"In the afternoon, Elon Musk spoke to the crowd, throwing two salutes that right-wing extremists, including neo-Nazis, interpreted as Nazi salutes."

[tweetsjen@med-mastodon.com]

@wdlindsy not surprised Trump brags about tampering with the election.

“After praising Elon Musk, he told the crowd “He was very effective. He knows those computers better than anybody. Those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So it was pretty good…. Thank you to Elon.””

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@bipartisan And media, whether right or left, should simply turn a blind eye and remain silent? Is that your point?

[tweetsjen@med-mastodon.com]

@wdlindsy Trump’s supporters say they can’t afford eggs, yet they can afford to buy fake money $TRUMP $MELANIA #memecoin

“CNN noted that the release of the meme coin had raised “serious ethics concerns,” but those who participate in the industry were less gentle. One wrote: “Trump’s sh*tcoin release has caused possibly the greatest overnight loss of credibility in presidential history. He made $60B. Great for Trump family, terrible for this country and hopes we had for the Trump presidency.””

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tweetsjen Touché. They just had to elect Trump because the price of eggs — but somehow found thousands to fly to D.C. and stay in expensive hotels in order to see the new monarch crowned.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tweetsjen Yes, I think he and his cronies want to give us the impression that they have rigged the system in perpetuity and it's futile for us to protest.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@BlueWaver22 @GottaLaff I agree. I've subscribed, though not as a paying subscriber, because I already overextend my limited fixed income as a retiree by a pretty large range of donations/subscriptions to groups and causes that seem to me worth my support.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@FallsMom Yes, Roman my eye and Betty Martin!

[lanaehforaday@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

Note how his upper teeth are folded tightly over his lower lip? This is a VERY INTENTIONAL SALUTE

A SPECIFIC salute and he shoved it up there multiple times to make sure everyone was specifically aware he was doing THIS SPECIFIC salute.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LaNaehForaday I saw that, too, and the hostility and what I read as outright hate on his face. This was a deliberate, planned, full-body and facial gesture and he knew exactly the audience he would reach with it.

[subterfuge@dice.camp]

@wdlindsy Josh Marshall is also one of the ‘resistance’ grifters who makes a living off of these politics. So i suggest moving on to read The Lever or something rather than the ‘resistance’ of fixating on Trump all day

[thecomfortablespotpodcast@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy have we reached a point where we have explain why #Nazis are evil when we should be allowed to shoot them on sight.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This photograph of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute while standing behind the seal of the President of the United States summarizes the reprehensible first day of the second Trump regime. This gesture was no accident. The richest man in the world gave Hitler’s sieg heil not once, but twice in rapid succession."

~ Steven Beschloss

#ElonMusk #Trump #Nazis
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Snapshot: Fascism Day One

Nazi salutes, pardons for violent criminals, threats of foreign invasion

(www.americaamerica.news)

[icare4america@freeatlantis.com]

@wdlindsy

Such Bull Shit!!! He did no such thing!

[cwilbur@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy I do think that branding is going to play a big role in the new regime, and we have to counter it, both by rejecting their brand and by coming up with some brands of our own. This is one of the core principles in Snyder's book (On Tyranny) and it can be very effective in bullying the rest of us into complying.
Therefore, (1) we cannot succumb to fear, which leads to pre-obeying, and (2) we must counter the behavior.

[timo21@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wdlindsy it is as clear as ever: MAGA = Nazi.

[glitzersachen@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy

Well, I am German, not a Nazi, but a lay student of history with a bit of a focus on the Third Reich.

I also very much think it was a nazi salute ...

[lin11c@toad.social]

@wdlindsy
Absolutely obscene. A complete perversion of our democratic symbols by an illegal immigrant White Supremacist scumbag. That is what MAGAt exults. Violent scumbags. 🤬 ️

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@icare4america If you say so, then I'm quite sure it's true — and damn all the neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists who know a Nazi salute better than anyone and celebrated the Nazi salute that they saw.

But if you say so, then what you say has to be true….

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Subterfuge Please do you, and I'll keep doing me and listeniing to sound advice and totally ignoring unsound and absurd advice.

Agreed?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"We're living in a media environment where the truth has become nearly impossible to state directly. A billionaire can make a gesture that neo-Nazis celebrate as explicitly supporting their cause, and major news organizations feel compelled to describe it as 'exuberant' rather than risk saying what it actually appeared to be."

~ Parker Molloy

#ElonMusk #Trump #Nazis #media #CorporateMedia
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News Organizations Are Tiptoeing Around What We All Saw

How fear of litigation shapes coverage of influential figures

(www.readtpa.com)