Sieg heil
Musk has gone full Nazi already.
Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.
Gee, I wonder why two Nazi salutes at a change in government would be of interest.
“I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” the owner of SpaceX, X and Tesla, the richest person on earth and a major Trump donor and adviser, told Trump supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington.
Musk then slapped his right hand into his chest, fingers splayed, before shooting out his right arm on an upwards diagonal, fingers together and palm facing down.
Not your average random gesture.
Musk asked his audience to imagine American astronauts planting the flag on another planet, miming such actions and shouting: “Bam! Bam!”
“We own Mars, nyah nyah!” How very adult.
Social media users expressed shock at Musk’s gesture. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, said: “Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.”
Never mind. He was probably just stretching.
This is like a Philip K. Dick novel, with our reality suddenly turning into a parallel world where the Axis powers won in 1945.
Not to go full Coel here, but he’s just being a stupid edgelord. At least maybe Mike Pesca might stop fellating him for a bit.
BKiSA, even if so, it is a stupid juvenile thing to do. This administration is full of grown men caught in pre-pubescent ways of thinking (I don’t include the women in that, because I haven’t heard enough about them to be sure). We have the largest military in the world being run by people who think like high school freshmen. They also perceive those who do not admire them for their juvenile gestures to be surly old ladies who just don’t appreciate their humor and their brilliance. I know the type – I grew up with the type.
100% with you there. He’s got a decade yet I wouldn’t have considered doing similar since my sophomore year of highschool (if then).
iknklst: a class of men who are perpetually 13. “you ain’t the boss of me” pseudo anarchism to “ rolling coal” with biggg trux.
And now Trump has pardoned all the January the 6th rioters, including the violent ones. Here’s Rachel Maddow:
“ In authoritarian Hungary, Viktor Orban’s government pardoned a far right agitator who had set fire to the homes of Orban’s political rivals. In Turkey, Erdogan had pardoned the leader of a far right nationalist paramilitary group that mobilized on his behalf and engaged in street violence. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe pardoned hundreds of people who carried out election related violence on his behalf.
“Pinochet in Chile gave, and Fujimori in Peru. gave blanket amnesties to their security forces. If you’re on my side, the law doesn’t apply to you. Don’t even ask me about the SA in Germany. Don’t get me started.
“But this is day one. Unfolding pretty much the way we expected it to, and yes, this is novel in American history, but it is also knowable in world history. Because it’s the same stuff every other would be authoritarian leader does in every country that has had to contend with a leader like that.”
She should have said, “But this is ONLY day one.” No wonder Musk’s giving Nazi salutes.