#my grandfather served in france and germany and helped liberate dachau

[unforth]

Actually I'm not done.

There isn't a single person among your scared friends - trans people, immigrants and children of immigrants, Jews, Muslims, people of color, the disabled, the list goes on - who will benefit from reassurance to the flavor of "don't worry it wasn't ~actually~ a sieg heil." Whether it was or not (it was) is moot, and "well actually"ing it isn't comforting.

Tell me you'll fight for me and people like me.

Tell me you'll stand up when they come for your neighbors.

Tell me you'll fight in whatever way you can - with words, deeds, money, there are so many ways - against this fascism.

Tell me you care that we're terrified for our lives.

Tell me you recognize this has happened before and you'll do your part to try to keep it from happening again, because it absolutely can happen again.

People defending this have already failed the first test. They are quibbling the semantics of Elon Musk throwing a Nazi salute instead of using their energy to do literally anything else.

Stand by my side or get the fuck out of my way.

Today my hobby is insta-recognizing A Certain Video and then scrolling as fast as possible.

I've seen it twice.

I do not need to see it again.

Elon Musk isn't just a Nazi, he's a Nazi so brazen that he feels no need to hide it, and he's right, because he's gotten away with it with no consequences.

I feel sick.

Also - blocking people defending it or offering alternative explanations. I don't want to hear it. Excusing this, as the country seems to have collectively done, will cost lives, and the people who refuse to see it and are excusing it clearly just don't care because they're sure it won't be their lives. Well, I'm Jewish, my kids are Jewish, my mom is Jewish, sorry but I don't have the fucking luxury to pretend this isn't deadly serious.