• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    you are forgetting that Elon is a dumbass and it is probable that he really did a nazi salute by accident

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      ‘Accident’ isn’t the word I’d use to describe a famous, clear, unique and repeated gesture. It’s not something one does unknowingly. I’d lean more towards ‘association’, ‘intuition’, perhaps ‘familiarity’, if it weren’t premeditated. It’s no secret that Musk is frequently interacting with and boosting neo-nazis on their social media platform, the most doubt I could possibly give them is they wanted to do a powerful victory gesture, picked the first one that came to mind and they were too damn ignorant to realize even US conservatives don’t like Nazi symbols.

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          Dr. Strangelove is a surprising adept analogue - immigrant from a white supremacist regime who can’t leave it behind, weird and socially awkward, [supposed] tech expert. Maybe I’m stretching it a bit.

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        1 hour ago

        I wasn’t trying to insinuate that he doesn’t support nazis, just doubting he would actually make it this blatantly obvious