The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.

  • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    Have you shown her the side-by-side GIF of him doing the same move as the H-man? There’s another one where it shows him doing it exactly like a group of neo-nazis on a street demonstration. Mirror image.

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      I don’t think it will help because she said if you watch the whole Video from he perspective it looks like just an awkward gesture

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        2 days ago

        I think watching the video of just him in isolation leaves room for interpretation because people think of Nazi salutes from movies, etc. plus I think a lot of people don’t want to believe that Musk would do this and want to give him the benefit of the doubt. However, when you see him doing it synchronized side by side with H-man and modern neo-Nazis and it looks like he literally practiced the exact movement with them, I think it removes any opportunity for benefit of the doubt.

        Edit: here’s the video I’m referring to: https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1881716580876497257