Musk Nazi Salute goes viral

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I think that Musk might be vulnerable to manipulative fascists online.
Someone has poisoned his mind.

Stop blaming others for his views. He is not 12 years old and not intellectually disabled.

Ok looks like nobody is safe for pointing out the obvious
https://truthout.org/articles/milwaukee ... zi-salute/

Was musk's father a nazi?

Stop blaming others for his views. He is not 12 years old and not intellectually disabled.

Since we are engaging in evidence-less speculation I might as well add mine. This is mostly about his anger that his daughter is trans.

The man has lost his marbles, but it's NOT because of anything related to any possible autism issues.
I don't know about anybody else but I am sick of seeing everyone and their grandmother jumping up and saying
"It's his autism, his autism, bla bla bla quack quack quack" and using it as a one-size-fits-all bandaid excuse for bad behavior.
Society needs to stop acting like armchair experts who hand out knee-jerk autism badges for every person who "doesn't act right".
Autism is not "the universal explainer" for deep personality flaws and ethical lapses and we need to stop handing out "Handicap Hall Passes" every time some idiot says or does something stupid.

Musk might possibly be on the spectrum but it does not explain why he is acting so evil.

Steve Bannon was accused of making a Nazi salute as he concluded a speech at a conservative gathering where President Donald Trump is slated to speak this weekend, but Bannon said Friday the gesture was merely a “wave.”
Bannon, who once served as Trump’s chief strategist and helped lead his 2016 Republican campaign, was onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington on Thursday evening when he extended his right arm in the air, his palm flat, after imploring the crowd to “Fight! Fight! Fight!” — a reference to what Trump shouted after an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, during last year’s campaign.

The gesture drew immediate backlash due to its similarities with the right-arm salute linked in history to the Nazis and their allies.

“Steve Bannon’s long and disturbing history of stoking antisemitism and hate, threatening violence, and empowering extremists is well known and well documented by ADL and others,” the Anti-Defamation League, an antisemitism and human rights watchdog, wrote on X in response. “We are not surprised, but are concerned about the normalization of this behavior.”

Meanwhile, French far-right National Rally president Jordan Bardella said he had cancelled his scheduled speech at CPAC on Friday in reaction to what he described as “a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.”

“While I was not present in the room, one of the speakers allowed himself, out of provocation, a gesture referring to Nazi ideology. As a consequence, I made the immediate decision to cancel my speech,” Bardella said in a written statement.

Bannon, speaking to a French journalist from Le Point news magazine on Friday, said the gesture was not a Nazi salute but was “a wave like I did all the time.”

“I do it at the end of all of my speeches to thank the crowd,” Bannon said.

Bannon, whose “War Room” podcast is extremely popular on the right, also blasted Bardella for his decision to cancel, calling him “unworthy to lead France.”

“He’s a boy, not a man,” Bannon said, according to video posted by correspondent Claire Meynial.

He echoed those comments later Friday, telling The Associated Press, “If he canceled because I waved to the crowd like I did at the Front National seven years ago ... he’s not a man and he will never be the leader of France.”

Online, some far-right users suggested Bannon had made the gesture purposely to “trigger” liberals and the media, while others distanced themselves. Nick Fuentes, a far-right influencer and Trump ally who uses his platform to share his antisemitic views, said in a livestream that Bannon’s salute was “getting a little uncomfortable even for me.”

Bannon’s gesture came at the end of a speech in which he repeated lies about the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden, and continued to press for Trump to serve a third term, something the Constitution explicitly bars.