• takeda@lemm.ee
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          The “liberal” media are bending the knee. They are editing that part from the footage, apparently Facebook is removing posts with this. They are showing that they never were on liberal side, they just existed to control liberals.

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            There is no need for scare quotes around liberal. Bending the knee is what liberals do.

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              The quotes are apt, as they never were truly liberal. They existed to capitalize on that market and to guide liberals to do what their owners want.

              Look how for example they ridicule progressives like Bernie or AOC, how they ignored net neutrality during Obama and trump.

              Look how they get Biden to cancel campaign when he was promising to raise taxes on $400k+

              They are “liberal” but only in a way that it doesn’t interfere with billionaires wealth.

              If you want reliable news sources support non profit ones.

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                The quotes are apt, as they never were truly liberal.

                They were never true scotsmen.

                Most of the rest of your comment describes bog standard liberal behavior.

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      There is no mainstream liberal media. It doesn’t exist and never did, only Republican propaganda.

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      Are you going to cover the costs of the libel suits filed by Musk? If you aren’t maybe understand what they are doing when they call it odd and mention the historical significance.

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    The headline currently seems to be:

    Elon Musk accused of giving ‘Nazi salute’ at Trump inauguration celebration

    Which, I mean, isn’t really much better, as you can clearly see he is indeed giving a nazi salute.

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    Batya Ungar-Sargon insisted. “This is a man with Aspergers exuberantly throwing his heart to the crowd. We don’t need to invent outrage.”

    This is a man who has been in the public eye for decades. He has given speeches to crowds before. At no point has he spontaneously seig heiled as a means of expressing emotions before. He knew exactly what he was doing. He felt secure surrounded by this crowd and took the opportunity to make a statement… and they fucking cheered.

    It makes me want to throw up. I am exhausted by these articles. It reminds me of the narcissits prayer. -That didn’t happen. -And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. -And if it was, that’s not a big deal. -And if it is, that’s not my fault. -And if it was, I didn’t mean it. -And if I did, you deserved it. They give him an inch and he takes a mile.

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      No news organization will call it a nazi or fascist salute as they will get sued for doing so. Instead they will call it odd and mention historical significance and let the reader put two and two together.

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        Give the guy some time. He probably hasn’t done this in front of a crowd this big before and was a bit timid. Practice, practice, practice.

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    There is nothing “odd looking”. Everyone who has ever seen a documentation about Nazi Germany should be able to identify the gesture.

    Remember the times when real Americans shot at Nazis instead of voting for them?

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    The white dude from apartheid South Africa whose father owned an emerald mine there is a Nazi? So surprising.

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    Odd looking Nazi salute, yeah but it’s Elon he always looks like the skin wearing badguy from MiB

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    America has a long storied tradition of killing Nazis. It’s like a national pastime. It permeates our film and literature. We have been celebrated the world over for decades because of our talent with killing Nazis. We have monuments about this. Just sayin’.