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Elon Musks Salute
What do you think of it?
I know my thoughts and would be interested to hear others opinions.
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what he's doing is dog-whistle politics naomi. it's a sign intended to show support while maintaining a fig leaf of deniability. it signals to people like the proud boys or richard spencer that they are on their side... radical islamists have a gesture with a similar purpose which is a hooked finger that i'm sure you are aware of.
here he is endorsing an historian who denies the holocaust and praises hitler in september last year:
here he is agreeing with someone who advanced a neonazi conspiracy theory that jews are out to destroy the white race, november 2023
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he restored the account of nick fuentes, who is a white nationalist that loves hitler and denies the holocaust. musk seems to have intervened personally in order to do this.
he has endorsed the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, which is a neonazi theory that jewish-influenced elites are attempting to replace the white population of europe and north america by importing nonwhites.
lastly... he delivered a sieg heil salute at a rally last week. the heart-slap motion in particular looks very similar to the kind of salute used by neonazis in the film "american history x", which despite being intended as a criticism of neonazism bizarrely remains quite popular among american neonazis.
to put it bluntly i know more about this subject than most other people do. i pay attention to modern neonazis, most people do not. it isn't a carbon copy of the german movement anymore, it has gone through important changes since 1945.
encouraging neonazi political movements which are outside the government to work in its favour. United Russia for example would often rely on gangs or organisations outside the Russian state to kill or beat up opponents, propagandise for them, and assist the transition of the country into a dictatorship masquerading as a democracy rather than a working one.
> is Macron doing a Nazi salute
Here's Musk's gesture compared to Nazis ...
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... you can figure out for yourself whether Macron's is close enough to either of those two.
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