• @[email protected]
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    541 month ago

    He claimed it was a “my heart goes out to you” sentiment.

    But the “my heart goes out to you” gesture is palm-up…

      • @hardcoreufo
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        281 month ago

        I’ll give him this. That shit was crisp. Almost as if he stood in front of a mirror practicing it over and over.

    • @Mog_fanatic
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      311 month ago

      I mean it just doesn’t matter what it was “supposed” to be. How many times have we seen things that are sooort of close to the nazi salute so people are like “hey better not do that.” And this is stuff that’s like basically just anything holding your hand in the air. This was straight up the salute lol I mean there’s no two ways about it. The question is what the intention was. And if it wasn’t intended to be some sort of nod to Nazism or fascism or something, why in the flying fuck would you do it?! lol I mean everyone in the literal world knows it would prolly be a bad idea to do anything like that but the self proclaimed Uber genius, smartest man in the world, ultra mega mastermind, God gamer musk… It just slips his mind?

        • @Mog_fanatic
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          101 month ago

          100% and you gotta do some Olympic gold medal level mental gymnastics to even entertain any other possibility imo

        • @Valmond
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          51 month ago

          I hate that narrative that the most powerful people on earth are like just morons when they do bad things. Trump got that treatment a lot and I don’t think you become the president of the USA a second time if you’re an idiot.

          Same goes for elon.

          There is no excuse IMO.

          • @currycourier
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            31 month ago

            I mean they’re not mutually exclusive though. They can be both morons and evil.

            • @Valmond
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              31 month ago

              Yeah but can they be generally stupid? I think that’s just copium. They’re not stupid.

              • @currycourier
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                11 month ago

                I mean Trump obviously is, its not exactly hard to see from how he talks and acts. You can also see from his tax records how he has managed to consistently lose money over decades as one of the worst businessmen ever. When you have that much money you can make more by just hiring a financial planner to invest it in the market for you. Instead he managed to lose money investing in a casino? Thats honestly kind of impressively dumb.

                Elon might be smarter than the average person, but that isn’t saying much when over half the US cannot read at a sixth grade level. He certainly isn’t the genius that people make him out to be.

        • @JcbAzPx
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          21 month ago

          He may be a moron, but he knew exactly what he was doing and he meant it with every fiber of his being.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      My heart goes out to you is the fig leaf Elon used for plausible deniability. He probably thinks he was terribly clever. Which, as it turns out, he was. Elon will get away with this and pushed the envelope of what’s possible. Others will imitate him.

      This has all the elements for a softer fascist salute, where the words aren’t „Sieg Heil!“ or „Duce!“, but simply „my heart!“. A salute with the hand moving from heart to extension while saying firmly „my heart!“ works well to be visually striking.

      • @WhatYouNeed
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        21 month ago

        But fElon doesn’t have a heart

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          He does have a heart, don’t make that mistake. That’s one of the key areas of the body to aim at, see Figure 1: Brian Thompson.