It's not an autism thing. The people saying that are deflecting. Autistic people don't throw practiced Hitler salutes as a stim.
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He absolutely knew what he was doing. His fans thought we were being hyperbolic when we said he was a fascist a decade ago. His fans are idiots
I guess if I am nit-picking, it's very hard for a statistician to claim anything as having a zero possibility... of course a statement like that helps no one. These are my actual thoughts:
non-zero possibility
It is technically possible that Musk's gesture was not a Nazi salute but rather something that looks similar. Fun fact, this is something that happened with S. Korea's Megalian hand gesture issue (for example see this case: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2621gzvkdo), where ppl found the gesture in a lot of unexpected places. However, the Megalian gesture is a pretty common hand movement, whereas the Nazi salute... I mean I guess it could happen due to a really bad out-of-context dance choreography?? But that clearly wasn't Musk's case
"But I am just wondering if everyone else sees this that way with no room for it being a result of autism and definitely that."
... I mean maybe?? I have weird Autistic intrusive thoughts sometimes but even then this is a bit... Honestly though, I don't know if I should put any respect to someone who willingly know what a Nazi salute is, and then choose to do it in front of one of the most important political events in the world, twice in a row nontheless. I find it hard to believe such an act to be a faux pass and non-intentional. Heck even if it is completely unintentional, this would be ground for job termination and put on a blacklist for life for most job positions I know
"Is this where we are? I feel more scared to be in America now."
Yeah I know... I seriously wonder why I am still in the US as well.
I mean, considering the fact that it's been days and he hasn't recanted and that he has a history of supporting far right parties like the AfD, no
If he did it once, it would have been an extremely low but still non-zero chance that it wasn't a Nazi salute.
He did it twice though, it's now firmly a 0% chance of any kind of coincidence, misunderstanding, etc.
Thus far he's made no comment, not even to deny the Nazi intent.
No apology, no backtrack, no denial, he did it twice.
It was exactly what it appeared to be and nothing less.
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He did the Nazi salute twice, intentionally.
He said "my heart goes out to you" because of plausible deniability. He was giving his followers an argument to deny that he did it intentionally, both to themselves and others.
He has not directly denied it nor apologized for it.
European leaders are acknowledging it for what it is. Neo-Nazis are acknowledging it for what it is, and they loved it.
People who are sincerely on the fence about this, admitted they actually exist, need to wake the fuck up.
Where was the apology?
There was none.
He knew what he did.
I mean sure. EVERYTHING has a non-zero chance of happening/be possible. Doesn't mean it's likely, or believable.
There's a chance someone has forked the blueprints of Nikola Teslas blueprints for a mind control device, and has been controling Musk for years. Just making him do/say whatever.
I'm not saying it's a good chance. I'm not saying I believe that to be true on any level. But I suppose there's nothing truely stopping that from happening.
Based on the fact that he did it repeatedly, I think it was at least an intentional gesture. I will give the benefit of the doubt and say that it may have been intended some other way as opposed to a Nazi salute, but my personal opinion is that it resembled a Nazi salute on purpose. Theoretically autism could have been a factor, but I doubt it in this case. We aren't quite at the point you mention at the end there yet, but we are rapidly approaching such a point and you should be wary and do your own research about what's going on so you can be well-informed.
Not likely.
I'm autistic too. I've fucked up socially A LOT but never in a "whoops, I just Nazi saluted" kind of way.
Yes because the name for it is the fascist salute not the Hitler salute
I can imagine him practicing in the mirror for hours to get exactly the right arm motion for a Nazi salute that is imperfect by just enough that some people will contemplate the possibility that it wasn't one.
Exactly this. The gesture had the right amount of ambiguity so everyone would think of it what better suits their ideas
Zero ambiguity. Zero.
If it was an honest mistake he would've apologized.
Musk is playing agent provocateur. He knows exactly who is offending. He knows how he will deny it and planted seeds of doubt to make his case. It's a show of might. Elon gets off on the fact that he knows what his extreme wealth allows him to get away with but is offended at the same time that anyone might question his absolute power. In classic fascist fashion he will now insist himself, an extremely powerful and wealthy person immune to any law of any nation, is the victim here.
This type of behavior erodes at any good will people might like to inject into the political environment and keeps every one fighting each other rather then the obvious source of all the vitriol.
No.
The only way his autism is related is if he overestimated how funny it would be. But he 100% meant to do a Nazi salute. Twice, and then repeated a dog whistle to the 14-words.
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Absolutely zero. The man is an out and proud Nazi who has openly said and supported anti-semitic shit on his Twitter. If any accident occurred, it is that he accidentally did it out loud and on camera, instead of the privacy of his own home.
You are also very correct, we are going through the opening beats that Nazi Germany went through. Klan members are sending out flyers in Kentucky, ICE agents are threatening to raid Democrat cities, and "deportation facilities" are being planned for construction in Texas. We have passed all the warning signs; it is happening here now.
is fleeing america the smart thing to do? or do you not expect xyclon-B levels of hate to ensue? would organization even do anything? i really believe most liberals want to regulate and protest and ignore problems and that it won't stop or slow this.
i don't want to be deer in the headlights shocked for too long
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He has been a public figure for over a decade and has a dedicated PR team. He knew exactly what he was doing. I have autism, I know what it is like, there is no chance I would ever do this.
A detail of note is that he denies having autism and prefers the term aspbergers which is not recognized by the DSM-5. This is interesting begans Hans Aspberger was an ardent eugenicist with nazi ties. Elon Musk is a fascist and has been for a long time.
A detail of note is that he denies having autism and prefers the term aspbergers which is not recognized by the DSM-5. .
Honestly more likely reason is that he was diagnosed with Asperger's before DSM-5, which was released only 12 years ago, and is just more comfortable with the term over autism which is unfortunately often used in a derogatory manner.
But that's an interesting note regardless hehe
Damn, I had no clue about the links between Asperger's and the Nazi scientist. It's a good thing that it's not a diagnosis anymore, because of the whole nazi science thing.
Yea sure - but it doesn't matter. It could have mattered but his reaction to the reaction means it doesn't.
If you accidentally do a nazi salute and then someone says "Hey bro, you really shouldn't do a nazi salute" and another dude says "Hey bro, white power! I'm glad you're on our side" and your immediate reaction isn't "Oh fuck guys, I didn't know that was a nazi salute, I fucking hate nazis" then, well, you did a nazi salute.
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Elon did a thing.
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People said "That's a nazi thing".
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Elon didn't immediately say "No, I didn't do the nazi thing."
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∴ Elon is a nazi.
It's also not like the fucker doesn't have the ability to issue a statement correcting the public perception. He literally owns fucking X and the media salivate over his press releases.
If you accidentally do a nazi salute and then someone says "Hey bro, you really shouldn't do a nazi salute"
I like to think about how a person like that would react if they accidentally "acted gay". Can you imagine how much they would trip over themselves trying to make sure people knew it was a mistake?
If you don't have that level of response to being called a Nazi, you're probably a Nazi.
And if they work that hard to make sure everyone knows they're not gay, then bonus! You also found out that they're homophobic.
No, I don't agree with this at all.
I grew up in the 90s when being gay was "bad" (societys words, not mine). I live in Cleveland, but a suburb of Cleveland is Lakewood. San Fransisco is Americas gayest city. Lakewood is (was?) Americas second gayest city (at least in the 90s it was).
I lived right on the Lakewood border. About 7 streets away. And just to give an idea of how anti-gay the 90s were, I can remember a guy getting handcuffed to a chain link fence, and beaten by 4 men with bats. Beaten to literal death. With his dead body lay prone and still handcuffed from 2:30am until 7am on a busy street until a mother called the police as she walked her 5 year old to school (this was 2 blocks from an elementary school)
That's the environment I grew up in. People CONSTANTLY accused me of being gay. I'm not. I never have been gay. But I grew up being taught you better make sure you deny it. If nothing else, so people don't beat you.
Now I realize, we no longer live in that social environment. But I also assume Jews in Europe in the 1960s still would downplay the fact they were Jewish. Sure, the nazis weren't a thing anymore, but if you'd seen the holocaust you wouldn't take chances either.
Plus, being a teenager in the 90s, I thought "If the girls think I'm gay, I'll never get laid...." which was true. They still thought I was gay, and I didn't get to date until after high school.
And thats how I stay today. I have enough of an uphill battle to dating. I don't need women disqualifying me for something that isn't true.
Now if YOU wanna be gay, go ahead. I always think if more guys are gay, that makes things easier for me.
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First time in years I've seen the 'therefor' three dots!
∴ - copying to notes as I don't think it's available on Android keyboards.
I always just search the web for "<symbol> unicode" when I need something obscure. Then again I'm old ;_;
I'm British and I tried to plug something into it.
Don't you know? Plugs go in the rear.
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No. In my opinion.
He has demonstrated a propensity for political action up to and including world changing meddling in democracies.
His person demands enough yearly salary from Tesla to cure cancer.
He cites history and in my recollection claims no ignorance of history.
It may be technically possible that it was a faux pas, but it is not feasibly a faux pas and is inexcusable even if it was one.
Yes, it's possible, but he's a spoiled right wing idiot edge lord, so I'd take it at face value.
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