I think Nazism is terrible, nor do I think it was an attempt at a Nazi salute. Some people will call it a "dog whistle", but it definitely wasn't a Sieg Heil.
"Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes" only goes so far for most of us. Not everyone, I guess, but really, hoss we're not idiots and can tell what it was.
Even if he'd clarify it, his twitter posts/retweets are very much leaning in the nazi-esque direction. So any benefit of the doubt is already out of the window when not just looking at that event in a vacuum.
I'm not saying I support what he's doing; he's definitely not taking the best approach to his stated goals. But I give people the benefit of doubt (on both "sides") until proven otherwise.
Can you please link to ones you think support the Nazis or Nazi ideology?
I did a quick search and all I'm getting are the recent stupid Nazi jokes in response to people's outrage about what Musk did, or the one where Musk was talking about how government workers did Hitler's bidding.
I saw the gif you linked to in your comment as I was writing my other comment and used that for the description in that comment:
Do you have any pictures of actual Nazis making weird faces while saluting, or grabbing their chest before saluting, or raising their hand so it's not in a straight line with their extended arm, or with their body leaned back and head tilted?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sieg+heil&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=im...
One of those does not look like the others.
Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do? Did it ever make you want to lash out? Imagine half of the country that you think you're trying to help, calling you "Hitler" and you have practically unlimited resources and are practically untouchable, how would you react? How many people do you think would choose, "Oh, I guess I should stop because people are accusing me of things I didn't do and are making me out to be a monster, and if I stop people will automatically believe I'm not a monster." Or do they harden their resolve and double-down. Human nature seems to be the latter.
Regardless of what Elon Musk thinks, what do you think are the potential outcomes of everything that is going on with Elon Musk?
- Someone assassinates him, and Donald Trump isn't happy (what do you think he would do).
- He leaves the political / government scene, and people still think he is a monster no matter what he does or where he goes.
- He continues to see to it that he accomplishes what he believes.
> I guess you all have never seen an autistic person make unusual gestures
I'd never seen an autistic person do a Hitler salute before to be honest, until Elon Musk did one.
After seeing Elon Musk do that, I can also say I've never seen an austistic person do a Sieg Heil salute either.
2x "to be honest"
If you have to specify that, should I assume you're not being honest otherwise?