I feel like the Nazi angle range is a bit too wide, lol. Look at the top end of the red, that's definitely still in the range of calling a waiter or flagging down a cab.
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I'm convinced they do this shit on purpose - it riles up the base and it distracts the rest of us. While we're debating each other about whether this is a nazi solute we're not talking about the dozens of consequential things they did yesterday.
So then don't debate it. They keep doing Nazi shit, so clearly they are Nazis. Anyone claiming otherwise isn't woeth listening to
I think it's worth being compassionate with people who try to rationalize it because I found myself doing so from the shell shock of the whole thing. I just didn't want to believe it. But no, he did a nazi salute.
Yeah, I think a healthy amount of skepticism is good, that the likelihood of an awkward still out of context or AI generated slop is significant enough to always be doubtful. So yep, when I saw the still, ok, maybe it's awkward still. Then a 2 second clip. Ok, maybe AI generated. Then certainly real and I'll try to watch more for any plausible context I could have not imagined. Yeah, that was full stop a "Nazi salute but I can say it wasn't a Nazi salute".
It's not that I doubted he would be totally game for some Nazism, just disbelief that he would openly do the salute, especially on the first day.
I was fucking flabbergasted. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I knew the man has some far out there right wing views and is a fucking edge lord. But when I saw it I found it unbelievable.
So I related the action to myself, and tried to find an explanation where I could maybe see myself doing it. But honestly after sleeping on it I did realize what actually happened.
Of course while I slept, my comment was bashed thoroughly. I don't really blame anyone, commenters outside Lemmy Shitpost are barely aware of me, but I do think there's room for understanding that seeing that was fucking jarring. The brain does what it does, you know.
Is there a debate?
I showed the video to a random person that had not much idea of any of this, we are not even American so they didn't know that there was an inauguration or anything. I said nothing, just: "see this video and tell me what you think".
The answer was: "did he just do the nazi salute?"
Between the hat and the solute, I’m already convinced.
GI robot is watching that angle.
