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highplainsdem

(53,673 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2025, 06:24 PM Jan 20

Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration

Source: Wired

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“Incredible things are happening already,” Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, a social media platform popular with antisemites and white supremacists, wrote over a picture of Musk giving the salute.

“The entire neo-Nazi movement seems to be eating it up,” says Nick Martin, an investigative journalist who closely tracks extremist groups and runs the online publication The Informant. “He gave two unmistakable Nazi salutes and they got the message loud and clear.”

“WE ARE FUCKING BACK” the administrator of a Nazi meme channel on Telegram wrote under a clip of Musk giving the salute. Members of the group responded with the lightning bolt emoji, a well-known neo-Nazi reference to the SS.

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Evan Kilgore, a right-wing political commentator, wrote on X: “Holy crap … did Elon Musk just Heil Hitler at the Trump Inauguration Rally in Washington DC… This is incredible.” Kilgore later wrote: “We are so back.”

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Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-love-elon-musk-nazi-like-salutes-trumps-inauguration/

The article points out that Holocaust-denier Kilgore works for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, which hosted a pre-inauguration ball last night featuring JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr.

GD thread I posted earlier with video of the salutes:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219924626

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Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 20 OP

The Nazis know it when they see it. Duncan Grant Jan 20 #1

This is bringing back horrible flashbacks from the first term Mike 03 Jan 20 #2

But...but... the MSM clearly said it was nothing of the sort! EarthFirst Jan 20 #3

ADL says he was just enthuaistic durablend Jan 20 #5

Kick ck4829 Jan 20 #4

"Take our country back!" Yup, they certainly did. Thank you oligarchs and enablers who torpedoed Kamala in 2024. C0RI0LANUS Jan 20 #6

Duncan Grant

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1. The Nazis know it when they see it.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 06:29 PM

Jan 20

I don’t know why it’s so hard for non-Nazis to see it. As far as enthusiastic gestures go, this one is unmistakable.

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Mike 03

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2. This is bringing back horrible flashbacks from the first term

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 06:30 PM

Jan 20

like when David Duke did a livestream of himself sobbing with joy after Trump's first presser after the Unite the Right rally and the murder of Heather Heyer, when Trump said there were fine people on both sides. Duke had exactly that attitude: We are SO back!

Then a couple days later David Duke was crying again, this time because of Trump's second presser, where he tried to revoke what he'd said. He felt betrayed, he said, and Trump was not the answer to their prayers after all.

(There was a third press conference, where Trump went back to defending the fine people who chanted racist and antisemitic slogans, but I don't recall any David Duke livestreams afterwards)

God help us. I would rather be alone on fucking Mars than go through this shit again.

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