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    I wonder if a bunch of pro palestianian protestors started “giving their hearts” to the people of Israel, if suddenly it would have a different meaning.

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      I’ve seen several people try to defend it by saying that the Nazi salute doesn’t start with your hand over your heart… Well this gif really clears things up.

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        I have a Jewish friend that is defending it saying that his arms were sideways and the Nazi salute is in front. I sent him this and he said… Welp, I guess it’s time to move.

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        Also, while I"m no physiotherapist, it looks like musk’s shoulder mobility is hindered a bit. Maybe its the suit/shoulderpads, maybe he’s just really out of shape. Which is to say that he knew that he had to get his hand up over his head to get the gesture right. It’s significantly more effort than you’d do by accident.

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          It’s probably just the suit jacket, those things do restrict your arm’s vertical range of movement.

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      To the person that made this gif: thank you for your service. You had to pour over far more footage of this nonsense than anybody should ever have to.

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      Playing devil’s advocate, it appears Hitler doesn’t usually start with an open palm on his heart, but one perpendicular to his chest.

      But sometimes he just goes straight from arms down to the salute. There’s some variability.

      Anyway, this is splitting hairs to an obscene degree. You have to contort your brain to not see this as a Nazi salute, ignoring the context or not, and in any other time a public figure would have at least apologized for doing this if they weren’t impeached/dismissed/fired.

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    What if you do it outside of the Israeli embassy as your heart goes out to the hostages?

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    If it honks like a goose and it steps like a goose, there’s not too many things it could be.

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        You might be onto something. The capricious assholery of geese is well-known, and he’s also got that bit spot on.

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    He could tattoo “NAZI” on his forehead and some people will tell you that’s actually “IZVN” upside down

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      “Well what about that tattoo on your chest? Doesn’t it say ‘Die Bart, die’?”

      “No! That’s German for 'The Bart. The.”

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          Pretty sure I already watched that but can’t remember what it is. There’s a jumping thing close to it? Don’t know why I’m thinking the protagonist jumped from one side of the fence to the other using that jumpy thing (don’t remember the name of the jumpy)

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            Community S02E07 - Aerodynamics of Gender. Troy and Jeff find a secret trampoline owned by Joshua (who is revealed as a racist at the end of the episode). Pierce discovers it and insists he gets “double bounces” which is one of Joshua’s only rules and in doing so gets flung over the garden wall and breaks both his legs.

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            It’s a reference from The Simpsons. Sarcasm is a good explanation, though it’s probably more accurately satire

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              I’d call it irony. Satire is usually a more pointed critique- it would be referencing a specific situation or trope or person it wanted to lambast. So maybe a bit of satire about the US prison system? Honestly I don’t think they were trying to go there though.

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                The word irony has too much confusion attached to it nowadays, in part thanks to Alanis Morissette. I would say it was meant tongue in cheek.

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            As mentioned elsewhere it’s a line from a TV show. I’m not going to try to determine what type of humor it is, but the joke is that an incredibly charismatic psychopath has been trying to kill Bart, the local troublemaking kid. The psycho is claiming it’s all a misunderstanding and the kid points to him having a tattoo that says “die bart die”, which is explained as being German for “the bart the” (and yes part of the joke is likely that the German is incorrect). The cops, who the show routinely depicts as incredibly stupid, believe it and add the line “nobody who speaks German could be evil” which is meant to be a further joke about how stupid these cops are.

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            for the longest time I thought that line had way more to it, but nope, that’s it. it’s just a reference to Hitler.

            I only thought there was more to it because classic Simpsons always had fantastic writing with multiple underlying references.

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              Sometimes a pie in the face gag is just a pie in the face gag.

              But yeah, the joke is that people in charge of the prison system are so clueless on the nature of evil that they cannot differentiate between good and bad behavior.

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    Well, at least wait until it’s part of the law requiring all businesses to use it as formal greetings.

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    Arguing whether or not the sky is in fact blue is a deliberate distraction.