• BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve seen several people try to defend it by saying that the Nazi salute doesn’t start with your hand over your heart… Well this gif really clears things up.

      • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I have a Jewish friend that is defending it saying that his arms were sideways and the Nazi salute is in front. I sent him this and he said… Welp, I guess it’s time to move.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      To the person that made this gif: thank you for your service. You had to pour over far more footage of this nonsense than anybody should ever have to.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Playing devil’s advocate, it appears Hitler doesn’t usually start with an open palm on his heart, but one perpendicular to his chest.

      But sometimes he just goes straight from arms down to the salute. There’s some variability.

      Anyway, this is splitting hairs to an obscene degree. You have to contort your brain to not see this as a Nazi salute, ignoring the context or not, and in any other time a public figure would have at least apologized for doing this if they weren’t impeached/dismissed/fired.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Musk is a troll.

    Don’t feed the troll.

    Every bit of energy and attention expended on the sieg heil is a bit of energy and attention that’s NOT being expended on any of the actions being taken and policies being enacted by Trump and the oligarchs right this moment for the direct and explicit purpose of destroying liberty and democracy in the US.

    The sieg heil is performative. It’s a symbol. In and of itself, it causes no direct harm.

    However, a terrifying number of the actions that Trump is actually taking - directives he’s issuing and policies he’s implementing -are causing and will cause direct and measurable harm.

    They need to be the focus, and the sieg heil is a distraction from them.

    And that’s not an accident. Musk is a troll.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Musk is running the U.S. government. Dismissing someone that dangerous as just a troll is a mistake.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        He definitely shouldn’t be dismissed and people are right to be absolutely pissed at the open nazism, but also the sieg heil is an extremely obvious distraction.

        • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          And the collective idiots here are happy to be distracted. I’ve seen at least 15 - 20 posts on All today about this. Ridiculous.

          • frostysauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            And yet here you are commenting on it. So what does that make you along with everyone else happy to distract themselves with it?

            (In case you’re having trouble collecting those dots: an idiot as well.)

  • marius@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    He could tattoo “NAZI” on his forehead and some people will tell you that’s actually “IZVN” upside down

    • Aa!@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      “Well what about that tattoo on your chest? Doesn’t it say ‘Die Bart, die’?”

      “No! That’s German for 'The Bart. The.”

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Pretty sure I already watched that but can’t remember what it is. There’s a jumping thing close to it? Don’t know why I’m thinking the protagonist jumped from one side of the fence to the other using that jumpy thing (don’t remember the name of the jumpy)

          • Denjin@lemmings.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Community S02E07 - Aerodynamics of Gender. Troy and Jeff find a secret trampoline owned by Joshua (who is revealed as a racist at the end of the episode). Pierce discovers it and insists he gets “double bounces” which is one of Joshua’s only rules and in doing so gets flung over the garden wall and breaks both his legs.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Well, at least wait until it’s part of the law requiring all businesses to use it as formal greetings.

    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ah, yes, the Trump salute. You raise your outstretched right arm and say “hail Trump”. This is based on the ancient roman salute and nothing else.