I’m convinced they do this shit on purpose - it riles up the base and it distracts the rest of us. While we’re debating each other about whether this is a nazi solute we’re not talking about the dozens of consequential things they did yesterday.
Between the hat and the solute, I’m already convinced.
So then don’t debate it. They keep doing Nazi shit, so clearly they are Nazis. Anyone claiming otherwise isn’t woeth listening to
I think it’s worth being compassionate with people who try to rationalize it because I found myself doing so from the shell shock of the whole thing. I just didn’t want to believe it. But no, he did a nazi salute.
Yeah, I think a healthy amount of skepticism is good, that the likelihood of an awkward still out of context or AI generated slop is significant enough to always be doubtful. So yep, when I saw the still, ok, maybe it’s awkward still. Then a 2 second clip. Ok, maybe AI generated. Then certainly real and I’ll try to watch more for any plausible context I could have not imagined. Yeah, that was full stop a “Nazi salute but I can say it wasn’t a Nazi salute”.
It’s not that I doubted he would be totally game for some Nazism, just disbelief that he would openly do the salute, especially on the first day.
I was fucking flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I knew the man has some far out there right wing views and is a fucking edge lord. But when I saw it I found it unbelievable.
So I related the action to myself, and tried to find an explanation where I could maybe see myself doing it. But honestly after sleeping on it I did realize what actually happened.
Of course while I slept, my comment was bashed thoroughly. I don’t really blame anyone, commenters outside Lemmy Shitpost are barely aware of me, but I do think there’s room for understanding that seeing that was fucking jarring. The brain does what it does, you know.
Is there a debate?
I showed the video to a random person that had not much idea of any of this, we are not even American so they didn’t know that there was an inauguration or anything. I said nothing, just: “see this video and tell me what you think”.
The answer was: “did he just do the nazi salute?”
GI robot is watching that angle.
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Wow, you’re all over every post. You get paid by the word or the day?
You care more than normal people care.
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You’re certainly russian to defend Nazis
You really are all over the place defending your elom.
Judge for yourselves people:
The people already did judge & determined that they don’t want what you’re selling. Your sales pitch was so bad it helped Trump get re-elected. You did this.
I hope you and the parents who failed to raise you get your healthcare checks bounced by the systems you are defending at this very moment.
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Respectful discourse : you have Nazi cum on your chin
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You’re not very good at this.
Nazi
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Weird reponse since you keep defending a nazi salute.
u’re a really good use case for user tags
Thanks. People usually tag me as “Super Awesome Empath”
They also lie to you.
Really? I’ve only seen ‘likes nazis’ in bright bold red.
Hush nazi
Why are you talking to yourself like that? Did you help get Trump reelected too?
Id agree if the dude literally didnt do it twice on video, make nazi imagery and calls to genocide okay on his platform, while supporting nazi parties in europe AND while his best pal of the week LITERALLY pardons violent criminals cause they have swastika tatoos.
Context.
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Yeah, you right. Like there’s no way that apartheid south Africa was fundamentally influenced by Nazi ideology while also having a strategic partnership with Israel. That’s just too hard to believe, right?
You so racist you only see nazism as a race club rather than “genocide others based on ethnicity” club.
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And. Did they assume office with a nazi salute and start by changing the constitution to get rid of Checks notes practically every american?
Tell me you don’t know about the madagascar plan without mentioning the madagascar plan
So you did some gematria on a plan from the 1940s & it told you that Trump is planning to move Jews to Madagascar? I’d love to hear more, but let me call up a psych ward to hear you talk about it.
Nah, I’m calling Hitler a Nazi, unless you want to claim that he wasn’t
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I feel like the Nazi angle range is a bit too wide, lol. Look at the top end of the red, that’s definitely still in the range of calling a waiter or flagging down a cab.
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