• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    It’s the ceremony organizers’ fault for neglecting to bring a bible small enough to put his hand on.

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    Honestly, the current situation is beyond double standards. The Republicans have free reign to more or less break any of their own rules and suffer almost no consequences. Meanwhile, literally anything a Democrat does is spun into multiple mutually exclusive conspiracy theories that their base and the media somehow manage to spout simultaneously.

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      Not to mention leftists will latch onto it too and repeat the lie everywhere yet swear up and down that they voted for the Democrat even though they shit on them any time they open their mouth.

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    This is just the childish act of crossing your fingers when you make a promise. He didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he isn’t planning on presiding faithfully, and he has absolutely no intention whatsoever to preserve, protect or defend the Constitution of the United States unless it benefits him personally at the time.

    • TehWorld@lemmy.world
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      John Toberts (Chief Justice of the SC) misspoke one of the lines that Obama was supposed to say. Obama, being an intelligent man had rehearsed the speech and recognized that it was incorrect. Obama Said back the correct wording even tho Roberts said it wrong. They did re-do it privately for exactly the howler monkeys on Fox News who were shitting-in-their-hands happy about to start flinging poo.

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    Yeah but if AOC makes a gesture that looks a lot like a nazi salute, nobody cares about it. It’s a double standard, but nobody actually thinks AOC is a nazi or was trying to evoke nazi imagery. Double standards aren’t always automatically bad or wrong. They need to be considered in the context of the person and what they stand for.

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      Literal WW2 scholars have come forward and said that was unequivocally a Nazi salute. We have side-by-side comparisons that match the form and the timing. Everyone with an eye can tell what it is except for other Nazi sympathizers.

      Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

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          Yes, there are lots of people who get caught in what could be mistaken for a heil in a single photo.
          Show me a video of anyone heiling, full motion start to finish, who is not a nazi. Please do, heck, if you can find someone not a nazi doing a double sieg heil in a row, I will give you a genuine 18k gold medal!

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Can you please show me what you are referring to and the context? Because the context of the event discussed was very clear. It wasn’t a never do this educational situation. Dude just had to say, my bad it looked like that but I was caught up in the moment and meant to put my hand out with an open palm like Jesus in Rio but we instead accidentally kept them facing down.

      A lot of the issue stemmed from him doing it twice after supporting a far right Germany movement and not just saying my bad.

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        Yeah that’s my point. It has a lot more credibility as an accusation against Musk compared to when AOC did something very similar. Because nobody thinks AOC is a Nazi. It’s a bit of a double standard, but so what?

        This is what I’m referring to. If you can find the video it really does look like a nazi salute, but nobody actually thinks that it is, in any way: https://x.com/APTeacher1754/status/1882043612122497239/photo/1

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      Dude, he did it 2 times, give me a break and best part is that he meant it, hence the 2 times salute. Cope harder

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        Not only that, but Elon promotes and sponsors multiple reactionary political groups around the world, including the AfD

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        Ok… Did you see the AOC video though? Imagine Elon doing that and tell me what you would think about it. It would look a lot different coming from him, and that’s my point.

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          Since you give no link to what you’re talking about, I’m gonna assume it’s this one and preemptively debunk it.

          Edit to add that it blows my mind how anyone could really believe that a Nazi salute would be anywhere near her demeanor, taking into account the genuine compassion she has shown her supporters, especially as a brown Latina herself. How come I, a foreigner, know more about her than you do? I mean, I did watch her broadcast live when that blew up, and have seen a couple of her short videos on YT shorts generally browsing, and listened to her arguments on the Senate floor as it’s been recommended to me. Her message is clear. You really need to go out of your way to conceive something like that, you know?

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            No it’s not that one, which was an obvious crop job. Another guy found it in one of the other comments. Again, it’s not that I’m saying that AOC did the salute, just that what if Elon did the same exact thing? It’s a double standard because he would be treated differently for it because of all the other context. But my point is that it’s not unreasonable for there to be a double standard given the context of who did it.

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              But there’s no possibility he did anything else than a Nazi salute. He’s so socially incompetent he forgot about the plausible deniability. Now his supporters are working overtime to cover it up. Like I said, it’s so weird that seeing a side-by-side comparison, it’s the same gesture in beat and pose. And I might add, as a grand, deliberate gesture for his audience of his gratitude.

              Also, please correct me if I’m wrong, but are you saying that it’s a double standard that’s only excusable of their respective personalities? I think you mean acceptance? I don’t quite get what you mean by double standard as a trend. If AOC did the exact same gesture with the same intent, she’d be roasted alive by the left and people would not be questioning what she did and she’d immediately clarify with a statement that Elon has yet to give. The only double standard I see is how people start pointing elsewhere when a Republican politician does it. If it were a Democrat not a single soul would be pointing at that Greene plant in the Senate. xd This is the weirdest shit about US politics, that egregious double standard that envelopes this entire post.

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    Obama put his hand on the Constitution. Maybe this is a sarcastic meme? I don’t know

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      Or maybe you are just a liar??

      When U.S. President Barack Obama took the oath of office Monday, he placed his hand on two Bibles.

      The first was the Bible used by former President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, when he took the oath for his first term in 1861. The second Bible was the so-called “traveling Bible” used by slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Junior.

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    He was probably afraid of getting struck by divine lightning or something like that if he touched a Bible while uttering the words with no intentions to follow them.

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    Whoever succeeds trump, (assuming that happens, and it’s not Vance), should do the same thing, so we can maybe get rid of that dumbass tradition.

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      “we separate church and state” Church throwing bibles at every god damn state and court event and making people swear on them.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The part that blows me away is that he is so forgetful he missed an easy marketing ploy. Dude endorsed a Bible and didn’t call them up, ask for a % proceed and bring his own Bible to the inauguration, then put advertisements up for “Get your own copy of the God Bless the USA Bible, the official Bible Trump swore into office on”

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    Sadly I think it would have been more than half. Personally I’d like less of the Bible in any of our swear ins, but Orange Hitler not doing it just keeps the process rolling forward.