[hazbot]

When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

Looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then saluting the fuhrer.

[ZeroGravitas]

Yes, when he said the Jews were intentionally importing substandard humans into western nations to undermine the US, I didn't need hand gestures to think he's a Nazi either.

[hazbot]

Yes this is much stronger and relevant evidence

[pxc]

I don't follow Musk's utterances. Is this a joke or something Musk has actually said?

[UncleMeat]

Musk responded "you have said the actual truth" to a tweet saying this.

[tim333]

Though he apologised:

>"I'm sorry for that tweet or post," Musk said Wednesday. "It was foolish of me."

[ModernMech]

That apology is for posting it, not for believing it.

[defrost]

When Musk purchased and rebranded Twitter as X he also unbanned a large number of accounts famed for Nazi and similar race based content.

He has famously thumbs-ed up significant chunks of such content and in the event mentioned here replied to an explicit statement (as outlined about) as being "the actual truth".

See, eg: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67446800

He is an unquestionable fan of Nazi like content, many will shrug it off as his grandfather was an actual Nazi fan (having to move from Canada(?) to South Africa because of such beliefs), and his uncle (IIRC, certainly a close family relative) was a senior member of the South African apartheid government.

[lovich]

I watched the whole thing live, that was a Sieg Heil snap and all, and it fits with his edgelord persona.

Your belief is incorrect

[randycupertino]

If it wasn't, though, why wouldn't he apologize and unequivocally denounce nazi-ism after it happened instead of trolling, playing gotcha games to pwn the libs and doubling down? His jokes about the Holocaust and mocking critics made it worse. He loves reckless, performative provocation and to stir the pot.

Terrible branding for Tesla of him to singlehandedly permanently alienate the majority of his customer base.

[tim333]

Did he joke about the holocaust? I googled and there were some jokes about nazis but I didn't see a holocaust one.