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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13169 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #840 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 1:26pm
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 139221 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #841 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 1:35pm
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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13169 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #842 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 1:42pm SadKangaroo wrote on Jan 31^st, 2025 at 5:17pm: Actually, I’m a Xennial, Xennial, eh... there should be more focus on cusp-generationals ... like Cuspers/Generation Jones and Zennials... I'm guessing you're still gearing up to inherit Boomer wealth, as the full Gen-X have already done.
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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13169 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #843 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 1:42pm .
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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13169 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #844 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 1:48pm Gestural Ambiguity... When stated intentionality becomes critical Victory or Up Yours?
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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13169 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #845 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:10pm What will determine Musk's intentionality beyond his stated intentionality over his gesture, is whether, despite the controversy, he uses it again. As Churchill changed his gesture for victory, not least no doubt because of EastEnders' hatred for him, so Musk needs to reconsider any further use of the gesture.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 139221 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #846 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:18pm
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59148 Here Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #847 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:45pm Quote: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute He did a very nice job of it too. He has been practicing. That doesn't just come naturally, Well maybe by birthright.
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59148 Here Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #848 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:45pm .
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59148 Here Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #849 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:45pm .
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Reply #850 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:47pm

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:10pm:

What will determine Musk's intentionality beyond his stated intentionality over his gesture, is whether, despite the controversy, he uses it again.

As Churchill changed his gesture for victory, not least no doubt because of EastEnders' hatred for him, so Musk needs to reconsider any further use of the gesture.

[url]https://h7.alamy.com/comp/P2CMRR/winston-churchill-waving-the-v-sign-P
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The way he was talking to the extreme right political party it seems he is more doubling down on it.

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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 59148 Here Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #851 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:47pm .
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Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute
Reply #852 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:56pm

Dnarever wrote on Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:47pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 1^st, 2025 at 3:10pm:

What will determine Musk's intentionality beyond his stated intentionality over his gesture, is whether, despite the controversy, he uses it again.

As Churchill changed his gesture for victory, not least no doubt because of EastEnders' hatred for him, so Musk needs to reconsider any further use of the gesture.

[url]https://h7.alamy.com/comp/P2CMRR/winston-churchill-waving-the-v-sign-P
2CMRR.jpg[/url]

The way he was talking to the extreme right political party it seems he is more doubling down on it.

Given the controversy, his previously stated intentionality will not result in latitude being extended to him if he reuses the gesture...

Time will tell.

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 13169 Gender:	Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute Reply #853 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 4:00pm Bill Maher obliquely referred to it today as part of a joke and quickly followed up by stating he did not believe or say that Musk is a Nazi. No doubt commentators and comedians are suit-shy over mentioning it... 'Don't mention the war' US-style?
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Re: Elon Musk Gives Nazi Salute
Reply #854 - Feb 1^st, 2025 at 5:28pm

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 21^st, 2025 at 10:49am:

Nobody is surprised though.

Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.

“I just want to say thank you for making it happen,” the owner of SpaceX, X and Tesla, the richest person on earth and a major Trump donor and adviser, told Trump supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington.

Musk then slapped his right hand into his chest, fingers splayed, before shooting out his right arm on an upwards diagonal, fingers together and palm facing down.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which campaigns against antisemitism, defines the Nazi salute as “raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down”.

As the crowd roared, Musk turned and saluted again, his arm and hand slightly lower.

An unreferenced-by-creepy hoax from the Granuiad hack, Martin Pengelly:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elon-musk-salute

He is the source of creepy unflushable's thread on Trump's approval rating after one week - as if mattered to anyone but Granuiad hacks and their creepy hangers-on.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/martin-pengelly

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