• nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Starts with “no, it wasn’t EXACTLY the same salute because his wrist angle is 0.0001 degrees different”

    Then “no, he was just being sarcastic, no one can just be ironic anymore”

    Then “okay but it’s not that bad, he’s not literally putting people in concentration camps”

    Then “okay but it wasn’t my fault, I’m a good person”

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      “I just can’t believe the face-eating leopards who constantly made face-eating gestures and promised to eat faces on day one would eat my face!”

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      Even if we give them literally all of benefit of doubt and assume it really was Bellamy salute, it don’t make it any better, it’s still salute of genocidal empire. And i don’t have any benefit to give, Bellamy salute is old rubbish nerd trivia from century ago, here and now Musk gesture have only one meaning.

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      23 hours ago

      you are forgetting that Elon is a dumbass and it is probable that he really did a nazi salute by accident

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        ‘Accident’ isn’t the word I’d use to describe a famous, clear, unique and repeated gesture. It’s not something one does unknowingly. I’d lean more towards ‘association’, ‘intuition’, perhaps ‘familiarity’, if it weren’t premeditated. It’s no secret that Musk is frequently interacting with and boosting neo-nazis on their social media platform, the most doubt I could possibly give them is they wanted to do a powerful victory gesture, picked the first one that came to mind and they were too damn ignorant to realize even US conservatives don’t like Nazi symbols.

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            Dr. Strangelove is a surprising adept analogue - immigrant from a white supremacist regime who can’t leave it behind, weird and socially awkward, [supposed] tech expert. Maybe I’m stretching it a bit.

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          19 hours ago

          I wasn’t trying to insinuate that he doesn’t support nazis, just doubting he would actually make it this blatantly obvious

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            Buying Twitter and turning it into Nazi heaven all the while banning anyone who disagreed with him under the banner of “free speech” wasn’t a big enough clue for you?

            But it’s nothing new . Listen to the dollop podcast on Elon Musk. He didn’t appear out of a vacuum. People are formed by their upbringings.

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              […] wasn’t a big enough clue for you?

              no it was, but that was definitely more subtle than just doing a nazi salute, like what he did now