If Elon hadn’t worked with Orange Man Bad, then the Left would still be in love with him for his massive former donations to the Democrat political machine, and his work against climate change.
The whole “he’s a nazi” accusation is banal, and people are seeing through it now. That’s why we’ve moved on.
Like the whole pizza parlor pedo basement thing, people will death grip stupid stuff because they are so desperate to manifest the worst possible image of those unaligned with them.
The problem is that it blows up in their face and just makes them look unreliable, dumb, and lost.
Musk has done so many objectively bad things that there is no need for people to dilute their reputation on fringe theories and interpretations. Pushing the nazi thing just gives Musk ammo that his detractors are so desperate that they need freeze frames and hidden context to make him look bad.
If you want him to get the benefit of the doubt about his "hand gesture" then it would help if he wasn't promoting far-right parties all over Europe.
They're arresting people for *praying silently in their mind*!!
The far left is everything they accuse the far right of being.
Here is the actual video in which Musk performs two fascist salutes at a political rally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc
It wasn't an accident. He did it deliberately. Twice. He enjoyed himself doing it.
There's no value in the mental gymnastics to invent excuses for his fascist salutes. The rational thing to do is to accept the objective reality of it.
What's silly is people like you defending the richest man in the world who cares nothing about you and your family. Why spend the effort? I don't think he needs your help. And you aren't even getting paid to do it. Sad.