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    I shall now remind the world that the USA didn’t care all that much about nazis in WW2 until it got attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor and felt the need to react.

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    Let me guess the excuse: he also has autism and autistic people just can’t help doing Nazi salutes all the time.

    You know how you keep seeing autistic people give Nazi salutes?

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    Not another accidental Nazi salute! These clumsy Nazis keep accidentally throwing that Nazi salute around completely by mistake!

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    The real headline should be “CPAC audience cheers Bannon’s Nazi salute”, because they totally did, and it leaves no doubt that CPAC is full of Nazis.

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        They were sitting down in a room in which the speaker gave a nazi salute. They did not leave when it became apparent that he would not be ejected.

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          I mean, they also intentionally planned ahead to be in the same room with Bannon in the first place, to give him attention and listen to whatever “good” news he had to say.

          Any sounds of people getting angry at the salute should only illustrate the incredible ignorance we’re dealing with in this country. Blame it on stupidity, or hate, or indoctrination & conditioning, whatever you want. It’s all accurate to certain degrees depending on the individual.

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      They’d have diplomatic immunity and the AfD would cheer.

      If you were going to kick them out of the country for doing it, we’ll, they’ve already done it. You can kick them out preemptively.

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      I mean, Bannon started this whole thing. He was pushed out of the inner circle but he was the one with the vision back in 2016.

      Bannon is a visionary and he had the right idea. He just didn’t have the ability to execute. Trump took the ideas from Bannon and found new allies who have the ability to execute. Musk (and Thiel) were more than happy to jump on board

      Edit: just in case it’s not clear I’m not endorsing his views. I am firmly anti-Nazi

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    And every conservative in America is silent.

    Silence is complicity.

    No more excuses. No more feigned ignorance.

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    Most people have muscle memory of like normal wave or maybe a clenched fist pump for “fight fight fight” right? It’s not supposed to be difficult to avoid nazi saluting. Like I’ve never ALMOST sieg heil’d, you know? fuck sakes

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      look there was no plausible deniability when Elon did it. He pretended like he was a weirdo autist the night of with his weird head bobbing and his exaggerated gestures to try and give plausible deniability. but the Nazi salute was putting the toe in the water. feeling the room

      it seems that the wannabe Nazis felt like the water was warm enough and they’re gonna start descending the staircase into the pool

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        The thing about musk that boggled my mind was that not only did he do it once, but he turned 180 degrees to do it again.

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    You’d think it would be easy to avoid doing this, but watch as the MAGA scum come out of the woodwork to rush to the defense of another guy who totally didn’t mean it, honest.

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    I cannot wait for these monsters to get their faces kicked in. Fuck these fascists!

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      Fascists always end up swinging.

      The problem is a ton of decent people usually have to die first. Economies have to be destroyed. Rights have to be won back. Allegiances broken.

      They’ll get theirs. But what do we lose in the process?

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      It’s super annoying isn’t it? The video is superbly clear. He did it, he did it on purpose, and he knew what it meant. You can see it, and his intent easily.