Why would Musk even feel the urge to give a Nazi salute?

[kentuck]

And it was a Nazi salute.

What was in his mind or in his heart to compel him to pull such a stupid stunt?

It's disturbing, or it should be disturbing, to all Americans.

He says it is time for Germans to get over their Nazi guilt.

But isn't that a very strange way of doing it?

[HappyH]

1. Nazi gotta nazi! nt

[kentuck]

5. What else could it be?

???

[brush]

28. Absolutely. He's an apartied-adjacent Nazi. What else is he gonna do.

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[B.See]

31. Nazi is as Nazi does.

My personal theory being that it has something to do with BDE.

(hint: that last word isn't 'energy')

[Voltaire2]

2. Because he is a Nazi?

[Ocelot II]

3. Because he's a Nazi?

[louis-t]

4. He's trying to normalize the salute.

There ws outrage this time. Next time, there will be less, and so on. And he wants that salute for himself, not for orange fuck.

[RockRaven]

6. Mileage may vary on this explanation, but I saw this posted on Reddit today.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-philip-low-b742ba_i-have-known-elon-musk-at-a-deep-level-for-activity-7288439915485315072-29fb

[Initech]

7. And why would he say he's not a Nazi when he's hanging out with the literal Nazi party in Germany?

[Joinfortmill]

8. He's not the sharpest knife in the White Nationalist drawer.

[Intractable]

9. He did this to get attention. It's what he craves even more than money.

His narcissism and boredom are so profound, it doesn't matter to him if he is famous or infamous, as long as we're talking about him -- and we are talking about him.

His various psychopathologies will only get worse.

At this time, I consider him to be the most dangerous man on the planet. He will spend his money to stir up chaos to get attention for himself, as he tries to remake the world in his own self-loving/hating image.

[padfun]

18. I, too, believe he is the most dangerous man on the planet.

nt

[Mike 03]

10. I think it was a couple of things intersecting.

He's experiencing an intoxicating sense of power right now, and he associates that salute with the ultimate transgressive expression of that power, associated with the worst character in history. I think some part of him embraces the idea that more and more people associate him with danger and evil. For want of a better expression, I think he gets off on it. You could sort of feel that when he told all those CEOS to "fuck off" if they pulled their advertising from Twitter.

Elon Musk can't be shamed because he's not ashamed to be this person.

[Meowmee]

11. It certainly looked like one

But do we know if it was ai or was it real?

[Buzz cook]

16. LOL or antifa

deep fake or DEI.

[Meowmee]

17. I'm wondering because I want to know for sure

M is despicable and it would not surprise me a bit... I watched the video and it looked weird to me.

[Buzz cook]

19. Seriously?

It definitely is a Nazi salute. There is far too much evidence to say it's anything else.

[Meowmee]

20. No I meant is the video real

Or ai, it looked weird to me, but I guess I was tired when I saw it…my brother thinks it’s totally real. No doubt that it is the Nazi salute by elunatic.

[Buzz cook]

24. Elon is not denying it.

Musk just says he's misunderstood not that the video is fake.

[Meowmee]

25. Thanks. I didn't know anything about him denying it or not. It was just my impression when I first saw it.

[brush]

30. It's pretty clear. Musk was reared in the aparthied era of S. Africa.

It doesn't come more racist than Aparthiedism, American segregationism/white supremacy and Nazism.

It's not complicated.

[LearnedHand]

33. This is mainly because that ugly freak

Is so awkward he makes real film look like AI.

[Beringia]

12. He feels released to be able to let his Nazi Freak Flag fly and is showing it off

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Dipshit Saluted the Guy to Make Him Think He's Leader...

…and in order to bring chaos, doubt and confusion to the reality the demented fascist turd represents.

[LearnedHand]

34. Omg a little warning please!

[Doodley]

14. Hitler is his hero. He has done that salute hundreds of times in private, fantasizing that he's Hitler or Hitler-like

He is a psychopath who was having an orgasm thinking of how he can change elections around the world. It was an involuntary compulsion after doing it so many times in private. He wasn't really expecting it, but he was swept up in the moment.

[Buzz cook]

15. He was amongst friends.

When you're comfortable with your surroundings you can be your true self.

[Meowmee]

21. Since he is crazy maybe

And a nazi fan… I’m not sure why everyone is that surprised by this I mean yes it’s a bit shocking and surreal on some level, but people were doing this at orange psycho rallies in his first campaign.

[LeftInTX]

22. He strikes me as an incel. You never know with them....

Even though he was all those women and all those kids, he reminds me of an incel.
I really can't imagine him "making those babies".
He's just a weird, dangerous man.

[underpants]

29. He's got a scorecard with his father

He has 11 kids with 7 women I think.

His father had 4 with Elon’s mother and 2 with a former daughter in law….of…the ……father.

Yeah.

[Maeve]

23. He is a troll and an attention sponge

He is still getting attention for a momentary gesture and pwned the libs. It also shows his power over "the most powerful man in the world" since tsf won't do a damn thing against him.
He is also a sick f.

[Skittles]

26. BECAUSE HE IS A FUCKING NAZI

THAT'S WHY

[underpants]

35. He was upstaging Trump too

Going where he knows Trump can’t put probably wants to.

[Klarkashton]

27. He was high as a kite after smoking a huge blunt

And a big ass dose of ketamine.
He lost all inhibitions.

[Alice Kramden]

32. He wanted the audience to respond in the same way

This time, they didn't. Normalize it enough, perhaps they will