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So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    The advertising department at X are going to love this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,381 ✭✭✭corkie


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    Thread turned into page. Or also embed on my own github page here.

    Musk was trending on Bluesky!

    Post edited by corkie on

    ⓘ "At some point something inside me just clicked and I realized that I didn't have to deal with anyone's bullshit ever again."
    » “mundus sine caesaribus” «



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    The creepy mask has slipped



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Harika


    Dont worry, Apple, Amazon, Facebook will be back on it in no time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,595 ✭✭✭francois


    Musk Simps are weird. Keep kidding yourselves. Meanwhile DOGE being sued in 3 different lawsuits



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭randomuser02125


    There a

    It's breathtaking isn't it. Do any of them cast their minds back even a year and think 'would I have defended Nazi salutes back then?'. It's very possible Musk is not a fascist, that he's trolling both his simps and Trump. Watching them defend the indefensible and also reminding the proven rapist who's the actual boss. Forcing Tiny and his team to comment on Nazi salutes on his big day. It's actually hilarious in a lot of ways.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Harika


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    Fair enough, doge was already successful and cut the first fat before starting by unhiring Vivek



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,529 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    With regards Musk's salute, I refer to the "Rule of Goats"

    The Rule of Goats says that self-awareness or irony doesn't change public perception. If you f*ck a goat, even if you say it's for the lulz or to prove a larger point, you're still a goat-f*cker.

    Musk stood on that stage, as part of the Presidential Inauguration event, and performed an action, twice, that is so unmistakably identifable as a Nazi salute. Even if he was doing it to troll (bearing in mind that even with his "My heart goes out to you" comment it is not a physical action which comes naturally), he still did the action.

    There is no way in hell someone does that action, at that type of event, in that political climate, without knowing how it would look.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,356 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Coupled with the fact, no one 'throws their heart out with a flat handed firmly pointed towards the sky'

    They're on here, they are present. Be aware.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,832 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    iT wAs a RoMaN sALuTe 🙄🙄

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    There’s no difference between a Roman salute and a Nazi salute.

    Actually we have little idea what a "Roman salute" was, or if there was even the perception of an official one. Roman literature and art give us pretty much nada on the subject. The nazi/fascist/Bellamy salute(which American schoolkids used to salute the flag until the early 40's) has its origins in an 18th century painting by French artist David.

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    The modern salute is essentially larping "Roman", as is the Hollywood closed fist "Roman salute". Though at least David didn't put armbands on his Romans(ditto with ancient Greeks) like Hollywood inevitably does.

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    That's inaccurate too.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭drakshug


    You do realise the Roman salute was appropriated by Mussolini and his Fascist party and then adapted by the NSDAP, dont you? Fascists used a lot of Roman symbolism, including the fasces and the salute. People really shouldn't excuse a person who sides with the AfD and makes the Fuhrer seig in public.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭uptherebels


    Pace yourself lad. You will be busy the next four years



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Fascist makes fascist salute gets defended by fascists.

    Welcome to 2025.

    A Roman salute? Are people posting from some alternative universe where Hitler didn't happen?

    Musk has neo nazi form. So when a nazi sympathizer makes a Nazi gesture he's a Nazi.

    Hours after a deadly knife attack in the northern English town of Southport last July, Andrew McIntyre set up a Telegram channel called “Southport Wake Up.” Amid posts riddled with anti-Islamic, antisemitic and anti-immigrant abuse, he urged people to take to the streets, directing them to a mosque and calling for “war.”

    Mr. McIntyre, 39, who took part in two of several riots that rattled Britain last summer, was sentenced to seven years in prison last Monday.

    He pleaded guilty to encouraging violent disorder and criminal damage, and to possession of a knife. A day after his conviction, Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, bemoaned Mr. McIntyre’s sentencing in a post on his social media platform X, declaring: “Over 7 years prison for social media posts … Whoever gave that sentence deserves prison themselves.”


    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/world/europe/neo-nazi-uk-riots-elon-musk.html

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,262 ✭✭✭RoyalCelt


    People showing their true colours believing this is a nazi salute. We're living in truly crazy times. Look at the weird motion his chest does. Clearly because it's him signalling his heart being thrown.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    People "showing their true colours" (your choice of words") - yeah when Musk, someone who has been sympathizing with far right and neo nazi groups… makes a fascist gesture. Fascist gonna fascist.

    His heart being thrown? Read that back to yourself.

    How deep down the excuses in the bottom of the barrel excuse do you need to dig to overlook Musk being a fascist?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,560 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Also worth noting that plenty of Nazis among those Trump is pardoning… At a certain point if it quacks like a duck etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭McFly85


    I’m happy to say my true colours are calling out that someone who promotes and repeats fascist rhetoric and uses fascist gestures while addressing millions is indeed a fascist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭Harika


    I had a good nap, thought about different angles, directions of the salute, deemed it would make Goering unhappy. Realised that I am thinking too German here. Rethought that a guy unbanning Na*is on his page, interviewing & promoting Na*is on his page should not get the benefit of a doubt.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,529 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Unconfirmed reports that Adolf didn't do well in art school because it was discovered he was actually paying people to do his art and then presenting it as his own.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,529 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Nah, we're just trolling for attention, which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do apparently.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,560 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Hey, let's just remember he'll have a great legacy and everyone will forget about the Nazism. Sure, we all remember Henry Ford as a decent gent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭crusd


    "My heart goes out to you…my fellow facist sycophants"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,028 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Stephen Miller stood on stage at the infamous MSG rallynand claimed "America for Americans only" while Musk and Melania stood watching.

    They're all acutely conscious of what they're saying and doing and don't care of the negative press, and why would they? They won. But the fact that they're doing this so brazenly suggests either very dark motives at the individual level or it's indicative of a narrative that is oozing out of the administration. Musk doesn't care about Miller effectively saying he's not welcome, he's inside the circle, the message can still go out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭crusd


    Clearly Adolf was saying his heart goes out to the Jews. Just as massive overreaction from the woke libtards with HDS

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,776 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


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    I definitely didn't think

    1. A jewish person would defend it.
    2. they would say it's autism stimming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,529 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    What's the bets that, like when a load of MAGAs were throwing up the white power hand signal, in order to mock people who were accusing them of throwing up a white power hand signal, that we'll now get a bunch of them throwing up a Nazi salute and saying they're just showing that their heart goes out to people?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,529 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    This whole situation really makes me appreciate what an amazing performer Celine Dion is.

    The amount of time she's sung the line "My heart will go on" without throwing up what looks like a Nazi salute, is astonishing. She must have practiced it a lot. Musk said "My heart goes out to you" and did the salute two or three times.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭McFly85


    What I find pathetic about posts like this and the ADL is that nobody seems to want to ask him to clarify what he was doing and to ask for a formal apology for any confusion or anger caused. For any Jewish person it would be completely understandable to be offended by that and to call him out on it - but they all seem happy enough to excuse him on his behalf, which does absolutely nothing and will probably mean we’ll see him using Nazi salutes in future.

    It’s almost as if they don’t want to be on the wrong side of an autocrat and his sycophants.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,180 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    This is such a weak effort at some sort of bullshit plausible deniability. What Musk did was not off the cuff, it was planned, and that line was also planned. Nevertheless, everyone sees what he actually did: a fascist salute, a powerful and grotesque act. Shameless, and disturbing.

    This also on the same day ICE are unleashed to round up the undocumented.



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