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Been checking on your comments, what’s your end goal? I think you need to reflect on yourself and think about many other useful stuff that you could to instead trying to convince people musk is not a deranged nazi but just a silly man makes silly gestures.
You say he’s a useless person, but yet you’re still trying to argue with people (which all due respect, this is literally defending him)
I know you are not a bad person but current social media has trained all us to be aggressive and unwilling agent of provocateurs. A “useful idiot” in another way of saying. Please, take a deep breath and put your phone aside. Reflect for a moment what are current affairs making you to do. You’re arguing with the people that you already agree with.
Be nice
What's my end goal? I don't know, kill some time while automated tests run at work? Are you telling me you get on internet forums because you have some kind of end goal other than, "I'm bored"?
I did reflect on myself, and I realized that I'm not ok with lies. Even if the lie doesn't make someone I dislike look bad, it's still not OK to lie. It's also not OK to sit around and see people spreading lies and not say anything. Yeah, I guess that does mean that sometimes I'll have to defend bad people and people I don't like, but that's OK too. If the person in question is really a bad person I won't need to lie to make them look bad, the truth will make them look bad; and unlike lies, the truth cannot be denied
Here are the facts. It's all on video, there's no questioning it. This is what happened.
Elon is on stage at a Republican rally telling them that the election was important and that he's happy they made the right choice and voted for Trump. He's thanking them for making this choice. He grabs his heart with his hand, open palm on chest gripping his shirt tightly, he waves to the audience in front of him. He turns around to the people behind him and he does this again. He continues speaking, at which point he says something like, "and I mean it from my heart"
Does it look exactly like the Nazi Salute? Yes; and that's what makes it so funny. It's a hilariously stupid Faux Pas at probably the worst time, but was he actually standing on stage and praising Hitler? No.
It's just that simple. I'm not going to ignore that my eyeballs can see him gripping his heart and I'm not going to ignore that my ears can hear him say "and I mean it from the bottom of my heart".
I'm not going to lie about what happened. I heard what he said, I saw him grab his heart.
If you're mad at me for not going along with your lie, then eat shit, I'm not going to be nice to a bunch of people trying to spread misinformation.