See also, the Nazi salutes are actually the fault of all the ‘hysterical wokies’ who explained exactly what was going to happen. - ThreadSky

mikeytwa-dags.bsky.social•33 days ago

Some of us have been trying to explain what was going to happen for more than 8 years.

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xavierhu.bsky.social•33 days ago

Not once but twice ... maybe we need to be very firm with the usa...

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backtothefuture20.bsky.social•34 days ago

I feel like he partly did that just to push the envelope "see what we can do, let's watch the libs get mad, we are in power, nobody can stop me" almost trolling but not online.

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linusd.bsky.social•33 days ago

The Telegraph labelled it a Roman salute, as if Mussolini was any better than Hitler

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xavierhu.bsky.social•33 days ago

It's not... roman saluted were horizontal...

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drfeta.bsky.social•34 days ago

The @ADL should be ashamed as well James.

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davidashleyowens.bsky.social•34 days ago

We go on about this forever more ..... I know what I saw you all know what you saw , A Nazi salute, but the MSM are not going to back anyone apart from the fascist that done it & whatever we say isn't going to change a thing , until the man in the street has a change of ♥ & the whole 🇬🇧 push back.

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chrisgibbons.bsky.social•34 days ago

Tonight at the inauguration ball, Donald, Elon and Melania?? I knew I'd seen that hat somewhere before!! https://youtu.be/SmDYPVgWUkY?feature=shared

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godsowncountry.bsky.social•34 days ago

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cdtplug.bsky.social•34 days ago

Telegraph already saying it was a Truman salute. Arseholes

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sentientspace.bsky.social•34 days ago

I bet they’ll say it’s just a Bellamy salute. Easy mistake to make and all that…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

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challengelucy.bsky.social•34 days ago

Just in case anyone missed it … and thinks this is made up:

https://metro.co.uk/2025/01/20/donald-trump-inauguration-2025-president-united-states-of-america-22392668/

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doubrelle.bsky.social•34 days ago

cummon its just a high 5 to one of his imaginary friends

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chris909.bsky.social•34 days ago

Right now BBC and Sky news don’t seem to think it’s worth reporting
But there is a cosy little feature entitled:

Barron Trump Then and Now

so nothing much to worry about

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haideruk.bsky.social•34 days ago

To be fair, I haven't heard anything about it from @benkentish.bsky.social yet.

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laseine.bsky.social•33 days ago

Could anyone measure the angle of the second one pls? Just to be sure.

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tobifrenzen.bsky.social•33 days ago

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laseine.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yep, saw this somewhere and thought so too 🤣

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laseine.bsky.social•33 days ago

The nazis are loving it, i'd say that confirms it, and he turned and did it again, I don't think it was a magic trick, it was all his own.

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suesymcox.bsky.social•34 days ago

Is America one of our biggest threats?

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caroloneill1.bsky.social•34 days ago

Telegraph reporting it as a “Roman Salute” they are complicit and are never going to stop gaslighting the public 🤢

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minimotobeic.bsky.social•33 days ago

Please have a think about what we will now see in the US as soon as today: the fascist roundup of human beings and their incarceration, for longer or shorter periods, in concentration camps.

Will the US struggle with the numbers held, and will it lead to the same tragedy as Nazi Germany?

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davyboy72.bsky.social•33 days ago

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poppy53.bsky.social•33 days ago

The excuse that it is a Roman salute is ridiculous, as both Hitler and Mussolini used it. They copied it for the national salute.

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isthisallthatsleft.bsky.social•34 days ago

I’m going with that. It’s the wokies that forced his support of the AfD and Uk far right groups.

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barryjames.bsky.social•34 days ago

Inaugaration speech in memes

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johnzerafa.bsky.social•34 days ago

Musk unmasked. He’s undoing starts now.

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jackmoxley.bsky.social•34 days ago

I bet you he tries to rebrand it a doge salute or something as equally cringe worthy.

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rjam33.bsky.social•33 days ago

Fuck them and their “Roman gesture” which ironically doesn’t exist and was last peddled as such by guess who ? Adolf Hitler. Elon is a dangerous cunt and needs to be called out as such https://bsky.app/profile/kensheetz.bsky.social/post/3lg7fctbcmk22

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jamiedalzell.bsky.social•33 days ago

I think it would be useful to also give the actions context in the present as well as the past.

This happened this month. Let people compare Musk's gestures with existing, growing fascist mobs.

BBC News - Fascist salute images spark uproar in Italy
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67922431

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snitchens.bsky.social•34 days ago

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garryforest.bsky.social•33 days ago

I’m no fan of Musk or Trump, but come on, no sane person, with half the world watching, would perform a Nazi salute?? 🤔

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loftusarch.bsky.social•33 days ago

Musk must have been watching Father Ted.

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chrismcquillan.co.uk•34 days ago

We’re in big trouble.

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mgdaly.bsky.social•34 days ago

Easy to misinterpret!

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coatescan.bsky.social•34 days ago

James, I am having to explain that yes it was to someone who will only believe it if he hears it on lbc, thank you

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haideruk.bsky.social•34 days ago

Nah James, see this is where you've got it wrong. It's anything BUT a nazi salute. See it's simultaneously a Roman salute and him sending his heart to the crown... Just ignore when he did it to the flag 🤣🤣

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fijiphil.bsky.social•33 days ago

Right arm thrust forward, right hand bent backwards! It's a Nazi salute!

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peterhorne.bsky.social•33 days ago

No one would accuse Trump of self awareness but does he realise that if he ends Birthright Citizenship he is declaring everyone in America who isn’t a descendant of the indigenous population who survived the massacres and genocide by the early immigrants now illegal.
That includes himself.

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ppudney.bsky.social•34 days ago

Even guardian are saying 'appears'

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john1macaskill.bsky.social•33 days ago

Imagine what the kids in school are doing today, flicking nazi salutes at each other saying "it's OK, I'm just doing a Musk!". This idiot has so much responsibility but surprise surpise zero accountability!

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baylissfx.bsky.social•34 days ago

This time - no excueses, not getting accomodated. JUST CUT TIES WITH THESE NAZI SCUM.

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chorleymike.bsky.social•33 days ago

They were only brief deliberate Nazi salutes though.

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chienrouge.bsky.social•34 days ago

Ignore the evidence of your own eyes and ears was their final and most essential command.
Some fool once wrote & lots of fools are currently writing up.

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dantootill.bsky.social•33 days ago

At least we can now understand his motivation for the Twitter rebrand, and what that 'X' probably symbolises.

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apjm5.bsky.social•34 days ago

Expect the useful idiots will start copying it, claiming it means love to all etc. big push to get a viral TikTok or similar and then the real fascists will go on love marches. All a bit 1984, but we're not exactly dealing with original thinkers.

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tonyman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Woke Mind Viruseses

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montyboo1.bsky.social•33 days ago

Does anyone really think there'll be another election in the US after 4 years? It's utterly terrifying.

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nikostg.bsky.social•33 days ago

A fair one? No

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andrewrait.bsky.social•33 days ago

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agrippa7.bsky.social•34 days ago

Elon is working hard already. https://youtu.be/xzDghgVSGCw?si=E8xl9aCaleZvP5DI

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robwilliams100.bsky.social•34 days ago

You should see the Telegraph headline. It was a "Roman salute", apparently

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mickeya.bsky.social•33 days ago

Next up---these are not concentration camps ...

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dreamingzen.bsky.social•34 days ago

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kirkville.com•34 days ago

Those damn fact checkers.

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nohostages.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/bubbaprog.lol/post/3lga5ktfrx22o

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notthatdoctor.bsky.social•34 days ago

Not that we should be surprised, but #Musskolini wouldn't have thrown this salute if he thought he'd get any pushback from Trump, he's just the first member of the administration to drop any pretence of not being a full blown fascist.

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cresswary80.bsky.social•33 days ago

Well this has escalated about a million times quicker than I expected. I mean, I knew it was going to be a right wing binfire, but for fucks sake not this quickly… 🤦🏼

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salnaseem.bsky.social•34 days ago

Look forward to the unified condemnation from the Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Spectator et all tomorrow...

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absinthemiasma.bsky.social•34 days ago

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salnaseem.bsky.social•34 days ago

FFS.

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rich-m.bsky.social•34 days ago

Just to think, I'd thought the world was going mad when Teresa was PM

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brityardie.bsky.social•33 days ago

‘So this is how liberty dies with thunderous applaus’ & a man cosplaying Hitler or should that be Mussolini, we’re supposed to choose as if one is somehow better than the other..

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flyingjay.bsky.social•34 days ago

You pointing out that I have slightly racist ideas made me idealize the richest man on the planet after he did a nazi salute at the inauguration of the first convicted criminal President of the US.

*It's your fault!!!!*

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arlandria.bsky.social•34 days ago

Apparently it's been edited out of his post on X

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sabashuali.bsky.social•34 days ago

Not sure who is supposed to be shocked or appalled by Sissy SpaceX sieg hailing? People who already know what a waste of space he is or the ones who would do the same given half the chance?

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sanharan30.bsky.social•34 days ago

I’m sure your colleague Ali will have callers saying it wasn’t rreeaallyy a Nazi salute and how James always exaggerates, and Ali will be in full agreement with them.

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t166er.bsky.social•34 days ago

It was a 'Roman'salute according to the Telegraph, just like this one..

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alistair60k.bsky.social•33 days ago

The Telegraph should, and probably do know, that the Roman salute is a 19th-century artistic construct, amplified by the fascist in the 30's and cemented into culture by movies and later tv. But gaslighting is very popular with far right media.

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neil02.bsky.social•34 days ago

After 2 years of right wing messengers telling us ADHD wasn't a real mental health issue.
The right wing press will now blame his ADHD for his perfectly excicuted salute.

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stuarthart1982.bsky.social•33 days ago

I mean, if he looks like a Nazi and acts like a Nazi????

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thepieman13.bsky.social•34 days ago

https://youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?si=9gPIF9uQYL3Grrv7

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jmurkin.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm sure Nick will give us all a good explanation in the morning

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haideruk.bsky.social•34 days ago

I'm not going to listen to that garbage. He's going to make sure he has 100 valid excuses.

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ladyboater.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh can't wait for that

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yorkshiredeborah.bsky.social•33 days ago

I don’t switch on till 10, not good for my blood pressure

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ghostinexile.bsky.social•34 days ago

"People are really calling it a Nazi salute, calm down snowflakes, because you're wrong, it was nothing but a symbolic throwing away 248 years of democracy setting the ground for a style of fascism that hasn't been seen since Germany in the 1930s...

...

Now here's Bob with the sport."

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thegamerguymatt.bsky.social•33 days ago

What would you call it because that is what it was.

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retiredgamer.bsky.social•34 days ago

Think the Daily Mail with its erm, history will step up and call it what it actually was on tomorrows front page ???

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cam76chiefs.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh God, how are we going to get through this awful time 😩😩

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jamesbacon.bsky.social•34 days ago

Oh come on James… who hasn’t accidentally done a nazi salute in front of a bunch of people? did a company presentation the other day and accidentally goose-stepped into the room and slapped my boss round the face with my glove.

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haideruk.bsky.social•34 days ago

That made me laugh out loud 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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beledit.bsky.social•34 days ago

Ditto 😁

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chrisa3030911.bsky.social•33 days ago

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mickeya.bsky.social•33 days ago

Not goose stepping...a silly walk...

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embo85.bsky.social•33 days ago

Daily Mail had done it and even it's readers aren't having it

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workingmansecon.bsky.social•34 days ago

See also, confused MAGA, thinking that Elon has gone socialist.

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bonhillboy.bsky.social•34 days ago

I wonder how this one will play in Germany as he’s been supporting AfD

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xavierhu.bsky.social•33 days ago

Well... we all know what the afd is .. now it's clear to Germany.. also this kind of stuff is highly illegal in Germany... it will guess it will cost them a lot of votes

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alastair-3153.bsky.social•34 days ago

It's like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. Not listening not listening not listening. Mary Trump nailed it when she said her uncle has no redeeming qualities.

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tiredrich.bsky.social•34 days ago

He was in a fly-heavy room

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charliec35.bsky.social•34 days ago

Idiots corner tomorrow is going to be interesting

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sheila-the-thief.bsky.social•34 days ago

As far as I can tell, so far the right-wing media totally missed it. Who'd have thought it 🤷🏼‍♀️

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retrogem.bsky.social•34 days ago

According to the telegraph it was a roman salute and according a paper that seemed to be called the star it was accidental.

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leftpeggers.bsky.social•34 days ago

Twice

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chris-baldwin.bsky.social•33 days ago

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the-librarian.bsky.social•33 days ago

Apparently according to the Telegraph it’s a Roman salute and Musk is a big fan of the Romans who, as we all know, were also great supporters of the ancient Ostrogothic branch of the AFD. Nothing Nazi about it. 🤪

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vinylfan31.bsky.social•33 days ago

I think there are echoes of,1930,s hitler on show here, the world walked blindly into it last time, and similarities to the ideals of oswald mowsley, and musk trying to disguise a nazi salute

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fraserw.bsky.social•34 days ago

What difference is there?

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mbwldurham.bsky.social•34 days ago

Unbelievable what I witnessed and he didn’t do it once, he did it twice, and yeah you will get the right wind media telling everyone it wasn’t a Nazi salute but a Roman one (excuses already out) but we all know it was, and we all knew this was coming, we all knew what Trump and Musk was about.

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h3nrymartin.bsky.social•33 days ago

At what point do Trump’s Israeli allies start objecting to this? (and why not already?)

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minimotobeic.bsky.social•33 days ago

The far right of Israel has cynically and disgracefully hijacked the memory of the Holocaust and the term 'antisemitism'.

Far right Israeli trolls: just look up my bio. Then get lost.

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hypermarche.bsky.social•33 days ago

Elon was pointing at some birds that were loose in the room.

There were five birds, which is why he used all his phalanges.

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clartyannie.bsky.social•33 days ago

Am depressed by yesterday's events in Washington but focussing on their outlandish language and gestures is EXACTLY what they want and doesn't help persuade people to stop supporting them. Critique what they do and don't play their distraction game. It doesn't work and you can't win it.

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spr00001.bsky.social•34 days ago

Straight to idiot's corner. The special one in the basement.

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jflanagan80.bsky.social•34 days ago

Fox News have already cut that bit from his speech

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ians.chat•34 days ago

There are fools over on Xitter blaming CNN for making it look like a nazi salute.

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ladyboater.bsky.social•34 days ago

'He touched his heart and threw it out to the crowd in a display of gratitude' also 'oh, he has aspergers, they do that'

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maxy77.bsky.social•34 days ago

People with aspergers do Nazi salutes? Well, I never knew that!

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loza123.bsky.social•34 days ago

Omg , they are just talking about people like you....

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peanco2025.bsky.social•34 days ago

BBC headline you'll probably see tonight: 'Musk hails a self drive cab at the inauguration.'

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jonty24.bsky.social•34 days ago

So grim

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shakeystephens.bsky.social•34 days ago

The BBC is currently ignoring it

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bonhillboy.bsky.social•34 days ago

It was on Newsnight to be fair.

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jamesfoster83.bsky.social•34 days ago

I’m a ‘hysterical wokie’
Whose grandfather was a Nazi soldier captured in the d-day operations.
His name was Hőrst Lißke and he was not a nice person at all

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paulweems.bsky.social•33 days ago

And our politicians ‘it’s not what I would have chosen to do but we look forward to working with them’

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alisoncitrine.bsky.social•34 days ago

The Telegraph has said it was a 'Roman' salute, think they misspelled Nazi

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intelcube.bsky.social•33 days ago

Elon Musk's gesture reminiscent of a Nazi salute has rekindled the chilling aspirations of those who wish to see horrors akin to the Holocaust repeated. This serves as yet another miscalculation by my Jewish friends who backed Trump.

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paulnray.bsky.social•34 days ago

Have you or will you stop posting on his platform? I deleted my account last friday

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appanah.bsky.social•33 days ago

Only a matter of time before Meghan Markle, Jeremy Corbyn and Sangita Myska gets blamed for it!

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devilhat.bsky.social•33 days ago

By @mrjamesob.bsky.social , probably.

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semiasleep.bsky.social•33 days ago

Brace yourself James. The putrid dungfest is only just beginning and you're looking directly at the mosh pit.

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erikkreis.bsky.social•33 days ago

You don't have to be a Nazi to be a monster. We may be looking at new sort of evil. These discussions over raising an arm is a waste of time, but it takes no effort, like. . .say. . .bothering to read Trump's Executive Orders. I am alot less concerned about a maybe, than the impact of real actions.

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