Saw a video about this on Mastodon. It looks like they projected a whole video presentation that outlines a bunch of the Nazi shit Musk has done, not just the image of his salute.
Yep. Musk is a racist anti-Semite. Not surprised he’s so well practiced on the nazi salute
Hmm, but how did they play the audio? Just having a really powerful loudspeaker besides the projector? Or was it just edited into the video?
It sucks that this is where we are. America once the defeaters of Nazi’s. Now appointing billionare Nazi’s with influence to government positions. Fuck man.
Well, we started out with a genocide so terrible Hitler idolized it and called it “The First Great Cleansing”. Also, you ever seen this image from the 1940’s? It’s in Madison Square Garden.
Also, when did America join the fight against the axis powers? Oh, 2 years after the war began? Only after Pearl Harbor? You’d think a country so moral would join the fight against genocide quicker.
Also, it was the USSR that “defeated” the Nazis.
That is fantastic
Das ist fantastisch.
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You are correct. If Elon were doing that he wouldn’t be doing a Nazi salute. But he’s clearly doing a Nazi salute instead.
Stay Texas, kid
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Putting a pistol to your head and pulling the trigger WON’T kill you.
Clearly Hitler didn’t know how to do a Nazi salute properly. /s
I agree wholeheartedly. We all agree. Glad you are debunking that one image used to claim that a lot of politicans (and Taylor Swift) are also doing the nazi salute, when it was just musk.
Dude at the very least learn what 180° looks like.
Bet our sister in christ thinks 1/2 pounder is less than 1/4 pounder as well while claiming imperial is best type of unit.
You need to learn how to use a protractor, 180° would be a horizontal line _
That’s true, you can’t always trust a snapshot. But watching the video removes all doubt what he’s doing.
And you don’t even have to rewind the video to see it again, he does it twice.
In case you still have any doubts, he hasn’t commented on the fact entire world has seen him do a nazi gesture. Multible times. At a political rally. For the right wingers. Honestly all the people saying it wasn’t a nazi salute are disagreeing with musk apparently.
What’s next for Leon Hitler, a Fackelzug (Fackelmarsch)?
I’m guessing, he’ll stop paying his workers, surround the factories with barbed wire so they can’t escape and tattoo numbers on them to easier keep track of what they are doing.
Not a stretch his companies are already filled with racism and it has been legally proven so many times.
The Swasticar Wankpanzer is 100% something he would call the truck if his sycophant followers jokingly suggested it.
I want to hear dialogue like the fitness pacer test describing it
“The Swasticar WankPanzer is _____”
Hitlers secret porn name?
No, that’s available on Steam and is called Sex With Hitler. It’s an entire franchise.
Hitlers secret porn name is available on Steam and called Sex with Hitler?
You can heil one of those robot taxis
Nice
Weiter so!
This is fake though. The letters don’t match and there is no other pic on the Internet to prove, it happened. But the fact it seems real, speaks volumes :D
Edit: Turns out not fake. I was just skeptical at first.
Here with you, always useful to be on the watch.
The angry mob will seriously eat everything they’re fed, and questioning it might make you seem like an enemy. You’re not.
I don’t think anybody is suggesting that Tesla had a sign that says “heil” in Tesla’s font manufactured and installed on their factory next to their name. It’s a projection by a protestor to draw attention to Musk’s Nazism.
lol So your first assumption was that it was done by Tesla and not a projection done by outsiders?
Yeah. It looks like that in the first place, but no. I am just skeptical of blurry images on the internet. I distrust anything I see, until some more evidence is provided.
@[email protected] & @[email protected] I see the news article and see the logic behind it, but this can’t possibly be the only pic out there. I am not denying Elon isn’t Nazi. He definitely is and everything he touches is now, lightly put, tainted.
But there has to be another angle or even a video. Just a single blurry pic immediately seems suspicious to me.
No worries, it’s okay to be skeptical! Especially in this day and age when this could be some deep fake, Photoshop, or AI imagine. I get it.
The Newsweek link above says that a couple of groups beamed the image onto the building, which explains why the brightness is off.
Yeah. And found some more: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4mzdcf5dzxicy7n4dvlof7p/post/3lgefckpv6a2h
don’t they look way too bright for protection?
Those aren’t amateurs slapping together a protest with an office projector, the ZPS is a 100-strong art collective with plenty of connections into the tinker space. They know what they’re doing and it’s not their first projection, much of the stuff they’re doing is way more involved and takes a lot more work and planning than finding a car to pull their projection trailer to a suitable spot.
Beautiful 😍
Brave protest. Pretty sure Nazi imagery is illegal in Germany. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong
Freedom of art in that regard. The only illegal thing might be to project something to the factory
Is that a thing in Germany? Genuinely asking
Yes. You can even use a swastika if the intend is clear. For example a figure throwing it into a trashcan.
I’m not a lawyer, but the word “Heil” ist not forbidden and Also its a picture of something relevant that happened. So in my opinion the Art itself is not illegal. Only the projection onto the building.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
Appreciate the insight!
You’re welcome :)
Nope it’s legal. §303 StGB:
Whoever, without being authorised to do so, substantially and permanently alters the appearance of an object belonging to another […]
Projections are far from permanent. What I’m blanking on right now is whether cleaning something is captured under that wording, I vaguely remember them discussing changing it, dunno if they have. If a wall is dirty enough you can make a great graffito with nothing but a pressure washer.
A projection is not permanent mate.
That is what he said yes.
And what do you think it is that I said?
You say it could be illegal and then quote a law that talks about sometime else. I have no idea why you would do that.Oh sorry I misread legal as illegal. My bad.
It is with few exceptions. Given that it looks like the purpose is to call out a Nazi supporter I think they wouldn’t get in trouble for that though.
It’s not exactly uncommon for systems set up to oppose something to end up supporting them instead. See the ADL covering for Elon and condemning those opposed to genocide as antisemitic. In theory the ADL should be opposed to fascism, but because Israel has become fascist they found themselves on the same side as those who had been and would be their oppressors.
German police have been especially harsh on anti-genocide protesters as well.
When one’s ideological architecture if reliant on the idea that people are defined by ethnicity, whole ethnicities are good/victims and others are bad/aggressors and the ethnicity of a person determines how he or she should be treated, Fascism is but a miniscule distance away.
This applies to Israel (whose constitution very literally says the country is a nation of a single ethnicity and all those of that ethnicity are its nationals) and its sockpuppets around the World, as does in Germany where the authorities have once again revealed their black heart in connection to the Israeli Genocide.
I suspect a lot of those pseudo-idologies and organisations just served to hide those with a Fascist heart during the period when Fascism was “unfashionable” and now that it’s on the rise again they’re coming out in support of Fascists but using the language of the pseudo-ideology that so successfully made them seem movements for good rather than just another variant of Racist.
In the United States, teenage kids were put on the sex offenders registry for sending each other nudes. Those laws are in place to protect minors from people who are not minors, but apparently the judges did not see it that way in sentencing. Gotta love the word of the law being worth more than its spirit!
Making the German state officially state that this is Nazi imagery would be a worthwhile win lol.
lol didn’t even think of that
I’m pretty sure they have explicitly come out and said that the gesture was what we all know it to be. I’m sure the Internet can verify it for you though
Not sure about anyone from the government much less in an official function but e.g. the Zeit used the title “A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute”, and the rest of the press isn’t any more ambiguous, either.
Holy shit nice
There’s plenty of “fair use” cases which would allow it.
§86a STGB allows for the use of “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations” in cases of:
- art (e.g. the movie “Downfall”)
- scientific research
- education
- news or other broadcast (covering Nazi Protests in the US for example, German news station don’t have to censor the Swastika flags or the like)
And probably applying in this case - in protesting said anti-constitutional organizations, for example a crossed out Swastika as a form of protest against Nazis is still very much legal.
Most important is the intent. If you plan to use those symbols with the intent of furthering the ideology of anti-constitutional organizations, it is probably forbidden. The intention has to be clearly against those organizations, otherwise it might be actionable.
Btw the communist party of Germany, the KPD is also considered an anti-constitutional organization and therefore it’s symbols are forbidden in the same way.
§86a STGB allows for the use of “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations” in cases of:
- art (e.g. the movie “Downfall”)
- scientific research
- education
- news or other broadcast (covering Nazi Protests in the US for example, German news station don’t have to censor the Swastika flags or the like)
Which is funny because the video game series Wolfenstein famously had to change all of their in-game imagery. The series is about killing Nazis, but it was banned in Germany until the game devs removed all of the swastikas. Because apparently showing the swastika is banned, even when it’s used explicitly to say “these are the bad guys.”
“Are we the baddies?”
“I dunno, our gear looks okay now?”
Yeah, there were some real conservative views on what counts as art or education and what does not that influenced that decision I figure.
It’s silly regardless on both sides in my personal view. Like yeah it’s a little silly to not allow it, since the law would easily have allowed for it but also - it’s a Swastika, I’m fine in a video game without it, I’m not gonna die on that specific hill for sure.
You wouldn’t even have to die on that hill anymore because you can buy the uncensored wolfensteins in Germany today.
Yes! Interestingly, this only is possible now because the rules changed in 2018: https://usk.de/usk-beruecksichtigt-bei-altersfreigabe-von-spielen-kuenftig-sozialadaequanz/
The German bureaucracy changed their stance from “Nazi shit should not be in games, period” to “it depends on social adequacy” which meant that games from then on where handled the same way as other forms of art.
Game publishers could’ve changed it way earlier but noone bothered to bring a case to court but opted to self-censor instead, thus the BPjM had to follow an age-old, singular, court ruling.
The game that prompted the change was this one, in particular Gauland’s special move is a swastika. Someone, predictably, complained, and the case didn’t even make it before court as the state attorney said “this is obviously completely legal political commentary”.
To top it all off the game was published by public TV. Same people who made this sketch.
Haha I hadn’t seen that game before, thanks for that. Gauland is depicted exactly as ridiculous as he should be treated.
Ah, thanks for the context, didn’t know that. Browser Ballett is awesome.
Games (until recently?) were not considered as art by the courts in Germany.
Does “anti-constitutional” mean against the German constitution specifically, or the concept of constitutions? If the former, prohibiting ideas of government other than the active one is a pretty strict restriction on speech. I totally get the desire to outlaw imagery supporting Nazism because no one wants that shit to come back, but lumping communism in there too seems a bit strange. Or maybe I’m just totally misunderstanding what you said.
In addition to what others have commented, communist and all other flavors of political parties are protected under the german constitution as long as they aren’t anti-democratic or call for violations of basic human rights. That’s because the right to form a party and express your political opinion is also protected in the constitution. So ironically it is really hard to ban fascist parties because the highest court would have to prove that their exercising their freedom to form a political party is in conflict with other basic rights and freedoms.
Does “anti-constitutional” mean against the German constitution specifically, or the concept of constitutions?
Specifically the German constitution. Or as also worded in the law “the free democratic basic order of the FRG” -“die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung der BRD”.
What this phrase means specifically is defined by decisions of the federal constitutional court and includes things like basic human rights, checks and balances, the independence of courts, the multi party system etc.
Disrupting or trying to abolish those basic democratic laws is considered as trying to build a dictatorship or other form of unjust system.
I don’t know the specifics about the KPD case but there are German communist parties, for example the DKP. It’s just that the KPD is considered undemocratic.
The KPD in particular got banned for wanting to topple the government by force, also, they took their orders from Stalin. Being a communist as such is far from anti-constitutional, the German constitution was specifically written to be compatible, but it’s going to have to be democratic market socialism. What you want to do is heavily lean on Article 14(2): “Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good.” You can expropriate means of production by mere preference, without having to show that it’s for the public good.
Communism?
Anti-constitutional here means directed against the Basic Law of the FRG or the constitution of Brandenburg (federal state).
The Basic Law does not explicitly ban socialism, AFAIK.
The ban on Nazi imagery is kind of necessary for a state patched together in the post-liberation Allied occupation.
That is an out-fucking-standing protest projection.
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I saw a bunch of sore losers in 2020. Doubt you had this much smoke back then.
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Being against Nazis is being miserable?
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Idk about them but I am calling him a Nazi because he retweeted Jewish white replacement plot bullshit saying it’s “the actual truth”, keeps talking about how “tHeY” are manipulating people, has been successfully sued for racial discrimination at Tesla, and a bunch more in addition to a plainly obvious, textbook Nazi salute he did, twice.
spoiler
You dumb fucking cunt, just watch the fucking video. Ignorant piece of shit.
Let me ask you something.
Where did your daddy hurt you?
And how many Nazi dicks can you suck at once?
How many non-nazis do you know who make this “gesture”?
Fuck your feelings.
And your mom.
I’m sure you love everyone, though.
Must be wonderful to always be kind and charitable and empathetic to nazis.
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This you?
No, your party created that. Can’t have one without the other, as they say.
My party? Created what? The people trump just pardoned? The proud boys? (They started in Canada, BTW)
The fuck you on?
Are you quoting the married with children theme song?
You have zero clue what you’re saying.
My buddy pal friend guy.
Too fit.
A lot of us are shocked we even reached this point as a society, we didn’t even make it 100 years. Floored, shocked, flabbergasted, i could go on, many people have different reactions. The general consensus (at minimal) is that this wasn’t appropriate. It also not one thing, calling it as such minimizes societal dynamics of the world as a whole. People are definitely sending this instance around like crazy, but it encompass what many people have warned about for years.
I dislike being correct, I envy some people, I want to close my eyes, I want to just do the 9-5 grind.
I’m trans.
Focusing on one thing, such as my gender, is what Nazis like Musk do.
Musk giving a Nazi salute, combined with his rhetoric and pro-Nazi censorship on X, isn’t one thing. It’s many things that all demonstrate that yes, Musk is actually a hateful and bigoted Nazi. Who won’t be happy until folks like me are working in concentration camps waiting to be gassed.
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“Hi trans”? Not many options why you would say something this stupid.
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Says the little bitch who probably blubbered nonstop for four years about Biden for every single gaffe and flub.
Nazi punks fuck off.
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My hatred of Nazis is not rhetorical. You bet I’ll keep that hate alive until the day I die.
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Dude’s comment history is horrifying. He certainly seems to be a subject matter expert about being always miserable, since he clearly makes everyone around him such.
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You’re really obsessed with the number 6 million.
I wonder why that is.
I was hesitant, but now I have no issue calling you a Nazi, too.
Stay happy, buddy bro guy pal.
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Because politics is a game where there are necessarily winners and losers, apparently. You’re petty and gross.
Must suck to be a boot licker.
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This will be great for business. If I had Tesla, I would try to get rid of it.
record number of people are buying Teslas!
Narrator: “Most were used.”
Assuming you can sell the Tesla, doesn’t that just mean that there are just as many people looking to buy a Tesla?
Not for Fuehrer’s company. He gets nothing from that.
You may be taking quite a loss but someone would buy it. As an extreme of you offer to take one dollar for the Tesla there would be plenty of potential takers because a cars a car.
Selling used for cheap also puts pressure on new car demand.
I’m working in Germany, and I see a lot of people complain about Musk and switching from Tesla, which was a very popular even a few years ago.
The people who can afford overpriced EVs are also the ones who can afford the “virtue signaling” to switch to another brand - especially as now there are a lot of great alternatives, many of them cheaper and better.
Haha, I saw someone already selling elon salute stickers to put on Teslas. I kind of feel bad for anyone who bought one used or a long time ago.
Don’t feel bad. If you bought one in the last 8 years, you weren’t paying attention because he had already called the diver who rescued the soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand a pedophile because they refused to use his horrible, horrible submarine idea. The man has always been megalomaniac.
everyone of the top 1% has to be a megalomaniac. openly supporting nazis and displaying their symbols is an entirely different thing.
I’d raise the bar to top 0.1%, or better yet, not make it an absolute cutoff. Physicians and engineers fall in the 1% and I have to believe many of them are highly skilled, driven by subject matter, and desire to do good for humanity.
i’ve met too many physicians to agree with your analysis of them
I’ve talked to far too many engineers to give them any sort of normal leeway.
Many, sure. But the number of qualified doctors in my area shilling antivax nonsense has colored my perception.
wtf, is that real?
The photo of Ellen and the “HEIL” appear to be projected onto the wall of the factory
Yeah, it is what i thought, but i was not sure if it was photoshop or something
Ellen
Elmo* 😀
I like to mix it up when talking about Elmer
Heres a video of it
Wait, how does this work? The video is meaningful like this, but it doesn’t really say much without the audio, and I doubt they let them put up speakers powerful enough for that to be heard (?)
Maybe? But it’s probably not for the maybe 100 people that were adjacent. It’s for the potentially millions online
It’s being projected as part of a protest by https://bsky.app/profile/politicalbeauty.bsky.social and https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37x2qvt3z5iwuyzusvnvlepi
as a protest??? it’s probably going to have the exact opposite effect…
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?
the afd will, they will say it’s okay because musk isn’t a communist (unlike hitler, according to them)
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.
Have a lot of meetings with Germans. The morning after the inauguration, every one of them asked what the hell was wrong with us that we had a Nazi salute in our inauguration. The context is very very well known over there
Yeah, the average German won’t have heard about Nazi space karen throwing the heil. Especially after he was just there defending Nazis. Who would even know about that, just because it’s world wide news and involves something very poignant to the German people?
🤡🤡
Why are you downvoted? I am from Germany and you are totally right. With a lot of people in Germany this will 100 percent backfire. The educated already knew that Elon is a garbage nazi, the others will more so believe how he is such a cool guy and the savior of the planet
Yeah, I‘m from Germany, too and I am very pessimistic regarding a fascist revival. The AfD is constantly gaining votes, while liberal parties adopt many of their policies. It‘s becoming cool to be a fascist
Some people just slept in the day they were handing out common sense.
I envy you the beauty sleep.
Most of the people seeing this isn’t going to know the context
Ok there, sources needed. It almost sounds like youre shilling for them. Next youre going to tell me he was just waving!
Let him be, he thinks Germans are as uneducated as Americans
People can read. This is just one of the most moronic takes they’ve ever seen.
Don’t you see AfD on the rise there? The AfD is not only rising because of Nazi sympathy, but also because of protest voters, a literal fuckton of drama around pretty much every other significant party, too many deaths being instrumentalized, and a disfunctional current government. Latest opinion poll: https://dawum.de/Bundestag/ - so “only” 20% support them.
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.
Even german news are full of the orange idiot and his millionaire friends doing their escapades, and you seem to imagine most of the german population sitting there applauding him? “Blatant displays of the fascist salute” are NOT what many here want to do, but what most would like to do without consequences is punching a Nazi straight to their face.
If you haven’t realized, many european governments shifted right because the populism of those parties exploited and used the political tensions and the accumulated anger for the past failures of many left and green hardliners very well.
Germans are not more right or have more Nazis than many other European states, and given the hereditary guilt, less than many.
I get his point, even if he didn’t state it eloquently. There are photography elements here that look kind of cool. Yeah, most people will focus on memories of history and, you know, how Nazis are fucking bad. But the danger is if something like this recruits anyone. Some people fall for anything with a cool font, even if it tarnishes the font for a lot of others. If I see a swastika, I want to see it carved into a Nazi’s forehead. I don’t want to see a stylized swastika with cool lighting effects that might appeal to a small number of idiots.
It helps that Elon’s face looks particularly stupid.
I don’t know that I agree with his argument, but I can see a grain of truth in it.
I get both your and his point, I personally just disagree, because I do not think that closing your eyes and ignoring it prevents people from being “recruited”.
In my opinion, this attempt and attitude has given the AfD in Germany (and probably several others) the space to grow, paired with a black and white mentality: the general attitude is mostly - either you vote left, or you’re a nazi, end of discussion. There is no longer a political spectrum in discussions, it’s us or them, left or right, normal or nazi, and I think that this is very, very bad. I think that a democracy should represent everyone, since what makes us a free and democratic state is that everyone is part of it, is represented, and has his freedom of thought, speech and beliefs. Making “having thoughts aligning with the right” a taboo only makes it more interesting, especially for younger people, and given that pretty much every Internet community also generates echo chambers (one or many), it makes it more attractive to potentially end up in one, where those people will realize that they can talk openly here, which makes them more susceptible to further radicalization. And to make it clear - violence of any kind is not included in the freedom, neither by the right, nor by the left.
Instead of focusing on how to prevent people from shifting right, which you simply can’t, I think we should focus on how we can prevent some people from shifting right, and some people from shifting further right, which is perfectly achievable by proper education, applying a spectrum of views and leaving space where more people do not feel left out.
Part of a left and democratic mindset is that all people are made and worth equal, tolerance, and an open mind. In the left versus right discussion there are more than just leftists, nazis, and nazi sympathizers. There are people who may be just not smart enough to figure out that they are just caught by polemic, populism and propaganda, or maybe who don’t even know what they are getting into. There are people who are just protest voting. Hell, even the deepest far-right nazi hellhole has or had people who are trying to leave it.
Sure, the actual nazis and hardliners will applaud that Musk picture and see and use it as confirmation and propaganda, and you won’t be able to influence them otherwise with that. All other groups in between can be influenced though, even though in both directions.
Specifically for Musk - his general public image has shifted very much from a technological and financial genius to a narcissist right hardliner multimillionaire, because of his actions and people publicly exposing and talking about them, and still he has a big cult of supporters who’ll be on his side till the end. And honestly? That’s fine, but I personally am very happy to see the general shift.
“But the danger is if something like this recruits anyone”
What if calling out racists actually encourages people to become racist!! Better not mention racism at alll then amarite…
Also let’s just stop arresting people for crimes completely, what if someone hears that this dude murdered his wife and then everyone starts murdering their wife?
/s obviously but this is what you sound like. You sound like a bot trying to discourage this from being seen by appealing to people’s liberalism…
Most of the people seeing this isn’t going to know the context
You underestimate how much American news dominates the world news. Greetings from Mexico.
I didn’t realize it was getting subsidies. What for?
For making electric cars instead of diesel ones I suppose
Unlike america, europe is really not a fan of nazis. So this is a protest.
What, he’s going to be even more of a Nazi?
I’m concerned you don’t know what a protest is. Or possibly think modem Germans like the Nazi salute!? I don’t know…
Let’s see how many will vote for AfD soon. I am from Austria, and we got our own little Kickl, and his FPÖ. And they just got over 28%…
Thx
