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

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/

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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