We don't know what Elon Musk meant with that hand gesture but we do know neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers are "eating it up" and celebrating with messages like “WE ARE FUCKING BACK" www.wired.com/story/neo-na... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

drewharwell.com • 33 days ago

We don't know what Elon Musk meant with that hand gesture but we do know neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers are "eating it up" and celebrating with messages like “WE ARE FUCKING BACK" https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-love-elon-musk-nazi-like-salutes-trumps-inauguration/

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heimatplanet.bsky.social•33 days ago

We know what he meant. It's a Hitler-Gruss. There is only sign in the entire world like it and every damn idiot on this planet knows it.

dianamc.bsky.social•33 days ago

Who doesn’t know? Are you BLIND? WE know.

1mkk.bsky.social•33 days ago

Elon Musk wants what Donald Trump has - full immunity. He wants to show the world that he has complete power to destroy all of our social norms and control everything. And now he has it and he has Trump in a compromised place. Putin’s got a new puppet.

keep-the-faith.bsky.social•33 days ago

Hey @wired.com "Nazi-like"?!? WTF? Chickensh*t.

realtdog.bsky.social•33 days ago

Saying the riot parts out loud.

peggyshields.bsky.social•33 days ago

It doesn’t matter what he “meant”. That is clearly Nazi. That what it is. Believe him when he shows you who he is.

grinzhy.bsky.social•33 days ago

We know precisely what he meant by it. The idea that anyone pretends it's debatable is absurd.

drewharwell.com•33 days ago

We don't know what Elon Musk meant with that hand gesture but one of Germany's biggest newspapers Die Zeit calls it a "Hitler salute" and covers up the photo. (Nazi salutes are illegal in Germany, punishable by up to three years in prison.) https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitlergruss-amtseinfuehrung-donald-trump

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scootersane.bsky.social•33 days ago

If it walks like a duck...
🤡

withnofilter.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh come on, we know exactly what he meant. Did you not see, and hear, the intensity in his vigorous salute?

loveisphere.bsky.social•33 days ago

Germans know

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mitchferro.bsky.social•33 days ago

Meanwhile, here’s the brave journalism from your employer. The same employer who has made it clear that the Post is to be the mouthpiece of Trump. You must be proud.

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mitchferro.bsky.social•33 days ago

Honest question: how do you feel comfortable getting paid $$ from a newspaper who described this as “Elon Musk gives exuberant speech at inauguration”? Would you feel comfortable telling your future kids/grandkids that you worked for a newspaper that praised Hitler the way yours does Musk/Trump?

withnofilter.bsky.social•33 days ago

Ouch! The truth hurts 🙌

mitchferro.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thanks for linking the stories above. I wouldn’t have seen them without you pointing to them. I can’t imagine the cognitive dissonance you are going through to keep working every day for what’s become the propaganda organ for the Trump regime.

hermajestykatniss.bsky.social•33 days ago

By now there is more evidence Elon is a Nazi than evidence that he is not:
*Born & raised in Apartheid *Father openly pro-Apartheid *Lawsuits re discrimination/hostile workplace at Tesla *Writes pro neo-Nazi party articles in Europe *Gave Sieg Heil salute 2x at Dump inaug.

Quacks like a duck!

ginnysacksmole.bsky.social•33 days ago

We do know

krisweinschenker.bsky.social•32 days ago

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bvangalder.bsky.social•33 days ago

Can we send him to Germany to do the gesture so he can be put in jail?🙂

tsktsk-tuttut.bsky.social•32 days ago

We DO know. It WAS a Nazi, or Hitler, salute.

rwilks.bsky.social•33 days ago

I saw mainstream, non-controversial German news channel n-tv call it a "Hitlergrüße" this morning. Folks here know it when they see it.

nanalexi.bsky.social•33 days ago

wtf is with we don’t know what he meant?

vero1986.bsky.social•28 days ago

It's OK to be proud to be German": Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event
Days after throwing what experts called a Nazi salute, Musk addressed the far-right party conference
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/25/i...

marywalterman.bsky.social•33 days ago

I know exactly what he means by that gesture. Not sure why you don't know what he meant.🤔

auntiemamie2u.bsky.social•31 days ago

PLEASE SEND HIS RACIST ASS TO GERMANY STAT.
*Thank You Germany 🌹

voxindie.bsky.social•33 days ago

We do know.

lov4all.bsky.social•33 days ago

Isn't Musk a purported genius? But he doesn't know that particular gesticulation looks nearly identical to a NAZI SALUTE? We're all supposed to pretend we "don't know what Elon Musk meant"

withnofilter.bsky.social•33 days ago

Actually no! He’s as big a fraud as Trump. Someone else invented space x and tesla.

jen1word.bsky.social•33 days ago

This. Either he knew exactly what he was doing or he really is pretty oblivious. I don't think he's anything close to a genius but i do think he's savvy enough to know what that gesture is. He's closer to psychopath than genius.

darwinslaw2028.bsky.social•26 days ago

Pick up Elon and put it away

dominicrusso.bsky.social•33 days ago

But we do know what he meant. Why is everyone acting like it was a mistake? Are we just too afraid to accept that reality? We can’t just normalize this.

withnofilter.bsky.social•33 days ago

They still can’t admit Trump simulated a BJ on a microphone. Or that he’s a rapist, a criminal, an insurrectionist, attempted a coup, tried to steal the 2020 election and the list goes on and on and on.

adamvann.bsky.social•33 days ago

That’s kind of his point, my man

dominicrusso.bsky.social•33 days ago

I didn’t notice the full thread, that went right past me. Just losing my mind a little.

samlecure.bsky.social•33 days ago

Weird since your employer doesn’t seem to know. Zero credibility, WaPo hack has no integrity.

libdeb123.bsky.social•33 days ago

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platinumretriever.bsky.social•33 days ago

It would not have been illegal for Die Zeit, other newspapers in Germany have shown the full image. Still good they called it out directly.

democracyyea.bsky.social•33 days ago

It should be illegal here too. I cancelled my Washington post subscription for exactly this reason. Democracy dies in darkness what a wonderful slogan for a newspaper that sold out our democracy to a billionaire.

wholegrains.bsky.social•33 days ago

I think that new girlfriend torched Jeff Bezos. He’s gone downhill since he hooked up with her.

I know. It’s always the girl’s fault and I shouldn’t say something like this.

But… men often get pointed in the right direction by smart women… and sometimes it’s the opposite.

hermajestykatniss.bsky.social•33 days ago

His 1st wife MacKenzie wrote the original business plan for Amazon & did all the original mailing WHILE RAISING THEIR 4 CHILDREN. Plus, she's 10x more beautiful, not to mention her thoughtful philanthropy, than this walking exhibit of plastic surgery Bezos uses for arm candy! No taste, no morals.

wholegrains.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yeah, he really screwed up letter her go.

wholegrains.bsky.social•32 days ago

Haha. Autocorrect. Funny.

hayseedlucy.bsky.social•33 days ago

I cancelled my Amazon Prime account back in November. Haven't missed it. Much happier shopping locally and actually meeting people!

democracyyea.bsky.social•33 days ago

That’s great. I haven’t managed to cancel mine yet.

hayseedlucy.bsky.social•33 days ago

It's really not that hard. After going through endless cancellation notification pages, I ended up just putting my Prime account on 'pause'.
I'm no longer charged a monthly fee, but I can resume later. (Not looking like that will happen!)

cuibonobaby.bsky.social•33 days ago

We know.

only1karamelle.bsky.social•33 days ago

True. Germany, Italy, Europe, most journalists KNOW what this is. And yet: it is printed behind a PAYWALL.
It´s sad (and discloses much of European mindset too) that even big newspapers hide important articles like this in the small backyard instead of spreading it in the broad field of the public.

tuesdaynightfever.bsky.social•33 days ago

In Germany everybody knows the meaning of a Hitler salute. And there is nothing to misunderstand.
Nazis do Nazi things. Like Hitler salutes.

marchforsanity.bsky.social•33 days ago

Bullshit. We do know.

leighton-evans.bsky.social•33 days ago

I’m sorry but the picture is an almost perfect snapshot of what he meant. No joy, no excitement, no ambiguity in that. It’s pure and megalomania nazism. He’s showing everyone what America First means… much like Germany First. There is absolutely ZERO shred of doubt. It’s mental people think not!

subu.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yeah, a real head-scratcher, that hand gesture.

very-ugly-joe.bsky.social•33 days ago

You don't? Why is Wired employing stupid people?

shantihshantih.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh, we know
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-alternative-for-germany-election-far-right-nazi-past-rcna185018

thegooduncle.bsky.social•33 days ago

…and apparently free from the laws we thought would keep us safe

beaststroganoff.bsky.social•33 days ago

We know exactly what he meant. Heil shittler.

democracyyea.bsky.social•33 days ago

Of course we know what he meant with that hand gesture to say otherwise is disingenuous.