If he realized what it looked like and tried to turn it into something else then that's a strong mitigating factor. It's not a hard gesture to accidentally do as evidenced by the numerous videos posted. The guy is clearly physically awkward and has likely never played a sport in his life, so he probably has no body awareness and likely doesn't even know how to physically celebrate something (see his embarrassing jumping up and down at the Trump rally). I dislike the guy, but trying to cancel him over this is a bit much.
I just checked yesterday how are they doing - they have separate thread for every single EO or minute detail of what Trump does, it's exhausting. Then inside it's just endless posts of people being shocked, looking for allies, etc., without adding anything of substance to the discussion. It's a perfect echo chamber.
Does the forth member only have legs and torso without a head?
If someone claims something, don't you want to know they're backing it up with a source? News never gets broken on reddit but it most often does on twitter.
They are Digging their own grave!
Yeah you are.
BlueSky's top accounts are Mark Hamill, George Takei, Mark Cuban, and AOC. What a great, interesting, and completely unbiased platform that I'm sure is 100% free of censorship.
Presenting reality against agenda driven internet hoaxes is not arguing in bad faith.
What’s the hoax?
Just a bunch of people who have become "salute truthers". But yeah, USA has a mental crisis. Keep in mind that some people literally wanted to neuter themselves post election.
Ahh but "Nazis" are saying it's a Nazi salute! And we all know that agreeing with the thoughts and words of Nazis is the thing to do.
It can be argued that the clip was edited to summarise, showing number of times the gesture was made as opposed to editing out the context which most people don’t even believe to be relevant. He still did the gestures and that is the point of contention for most.
The funny part is that the more left is doing that, the more they will normalize it - if everything is nazi, there are no nazis.The good news out of all this is that being called a Nazi is still a smear.
Bullshit. They edited out the context because with it their argument is bullshit.
You can call it bullshit all you want. The context still doesn’t satisfy most including myself. The gesture was still made and that is what people don’t like. It isn’t a hoax and you can’t spin the narrative this way because it is fact that the gesture he made was one that strikingly resembles a Nazi salute.
I don't think there is a single human being left on reddit, it honestly feels like a psyop made up of bot farms.
As a society, we have arbitrarily chosen to stigmatize certain things tied to the Nazis. For example: the toothbrush mustache is pretty much banned because it will be taken as an ode to Hitler even though it was a popular mustache at the time that many people wore, including Charlie Chaplin. One of those things is a Nazi salute. The Nazi salute is relatively unique, but it's not like someone having a tattoo of a swastika. There are many gestures that have people put their hand to their heart and then wave. It's not out of the realm of possibility someone could stumble into doing such a gesture.
I just wonder if this constant need to defend a single person from any and all accountable actions and words, to the point where they are now being infantilized, is the best strategy in the end.
Oh, right historians...The most unbiased people on the planet. Nazis? Oh wow we now have a time machine. Whose daughter? Musks? The one that transitioned? lol
Is banning X on Reddit a punitive measure? Absolutely, and calling Elon a Nazi given he’s relationship with Israel and the Jewish community is nothing short of ridiculous. Like you say, it is not out the realm of possibility that someone could make similar hand movements, like the photos circulating of other politicians with their arm raised. However, most of those examples aren’t in motion, and the ones that are aren’t as defined and as expressed as Elon’s gesture. I find it hard to believe it was on accident. I find it hard to believe the ‘tism encouraged it. I find it hard to believe that he has ever been physically animated like that when he is expressing love and gratitude to others.
