If it a salute it was a pretty shit and lazy one. Not that I would be surprised if that's what it was.
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Let me guess the excuse: he also has autism and autistic people just can't help doing Nazi salutes all the time.
You know how you keep seeing autistic people give Nazi salutes?
"damn vaccines... All Fauci's fault" - RFK Jr?
I'm autistic and I can't stop nazi saluting it's scaring my kids neighbors and friends send help
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The cognitive dissonance over at r/conservative is showing cracks over this one. Same with the "dictator" comments about Zelensky. You can make MAGATs believe a lot of things, but telling them that, actually, Putin is the good guy, and Nazis are pretty cool, is a hard sell.
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More privileged fat middle aged white guys signaling their hatred
What a pathetic fucking loser
Apparent? Shut the fuck up.
The space karen one was blatantly apparent, this was a pretty half assed attempt. Like he is too much of a bitch to put his contemptible fascist ideology on full display.
In this case I think the point is to be on the nose about how fucking ridiculous it is - just from this article:
Steve Bannon made a gesture that is identical to a Nazi salute
Bannon made the gesture — extending his arm, palm down, fingers straight, at an upward angle away from his chest, which is also what Nazi salutes look like
the gesture was also identical to one made by billionaire Elon Musk
extended his arm straight out, palm down, fingers straight, at an upward angle away from his chest. Which, whatever the billionaire’s intention, just happens to be precisely how a Nazi salute is performed.
Musk repeated the gesture. Here’s how that looked.
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Throwing in the word “apparent” is cowardly, but it’s also a lot cheaper than being sued for libel by a fucking billionaire.
So at what point of doing something does it actually become the thing that it was?
Seems pretty obvious to me.
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Dodging shackles of the new Ministry of Truth
Oxford's top definition for Apparent is "clearly visible or understood; obvious"
And the second (which is how they are using it) is "seeming real or true, but not necessarily so".
I think the third one is "brother, i really don't wanna get sued for that shit." Pretty sure they are using that one.
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I'd like to go back to a simpler time. A time when nazis got shot in the fucking face.
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In times past, anyone doing anything like that around the president would have put the president on the fast track to impeachment.
Today, this will just slide, and we'll have another piece of outrageous news tomorrow that nobody will be outraged about for more than 10 minutes. Different values today I guess...
Impeachment in the US seems to be meaningless too, though
It's because impeachment is a partisan process. If the Republicans had an ounce of integrity (or even self-preservation) they would have joined the Democrats in voting to convict when Trump was impeached multiple times previously.
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It really is. It does fucking nothing.
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Well yeah, but he's not a cool Nazi: he looks like he sleeps in the street while the South African one is a kajillionaire who makes space rockets and electric cars.
Nobody likes an uncool Nazi.
Also, here's the actual source of the article instead of a link to an aggregator:
https://www.thewrap.com/steve-bannon-gives-apparent-nazi-salute-at-cpac-elon-musk/
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Judge for yourselves ... pretty blatant Nazi salute if I've ever seen one. Short and quick but it was a plainly obvious gesture.
1930s German Nazis would have laughed at it for being so pitiful and weak but it was there from what I saw.
https://www.youtube.com/live/0BN-62AQT4Q?t=29801s
If the linked time doesn't work ... scroll through to the end of his 15 minute speech at 8:16:32
I can't even think of a way that this could be given some veil of innocence either. The "my heart goes out to you" thing was always bullshit, but it was an attempt at plausible deniability. I don't think even that could be done here
It's just an involuntary hand movement, like when someone reaches for glasses they are already wearing, or reach out for a phone that's not in the pocket. He got the habit from all the times he does the Nazi salute behind closed doors. /s (but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually true)
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I posted it on the thread that was removed, but here it is again, video proof:
Timestamped link on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/0BN-62AQT4Q?t=29797
He wasn't quite as confident with doing it as musk.
Thats kinda funny.
Unlike Musk, he did have a taste of prison
He looked very anxious doing it, tbh. Pathetic. Like a child muttering a swear under their breath before nervously scanning the room to see if anyone heard.
That's it! I was sleepily writing my comment, having not long woken up this morning, with a thought in the back of my mind that i couldn't reach.
Perfect analogy!
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He fucking nodded in confirmation. “Yup, that’s what it was.”