The tech billionaire was accused of making the Nazi salute at a rally for President Donald Trump.
  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    36·
    5 days ago

    Let’s assume for just a second that it wasn’t intentional. It was, but let’s play pretend that he’s a giant moron instead of a Nazi.

    That would mean that he’s a fully adult human in the information age that has somehow never seen any ww2 movies, TV shows, or documentaries. That he’s never seen modern Nazis in the news having done the exact same gesture and movement.

    Or, that his memory is so horrible that he forgot all of that.

    Or that he did see that stuff and still thought it was a good idea to use it anyway.

    Absolutely none of that excuses him from being an absolute shit stain of an excuse for a human being and throwing a perfect replica of a nazi salute. It might make him not an actual nazi, but it would still make him deserving of contempt and disdain. Hell, it would make him deserving of contempt and disdain from the nazis too.

    The only time non nazis use that salute after ww2 is either as historical performance, mocking someone that’s acting like a nazi, or mocking nazis. There’s absolutely zero good reason to do it other than that, and mocking someone that isn’t a nazi isn’t exactly a good reason, it’s just that it’s generally dismissable.

    So, musky, what is it? Are you a nazi or a moron? I suspect it’s both.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      5 days ago

      I was in the shower the other day trying to do similar moves that would come close to being a nazi salute but not actually be one, like, waving, saying thank you, pointing with my whole hand.

      It felt very unnatural and awkward and basically impossible to do something accidentally close to a nazi salute while trying to do something else

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        4 days ago

        Yeah, it’s not a natural combination of gestures. It takes changes in direction that you just don’t do in combination for anything else but salutes.

        Since the default salute is to bring the hand to the head before extending the arm, and the arm isn’t held out for that, it doesn’t even match the common US salute you might give. Normally, if you’re saluting someone here, you either snap the hand to and away from the head, or you hold the salute at the head until the situation calling for the salute is over.

        Even that, you aren’t going to be practicing enough to make it an automatic response unless you’ve spent time on jobs where saluting is common.

        Soooo, where has musky been that he’s firing off that gesture often enough to make it in that situation? Why hasn’t he been making it for years, if it was just something he does? Makes it read a lot more like someone finally feeling free to do something they’ve had to suppress.