| > a veiled salute....reducing society's defenses Conspiracy alert. Amusing how you'll settle for a half-baked nazi salute in order to hold your argument. What would be the end game? Self-sabotage every gain they made winning the election? Real nazi salutes are like fingers down a blackboard for the majority of people. They also look different to what he did, and are delivered not with elated gratitude, but with authoritative posture. Giggling "let's go to Mars" super-nerds are not toying with actual Nazism. His choice of hand motion was clumsy, that's the crime. > would you not issue some clarification or apology where you explicitly rejected nazism? Not if I thought those making accusations were "woke morons." Why would Musk play your game of needing to apologise for something he never intended? Straight from the cancel culture playbook: "He may not be racist, but has anyone actually heard him reject racism?" Corner someone with accusations until they're forced to make a statement. It's an attempt to legitimise the complaint. Musk is not playing by those rules. As much as that might irritate you, surely you can respect someone for, dare I say it, following his heart. |
It can of course be read as "trolling the ones who think he is a nazi".
Problem is that kind of double-signalling and layers of irony is so widespread in white supremacist circles on the internet.
Musk's X/Twitter history has been steadily going in a direction, he wasn't a "going to Mars nerd", he was a "going to Mars nerd whose Twitter history showed someone clearly falling down a political rabbit hole" (and BTW working for someone who pardoned people who assaulted police officers as long as they did it for him -- an act that has nothing to do with left vs right politics or what people vote for, but is easily associated with authoritanism)
Curious what you think of Bannon's hand gesture...