The tech billionaire was accused of making the Nazi salute at a rally for President Donald Trump.
  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    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
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      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.