You know what the worst part of this is? This run of western fascism doesn't even have the aesthetics to make it palatable. That "seig heil" was so fucking uncoordinated it made the Australian break dancing lady look like a prima ballerina. Everyone is dressed like they bought clothes from the bargain bin at Ross. The decorations are giving mid-budget state fair.

We're gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭

Looked this up as I optimistically thought it might be an unfortunate still that looked nothing like a nazi salute on video, but nope.

Elon's Nazi salute

What a dumb fucking cunt. I hope he dies a terrible death. Rather sooner than later.

Remember when everyone hated on regular Russian citizens for not forming a rebellious revolution against Putin and assassinating him in his sleep? For not shooting every Russian oligarch and everyone who rubber stamped the invasion of Ukraine? Remember when people called them cowards and “as good as nazis” for being complacent and not getting up and doing something about it?

Where are you keyboard warriors now that the USA needs you?

Just sayin’

Welp! I didn’t have “President gives Nazi salute” on my bingo card…

The only good nazis are dead nazis.

So people told me I was being an overdramatic dick when I pointed the multiple similarities between the rise of Hitler and Trump and how the Nazis are coming back.

They're back, out and disgustingly proud.

I'll be showing them the footage and awaiting their bullshittery gymnastics. Wonder how they will spin it.

In the meantime while everyone is looking at Elon Donald is signing executive orders to

• Grant top secret security clearances to White House staff without going through traditional vetting procedures.
• Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
• Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.
• Move to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, for the children of undocumented immigrants.
• Declare migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency
• Remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons.
• Ensure that states carrying out the death penalty have a “sufficient supply” of lethal injection drugs.

https://www.nytimes.com/...

We need to save and remember this moment. The assholes are already rewriting history as we speak.

What's funny (not really) it's the media calling it a "nazi style salute" or "a gesture that looked like a nazi salute".

Their head is so far up their asses that they can't even call it what it was.

Bro, where have you been?

And trump saying elon rigged the ballots in Pennsylvania. Even if it were true it's exactly what I've been saying. We are done with free and fair elections and the sooner you dweeebs stop running to the dems to save you the better off we will be.

Frustrating but predictable.

Personally I'm pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.

It's a long way to 2026 folks. We are going to have a lot of Federal Level damage in the next couple of years. Even if Democrats get elected in 2026+ we will have absurd debts to pay and likely be forced to raise taxes and be the bad guy again.

Real talk.

The richest men on the planet Earth are surrounding and and giving gifts/favors to a man who holds the highest position in a World Superpower with one of the largest militaries on the planet.

What can we realistically do to fight a possible incoming Nazi regime?

Ever think about what’s in the middle of a swastika?

Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our times to the Henry Ford of our times.

I watched the clip assuming this was taken way out of context, nope, he did it twice...

Where are all the people that said calling the MAGA people NAZIs was disregarding the history of "real NAZIs" ?

Where are all those MFers now ?

A 14 years old edgelord who also happens to be the richest man in the world, to own a social network with which to manipulate public opinion. He has just bought the US presidency.

He probably didnt mean it as a nazi salute,its not as if he openly supports the German far right party AfD........oops

I was under the impression maybe a mistake but dude did it twice.

He once were in Poland visiting the concentration camp Ausschwitz with his son. He has nothing learned about this visit. It's a disgusting man. And it's high time to arrest him. Ban him. Take all his money and assets and put it for good use. Or send him to mars. Immediately. Solo mission.

Ngl, I was sceptical since still images are not a good representation of what's really going on when people are moving around, but then I checked out the video. Good lord, he even did it twice.

It’s so fucking cringe the way he’s biting his lip and does that little grunt. He was really sitting there amping himself up for this moment. “That’s it I’m going to sieg hail!!!”

What a fucking loser. No friends unlikeable moron.

I think this was a distraction. Trump already started the policies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/...

The rise of fascism call it what it is.

Look at Zuckerberg's stupid face

Thanks to @kibiz0r@midwest.social

::: spoiler N.B. : that link is from here :
https://lemmy.world/comment/14586905

N.B. : from a removed post ( in which that comment was ) since the post was based on a photograph and that it was posted in /c/WorldNews ... which does not allow post if it is not linked to a news article ... :::

This and what Putin's presidency turned out to become in the long run is what I now happen to imagine largely felt like to witness the Nazis rise to power.

You just don't know what's coming before it's actually there. The historical evidence even shows that the Nazis weren't that out-of-touch with reality at first, at least in terms of what was largely acceptable back in their day - like rights to land, borders, with many countries and nations being in a very turbulent state after the first World War. It's only after they got the power and set up the frameworks, like gradually oppressive laws and manipulating opinions and values through propaganda, that they went to do what we ultimately associate them with.

Putin spoke very high of "the west" and democracy and such at first, but quickly showed his true self when the Kursk sank, then with Beslan (the Nord Ost), then many more times, but back in the day, without today's hindsight, it seemed so... plausibly deniable? Like people could just vote him out the next time or excuse some things with the same traumas and biases that still brewed in the generations born in or shorty after the USSR. Now a full-blown tyrant, modernized to dictate through deceit, looking wild compared to his first days - a proper example of boiling the proverbial frog; turning the dial little by little, either compounding into some greater evil or simply revealing its true self, both equally inconsequential in the end.

Trump and Musk, similarly, have for the most part been interesting characters, so bizarre that excepting anything more felt naive, beyond the realm of possible. And yet again, unless there is enough backlash early on, people like this will keep pushing, until they lead us to the edge.

I never wanted to see for myself how something so terrible can rise to power, seemingly past everyone's attention. It's dreadful to think that the lessons of history are bets learned on one's own mistakes, that the Germany's experience is not enough to generate the unrest that keeps such people out of power.

I'm not even on the same continent as these two, but I know they'll be influencing a whole lot of change around the world, change that will never benefit any way.

The more things change...

And it's day fucking 1! We still have (at least) four more YEARS of this!

I'm reminded of Trump's first term, when we all thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, and yet it always did keep getting worse.

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I'm not American, so I'm just now catching up with what happened over there yesterday. The first time I saw this image (elsewhere), I was praying that this was AI-generated. And I hate seeing AI-generated stuff and I'm not religious either. I still wish it was AI but now I know it's not and... jesus christ.

So this is how I'm gonna get radicalized huh

The truth is all his supporters know exactly what it was and support him 100%

I expect the American pro-Israel politicians who threw hissy fits for «free Palestine» slogans to take appropriate stances for a literal fucking nazi salute on Inauguration day.

Of course also the Israeli government, the German government, etc.

Come on, you fucking assholes. Dare you fucking speak up?

This gif is real.

Reminder that ~~~270~~ 170 million Americans allowed this to happen.

Turns out capitalism isn't a stable way to live our lives.

On another note though, 9 hours, 1k upvotes, 300 comments. It's a shame more people don't migrate away from Reddit, which is just as bad as all these other social media platforms currently courting the U.S. administration.

How do we encourage more people to join a Lemmy?

Fuck Trump, Elon, the other oligarchs, and all of the short-sighted moronic voters and non-voters who put them back in power.

This may not be what America wants, but this is what Americans deserve for being so fucking stupid.

Next he'll be wearing a swastika on his arm and claiming "oh this is just a whirling log, a symbol of prosperity and peace". And also "oh this is just a very black uniform that Hugo Boss made for me"

In Austria, he'd already be arrested... twice!

Yeah that’s bad but I just feel sorry for the marine who got hit in the face with a flag and had his hat knocked back lol

It is amazing people are still making excuses for this.

Mildly?

This won’t embolden white supremacists at all…

How many Americans right now are going to be like the Jews in Germany in the 1930s? They're a targeted group and can see what's coming, but for some reason aren't doing everything in their power to get away before they're rounded up and thrown in camps?

I wondering if he did it to win a bet: "Hey man, we already get away with some fucken outlandish shit, and people ate that up. I bet you that you can't get away with throwing out a nazi salute on live tv"

fElon: hold my K...

What? What.. what..? ..??

Help, how do I escape this cursed timeline

This is not what I expected.

What's wrong with him??? Really

It feels like the Nazis are passing beyond living memory so there are few people alive who remember how bad they were.

Please other countries send us help. No this isn't a drill

Jesus Christ - I’ve filtered for all Elon and Trump news and this manages to skip the filter.

"Mildly" is putting it mildly.

Wish he would do that in Germany just once

The US didn't even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it's dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it's a culture war.

Thank you for using D-M-Y time format

I wonder what US friend Israel will have to say about it.

I want this picture on a sticker so I can put it on every Tesla I see.

Said it before, saying it again. A state that willing to support a live streamed genocide, worst case war crimes, have no regards of women and children, will never care about it is own people.

Mildly infuriating? I'd rather say totally terrifying

The link between zionism and nazism is strong.

It seems like every other generation has GETS to curb stomp nazis.

My grandad did his tour out in europe.. It looks like this round it's a touch more domestic.

Is.....is the context also what I'm thinking?

Every Republican and Trump voter right now when we call Musk a Nazi:

https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI

People referring to this as "mildly" infuriating is what has us in this mess in the first place. What does it take to get you all actually pissed the fuck off!!? 2025 should have you absolutely livid.

Generally not a good move to announce that you're the enemy of all humankind. The one thing everybody agrees on is nazis are the bad guys. Regardless of what else changes, that's always a reliable guide.

My car depreciated 50% in one day.... Or maybe it appreciated? That's depressing.

Hail Hydra !

Add to this that some media are "baffled at what it could mean"…

Lookit his face. Makes me wanna slap the text FUCKTARD on it

Holy shit lol

Please let him die already...

Finding out that musk is a Nazi is infuriating? Or just nazis in general?

This is so fkn crazy how brazen they are

I'm starting to dislike this guy

https://loops.video/v/60nGSFkFR7

Maybe trump is just the Paul von Hindenburg of our time, the real threat is someone who we don't expect at all.

乁(סּ͡͡‎෴סּ͡͡‎)ㄏ̸/̸̅̅ ̆̅ ̅̅

A Nazi showing his true colors. Right after Trumps Machtergreifung.

I can't be fucked to go and see. Tired, been working in the cold.

Is this getting much mainstream coverage or is it being ignored?

NGL, I'm speechless/infuriated because of this. Not going to really function today I think.

Well, gotta fake it a bit later when the kids get home. They're already asking things like why Russia is killing people in Ukraine and what does war feel like, so I'm thinking perhaps they don't need additional baggage right now.

So interesting thing to note from history, in many cases western people or nations pulled ahead by betraying non-western allies or peoples. The prosperity of the current globalist, neoliberal world is built on multicultural alliances.

Basically people like this are signaling to anyone who’s paying attention and has been keeping score of historical record “DONT TRUST US, WE WILL BETRAY YOU!!”. There’s just not enough economic activity in the western nations to uphold their current levels of activity and productivity without multicultural alliances, so this is an interesting turn.

Power is an interesting concept because a lot of it is assumed on the part of those who claim it, and those who relinquish it often don’t even realize the cards they hold because they’re gaslit into believing the lies of their opponents. What a shitty and annoying world, and here I was hoping for a Star Trek future in my lifetime.

Lastly, the whole “white supremacy” thing doesn’t make sense when there are people of Persian descent who are more Aryan than many white Europeans, so that’s a huge lol.

Now the real final battle begins. I have nothing much to live for anyway. When Europe declares war against America...at least we won't just sit around when we die.

Bold of him to make that move without a toddler protecting his head from gunfire.

America's Doge!!! What are the odds he can now stay with his new agency, or that the agency will even exist now?

Why is the Unelected US President and RICHEST Person on Earth doing a LITERAL NAZI SALUTE infuriating?

I really hate that that's not AI generated bullshit.

I guess I'm going to be the one that plays devil's advocate as there is no context here other than a still image, but is it possible he wasn't intentionally doing a Nazi salute and has just been caught in an incredibly awkward pose?

While Israel is crashing the fuck out and fragging kids during the ceasefire, Muskolini hit a sieg that the fuhrer would have trouble matching in energy. That shit had momentum to it. He wound that mother up like Popeye. Don't let me catch anyone calling this a dogwhistle.

If you can afford to not purchase american goods & services and you're not doing so, you're complicit. Let it be known.

Green subsidies and techno-futurists made this guy the richest man on earth, hope you all are happy.

I dont think Elon Musk is a nazi. I've never seen any evidence that he is a nazi nor have I ever seen any presented. I think he is an asshole that harasses people for his personal satisfaction. He is so rich that no matter what happens he, his children, and all their children will all enjoy the highest quality lives available. There may also be some chemical addiction mixed in there as well as some mental illness.

Stop posting this fucker

Also: "But why Russians just don't overthrow putin if they don't agree with the war?"

Maybe I'm an idiot but I thought he was dabbing.

How is such a smart guy so dumb?

“hook, line, and sinker” This guy is the biggest troll.. you dont think he did that on purpose to get this much attention…

Context?

Edit: FFS guys I was asking for clarification

I believe he did it to troll yall, lmao.

From Reuters:

The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks antisemitism, disagreed. "It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge," it posted on Monday. In Germany, the president of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria, Charlotte Knobloch, described the gesture as "highly irritating". "Far more worrying are Elon Musk's political positions, his offensive interference in the German parliamentary election campaign and his support for a party whose anti-democratic aims should be under no illusions," she said in a statement.

Look if the extremely jumpy ADL doesn't call it anti-Semitic it's a real reach to call at a Nazi salute. And don't tell me they are in on the conspiracy. Most politicians know better than to hold out their arms like that, Musk clearly does not.

What's more likely?

A large proportion of Americans are very ready to be extremely upset and will look in to things that aren't there, like a socially inept Musk appearing to make a Nazi salute.

Or

Musk intentionally made a Nazi salute.

I know it's emotional times, but I think a huge amount of people aren't thinking rationally.

It is definitely a nazi salute, but what if he didn’t mean it this way? Elon is supposedly on the spectrum, so he could have done it to show his excitement, without realizing the true meanings and implications. Of course it’s possible that he did in fact know what he was doing, if so then it’s a completely different story….

That could be crap-ass dabbing though.
Yes, Elon Musk's a fascist but i dislike echo-chambers.

This is mob insanity at work. There is no nazi.

He's just waving at the audience for Christ's sake.

Trump ❤️

Honestly I try not to get caught up in all the drama.

I could care less about what they do since I don't have any control over it.