• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Why would this backfire? You think germans and their gigafactory subsidies are going to like the nazi salute so much it will increase his popularity?

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          15 days ago

          the afd will, they will say it’s okay because musk isn’t a communist (unlike hitler, according to them)

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          15 days ago

          Do you think there are no Nazi sympathizers in Germany? Don’t you see AfD on the rise there?

          Most of the people seeing this isn’t going to know the context (i.e. this is a protest). If you strip away the context, this is just a blatant public display of the fascist salute, which many there have wanted to do for so long but couldn’t because they feared the consequences. This could very well embolden them.

          Like, if you just look at the photo, it even straight out says “heil Tesla”, for crying out loud. If this is a protest, they did a piss poor job of it. At least put a clown makeup on Elon’s face, what are they even doing.

          Edit: some people can’t even read it seems.