i want consies arrested, i agree

"Well what about that tattoo on your chest? Doesn't it say 'Die Bart, die'?"

"No! That's German for 'The Bart. The."

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I've seen several people try to defend it by saying that the Nazi salute doesn't start with your hand over your heart... Well this gif really clears things up.

To the person that made this gif: thank you for your service. You had to pour over far more footage of this nonsense than anybody should ever have to.

Playing devil's advocate, it appears Hitler doesn't usually start with an open palm on his heart, but one perpendicular to his chest.

But sometimes he just goes straight from arms down to the salute. There's some variability.

Anyway, this is splitting hairs to an obscene degree. You have to contort your brain to not see this as a Nazi salute, ignoring the context or not, and in any other time a public figure would have at least apologized for doing this if they weren't impeached/dismissed/fired.

Musk is running the U.S. government. Dismissing someone that dangerous as just a troll is a mistake.

The sieg heil is performative. It's a symbol. In and of itself, it causes no direct harm.

It enables and empowers nazis. A group that is known to take violent action when they feel they can.

And yes. It is a performance. To draw attention away from the meme coin. A giant grift on people and a way to bribe the grifters.

It depends how you use the moment. I like Die Zeit's article about it (in German, paywall can be bypassed with archive websites). They use it as on opportunity to discuss the context where it was made - an extreme right political event - and expose how mainstream media has helped normalizing nazi symbology by amplifying the gaslighting.

The ADL thinks that's fine.

Ah, yes, the Trump salute. You raise your outstretched right arm and say "hail Trump". This is based on the ancient roman salute and nothing else.

But what if he's just imitating a goose with an outstretched neck?

Or, he did a Nazi salute because, and I know this is some outside the box, crazy thinking: He’s a Nazi.

I know, right? Racist, apartheid profiteer, open supporter of racist far right parties across the world, frequent promoter & amplifier of far right wing and openly racist & anti-Semitic voices on his social media platform? The guy who just bought his way into power and has funded the rise of mask-off fascism in America? That guy is a Nazi? No way.

He did not regret it. He did it again a second time to the audience behind him. Stop defending him.

Don't make excuses for the rat, he's born into privilege and wants to keep it that way.

The bloke parades around expecting people to believe he's a top tier gamer, being able to put in 16+ hours a day grinding at POE2 whilst being a CEO of multiple companies. All the while not being able to comprehend one of the most used interfaces on that platform.

But yeah nah, he's a good bloke. I'm sure he's done something good in he's lifetime.

Love the Cody showdy