#elon musk literally did a nazi salute on tv

[silvermoon424]

Elon Musk just did the n*zi salute in front of everyone on TV. I feel sick already. Somebody stop him before it gets even worse, PLEASE!

Oh yeah, I saw that.

Of course literal Nazis are already celebrating it and laughing about how normies are offended. I can't wait for Fox News to whitewash this and put out a narrative defending it that my ignorant Boomer parents will swallow hook, line, and sinker. It breaks my heart.

The fascists truly do not care about hiding it anymore. They've been shown time and time again that going mask-off will not cost you votes and support. They have no reason to keep pretending that they're decent people when they know they stand to lose nothing by showing their true colors.

Absolutely sick and embarrassing how the US fought a war to end Nazis and now we're actively allowing people Sieg Heil. Probably not a coincidence that everyone who lived through and/or fought in WWII is either extremely old and frail or dead. I really do think WWII veterans would have thrown hands if they saw this.

Idk man, I really don't know how to articulate how exhausted I am. I feel like I've seen this country degrade so fucking quickly in just this past decade. Of course it's always been bad here, it's always sucked for marginalized people and the working class and so many others. But it's gotten so much worse. People feel so emboldened to be openly hateful and bigoted. They love it when people get hurt and laugh at the pain of those they deem inferior.

I guess if nothing else I'm gonna revel in saying "I told you so" to every conservative I know and really rub in how fucking badly they messed up.

[pinnamon-rolls]

guys…. what do you mean elon musk did a literal fucking nazi salute on live tv… guys…

[flying-cat]

Republicans responding to people talking about Elon's Nazi salute are posting pictures of Democrats holding their hands up with the palm down and then we see the videos where they do that and they didn't do anything close to what Elon did. You have to put the hand over your chest and then go arm up with your palm down for it to be a Nazi salute, which is what none of these other people are doing and exactly what Elon Musk did. On national TV. Twice before he said "my heart goes out to you". And he is entirely capable of doing the NORMAL gesture for "my heart goes out to you/I give you my heart" as seen on an old interview that he did. He literally could have done it with his palm upwards (which is how your hand would normally end up when taking it away from your chest and into the air) but he did it with his palm down and his thumb tucked. A very infamous salute that you learn about in MIDDLE SCHOOL. He had to have known what he was doing unless he's actually fucking stupid. And saying "well he's autistic" is an insult to autistic people because the everyday autistic person isn't ACCIDENTALLY DOING A FUCKING NAZI SALUTE.

[remratatouille]

So, when I first heard about this, I found it VERY fucking convenient that this was the first I'd ever heard of Elon Musk being autistic so I did a little research which... reveals a lot about him.

He openly admitted to being autistic whilst hosting SNL in May 2021, stating "I'm actually making history tonight as the first person with Asperger's to host SNL ... or at least the first to admit it,"... let's unpack

There are fundamentally 3 things I find so wrong about this. 1- the term "aspergers" has not been a diagnosis for 12 years now. It has Nazi origins (how shocking of Musk) and is not a good term to use, we do not use it!! 2- he frames himself to be some kind of awesome person for being the first. He is so fucking obsessed with claiming things it's insane, I mean it's literally his entire career. Just ew. 3- "or at least the first to admit it"... yes, Elon, because whilst hosting a tv show, people's first priority is to share all of their diagnoses... like how self centred do you have to be to drag other people down and make yourself look good in a time when it doesn't matter?

Don't get me wrong, I am all for being open about being autistic. But there are times when it's not necessary.

My other point is that it is highly convenient that this is the excuse used for him. The way people paint the "it's because of his autism" is very reminiscent of people who speak for autistic people who they think don't know better. This has very historically painted an idea that "autistic people are stupid and don't know what they're doing", which firstly, has never been the image for "Aspergers", and secondly just isn't the same as doing something that can only be done knowingly as a Nazi salute.

(Apologies for lack of well put together whatever, I'm very tired, but you get my point)

fyi if you're trying to use the fact that that rancid ass muskrat cunt is autistic to be like "oh he didn't know what he did was wrong" about the fact that he threw up a fucking nazi salute then you are one of the stupidest fucking cunts to walk the earth and since we're in a housing crisis you should start offering the massive amount of empty fucking space in your skull for rent

(signed, an autistic person)

[akalimbratic]

Ok ngl the absurdity of 2025 already is genuinely comical if you look at it through a TV show lense.

My explanation below the cut

We opened up in 2016 where the generic villain (and I'm not even making this up, Donald was so hated and mocked that movies DID base their evil ceos off of him) rules over the country before the people prevailed in 2020 at the start of a plague plot. (🎶I sent the pestilence and plague into your house into your bed🎶), and it became a show about surviving that.

About 3/4ths into the 2024 season we get the a beacon of hope to step in and start rallying the people together, things look absolutely fantastic as we get closer and closer to election day.

And then, ✨️ plot twist ✨️, the big bad wins! We don't know why or how, but he wins!

Aaand immediately starts breaking promises btw. Like things started going downhill FAST. People get violent, the world's on fire (literally, my heart goes out to those affected by the fires /gen), it's like hell itself opened up.

TikTok goes down, the one media the united states didn't regulate, indicating that by this point the government is already silencing the people because the big bad evil guy signed the order for it to happen before his first defeat. Then it's back up in 12 HOURS thanking the man who took it down in the first place before he's even president. Like??? Okay so Tiktok's ban was politically motivated, plot twist 2. I mean big whoop really, roses are red the sky is blue and I sincerely hope people remain Xiaohongshu cause the memes are funny and it's great seeing two cultures create community with each other.

BUT IT GETS BETTER/MORE ABSURD.

DONALD DORK STARTS MONOLOGING IN HIS VICTORY RALLY JANUARY 19TH. I watched Luke Beasley's video on it and 5 minutes in, this dude admits the evil plan and says (I'm paraphrasing), "..2026 2028 I'm not gonna be your president anymore, and then they rigged it. And we won." LIKE??? DUDE??? He also went on to comment how good with the evil tech bro (who we were ALL clowning on) is with computers and how due to that fact, they won Pennsylvania by a landslide.

AND THERE WAS FORESHADOWING

•Trump alluding to a secret with Mike johnson

•billionaires dumping so much money into his campaign (they don't just do that unless they know the winning horse)

•"I don't need your votes"

•Elon Musks starlinks were attached to the voting booths

•People reporting their votes never got counted

•Ballots being tossed in the woods

•How the count came in so quickly

•calls from Russia that they tried sweeping under the rug

•Russian bomb threats in major polling locations

AND MORE

I'm cackling. You cannot make this shit up-- EXCEPT YOU CAN. I AND MANY OTHER WRITERS HAVE LITERALLY WRITTEN THIS. THIS IS HOW I'D FORESHADOW A TWIST LIKE THIS ONE.

I am just.

I am that. I am that guy. I was that guy after the election results came in the next morning, I was that guy as people also got started getting suspicious and I began to rub my braincells together in hopes a thought would occur.

So we fast forward to inauguration day, and my god did the directors do ARCANE levels of symbolism. Flags half-staffed at his crowning because we lost a great man (and of course he bitched about it online), it's the coldest day of the year, his wife wearing a god damn funeral outfit, things are still on fire and NOBODY is happy. He didn't even put his hand on the Bible, like you couldn't even do that? If this was in a show, I'd be analyzing every frame, every line of dialog, every episode because this would be a MASTERPIECE if it was just fiction.

But oh, my friends, does this recent episode get delicious.

Because the god damn tech bro boyfriend henchman, threw up the Nazi salute. THE WRITERS ARE BRINGING BACK THAT OLD PLOTLINE. ONE OF THE MOST INFAMOUS MEN IN HISTORY IS COMING BACK IN CULT FORM, BABY! I feel like we're living through castlevania's season 2 here!

But, craziness aside, you know what I will give the writers a good handshake for?

Community.

Throughout this entire mess, there's always been community. When Donvict got elected governors rallied against him and began putting protections in place, they're not afraid to stand up to him. When the fires were raging, while he was making fun of it, Mexico sent firefighters for us, and I cannot thank them enough.

Leaders around the world rallied against us and continued standing up to him, when Donald toyed with the idea of buying Greenland the Prime Minister declined, but said something along the lines of; "we'll happily take some states off your hands and give your people what they need though.", and so much more. World Leaders have our backs, and even the people within. I've seen countless comments from other countries talking about how they weep with us, but are by our side. There's love, community, and we aren't left completely alone.

Even within the United States, there is love and community. The people are not afraid of this man, going as far as to protest outside at the Lincoln Memorial.

Not to mention, when we thought TikTok would be banned people moved to Xiaohongshu. You know what happened? Community. From what I heard, Chinese and American folks are striving to learn each other's languages to talk to each other easier, they ask questions about culture, make jokes, etc. Community.

Jokes, memes, we're all making those aren't we? "If I don't laugh I will cry" you know. Songs and other forms of art just to put a smile on someone's face in this harrowing time. We hadn't stopped creating, stopped sharing, stopped loving. We're afraid, very afraid. But we're together.

We can't forget that, and if this tale goes as I hope it does, that togetherness will ultimately be what saves us all.

So, yeah. The absurdity of 2024 and 2025, looking at it through a writer's lense, it's already one hell of a ride.