Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute

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  4. Technically, what Elon Musk threw was a WHITE POWER salute.

    That’s important because there are TWO elements to the White Power salute.

    Chest Grab = White
    Nazi Salute = Power

    And that’s important because it makes it EXTREMELY unlikely it was unintentional, given that Elon did BOTH elements TWICE.

    Elon didn’t just lose his balance or whatever.

  7. Appears to

    Odd

    May have

    Waved awkwardly

    The man full on thumped his chest and straight arm seig heil

  8. We’ve gone from “stand back and stand by.” To open Nazi salutes.

    Well, it’s not like they haven’t been telling us who they are.

  9. Musk is a full-on racist. No one would think of doing that if they weren’t.

  10. I am secondhand embarrassed as a American. That is dispicable.

  11. Finally someone referring to it as more than “odd gesture”.

    Fuck Fascists. Fuck anyone who supports this. Donald Trump either supports fascism, or he needs to denounce this **immediately**

  15. If you dont think the draft and world war aren’t coming, you just haven’t been paying attention. For some reason, this is what America wants.

  16. Remember when we told MAGA that they were following Nazis?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers .

  17. “Elon Musk does multiple Nazi Salutes to officially ring in the Trump Administration.”

    FTFY.

    We are in for a rough time.

  19. Let’s be 100% clear. The gesture he gave was a death threat against us.

  20. Appears? He threw his shoulder into that NAZI salute

  22. Media doing backflips to keep from saying what he actually did

  23. Stop with the bullshit “appears” he did a Nazi salute

  25. Fuck musk, fuck trump and fuck you if you voted for him (them)

  26. Can’t even just say what we saw, have to qualify it
    Our media sucks

  28. Anyone saying that’s not a Nazi salute is in denial.

  29. The misconception I always see from people who roll their eyes at comparisons between the current state of politics in the US and Europe and those of the Nazi-era in the 20th century is that they think some kind of switch was flipped overnight and Germany went from a democratically elected parliamentarian system to a fascist dictatorship overnight.

    It was far more gradual than that.  And it started with a lot of little things to move the Overton Window further and further to the right, making certain things more and more acceptable.

    We are in the 1920s/30s Germany stage.

    Fake news = Lügenpresse 

    Cultural Marxism = Kulturbolschewismus

    “Groomers” = jugendverderber / jugendverführer

    QANON = Protokolle der Weisen von Zion

    Another example is the white replacement conspiracy being touted, ever more openly, by the Republicans. Did no one seriously wonder where that came from?!?!?

    Right here….this is where it came from: Sterben die weissen Völker: die Zukunft der weissen und farbigen Völker im Lichte der biologischen Statistik [The white peoples die: the future of the white and colored peoples in the light of biological statistics] (in German). G.D.W. Callwey. OCLC 938037846

    And let’s not forget the current and lingering obsession by the white Christo-fascist/nationalists with all things LGBTQ+.  That would have sounded familiar to Magnus Hirschfield, whom Hitler labeled “the most dangerous man in Germany”.  Guess what kind of a clinic Hirschfield ran?

    And now there is talk among what passes for “intellectuals” among the white Christo-fascist/nationalists of “red caesarism”.  They view the only solution to “making America great again” is to install an autocrat and return the US to their utopian peak of 1965.

    They are literally moving through the playbook.

    Those things combined are fascism. The Republican Party accommodates and promotes all of those things. I have shown that repeatedly. The people who support the Republicans, just as the people who supported the Nazis, are supporting those policies.

    The GOP has been under the increasing influence of fascism and fascists since the 1950s, starting with the Baltic Waffen SS, many of whom emigrated to the US. The Red Scare of the 1950s was a direct result of this Nazi influence. By 1969, former Nazi member Laszlo Pasztor created and headed the National Republican Heritage Groups Council, supported by Richard Nixon. Additional Nazis were brought into the leadership.

    Journalists like Jack Anderson were already writing about the Nazi backgrounds of Republican leadership members, including Pasztor and Ivan Dochev.

    FFS, in 1985 Reagan visited a Nazi burial ground after being asked not to by the Holocaust Memorial Council. He called the Nazis “victims”. Guess who gave him a standing ovation when he got back? The Republican Heritage Groups Council, attended by literal Nazis.

    By the 1990s, you had literal Nazis like Ralph Forbes running as Republicans for elected offices.

  30. Nothing apparent about it. He did make a fascist salute. Call it what it is.

  31. > “appears”

    journalistic integrity doesn’t mean MAGAwashing the objective, verifiable, observable, obvious reality playing out before everyone’s eyes to see on repeat

  32. Wow all of this was so much worse than I expected. And I expected another layer of hell.

  33. I said it in another thread but he is such a dweeb. He can’t even hit it crisp because his shoulder folds back when he puts his hand to his chest. And then his suit jacket flies up because the richest man in the world somehow can’t afford a tailor to fashion him suits that actually fit.

  34. Not appears. He did a salute.

    Why is this another thing media is getting wrong? He did it TWICE.

  37. This is the America that Gaza protesters wanted when they voted for Trump

  38. It appears I just made an appointment to sell my Tesla. What a coincidence.

  39. Headlines like this are harmful and disgusting. The journalist at the guardian needs to do better. Using words like “appears to” give Neo-Nazis like Musk the ability to claim that they didn’t actually do a Nazi salute but we’re just “waving to the crowd”.

  41. I’ve been saying we need to call them what they are fascists.

  42. It appears to be an authentic video of him definitely doing fascist salutes.

  43. Just to be clear the article quotes a far right German party member stating that Hitler was leftist/liberal. This is 100% false. The Nazi party HATED communists which are the far left. All of their iconography was even meant to convert communist party members hence the red flags.

    Fascism is what you get when countries move far right. Communism is far left. Go far enough and both are authoritarian and take away freedoms.
    We have forgotten our history and our grandparents would be ashamed.

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