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      Just when I thought the ADL couldn’t be anymore useless, here’s REAL Anti-Semitism and they’re not doing anything about it.

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      Fuck the ADL

      I was on the fence about them for past shenanigans but this is the final nail in the coffin. My friends are now telling me that musk did not, in fact do a Nazi salute because his fingers weren’t pointed the right way

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          There really isn’t a proper performance. Many nazi officials simply raised their hand palm facing away from them over their right shoulder. Generally at rallies touching your chest on the left hand side and then raising your right arm straight out with palm angled down and away from you is the basic salute. He did that. Twice.

          Source: it helps to know a lot about your enemies and their rituals. Also I have a thing for modern history.

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      the ADL

      Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish non-governmental organization based in the USA

      … will now be known as the “Advanced Defamations League”

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      You guys are lucky to have AOC. I’m a non-American that only knows her from memes and screenshots like this but I’m a fan. Especially compared to all the other dead fish.

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      Same ADL that says anti-genocide protests are categorically foreign agents funded by Iran and Hamas.

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      Are their last words going to be “see? You were overreacting.” right before someone pushes a button on their gas chamber?

      Or have they already booked their tickets to some recently-confiscated house in the West Bank?

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    Well, get ready for a whole lot of gaslighting. He’s going to say that’s not what he was doing and his lil army of trolls are going to toe the line.

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      Spot on. We all know exactly what we saw. But…

      “This is just a distraction from [the class war / taxes / Russia / China / the Koreas / India / … ]!”

      “Allegedly, he seemingly did a gesture that resembles a fascist salute. He could’ve been having a heart attack and pointing at a paramedic. You don’t know.”

      “It’s a tic. He’s had it since he was a child. I read about it on this random screenshot of a news article from 2018.”

      “The Roman Salute, as it is known amongst historians, can be seen in many statues. Here’s a link to one. Things have history, Alex. God. Not everything is nazis.”

      “So his views are a little extreme. Most people would argue they’re vile. I certainly don’t agree with them, but people. Please. Civility and decorum must rule. I’d fight for his right to blahblahblah…"

      “I’m sorry; we can’t hear you over our Economic Anxiety. Groceries are too expensive and people are homeless! That’s why we elected nazis. Please be more understanding of our extra special circumstances and ignorance.”

      “It’s legal to do that in the USofA. Where is it not legal? Germany? Interesting! Gosh their freezepeach laws are a bit restrictive, eh? Controlling how we move our bodies? Sounds like something a nazi would want.”

      And on. And if you engage with it, they’ll just turn on some kind of AI bot thingy to continue the “conversation,” taking up even more space online.

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    So he literally turns around and does it a 2nd time.

    How can anyone deny it now? There’s no way this is coincidence, like he’s just really awkward with gestures and was bad at throwing his hand in the air to the crowd. This can’t be explained away.

    Wtf bullshit argument or defense is he and his supporters going to spew out?

    They all say he’s such a genius, but he’s unaware of how close this gesture is to a nazi salute? There’s no way this can be defended. It’s just too obvious.

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    So heil Hitler it is, now?

    Granted, I never thought he’d get this far, but I’ve been saying for nearly a decade now that Musk is a lucky scammer who will do anything if it benefits himself.

    I wonder how many people are left of the original musk groupies that thought musk was so cool and was going to save the world.

    Do you still believe? Are you still that stupid?

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      On the bright side, if we’re remarking on history’s propensity for repetition, consider how much the odds have just gone up that Elon’s personal timeline now ends doused in gasoline and set alight in a ditch, like a pasty, doughy little pile of garbage.

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      I wonder how many people are left of the original musk groupies that thought musk was so cool and was going to save the world.

      Do you still believe? Are you still that stupid?

      Nope.

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    How did he make the Nazi salute look somehow even MORE uncool than the -9999999999999999999999 it was already at.

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    At least it’s all over the news, seems like literally every news organization is reporting on it, even small ones.

    Show everyone what these idiots voted for.

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      Are fox, newsmaxxx, and oan covering it as much as they should? Or are they mentioning it once at an off time so they can say “see we covered it” and then never mentioning it when people are actually watching?

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    Wow. I was willing to believe that the still pictures were just perfectly timed to make it look like something it wasn’t. But it totally is a Nazi salute.

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    Fuck Elon Musk. Knowing I’ll be able to piss on his grave and Trumps grave keeps me going. These fucking fascist need to be fought tooth and nail.

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        Oh it’s definitely not going to stop but that’s no reason to not fight now and in the future. Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascists.

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          Agreed but the problem is they’re winning. They have the power to destroy education, enact laws, control media/propaganda, appoint judges, influence law enforcement, military.

          Fight fucking how? I’m not saying give up by any means, but things are looking grim.

          If you’re a leftist, learn to shoot and buy a gun for self defense like all the conservatives? Honestly I don’t know if that’d even help.

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            When I say fight I’m talking about non-violent resistance and violent but it’s increasingly looking like it’s going to be the latter. Fascists only understand one thing. Force.

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            Fight fucking how?

            Even if you can’t or aren’t willing to do violence, there is always nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience. I wonder if there was a prominent figure of the civil rights movement who told us about that.

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              As soon as that prominent figure started talking about helping the lower classes achieve economic equality (or even just freedom), he was assassinated.

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        There’s no guarantee that the next one will be less stupid.

        That doesn’t mean that the next fascist will have less support. Or do less damage.

        Stupid is hard to fight.

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      I’m going to take extra good care of my health in the hopes that if I outlive him this will be on my bucket list.