Journalists: It appeared to be a South African karate chop of some kind
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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It has been maddening how corporate media has been trying to tell us it was anything but a Nazi salute. I'm reminded of the Star Trek episode Chain of Command Part II, "There are four lights!"
link?
I studied Star Trek at university, taught the history of Star Trek on two continents and wrote for major newspapers about Star Trek. I am internet famous for fact-checking chuds on the history, ideology and policy of the Federation.
There are four lights.
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There are four parts!
it's a joke about the movie Gaslight
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He claimed it was a "my heart goes out to you" sentiment.
But the "my heart goes out to you" gesture is palm-up...
I mean it just doesn't matter what it was "supposed" to be. How many times have we seen things that are sooort of close to the nazi salute so people are like "hey better not do that." And this is stuff that's like basically just anything holding your hand in the air. This was straight up the salute lol I mean there's no two ways about it. The question is what the intention was. And if it wasn't intended to be some sort of nod to Nazism or fascism or something, why in the flying fuck would you do it?! lol I mean everyone in the literal world knows it would prolly be a bad idea to do anything like that but the self proclaimed Uber genius, smartest man in the world, ultra mega mastermind, God gamer musk... It just slips his mind?
The fact that he does it with such force and enthusaism too...
Biting his bottom lip so hard.
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so either it was an intended nazi salute or this guy is a fucking moron, or both.
100% and you gotta do some Olympic gold medal level mental gymnastics to even entertain any other possibility imo
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Generally you don't yeet your heart out with such force either
I'll give him this. That shit was crisp. Almost as if he stood in front of a mirror practicing it over and over.
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White power is in the White House…quite terrifying and embarrassing
It's been in the White House goddammit, they're just being open about it now.