Outrage over Elon Musk ‘Nazi salute’ at Trump inauguration
The billionaire appeared to perform the infamous Sieg Heil salute in support of Trump.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53161995
cheers to the NZ Herald for calling a spade a spade
the cowards at the "paper of record" NY Times went with "Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture"
BBC: Elon Musk's gesture at Trump rally draws scrutiny
The Guardian: Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
if Trump shot someone on 5th Ave these fucking lickspittles would probably give it a "President-involved shooting ignites debate over the limits of executive power" headline
Addin NZ Herald to my RSS.
Didn't Trump say he could do as much and get away with it?
The conversation is still about this clip and not the actual policy, though.
Which I'm sure pisses Trump off, so there is that, but it maybe shows the press hasn't learned anything. And it's too late for the US, but there is still a far right surge to contain back in civilization, so it's about time they figure it out.
Note that I'm not including the UK there, Labour government or not. That BBC headline is at least as shocking as the event itself.
I wonder if the US comes back from this, launches into a long series of progressive changes in the world's biggest pendulum swing in centuries, and then all of Europe hits this fascist path it's already starting in on, will Americans say snide things like "back in civilization"? Or will we know better?
Probably not.
nah that's how you flood the zone. it's what the camp has being doing for years. announce something batsoot insane, do some publicity stunt that's also kinda insane to drone out said thing, finish the announced thing, rinse and repeat. Musk learned it when he changed the then–Twitter logo to a Doge to flood against Epstein-related allegations.
Just going to leave this right here:
Fuck that and the fuck the ADL. There is no unity to be had with fascists.
Not an American so I don't really know ADL, but while it's important to listen closely to organisations working against racism, they're not always right and don't have the final say in all matters.
Elon heiled for everyone to see.
The ADL also thinks gluing coins to the road is a hate symbol. Not worth taking them seriously.
They are making the most as the spiritual successor of the Verband Nationaldeutscher Juden.
Said on Mastodon, will repeat here:
This is the least surprising thing since that thing that wasn't very surprising.
To every Yankee reading this, I just hope you guys are like. Safe. Shit's gonna hit the mega fan over there it seems.
