Summary

Elon Musk’s Nazi salute during a speech was projected onto Tesla’s Berlin factory by two left-wing activist groups, Led By Donkeys and the Center for Political Beauty.

The groups, known for their creative stunts, aimed to expose political hypocrisy and address issues like fascism and historical accountability.

Musk dismissed the controversy, urging people not to overanalyze his actions.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Geez you wokies are tense. Can’t people just scream “Heil Hitler” anymore without being labeled Nazi?? Stop overanalyzing everything, maybe the guy with the swastika tattoo just like the esthetic of it, is that so difficult to understand??

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    Musk dismissed the controversy, urging people not to overanalyze his actions.

    Which one is it? Should people dismiss it or stop overanalyzing? Because the only way to dismiss it is to overanalyze.

    Without overanalyzing, it was just plainly a Nazi salute.

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    5 hours ago

    Musk should be greeted by giving him the middle finger. Then say it was just a gesture in the moment and not to overanalyze it.

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    urging people not to overanalyze his actions.

    Isn’t that like the whole schtick of the current anti-woke/far-right/fascist group? Overanalysing to the point of absurdity, where small actions by some ‘adversary’ are analysed/reimagined until they become malicious, deliberate and prepared?

    Why shouldn’t Elon have some of that on his plate too?

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    …urging people not to overanalyze his actions.

    yeah no need for that. he is a nazi that did the nazi salute. easy

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    We are not overanalyzing anything, from the list of tells already given by the nazi, this will just brand musk forever as a nazi.

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    4 hours ago

    Finally a little more uplifting news, its good to hear people are doing something

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      7 hours ago

      Nah, if the reports on the internet are right, the nazis seem to be pretty clear in agreement and celebrating it.

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        The Nazis who are loud and proud about being Nazis agree it was a nazi salute.

        The Nazis who still want to hide what they are because they don’t want to face the consequences and social shunning say it wasn’t a nazi salute.

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      9 hours ago

      I thought the actual natzis heard him loud and clear. I wouldn’t be surprised that they start saying “My heart goes out to you” just like they used to say “let’s go Brandon”

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        Everyone saw him loud and clear.

        There is no more room for interpretation, Elon Musk thinks himself a Nazi.

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          8 hours ago

          Yeah because anyone who did that by accident would be tripping over themselves trying to apologize and explain themselves.

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      I’m not sure that word means what you think it means…

      Controversial doesn’t mean ‘It’s in question’ it doesn’t mean ‘People are unsure of whether it happened’

      It means people widely (but not entirely) disapprove of it.

      It’s very controversial.

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      Yeah it’s not like he was this huge humanitarian that suddenly made a gesture that looked a bit like it.

      Musk has repeatedly shown sympathies for the extreme right, for instance officially supporting the German Extreme right ultra nationalist AfD.
      So when a proven fascist makes a Nazi salute, there is absolutely zero reason to believe it was an accident.

      So USA now has official Nazis in their government now!!

      Congratulations USA.

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        Right - like normal humans would say “whoops you’re right, that was an unintended gesture”

        Not double down on it

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        7 hours ago

        Unfortunately, far-right is invading most countries… There are just more discrete for now, but less and less.

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    Stop washing the nazi’s actions. Fucking hell

    I know the headline has to match post title. But it’s just doing that for them