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German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op):
A political editor for a German newspaper is blasting billionaire Elon Musk over a hand gesture Musk made that has sparked widespread outrage.

“A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute,” read the headline on a column by Lenz Jacobsen in the German newspaper Die Zeit.

“The gesture speaks for itself; it’s documented on video. Those who want to see something else in it, who don’t want to see a Hitler salute, do so at their own risk,” Jacobsen wrote. “At its very core, this is about attention — society’s most contested currency, at a time where every image, video, and soundbite vies to be noticed every second of the day. Trump and Musk excel at this game, especially in turning even bad publicity to their advantage. Case in point.”

The column came with a photo of Musk making the hand gesture, which came during a celebration of President Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Musk, a prolific social media presence and key member of Trump’s inner circle, has scoffed at the allegations that he was performing a Nazi salute, saying those making the comparison were deploying “dirty tricks.”

“Frankly, they need better dirty tricks,” Musk wrote on the social platform X, which he owns, calling it “just another part of the ‘dirty tricks campaign.’”

Musk’s gesture sparked widespread outrage on Monday, with Democratic lawmakers and other observers noting the billionaire’s embrace of right-wing policies and conspiracies.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday also condemned Musk’s hand gesture, Reuters reported.

“We have the freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany. Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire. And what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme-right positions,” Scholz said.

Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, came to Musk’s defense.

“It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,” the ADL said.

Source:https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5100602-elon-musk-gesture-criticism-german-newspaper/

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Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 6:35am On Jan 23, 2025
@botragelad
@Elusive001
@Righteousness2
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Why is Elon Musk doing the most anti-Semitic act in the world. In front of the whole world.

That's a Nazi Salute......even the German chancellor condemned it.



PS: There is a source attached, do not close thread as false information, as you did to the earlier thread.

Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by fuckJones(f): 6:46am On Jan 23, 2025
Elon is a Hitler
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Mynd44(mod): 6:50am On Jan 23, 2025
I don't even like Trump but you people just like nonsense. You are going to pause a moving video where someone praised his supporters then you will see plenty things.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 6:59am On Jan 23, 2025
Mynd44:
I don't even like Trump but you people just like nonsense. You are going to pause a moving video where someone praised his supporters then you will see plenty things.
With all due respect, I know you are a Mod. So dont ban me.

German Chancellor saw the Salute and condemned it.Who is the expert on a Nazi Salute between you and German Chancellor ?

Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by SocialJustice: 7:48am On Jan 23, 2025
malali:
With all due respect, I know you are a Mod. So dont ban me.

German Chancellor saw the Salute and condemned it.Who is the expert on a Nazi Salute between you and German Chancellor ?
That's not a Hitler salute. Rest abeg, oyibo blow propaganda, you jump inside. Have you eaten self?
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Tinubuagbado: 7:50am On Jan 23, 2025
If it's a Hitler salute, so what?

Is he Hitler? Is he German? No. So no worries here.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Botragelad: 8:24am On Jan 23, 2025
That's not a Hitler salute, boy. Post the full thing. Lol
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by dawnomike(m): 8:25am On Jan 23, 2025
That is not a Hitler salute...
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Mynd44(mod): 8:26am On Jan 23, 2025
malali:
With all due respect, I know you are a Mod. So dont ban me.

German Chancellor saw the Salute and condemned it.Who is the expert on a Nazi Salute between you and German Chancellor ?
I don't follow propaganda, I follow my eyes and I know what my eyes saw.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 9:23am On Jan 23, 2025
Tinubuagbado:
If it's a Hitler salute, so what?

Is he Hitler? Is he German? No. So no worries here.
His maternal Grandfather is German.
Trump is also German ancestry. Family name Drompf.......which was Americanized to Trump.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 9:25am On Jan 23, 2025
Botragelad:
That's not a Hitler salute, boy. Post the full thing. Lol
LOL......I am not a supporter of any Nazi.

But i will not join you in your lie.

That is a Nazi Salute, i confirmed with my Jewish associates and German friends.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 9:27am On Jan 23, 2025
Mynd44:
I don't follow propaganda, I follow my eyes and I know what my eyes saw.

LOL......You cannot tell a Hausa man.....you know suya better than him.
If Germans say it was a Nazi Salute......I believe them.

If Ganduje says Tinubu is APC........He is APC !!! Ganduje is the chairman of the party.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by NothingDoMe: 9:45am On Jan 23, 2025
malali:
LOL......I am not a supporter of any Nazi.

But i will not join you in your lie.

That is a Nazi Salute, i confirmed with my Jewish associates and German friends.
You always confirm with your non-existent Jewish associates and friends to validate absolute nonsense.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Feldie: 9:52am On Jan 23, 2025
Mynd44:
I don't even like Trump but you people just like nonsense. You are going to pause a moving video where someone praised his supporters then you will see plenty things.
if you are totally ignorant you should try to seek education instead of roaming around blocking threads you don't understand. That video can't even be played on Russian and German television without the hand being blurred. A nazi salute is a Nazi salute regardless of what he was saying when he did it. Did you expect him to screech "heil Hitler" before you understand what he's doing?
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 10:30am On Jan 23, 2025
NothingDoMe:
You always confirm with your non-existent Jewish associates and friends to validate absolute nonsense.
Supported assertions.....unlike you,I don't pull my brightest ideas out of my ass at will.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 10:31am On Jan 23, 2025
Feldie:
if you are totally ignorant you should try to seek education instead of roaming around blocking threads you don't understand. That video can't even be played on Russian and German television without the hand being blurred. A nazi salute is a Nazi salute regardless of what he was saying when he did it. Did you expect him to screech "heil Hitler" before you understand what he's doing?
God bless you......Now all of a sudden they are blind to a Nazi Salute.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by EnkayDezign: 10:34am On Jan 23, 2025
Feldie:
if you are totally ignorant you should try to seek education instead of roaming around blocking threads you don't understand. That video can't even be played on Russian and German television without the hand being blurred. A nazi salute is a Nazi salute regardless of what he was saying when he did it. Did you expect him to screech "heil Hitler" before you understand what he's doing?
Don’t allow this mod guy to gaslight you. That was a Nazi salute and it was plain to see. Na trumpets dey Nairaland mod. Check out the similarities of Musks’ salute and a Neo Nazi in the Gif below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/s/REmbmDM7c3
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by EnkayDezign: 10:37am On Jan 23, 2025
Mynd44:
I don't even like Trump but you people just like nonsense. You are going to pause a moving video where someone praised his supporters then you will see plenty things.
He did it three times during that ceremony haba bros.


https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/s/REmbmDM7c3
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by BlackfireX: 10:41am On Jan 23, 2025
If you no like am ...commot for the country.



Every RONU hidding in USA may deportation locate you so that we can enjoy the favour of the shege you voted and campaigned for.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by NothingDoMe: 10:42am On Jan 23, 2025
malali:
Supported assertions.....unlike you,I don't pull my brightest ideas out of my ass at will.
I don't have non-existent Jewish friends. I don't live an imaginary life like you. Kindly note that it's a sypmtom of mental decline.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by EnkayDezign: 10:43am On Jan 23, 2025
Since they’re asking for the full video. Check below:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bbb-6Clhs?si=dOVZ1Reaj3wlUtz1[/url]

And a side by side comparison of his salute with a neo nazi

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/s/JXwOOTmrSl

Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by malali(op): 10:52am On Jan 23, 2025
NothingDoMe:
I don't have non-existent Jewish friends. I don't live an imaginary life like you. Kindly note that it's a sypmtom of mental decline.
You are absolutely right....Your mental decline is on full display.
You are showcasing your persecutions, false projections and delusions.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by NothingDoMe: 11:30am On Jan 23, 2025
malali:
You are absolutely right....Your mental decline is on full display.
You are showcasing your persecutions, false projections and delusions.
Lol. Says a frustrated terrorist lover. Israel and America will continue to pound islamic terrorists to oblivion. You can ask your nonexistent Jewish friends. 😅
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by brain54(m): 12:09pm On Jan 23, 2025
Musk Elon deliberately seeks controversy...


But what if it was a Hitler salute. These people are too sensitive about these things!
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Topman7: 1:36pm On Jan 23, 2025
brain54:
Musk Elon deliberately seeks controversy...


But what if it was a Hitler salute. These people are too sensitive about these things!
YOU CALL YOURSELF “BRAIN54”, BUT YOU REALLY SHOULD CALL YOURSELF “NOBRAIN54”.

IGNORANT SCHOOL DROPOUT ASKING WHAT IS WRONG WITH A PERSON MAKING A NAZI SALUTE.

DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE NAZIS?

DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ADOLF HITLER?

DO YOU KNOW WORLD WAR 2 WHICH CLAIMED OVER 60 MILLION LIVES WAS CAUSED BY ADOLF HITLER AND HIS WHITE SUPREMACIST NAZIS?

DO YOU KNOW THAT NAZI IDEOLOGY CONSIDERS YOU SUBHUMAN, IF YOU ARE NOT WHITE WITH BLONDE HAIR?

CONSIDERS YOU VERMIN WORTHY OF EXTERMINATION?

HAVE YOU HEARD OF ADOLF HITLER’S BOOK, MEIN KAMPF?

I MEAN, THE KIND OF USELESS, EMPTY-HEADED NIGERIAN YOUTHS WE PRODUCE TODAY IS JUST ALARMING.
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by orisa37: 1:55pm On Jan 23, 2025
PLEASE TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE HAND WAVES .

ELON WAVE IS COLLECTIVELY RIGHTEOUS.


HITLER WAVE IS SINGULARLY DOMINEERING..
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by orisa37: 2:03pm On Jan 23, 2025
PLEASE TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE HAND WAVES .

ELON WAVE IS COLLECTIVELY RIGHTEOUS AND SINCERELY SALUTARY


HITLER WAVE IS SINGULARLY DOMINEERING AND VERY IRRESPONSIBLE .
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by orisa37: 2:12pm On Jan 23, 2025
fuckJones:
Elon is a Hitler
THAT IS A BAD NAME . DON'T HANG ELON . HE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TRUMP'S TARIFFS .
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by brain54(m):
Topman7:
YOU CALL YOURSELF “BRAIN54”, BUT YOU REALLY SHOULD CALL YOURSELF “NOBRAIN54”.

IGNORANT SCHOOL DROPOUT ASKING WHAT IS WRONG WITH A PERSON MAKING A NAZI SALUTE.

DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE NAZIS?

DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ADOLF HITLER?

DO YOU KNOW WORLD WAR 2 WHICH CLAIMED OVER 60 MILLION LIVES WAS CAUSED BY ADOLF HITLER AND HIS WHITE SUPREMACIST NAZIS?

DO YOU KNOW THAT NAZI IDEOLOGY CONSIDERS YOU SUBHUMAN, IF YOU ARE NOT WHITE WITH BLONDE HAIR?

CONSIDERS YOU VERMIN WORTHY OF EXTERMINATION?

HAVE YOU HEARD OF ADOLF HITLER’S BOOK, MEIN KAMPF?

I MEAN, THE KIND OF USELESS, EMPTY-HEADED NIGERIAN YOUTHS WE PRODUCE TODAY IS JUST ALARMING.
I wonder why you had to take my post personally...

Maybe I stole your girlfriend in the past. grin

I really feel I shouldn't be answering you because you are too dull to understand the point I made in that post.

I won't explain the post to you either... Reasonable people that use their brains understood what I was talking about.

Not all posts are meant for everyone... Continue to wallow in your stupidity!
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by NothingDoMe: 8:50pm On Jan 23, 2025
malali:
You are absolutely right....Your mental decline is on full display.
You are showcasing your persecutions, false projections and delusions.
That why you are crying on every post I've made in ALL Nairaland sections? 😄.

Take it easy. You'll hurt yourself. 😄
Re: German Journalist On Elon Musk: ‘A Hitler Salute Is A Hitler Salute’ by Tellmeastory: 3:12am On Jan 24, 2025
brain54:
I wonder why you had to take my post personally...

Maybe I stole your girlfriend in the past. grin

I really feel I shouldn't be answering you because you are too dull to understand the point I made in that post.

I won't explain the post to you either... Reasonable people that use their brains understood what I was talking about.

Not all posts are meant for everyone... Continue to wallow in your stupidity!
STUPID AIRHEAD JUSTIFYING NAZI SALUTE.

A BLACK MAN JUSTIFYING NAZI SALUTE.

DUMBASS MOTHAFCKING PEA BRAIN.



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