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[–] Hazor 136 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

[...] he made a gesture that drew online comparisons to a Nazi salute [...]

Why is the popular media so scared to call a Nazi a Nazi? He did a Nazi salute. It wasn't just a gesture that drew comparisons from the internet. It was a Nazi salute, clearly done with intent.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

CBS has litterally fired someone for "personal reasons" after she criticized Musk's Nazi salute on her Instagram. NBC is close to having me consider them a Nazi sympathizer; maybe they are terrified of defamation lawsuits enough to not say the truth out loud.

[–] notsoshaihulud 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

South African socialized under the Apartheid, sharing pseudoscientific racist memes for years, has eugenics and impregnation fetish, supports AfD and states they are the future of Germany and western civilization, renames himself Kekius Maximus, supports trump and does the salute towards the crowd right after saying that the "future of our civilization is [being] secure[d]" and then does it one more time facing der Führer. Whoever isn't calling this out as a nazi salute is a nazi normalizer.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago

And on a story about him literally supporting the racist nationalist Nazi-successor party in Germany. It's not even like they need to remember some external context to clear up their cowardly confusion.

[–] aesthelete 12 points 1 day ago

This is what they always do. They're powerless in the face of the actual problem -- the richest fucker on Earth being a straight up Nazi -- so instead they try to invent another set of circumstances that make the threat seemingly less threatening.

[–] qaz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's not 100% verifiable and nobody wants to get a defemation lawsuit. (And perhaps they don't want to piss of a guy that's "friends" with the president)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So according to your justification, then nothing is an ever 100% verifiable. Can we even be certain that anything actually happened… man, like are really alive bro?

Because what everyone saw on video was Elon Misk give a sieg heil twice at a political event. There is nothing else that was or could be - what you said is just nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That is how news has been for pretty much the last 300 years, yeah.