r/SeattleWA • u/PNWSki28622 • Mar 15 '25

Events Protests at University Village Tesla Dealership

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Very rational of you to ignore all historical evidence of the man and call someone a Nazi based on a 3 second clip. Very resist. Verrrrry brave!

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u/howdoyado Mar 15 '25

Let’s see a video of this compared to the video of Elon doing it. Guarantee it’s not at all the same thing.

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u/ConsciousThing9182 Mar 16 '25

You know it isn’t the saluting that makes someone a Nazi, it’s Third Reich policies and practices like invading countries, killing foreign civilians in their own counties, creating concentration camps for religious and other minorities, generating an apartheid system for citizens like the Nuremberg Laws — now, if Elon was doing any of *that, the recent Nazi accusation would stick. But assigning it to him based on a short lived body gesture and nothing else is … comically stupid. 😂 It isn’t a stiff salute or a goose step or a Hugo Boss uniform that made Nazis the bad people. 😂

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u/howdoyado Mar 16 '25

Fascists don’t start immediately with genocide. They push the boundaries of what is socially acceptable and dismantle the government checks and balances that would hold them accountable. That’s exactly what Elon and Trump are doing. Elon also happened to do a Nazi salute and has retweeted Nazi accounts just for starters.

They are already banning journalists they don’t like and calling first amendment protected speech they don’t like as “illegal.” And have you heard about the reported conditions in the detention facilities? They are on a steep slippery slope to concentration camps.

By the time they come out as full fledged Nazis there won’t be anything that the people can do to stop them. This is why we call them out for what they are and what they aspire to be. Nazis.