Not gonna write an essay on it or anything but fwiw I think the meaning of Musk's (obviously intentional) Roman salute is less "we will now govern as C20th fascists" and more "we can do whatever we want now, the old rules are a joke, nothing means anything, you are lost and we are winning, fuck you"
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Somewhat surprised - perhaps naively - and slightly disheartened by the various ways in which this seems to have been misinterpreted. So to be clear, there is no inferred "so it's all fine don't worry about it" going on here. That's not what this post means, at all
An iron cross doesn't need to be called a "fascist cross" or even be made of iron to be recognised as a fascist symbol, known as an "iron cross." Likewise a "Roman salute" is simply a name we have for an explicitly fascist symbol, widely recognised as such
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At least the swastika genuinely was Hindu 🙄
I can't think why.
Oh yeah, actually I can. Disingenuous euphemism -- given that there's no evidence whatever of the (Ancient) Romans using it.
2. What's the difference between what you described and fascists?
2. I never said it wasn't fascist. But it's not a declaration that they're going to run things in a way that is easily comparable to 20th century state fascism.
This part does
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