The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.
Apologies to whoever originally posted this I downloaded it earlier today
I’ve seen people here on Lemmy, people I don’t think are just trolling, that are finding convoluted reasons to excuse it as not a Nazi salute. And I am so fucking tired of it. Listen to virtually everything he has ever said on the subject of race and gender and sexual orientation and other such things. Maybe if he didn’t have a really long history of being a racist, maybe if he didn’t support the Germany’s modern Nazi party, maybe if he isn’t trying to get an unapologetic Nazi out of prison in the UK, I would consider that he accidentally did a Nazi salute (twice). But that’s not the reality.
“Oh sure, he’s a bigot that loves Nazis, but that wasn’t a Nazi salute” is some real fucking bullshit.
Internet forums have always been full of contrarians who want to be the only ones to know the “real truth”. That explains a lot of it. Others just get lost in the logic of it. I’f I can’t prove that he held true Nazism in his heart when he did it, does it count as a Nazi salute?’ This is sort of futile question they ask. The fact that there’s broad consensus on what this was makes them more likely to try to logic their way into a special minority position.
“Corporate Media”
Where’s the confusion?
The thing that my stomach drop is the crowd cheered. Not a shocked intake of breath or booing. They cheered. He did a sieg heil and they cheered it. If you cheer a Nazi doing Nazi things, you’re also a Nazi. The US has a Nazi infestation. Even if they get another remotely fair election to correct this, it won’t be accepted, again, and insurrection2 will have been prepared for, for 5 years. I feel that sieg heil of the richest person on earth marked the end of American democracy.
Republicans will never accept another election if a Democrat wins. This is our future, where every election they lose is contested. That is, if we have another election. I think we’re heading to a pseudo democracy like Russia, where they can vote but Putin always wins in a landslide.
To be honest, I don’t see them allowing a vote to go against them. It is if this shit can hold together without Trump. He’s old and doesn’t do diet or exercise. He’s the linchpin of it.
The heritage Foundation is trying to make Trump play the part of the anti Christ in the book of revelation. They need him there for 7.5 years i think. Im not sure if this includes his first term or not. They might just decide to go ahead with the lake of fire part in 3.5 years.
Yeah, I think I wholeheartedly agree with the Die Zeit journalist. If a right-wing person does a Hitler salute in front of a right wing audience… It’s probably a Hitler salute… Context matters and it’s not like Musk usually shares left-wing perspective on his platform. We know for a fact whom and what he sympathizes with…