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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/elon-musk-hand-gesture-speech.html

textimage of nyt headline: Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture.

(musk performed nazi salute two times at a rally)

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

After a great number of people including American citizens are put into what are clearly camps - I look forward to the New York Times taking great pains to define what is and what is not a camp.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

They've been doing this with ICE camps the second Biden took office. Immediately went from "concentration camp conditions" to "detainment centers."

[–] shath@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

and it still ends up in the camp definition

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

That got an ugly laugh out of me.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 months ago

Isn't NYC basically official tube of dem party? The feckless libs can't even call nazi salute a nazi salute even though reps quite straight told them the dem purge will start shortly?

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m surprised it wasn’t passive voice

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

An online controversy was ignited after a participant at Trump's inauguration made what some consider to be a World War II era salute.

How did I do?

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

They did an interview with Mencius Moldbug (curtis yavin) the clown jester of Peter Thiel last week

[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

All of them in a fucking pit

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

The sheer cowardice

Speculation huh? Do it at work then, Ryan Mac, and see what happens