider high key.

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

seeing the actual clip after having only read the headlines certainly incited a reaction that some might choose to interpret in a way

[@thecyanadon]

fr, I can't believe people think this is a Nazi salute, is hand is the wrong angle, so is his whole arm. Kamala on the other hand, flat out did it, and nobody cared.

[@Baffon100]

Cybertruck commercial follow-up spot on 👌

[@theotv5522]

Reddit is going crazy about this in the past 2 days

[@JumbleJammyJokes]

There are not nearly enough hoops to jump through for this one … but people find a way!!