Tim Waltz, one of the people vigorously calling Musk a Nazi for doing that action, is on video doing the exact same “salute”:
You’ll agree Tim Waltz is a Nazi, I assume?
Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 day agoIf you perform a Nazi salute, you’re a Nazi.
Musk performed TWO Nazi salutes on national television during a presidential inauguration.
Musk owns X.
Anymore questions? Do I need to illustrate with crayons?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Cyberjin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some would say a Roman salute 🫡 So anything else substantial? That can’t be interpreted as something else?
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 day ago
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Cyberjin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But anything else? that’s what I’m asking
merdaverse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s plenty:
forbes.com/…/musk-retweets-hitler-didnt-murder-mi…
But this is the most I am willing to engage at the moment with an obvious troll
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 day ago
not my job and this is not the place to waste time providing a textbook-level of evidence of what you could have researched yourself if you were willing to be persuaded.
biofaust@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Italian here, Roman actually.
The Roman salute has not origin in ancient history.
It was formalized by Gabriele D’Annunzio, a sick fascist poet and writer, as a salute for his proto-fascist troops with which he occupied Fiume in modern-day Croatia, having been inspired this painting.
So yea, the roman salute is a fascist salute, invented by a fascist, for a fascist occurrence and to call it roman is a disservice to Rome and history in general.