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David, come on... Please don't spread this https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1881440187521355875
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I've thought about this, and there's no similar gesture that this could be mistaken for... it's pretty unequivocally a nazi salute and anybody saying it isn't is coping. This Roman salute stuff is nonsense as well, nobody knows what that is. Anybody who did this and didn't intend for it would have apologized & explained that wasn't their intention. He hasn't
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Zach
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I am Jewish, and I never once thought that Elon was doing a Nazi salute. Why would he? I think he was just overcome with emotion being at the inauguration and did something autistic. The internet is quick to label things for a reaction. Don't let this get to you.
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think you may have confirmation bias - elon is an incredible entrepreneur and his policies may seem reasonable - so it'd also be pretty disappointing to see him be a nazi sympathiser I am not looking to rationalize his behaviour and explain it or justify it. Clear as day he did something that looked like a nazi salute and did not go "oops I didn't mean for that to look like a nazi salute, my bad guys", which even an autistic person would reasonably say within a couple hours
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Zach
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I really don't think I'm confirming biases here (or the very least, I’m not trying to) As another example on the opposite side: I don't like the people in the photo below, and I also don't think that they're Nazis. How would you describe the image below? https://warpcast.com/zd/0x71511d3a
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a hand position isn‘t the same as a hand gesture. if any of those hands came from the opposite chest then youve got a point (I doubt it)
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Zach
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You gotta be kidding, right? You shared a screenshot. I shared a video with full context of Elon's situation (and an example of a real Nazi salute). Now I'm sharing a screenshot from the opposite side, and you seem to be writing off the same kind of example you gave…
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I probably should have shared a video
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