“This is a man with Aspergers exuberantly throwing his heart to the crowd,” the journalist said, calling Musk “a friend to the Jews.”
Also, Asperger’s is no longer a medical term and there is no indication that Elon has ever actually been evaluated. Autism is not an excuse to throw a Nazi salute, for fuck’s sake!
For lack of a better term I find it “interesting” that they’re using the outdated term named for a Nazi collaborator
as a matter of fact, Hans Asperger’s work during the national socialist years in Vienna can actually be described as dialectic. a rough summary would be that while participating in the evaluation and killing of children he developed his dissertation in order to get some of the kids out of the T4 program. that dissertation later became the base for the diagnosis that was named after him and found its way into popular culture.
Autist here, while I can be awkward and accidentally do or say offensive things not meaning them…
A full on fucking Hitler salute isn’t even something we can do on accident.
Closest I’ve gotten was while getting excited in public shouting “WHITE POWER!”
Context: I was playing a Power Rangers game on my phone, and got Tommy Oliver’s White Ranger, my voice went out before I could say “Ranger”… I am very bad at controlling the volume of my voice. Seriously, sometimes I’ll say something and it sounds like I’m whispering, but I"m yelling and vice versa. I have no idea what’s up with that, people often have to tell me if I’m yelling or not.
Did you turn around and say the same thing to the people behind you? The first one I could maybe say he did a fucked up dab. When he did it again…. I’m speechless.
Elon I had well figured for a Nazi, certainly paints a message doing that at the POTUS podium, but CNN just calling it . . . odd? What the fuck is that non response about? I can only imagine that if they managed to open up labor camps CNN would call it ‘slightly concerning’. Now more than ever we’re on our own, the big club has give up all pretense of being unbiased and unmasked themselves for who they always wanted to be.
edit: And this is the NYTs enlightened take
CNN got a right wing CEO a few years ago IIRC. Late 2020 or maybe 2021 if memory serves. IMO the coverage was almost immediately different.
All of the “liberal media” (lol, that phrase was always silly and now it’s beyond farcical) was already obeying in advance. This is just more of it.
As social media exploded with condemnation of what some were calling a “Sieg Heil,” with some others applauding the world’s richest man’s gesture, there was also some speculation that Musk’s movement was more like that of an Imperial Roman general in the Gladiator mode.
Do people think the Nazis invented their salute? They took it from the Romans. To say it was actually a Roman salute is to also say it was a Nazi salute because they are basically one and the same.
They didn’t, the association with Rome comes from this painting. The author didn’t have anything to believe it was historically correct.
It is correct though that Italian fascists had a hard on on everything that was classical Rome-adjacent and they picked the salute from a French painting like a bunch of noobs.
Interesting, so instead of them stealing the actual Roman salute, they stole what they thought the Roman salute was. Sure the Italian fascists used it too, but the Nazis compared what they wanted, a 1000 year Reich, to what Rome had created when they had a massive empire that lasted 500 years for the western empire and almost 1500 for the Eastern years if they include the West and almost 1000 by itself. So they didnt just take it from the Italian Fascists just cause, they did it because they thought it was Roman as well, and associated it with their desire to replicate the Romans.
Thanks for the info!
Edited the years for the Roman empire after being called out for being wrong.
Ackshually it’s only 2000 years in the east (up until 1453) if you count the kingdom and republic (which would make it 1000 years in the west, up to the traditional date of 476) assuming the traditional ab urbe condita date of 753 BC.
Just saw a video of it, that’s not just Nazi like, that is a textbook ENTHUSIASTIC NAZI SALUTE!
I mean, not textbook. It was sloppy and uncoordinated. Dipshits can’t even fascism without looking awkward.
This is the clincher for me. I could MAYBE give him the benefit of the doubt for being basically an excitable toddler who waves his arms around like a dickhead, but the fact he did the exact same salute, TWICE, shows he blatantly meant to do it. I think he meant to look a lot cooler than it did, and not like Butt-head.
Magas are apparently explaining this with
“PBS News, which is publicly funded, is spreading propaganda that Elon Musk made a ‘fascist salute’ during his speech at Capital One Arena,” the post said. “Their own video clearly shows that he was motioning ‘my heart goes out to you’ to the audience. DEFUND PBS.”
Yeah, Hitler’s heart also went out to all those poor Jews…
JFC
News media is dead. Anyone still in business a year from now will be strictly because they bent the knee for propaganda. We can’t even rely on foreign news lately like we always did in America BBC seems gone too.
This will be the most terrifying aspect over the next handful of years.
Our media will begin to become state media. Historically, that’s one of the last phases before the end of democracy.
I don’t think people want to accept it yet, but this is actually happening here in America. We are on the path. It can happen here. I can happen anywhere.
