Nobody’s mentioned it yet, but I’ll bring it up cuz it’s relevant. Lots of people came to Elon’s defense saying it was a “Roman Salute”, and thus not bad at all, which if you actually look into the history of that term you’d find out that Roman’s never saluted that way, and the only reason it became known as that was because a fascist under Mussolini made it a thing because he saw it in a movie, I wish I was kidding honestly
The fact that anybody came to Elon’s defense with this though is the real issue though, because it shows that nobody on the right really cared that he did it, or that it might be offensive and awful, they just wanted some confirmation bias as to him being actually good and not a pos. They just simply don’t care ig
Exactly. But this is why groups like the Proud Boy’s wear masks. It’s cuz they know if they do any of this publicly it’s going to backfire on them, so they hide anything they can besides their affiliation so they never have to face anything, just so they can shit on others and call it a day
So I’m going to pull out the fact that I’m a German citizen for this, that motherfucker did a nazi salute, actively supports and funds the new nazi party in Germany, and espouses nazi rhetoric often. If he were to do that “gesture” in Germany he’d be arrested. Fuck Elon, Fuck Nazis