No Stupid Questions

He absolutely knew what he was doing. His fans thought we were being hyperbolic when we said he was a fascist a decade ago. His fans are idiots

Honestly, I'm not entirely convinced it was a Nazi salute. I think, given how stupid and akward he is, and the fact that the salute was so off-angle, it could have actually been an akward "my heart goes out to you" gesture.

That said, focusing on this possible red flag is stupid and honestly makes light of the situation, when looking at Elon Musk's history and past statements is like standing in the Red Square on parade day. The bigger and more undeniable red flags are all throughout his past, and continued after the salute, such as his refusal to apologize. I guess its good that people are finally putting their foot down, but the appropriate time was a decade ago at least.

it has nothing to do with being autistic, however he was fucking zooted on ketamine during ceremony. I doubt that he's ever sober as of lately.

Drug usage can fuck up people good or bring out what's hiding real deep in them, see Kanye's story with nitrous. And that's precisely why he's dangerous, he is powerful and deranged at the same time.

He has been at the head of a company for years. He is now in a position of overseeing and altering whole government organizations.

He knows the stakes, he knows the responsibility, he's been in the public eye for a long time. The salute was legit that is out of the question, he could have made any number of different gestures but he did that particular one twice.

Now at BEST it was "just" a senseless and reckless lapse of judgement or some batshit level trolling. But even if I gave that benefit of the doubt why would I want someone with that little self control anywhere near the level of government that he is currently playing with?

If I was calling the shots I would show him the door and pull all US Govt support for anything he touches on principal alone. Not a fan of Trump but even he hasn't pulled shit like this.

There was this period before WWII when stuff started happening to reduce the rights of minorities, but they weren’t being killed blatantly. Is this where we are?

None of that changes/happens with an exuberant salute. Embarassing for him, but you can ask him what were the good ideas Hitler had.

Americans and world will be genocided because oligarchy can see a path where slaves are a hindrance if they don't just die quietly instead of being genocided. Oligarchs could instead choose to be richer, which happens when there are more people to make stuff for them and buy their workers' stuff, but using wealth for power is a simpler thought.

The only viable politics is UBI, but we could only get warmongering neocons as "the opposition", and you will suck up to the same again.

I guess if I am nit-picking, it's very hard for a statistician to claim anything as having a zero possibility... of course a statement like that helps no one. These are my actual thoughts:

non-zero possibility

It is technically possible that Musk's gesture was not a Nazi salute but rather something that looks similar. Fun fact, this is something that happened with S. Korea's Megalian hand gesture issue (for example see this case: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2621gzvkdo), where ppl found the gesture in a lot of unexpected places. However, the Megalian gesture is a pretty common hand movement, whereas the Nazi salute... I mean I guess it could happen due to a really bad out-of-context dance choreography?? But that clearly wasn't Musk's case

"But I am just wondering if everyone else sees this that way with no room for it being a result of autism and definitely that."

... I mean maybe?? I have weird Autistic intrusive thoughts sometimes but even then this is a bit... Honestly though, I don't know if I should put any respect to someone who willingly know what a Nazi salute is, and then choose to do it in front of one of the most important political events in the world, twice in a row nontheless. I find it hard to believe such an act to be a faux pass and non-intentional. Heck even if it is completely unintentional, this would be ground for job termination and put on a blacklist for life for most job positions I know

"Is this where we are? I feel more scared to be in America now."

Yeah I know... I seriously wonder why I am still in the US as well.

Not likely.

anything is possible until the guy actually admits and quips 'deal with it'. imo, which he won't because suddenly he's relevant again with all these attention.

another opinion of mine is with enough mental gymnastics, there would exist a non-zero probability for it.

best is to settle for the simplest reason and just move on.

I mean sure. EVERYTHING has a non-zero chance of happening/be possible. Doesn't mean it's likely, or believable.

There's a chance someone has forked the blueprints of Nikola Teslas blueprints for a mind control device, and has been controling Musk for years. Just making him do/say whatever.

I'm not saying it's a good chance. I'm not saying I believe that to be true on any level. But I suppose there's nothing truely stopping that from happening.

Based on the fact that he did it repeatedly, I think it was at least an intentional gesture. I will give the benefit of the doubt and say that it may have been intended some other way as opposed to a Nazi salute, but my personal opinion is that it resembled a Nazi salute on purpose. Theoretically autism could have been a factor, but I doubt it in this case. We aren't quite at the point you mention at the end there yet, but we are rapidly approaching such a point and you should be wary and do your own research about what's going on so you can be well-informed.

Yes because the name for it is the fascist salute not the Hitler salute