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Plausible deniability (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

CNN is already sane-washing this, referring to Musk's "odd gesture."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cpdxzjw9p47o

Elon Musk's appearance at a Trump rally this afternoon is garnering significant attention online over a one-armed gesture.

He made the gesture while thanking supporters for contributing to Trump's victory. Musk thanked the crowd for "making it happen", before placing his right hand over his heart and then thrusting the same arm out into air straight ahead of him.

"My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilisation is assured," he said.

Several users on X, the social medial platform he owns, have likened the gesture to a Nazi salute.

Musk has since responded, posting on his social media site X: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."

I wish western journalists would have opted to become compost instead. Compost is useful.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

Securing the future and a nazi salute, but we're not supposed to believe our lying eyes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (9 children)

The ADL said it wasn't a Nazi salute, for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 20 hours ago

Fuck the ADL: they run cover for genocidal Zionist settler colonialism.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The ADL's opinion is worth nothing, as a rule.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

That's unfair.

It's worth so much less than that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Which discredits them entirely

[–] [email protected] 36 points 23 hours ago

they have lost all credibility.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 23 hours ago

And AOC called them out for downplaying it as well.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

ADL = Anti Democracy League in this case, maybe in others, but definitely in this one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

Also known as the Apartheid Defense League

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It was bizarre reading that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Like watching that poor old man who is a literal holocaust survivor get arrested by UK police for protesting and speaking out against genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I agree.