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Comment by tzs

5 hours ago

Note: this is in response to > The "salute" in particular is simply a politically-expedient freeze-frame from a Musk speech, where he said "my heart goes out to you all" and happened to raise his arm. I could provide freeze-frame images of Obama and Hilary Clinton doing similar "salutes" and claim this makes them "far right fascists" but I would never insult the reader's intelligence by doing so.

For Obama and Clinton you can find freeze frames showing their arm in a similar position, but when you look at the full video it was in the middle of something that does not match a Nazi salute. Here are several examples: https://x.com/ExposingNV/status/1881647306724049116?t=CGKtg0...

If you had a camera in my kitchen you could find similar freeze frames of me whenever I make a sausge/egg/cheese on an English muffin breakfast sandwich because the ramekin I use to shape the egg patty is on the top shelf.

With Musk the full video shows it matches from when his arm starts moving to the end of the gesture. See

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When Musk starts invading neighbouring countries and rounding up ethnic minorities for extermination you can call him a Nazi with some legitimacy.

On the other hand, what you're trying to extrapolate here seems somewhat contrived.