It’s really not clear that he isn’t just pointing at something/acknowledging someone with his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently
you really have to write a /s for a lot of these folks to not take everything at face value here it would appear :-/
Subtle sarcasm is really hard for a lot of people who comment in a community focused on satire, ironically.
The internet is a different place than it used to be. These days every third person you see might tell you the California fires are caused by having too many black folks in the movies and be completely sure of themselves that this is a fact. It is no longer safe to assume sarcasm when you see someone say something ridiculous.
And if you just laugh and agree with it (sarcastically) or ignore it, then you’re going to get new people seeing this for the first time, not getting that it’s sarcasm, seeing it get agreed with or at least not refuted, and now you have two people that believe this mess. Rinse and repeat. 4chan is basically a case study for this sort of thing.
Lmao sorry you’re getting downvoted dude. How anyone took this comment, in this community, seriously… is beyond me!
When you caught me fisting your mom did you think I was acknowledging her with my thumb and the rest of my fingers or when I was elbow deep and shouted, “I’m fisting your mom!” in your face was it clear what was actually happening?
Oh wow, that’s even worse than I had guessed. He looks…well exactly like himself, which is to say an over-grown child who thinks being hated for being a nazi is “being a rebel”.
Incredible.
What the fuck even is this timeline.
My estranged uncle, who was a diehard trump supporter (I think he did it because he believed the system needed to be burned down, and he thought that somehow the dems were corrupt and that the republicans weren’t)
that same uncle, Moved to Texas because its where Elon went, he idolized Elon, (I should add at this point, my uncle is a fucking CANADIAN WITH A GREEN CARD. NOT A CITIZEN) that same uncle who when he was a teenager, Identified as a NATIONALIST SOCIALIST… He idolozed Elon. and then all of a sudden one day, he told the rest of the family that would still listen to him, that he’d 180’d and isn’t following Elon anymore, because Elon is “evil”
the mental gymnastics and thought process is literally giving me hyper brain aids.
and this is my own flesh and blood.
He’s obviously grabbing his love from his heart and throwing it out to all of his supporters. I don’t know how else you could possibly interpret this.
Ok, so imagine that you’re a billionaire and a really smart dude (as claimed by so many people on the internet). And you get into government and appear on TV and want to look good. You might hire a publicist, a PR team, some speechwriters, hell how about a body language consultant. When you go on TV you’re going to project exactly the image you intend to. Anything less would be careless and stupid, right?
So yeah. This was a Nazi salute. And if you really want to argue that it wasn’t, that Musk doesn’t even know what a Nazi is, you gotta also accept that he’s grossly incompetent and should not be in government at all. Throw him out, we didn’t vote for him.
And when he turned around and pointed violently at the flag in the same style? Does that make it more clear?
That’s been the conservative line all day. Repeating a partisan lie word for word is not sarcasm.
I’ve found online that /s is almost always needed. May take a bit from the joke but also, clarifies for everyone that you are not actually being an asshole when you can’t visibly roll your eyes and use the proper “sarcasm inflection”
Youre talking to people whose country elected trump. Even the bright ones aren’t too bright.
In their defense, the party said its most important action item on the talking points memo was not to trust your eyes or your ears any longer.
Isnt this the wrong community? This is not an onion or onion like article… I know Chaser usually does that, but there are no jokes or lies in there really are there? All those quotes have been said/written by someone.
Yeah, that’s what nottheonion is for.
Just an FYI, the real meaning of that salute is the statement, “I’m a kunt!”
I love how certain media call it a Roman Salute in an attempt to defend him.
Like, do they think Hitler just made it up himself?
Also, I think Hitler took the salute from this. Which is similar to the Roman salute.
Hitler had no great ideas, he stole from everyone, and was overall a terrible person full of hatred. But, he did ban human zoos.
Ok, how often do you see Hindus, Buddhists, Nepalese, Indians, Thai, Mongolians, Sri Lankans, Chinese, Japanese, Akans, Hopis, Navajo, and Tlingit peoples spray paint it on walls or get it tattooed on their bodies in AMERICA? This isn’t any of those countries you listed. The next time I see someone with a swastika on their neck and a Nazi salute here in America am I supposed to assume it’s a peace loving Buddhist with an interest in Roman history?
He stole it from the Italians under Mussolini, who basically took it from a painting. There’s no evidence the Romans used this salute, so it’s always been associated with fascism.
