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Musk presses H twice to perform the Nazi salute twice on stage at inauguration. (awful.systems)
submitted 14 hours ago by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

just to be clear: not providing excuses for felon. just think it's unlikely that that was the avenue

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 11 hours ago

The insight is appreciated nonetheless. I would love to live in a world where America is not a Nazi bar and we had the luxury of finding humor in pinpointing exactly which neonazi playgroup musk is trying to join.