https://i.imgur.com/6u98PJB.mp4

Are you sure about that chud? The fascist on camera did it twice in a row. That's not an accident.

He did the whole salute the way Nazis historically did it and not just a freeze frame of him waving or something.

Not even a good attempt at rationalization.

So close

He threw the nazi salute because he's got the mentality of a fifteen year old edgelord

So moron yes. Accidentally, no.

The guy writing apartheid apologist commentary, funding fascist political groups here in Europe, advocates for the release of any arrested fascist or supremacist on the grounds of "free speech", and openly believes in Nazi created conspiracies like "White Genocide" and "Great Replacement Theory", threw up two consecutive Nazi salutes entirely by accident?

Did you actually watch a video of him doing it? He made sure there could be no mistake of what he was really doing. It was an act of defiance and he did it again facing the party insignia they had set up behind him to emphasize that point.

Nope, definitely not a Nazi salute.

He was trying to reproduce the dynamic of the OK hand sign.

What happened then is that neonazis online thought it would be hilarious to use the innocent sign as an in-joke. Leftists caught on quickly since they are obsessed with fascism coming back and the whole thing was quite public. Then the OK sign spread gradually from online self-professed neo-nazis to real life hard right politicians. Finally, when leftists said "this is a neo-nazi symbol", they got laughed at in the media by these rightist politicians along with the apolitical neutral commentators.

This had two effects : first, it paints the left as a bunch of crazies and the hard right as relaxed funny types by comparison; second, it acted as a shibboleth. What I mean by that is that if became possible to know people's politics by simply showing them the sign and asking "what is this?" — you'd get either a puzzled look, a denunciation of far right politics, or a knowing chuckle and wink.

Musk tried doing the same thing with his nazi salute : build some plausible deniability with the "I give my heart to you" comment, and then immediately afterward tweeting stuff like "the Nazi attack is sooo tired". The hard right base recognized the drill and started using it as a shibboleth too.

But it was too much too fast, the whole of MAGA wasn't ready to commit to literally Nazi salutes, so it was written off as Musk being a weirdo.

You can tell it wasnt a simple mistake because then Musk would have produced some kind of blabd corporate apology afterward, not immediately made nazi puns on social media

Uh... Do you really want me to pull out the side-by-side of Hitler and Musk saluting?

It was a Nazi Salute. He didn't do it accidentally. Look carefully at his face. He was doing his "little stinker" face. The one that he does whenever he things he's doing something "clever".

Stop being an apologist for an open fascist.

Are you a bot?

I assumed he did do one but not as an an endorsement of Nazis, but as an edgy “this will piss off the libs” kind of thing. Thoughts?