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    1816 days ago

    The local TV here in Portugal also did the whole saying “that some consider a Nazi salute” thing in their news segment about this …

    … and then showed Elon’s salute and a bunch of Nazis doing Nazi salutes as examples, leaving nobody in the audience but the blind in any doubt that Elon’s salute was the same as the salutes that the Nazis did.

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      916 days ago

      Journalists are way too quick to 'both sides" stuff. (Not sure how much of an American problem it is.) I don’t think I’ve seen a single article that didn’t include the quote from those asinine Nazi sympathizers at the ADL.

      THIS, I like. Sure, maybe you have to report that he claims it isn’t. But bring receipts.

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        416 days ago

        The problem is they never want to be wrong and unless Elon comes out and says it was a Nazi salute publically the media dances around it. The right knows this and plays the game pretty well.

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          115 days ago

          Sure. I understand if they feel they need to include that he claims it isn’t. (He hasn’t claimed it isn’t.) But the thing to do is to give your viewership context.