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Journalists: It appeared to be a South African karate chop of some kind

It has been maddening how corporate media has been trying to tell us it was anything but a Nazi salute. I'm reminded of the Star Trek episode Chain of Command Part II, "There are four lights!"

White power is in the White House…quite terrifying and embarrassing

Everyone knows it was a Nazi Salute.

Nazi's just denying it because 1) they are not quite at the point where they can sieg heil while marching down mainstreet just yet and 2) because it amuses them to see the left try to desperately convince them it was a nazi salute.

All your desperate justification, facts, evidence, etc?

It wont make a nazi not a nazi.

but it will amuse them, and exhaust you.

Its time to stop using words against nazis, and go back to using forms are communication that carry a more physical finality to their arguments.

Inventing a time machine that lets you go back and kill hitler before he gets in power is a very common power fantasy.

He's basically an edge lord 4-channer, Nazi saluting to: "own the libs" is sort of on brand.

I don't think he's a dyed in the wool Führer-lover. I do think he's a hyper insecure, spoiled, man-child with enough ties to the far right to idolize "anti-social behavior" and think he's the hottest shit ever to pull off such a "based" stunt.

A poser; doing loser shit opening the door for someone/something much worse because his idiot brain thinks he's being cute.

Wrote up a summary months ago (with reputable sources!) and warned about Nazis too and was permabanned from Lemmy news and politics for it.

Idk man, you can tell people stuff, but it's so hard for them to access what's real right now. There's a concerted online effort to suppress factual info.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13431373

The fact this is a debatable thing is the shame of humanity.

You know what's even worst? ADL.

They are not the baddies because of a Nazi salute. They are baddies because of shitload of other things. Which I'm starting to think the Nazi solute is a distraction from. I see so many posts about the salute and the "Gulf of America" and about assigned-at-conception gendering, and almost nothing about the executive orders that actually have implications.

I'm starting to think that doing enough Ketamine to take down a racehorse just before giving a speech to the entire world's media, was probably not a good idea...

Always suspected Captain Obvious had a scholar background.

It’s not a full on Nazi salute as the words „Heil“, „Heil Hitler“, or „Sieg Heil“ aren’t used. However, it is a full on salute in its tradition. A right wing oligarch holding a victory speech espousing conservative revolution and a glorious future are in the vein of the fascism of old.

Trumpism doesn’t need to even express itself as fully fascist. The popular support, the support of the tycoons of industry, institutional acquiescence, lack of organized resistance, means he doesn’t need to go full authoritarian.

The ideological flexibility of Trumpism is enormous. Allegiance to Trump and MAGA is pretty much it. The rest of the ideology is dynamically formed by sycophants looking for Trump‘s favor. The post ironic attitude means immunity to value based criticism.

Elon Musk is a mix of minister for propaganda and court jester at the same time.