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598 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sharpshadow ◴[05 Sep 25 12:32 UTC] No.45137766[source]▶
To be very specific I was told that the hand does not go over the head when doing a nazi salute.
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1. Quarrelsome ◴[05 Sep 25 16:00 UTC] No.45140067[source]▶
I just imagine a hypothetical future where a party funded by the richest man in the world goes full fascist and we trot out the "who could have known?". We get out the protractors or simply admit that it was a Nazi salute.

Its the lack of clarity or apology, he never said that it wasn't, he never apologised or said "oh yeah, i didnt mean that" or he even could have brushed it off as a joke or trolling to evoke a reaction. But he never did, he just said people were overreacting.

Combined with his public support for groups like AfD and Patriotic Alternative UK, it seems pretty obvious that he's a Nazi. If anything this subject shows a clear divide between US and European reaction, given how he's now overwhelmingly persona non grata in Europe since that. The US has this bizarre tribalism in its politics, where half its electorate deny the reality that an government official (as he started his doge role at the time) is glorifying the symbols of America's greatest adversary in the world's most destructive war.