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Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 3 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz

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For context, it's a very clear Nazi Salute — and Musk did it more than once. The NYT is implying doubt because they're afraid of losing access if they speak the truth and because some people who are financially dependent on Musk are denying what it was in public.

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[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 68 points 3 months ago

Compare and contrast:

It's going to be a long four+ years.

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Hitler looked better at doing it.

Elon Musk was incredibly uncoordinated in his display.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 32 points 3 months ago

To be fair, he is literally not good at anything.

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He's pretty good at buying out the election and consolidating power.

He's terrible at video games, programming, rockets and more. But power-is-power.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

The man can boot more ket than a horse, I’ll give him that.

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

All he can do is spend money. Can't do anything himself. Just buys already established companies and has other people run it. The only thing he actually has tried running (Twitter) has greatly depreciated in value, both in terms of money and content.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

The 4 year myth needs to be dispelled. There is no magical reset button every 4 years. Damage done can't be magically erased at the end of a 4 year period.

We're entering a period of American decline that's going to last a lot longer than 4 years. Buckle up. As shitty as the 2000s have been for a lot of us, we're going to look back at the early 2000s as a golden age.