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Eugen Rochko

Just saw the headline "Elon Musk accused of making what appeared to be fascist salute" from CBC. Is mainstream journalism too cowardly to call a straight up, broad daylight nazi salute for what it is now? How can you still be in denial about it?

21 January at 2:46 | Open on mastodon.social
111 comments
DarkCyberman

@Gargron It is only a Nazi salute when given in a specific region in Germany otherwise it is a “remarkable gesture”.

21 January at 15:25 | Open on nerdculture.de
Father Pat 🥊🇻🇦

@Gargron I don’t know how that can be confused with anything else. Disgusting.

21 January at 15:42 | Open on social.boxingpreacher.net
Duke.Vim

@Gargron Yes they are and he did it three times, still the ADL insists we shouldn’t get excited

21 January at 16:36 | Open on mastodon.online
ClassyT

@Gargron HMM…WHY YES; YES THEY ARE COWARDS AND COMPLICIT.

21 January at 16:41 | Open on sfba.social
Tim Allen

@Gargron Two levels of hedge and qualification is a bit pathetic. It’s obviously true that he appeared to make a Nazi salute. It is also plain that he has been accused of making a Nazi salute. They could report either of those things with no risk of controversy at all. Abject cowardice.

21 January at 16:44 | Open on sfba.social
Yoba Boba

He'll backpedal from that like nothing happened.

21 January at 17:42 | Open on infosec.exchange
Karen E. Lund 💙💛

@Gargron The CBC isn't even the worst; at least they acknowledge that it might be a "fascist salute." The New York Times headlined an article "Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture," as if the paper didn't exist in the 1930s and 40s.

nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/poli

21 January at 21:45 | Open on mastodon.social
Andrew

@Gargron i think I saw Justin trudeau making this gesture. I think it means he wants to fund a project
No need to be alarmist

21 January at 22:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Erik Chendo Tegon

@Gargron Hi, I'm Erik.
Could create this video in other lenguages?
I could volunteer to be the voice to PORTUGUÊS Brasil (portuguese brazil)
youtu.be/IPSbNdBmWKE?si=r35RXG

22 January at 17:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Robot Diver

@Gargron

Yup. Which makes it a pretty good thermometer surrounding anything else they report these days.

yesterday at 21:45 | Open on starlite.rodeo
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