Elon Musk

What the feck are we doing as a species? Why have we let people like this gather so much wealth and power? Wild
 
Pogue Mahone said:
As I said in t’other thread I honestly think it’s just him being a complete fecking dork. As per. He did the patting his heart thing and couldn’t work out he should do next so went for something he imagines someone cool might do in a film. He’s such a pathetic nerd. He can’t manage simple human gestures.

Not that it matters, mind you. He’s made his politics abundantly clear before any of this happened.
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Only person I've seen with this take. Apart from the nazi apologists on X of course.
 
it’s best to just assume everyone is a nazi and a paedo. that way you can’t be yewtree’d in your 60s.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
As I said in t’other thread I honestly think it’s just him being a complete fecking dork. As per. He did the patting his heart thing and couldn’t work out he should do next so went for something he imagines someone cool might do in a film. He’s such a pathetic nerd. He can’t manage simple human gestures.

Not that it matters, mind you. He’s made his politics abundantly clear before any of this happened.
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This is the shittest of shit takes you’ve made on here in a long time. As if he has no idea of the significance of any gesture of that manner given his previous links to right wing views and nazism.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
I don’t why you interpret my take on him as only being a nerd. It’s just the overwhelming impression I get from his body language every time I see him on video. It’s like a fecking foghorn blast of dweeb. Makes it very hard to notice anything else.

What he says and does when he isn’t being filmed (especially what he types) is a separate issue. It’s tinged by dork but nowhere near enough to disguise his politics. Which are far enough to the right at this stage most of his tweets are basically nazi salutes anyway. And have been for a while.
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And despite this context your first thought was “aww look how socially awkward he is?”
 
Cheimoon said:
Yeah! I mean, it would be a level below nazi, but aligning yourself with Italian fascism is still abhorrent.

It's also a ridiculous reference though. Who outside history nerds and Italian fascists know about the Roman salute? And neither describes Musk.

It's also incredible what we're witnessing here. Could anyone have imagined this a year ago, a person in that position of power doing a fascist/Nazi salute on such a hyper-public occasion? Fecking hell.
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The Roman salute is actually pretty commonly known in online far right circles, so Musk being familiar with it wouldn't surprise me.
 
There is absolutely no way that he doesn’t know exactly his audience here and what he’s doing. None.

“I panicked and did a Nazi salute” isn’t a defence. “I’m a dork who didn’t know the correct social queue so did a Nazi salute”.

fecking hell.
 
When I was young the dorks said things like "epic fail" and quoted Star Wars. Now they start Nazi America. Times have changed!
 
BenitoSTARR said:
There is absolutely no way that he doesn’t know exactly his audience here and what he’s doing. None.

“I panicked and did a Nazi salute” isn’t a defence. “I’m a dork who didn’t know the correct social queue so did a Nazi salute”.

fecking hell.
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Yeah. Whathever way you look at it, it is abhorrent.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
There is absolutely no way that he doesn’t know exactly his audience here and what he’s doing. None.

“I panicked and did a Nazi salute” isn’t a defence. “I’m a dork who didn’t know the correct social queue so did a Nazi salute”.

fecking hell.
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Muscle memory is a pretty good defense. Personally, I allow it.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
As I said in t’other thread I honestly think it’s just him being a complete fecking dork. As per. He did the patting his heart thing and couldn’t work out he should do next so went for something he imagines someone cool might do in a film. He’s such a pathetic nerd. He can’t manage simple human gestures.

Not that it matters, mind you. He’s made his politics abundantly clear before any of this happened.
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Boo-urns!
 
VeevaVee said:
Could maybe put it down to being the most awkward freak in existence if it wasn’t for the whole thing about his grandparents being in the nazi party, him acting quite like a nazi aside from the two nazi salutes, and his public sympathy for actual neo-nazis.
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Yeah but if it wasn't for all the overt fascism in his timeline, it could be an accident.
 
BenitoSTARR said:
And despite this context your first thought was “aww look how socially awkward he is?”
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You reply to the same post twice, with two different replies, even after I reminded you the other day how often people find you irritating? Introspection really isn’t your thing, is it?

And no, “awww” was a long fecking way from how I felt watching that clip, believe me.
 
Wonder if his fanboys on here still want to defend him or if even they’ve seen the light.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
You reply to the same post twice, with two different replies, even after I reminded you the other day how often people find you irritating? Introspection really isn’t your thing, is it?

And no, “awww” was a long fecking way from how I felt watching that clip, believe me.
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Pogue I care too much about what people think at times. On this occasion I don’t care what your personal view is of me. It was a shit take.

Your first reaction is to post excusing his behaviour is a shit reaction. Don’t try and deflect it.
 
Mike Smalling said:
Are they currently owned by a Nazi?
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Musk's grandparents were nazis, the biggest volkswagen shareholders grandparents and parents (porsche familt) were nazis.

Musk seems he is a nazi, the others we don't know but how weird would it be?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
You reply to the same post twice, with two different replies, even after I reminded you the other day how often people find you irritating? Introspection really isn’t your thing, is it?

And no, “awww” was a long fecking way from how I felt watching that clip, believe me.
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I think there's a little self-awareness lacking here, Pogue. I mean, you're the forum's best-known contrarian and you're angered the entire thread by being contrarian on this topic as well. Maybe not your best moment to lecture others?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Really struggling to see how you could have read that post (never mind the follow up) and interpret it as any kind of comment on his politics.
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He made an overtly political gesture which aligns perfectly with a lot of what he says and you say it was an accident borne of his awkwardness. It's a stretch man!
 
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