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Big hugs, Dok, for the Cowboy Bebop reference!

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How does this surprise anyone? His grandparents were actual Nazis who left Germany and moved to South Africa for the racism. His parents were hardcore apartheid white supremacists. Elon (also an apartheid loving white supremacist) is always boosting Nazi and anti-semitic content on X and goes on about "replacement theory", eugenics, and "western civilization". The only surprise is that he didn't do this in public before now.

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We had Richard Spencer do a "Heil Trump!" thing in the first inauguration in a hotel meeting space, and now Elmo throwing Nazi salutes at the actual second inaugural.

This trend should lead to President J.D. Vance doing the Nazi salute from the Oval Office.

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Luckily, Susan Collins is concerned.

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I don't see how this ends peacefully, and I'm sad for that

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2 things.

1. He has repeatedly done this at shitler rallies all 2024. Duh, it’s a Nazi salute done on purpose.

2. Fuck everyone to the sky who’s been pestering Grimes for shit her shitty ex does. No woman has responsibility for any fully grown man, let alone the ex they are custody fighting with.

Ok 3. Autistic =/= so socially inept that they “accidentally” pop off Nazi salutes all day. I am autistic and I have never done any Nazi salutes. Autistics who are over 50, for fuck’s sake, have had 5 DECADES of watching “normal” people make hand gestures and use body language and have been decoding that shit since grade school. They had to learn deliberately to not cross their arms if they don’t want to look “closed off” (I’m cold, dude, it’s always because I’m cold) so they for fucking sure aren’t accidentally Heiling Hitler. Anthony Hopkins is autistic. How many Oscars? It’s because you ALWAYS WATCH GESTURES. Musk is an autistic shithead. Something his own children know, frankly.

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I thought this was the first time in public. If you know where I can see some others, I'd love to throw those in the faces of Musk fanboys.

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Deutsch: Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß

English: A Schnitzel is a Schnitzel is a Schnitzel

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The guy from Pretoria wants to make it great again, big fricking surprise.

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Ta, Marcie. I'd say I did nazi that coming, but I did. POS, and I don't mean point of sale.

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This is beyond my imagination of what would happen with a second term of the orange head. Is anyone really listening?

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This is pretty much what I expected. I guess I'm just more pessimistic than you.

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Has Elmo said unequivocally that it was not a Nazi salute? He's gonna lose half his followers if he does that.

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He has not said anything of the sort.

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Thanks for the Dr Strangelove clip!!!

I mentioned it a few times on SM yesterday, but was too lazy to look it up.

Nice to see it, very on the mark! :-/

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Ketamine Kampf

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If Nazis are saying it’s a Nazi salute, it’s a Nazi salute.

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They would know.

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Here's the real problem: Saying Must gave a N@zi salute because he believes in the associated ideology requires allowing that he believes in anything.

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He gave the salute because he pretends to believe in the ideology, at least. This is not better.

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Longer version of this rant, fascism always drew on nihilism.

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Notice none of the American headlines use the "N" word?

THIS IS WHY WE HATE OUR MEDIA.

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