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The distraction is the people saying things like "it was just an awkward gesture", "it's just a Roman salute", "it's no big deal", "why are we still talking about this", etc.
It is absolutely not a distraction to acknowledge and bring attention to the fact that the most powerful nation on the planet is now being run by a fascist Nazi oligarch.
This is a big deal. The executive orders are also big deal, but those don't diminish this one. If you don't think there are enough posts about the executive orders, you're free to create them.
I don't disagree, but I do think that the deliberate part is to get everybody talking about Elon while Trump goes through and destroys America unchecked.
They know we've got the attention span of goldfish, and they know we're much more apt to focus on a controversial person doing naughty things.
These people literally control the narrative. Everything is deliberate and malicious.