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View submission: Elon Musk misleadingly suggests other celebrities made controversial 'Nazi' gesture
Don’t forget
d) keep us talking about his nazi salute and draw attention to himself rather than all of the policies/executive orders trump is putting in place
Comment by veryreasonable at 23/01/2025 at 21:46 UTC
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Yes, good point! I was rambling off the cuff but yeah, I think that's definitely among the primary motivations.
The jury is out if this is calculated or just spoiled rich brat tomfoolery, but I'm very much leaning in camp "calculated" these days.
Comment by thatthatguy at 23/01/2025 at 23:04 UTC
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Blatantly attempting to dismiss the 14th amendment.
Making a biologically nonsensical order about gender on federal documents.
Ending all refugee relocation, regardless of cause, so family members of U.S. citizens seeking to escape retribution for U.S. actions are out of luck.
Some confusing orders regarding rounding people up to deport them.
Paving the way to purge the federal workforce.
Performing international diplomacy via tweet. Or maybe it’s just performance art for the idiots and the diplomacy is being carried out backstage. Both are bad.
I am missing a lot of the more insidious ones that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
Comment by peterpansdiary at 23/01/2025 at 22:52 UTC
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If its a nazi duck, its a nazi duck. That alone is enough to talk about it, unlike what ADL purports us not to.
Comment by draft_final_final at 24/01/2025 at 04:20 UTC
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And most importantly
e) he is Nazi filth like every other Republican
Comment by GenXer1977 at 23/01/2025 at 21:51 UTC
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That’s what I’m wondering. I’m willing to believe it wasn’t intentionally a nazi salute, because he does hit his chest/heart first, and that’s never been part of a nazi salute. But he should have come out right away and said that wasn’t what he intended. The fact that he is actively working to keep it in the conversation thinks that they’ve decided they want this to be the distraction from the several hundred executive orders that Trump is doing right now. And it looks like it is working. It’s the number one thing I see right now on both Reddit and Instagram.