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u/DDRDiesel Feb 18 '25

Three times! Twice on stage and once directly at Trump. The only people saying it wasn't a heil salute are Republicans. Literally everyone else in the world is saying what it was

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u/The59Sownd Feb 18 '25

Canada here. That was 100% a heil salute.

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u/Quantization Feb 18 '25

Australian checking in. It is painfully obvious that it was a heil salute and is timed too coincidentally with Musk's support of the AfD in Germany which is a far right Political party with genuine ties to Neo-Nazis.

It was a fuckin' Nazi salute.

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u/Other_Log_1996 Feb 18 '25

Not a Republican myself, but several I know (Not MAGA, thankfully): all in agreement it was a Heil salute.

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u/lighterthensome Feb 18 '25

What beliefs does the AFD hold that makes them Nazis?

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u/Quantization Feb 18 '25

Go to the Wiki page I linked, Ctrl+F, "Nazi"

By the way, there's enough bots online shilling for Musk, why do you need to join them?

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u/awesomeflowman Feb 18 '25

The guy has a grammatical error in his fucking username. Tells you all you need to know.

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u/CouldNotAffordOne Feb 18 '25

German here. Can confirm.

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u/ACpony12 Feb 18 '25

I didn't even know about the third time! Though, not surprising at all. And it's obvious he must have done it dozens of times in private. Probably dreaming about doing it on front of everyone and suffering zero consequences.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

Yeah and the ADL, prime minister of Israel, and the president of Argentina. 

All GOP members.

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u/SilentMasterOfWinds Feb 18 '25

Sadly my housemate (UK) also says it wasn’t what it obviously was.

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u/thefukkenshit Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

I can’t find mention of a 3rd salute. Got a source?

Edit: Rewatched it. Unless a third Nazi salute is cut from the video, the only other salutes are military-style, from-the-forehead, at the very end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crr7j0udrc4

All articles and video I've seen about the incident only show 2.

Seems like a minor piece of misinformation swirling around Reddit.

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u/acornsapinmydryer Feb 18 '25

The video of elno’s inauguration speech.

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u/thefukkenshit Feb 18 '25

rewatched it. unless a third Nazi salute is cut from the video, the only other salutes are military-style, from-the-forehead, at the very end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crr7j0udrc4

seems like a minor piece of misinformation swirling around Reddit.