Mildly Infuriating

"MildlyInfuriating"

Nah, this belongs in "ActuallyHorrifying"

Remember when everyone hated on regular Russian citizens for not forming a rebellious revolution against Putin and assassinating him in his sleep? For not shooting every Russian oligarch and everyone who rubber stamped the invasion of Ukraine? Remember when people called them cowards and “as good as nazis” for being complacent and not getting up and doing something about it?

Where are you keyboard warriors now that the USA needs you?

Just sayin’

You know what the worst part of this is? This run of western fascism doesn't even have the aesthetics to make it palatable. That "seig heil" was so fucking uncoordinated it made the Australian break dancing lady look like a prima ballerina. Everyone is dressed like they bought clothes from the bargain bin at Ross. The decorations are giving mid-budget state fair.

We're gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭

Looked this up as I optimistically thought it might be an unfortunate still that looked nothing like a nazi salute on video, but nope.

Elon's Nazi salute

In the meantime while everyone is looking at Elon Donald is signing executive orders to

• Grant top secret security clearances to White House staff without going through traditional vetting procedures.
• Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
• Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.
• Move to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, for the children of undocumented immigrants.
• Declare migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency
• Remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons.
• Ensure that states carrying out the death penalty have a “sufficient supply” of lethal injection drugs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-list.html

What a dumb fucking cunt. I hope he dies a terrible death. Rather sooner than later.

Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our times to the Henry Ford of our times.

This gif is real.

The only good nazis are dead nazis.

We need to save and remember this moment. The assholes are already rewriting history as we speak.

Ngl, I was sceptical since still images are not a good representation of what's really going on when people are moving around, but then I checked out the video. Good lord, he even did it twice.

So people told me I was being an overdramatic dick when I pointed the multiple similarities between the rise of Hitler and Trump and how the Nazis are coming back.

They're back, out and disgustingly proud.

I'll be showing them the footage and awaiting their bullshittery gymnastics. Wonder how they will spin it.

Welp! I didn’t have “President gives Nazi salute” on my bingo card…

What's funny (not really) it's the media calling it a "nazi style salute" or "a gesture that looked like a nazi salute".

Their head is so far up their asses that they can't even call it what it was.

And it's day fucking 1! We still have (at least) four more YEARS of this!

I'm reminded of Trump's first term, when we all thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, and yet it always did keep getting worse.

"Mildly" is putting it mildly.

He probably didnt mean it as a nazi salute,its not as if he openly supports the German far right party AfD........oops

Real funny how r/elonmusk official stance is that it was not a nazi salute. And yet the entire place is on complete lockdown. its as if someone just threw 3 sig heils while the cheers got louder only during the gesture.

not mildly infuriating. it's very infuriating

The rise of fascism call it what it is.

Bro, where have you been?

And trump saying elon rigged the ballots in Pennsylvania. Even if it were true it's exactly what I've been saying. We are done with free and fair elections and the sooner you dweeebs stop running to the dems to save you the better off we will be.

It’s so fucking cringe the way he’s biting his lip and does that little grunt. He was really sitting there amping himself up for this moment. “That’s it I’m going to sieg hail!!!”

What a fucking loser. No friends unlikeable moron.

Real talk.

The richest men on the planet Earth are surrounding and and giving gifts/favors to a man who holds the highest position in a World Superpower with one of the largest militaries on the planet.

What can we realistically do to fight a possible incoming Nazi regime?

So this is how I'm gonna get radicalized huh

A 14 years old edgelord who also happens to be the richest man in the world, to own a social network with which to manipulate public opinion. He has just bought the US presidency.

The truth is all his supporters know exactly what it was and support him 100%

Ever think about what’s in the middle of a swastika?

I'm not American, so I'm just now catching up with what happened over there yesterday. The first time I saw this image (elsewhere), I was praying that this was AI-generated. And I hate seeing AI-generated stuff and I'm not religious either. I still wish it was AI but now I know it's not and... jesus christ.

The US didn't even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it's dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it's a culture war.

He once were in Poland visiting the concentration camp Ausschwitz with his son. He has nothing learned about this visit. It's a disgusting man. And it's high time to arrest him. Ban him. Take all his money and assets and put it for good use. Or send him to mars. Immediately. Solo mission.

I watched the clip assuming this was taken way out of context, nope, he did it twice...

Reminder that ~~~270~~ 170 million Americans allowed this to happen.

Frustrating but predictable.

Personally I'm pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.

It's a long way to 2026 folks. We are going to have a lot of Federal Level damage in the next couple of years. Even if Democrats get elected in 2026+ we will have absurd debts to pay and likely be forced to raise taxes and be the bad guy again.

I was under the impression maybe a mistake but dude did it twice.

This and what Putin's presidency turned out to become in the long run is what I now happen to imagine largely felt like to witness the Nazis rise to power.

You just don't know what's coming before it's actually there. The historical evidence even shows that the Nazis weren't that out-of-touch with reality at first, at least in terms of what was largely acceptable back in their day - like rights to land, borders, with many countries and nations being in a very turbulent state after the first World War. It's only after they got the power and set up the frameworks, like gradually oppressive laws and manipulating opinions and values through propaganda, that they went to do what we ultimately associate them with.

Putin spoke very high of "the west" and democracy and such at first, but quickly showed his true self when the Kursk sank, then with Beslan (the Nord Ost), then many more times, but back in the day, without today's hindsight, it seemed so... plausibly deniable? Like people could just vote him out the next time or excuse some things with the same traumas and biases that still brewed in the generations born in or shorty after the USSR. Now a full-blown tyrant, modernized to dictate through deceit, looking wild compared to his first days - a proper example of boiling the proverbial frog; turning the dial little by little, either compounding into some greater evil or simply revealing its true self, both equally inconsequential in the end.

Trump and Musk, similarly, have for the most part been interesting characters, so bizarre that excepting anything more felt naive, beyond the realm of possible. And yet again, unless there is enough backlash early on, people like this will keep pushing, until they lead us to the edge.

I never wanted to see for myself how something so terrible can rise to power, seemingly past everyone's attention. It's dreadful to think that the lessons of history are bets learned on one's own mistakes, that the Germany's experience is not enough to generate the unrest that keeps such people out of power.

I'm not even on the same continent as these two, but I know they'll be influencing a whole lot of change around the world, change that will never benefit any way.

The more things change...

Next he'll be wearing a swastika on his arm and claiming "oh this is just a whirling log, a symbol of prosperity and peace". And also "oh this is just a very black uniform that Hugo Boss made for me"