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I can't tell what language he's saying he's rusty at. Timestamp 4:49 https://youtu.be/AEab8bXcSp4?feature=shared
You know what I'm talking about. It doesn't look the same to me at all.
Just to get that out of the way, i am not from America, i personally don't agree with Elon from a lot of points of view, I support the democratic party and I'm fairly progressive. But i will not attack Elon in this post.
I believe that the internet is being childish over his gesture. It is clearly NOT the Roman Salute. He's pretty awkward when it comes to body movement given by his dances, I'll say that, so it was 99% an accident. I don't thing it's a big deal. Many liberal politicians did this gesture, no one batted an eye. I think it is such an exaggeration, just media being media. It was clearly a gesture of him showing he "Gives his heart" to everyone (the hand moves from the heart and spreads out towards the viewers of the speech".
I hope i got my point across well.
TL;DR: Media is being way too childish over Elon's salute.
I saw the footage. I'm leaning toward he's just an awkward dude but if someone wanted to sneakily do a Nazi salute, that's certainly the way to do it.
I'm trying to avoid the propaganda of both sides. In this case, the main conclusion I'll reach is by how he responded after the fact. Did he acknowledge it looked like two Nazi salutes and explicitly deny this as his intention? Honestly, that's pretty much all he'd need to do for me to believe he just made a dumb mistake that was overanalyzed. If not, I'd be more suspicious of his true intentions.
I'm guessing it's been talked to death at a subreddit like this but if someone can inform me I'd be grateful.
Please, Musk, buy Reddit. It's full of woke.
If you had Elon's power, money and influence, what would you do? Get into politics, buy an NBA team, make a movie, buy thousands of eccentric things...Give me a list of all the things that come to mind.
I think he just made a strange hand movement. I'm autistic and I make strange hand movements all the time! And yes a point would've been better but... we all (or at least autistic people) have awkward unintentional moments