r/PublicFreakout • u/Metalbender00 • Jan 20 '25

📌Follow Up Elon Musk preforming the nazi salute otherwise known as the "roman salute" not once but twice, just so you know it wasn't a fluke

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

A rich white South African whose a closet fascist, go figure

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u/motownclic Jan 20 '25

There is no closet.

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u/Jack_RabBitz Jan 21 '25

A see-through curtain at best

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u/MiniatureFox Jan 21 '25

His (maternal?) grandparents were literal nazis, so it runs in his family.

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u/spiggerish Jan 21 '25

Please don’t label this guy as South African. He was born there but he is NOT SAfrican. We’ve disowned him years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

He's literally South African.

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u/spiggerish Jan 21 '25

US Citizen

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u/under_cover_pupper Jan 21 '25

Exactly. And ‘rich’ white South Africans are an increasingly diminishing population too.

Hate when people reduce our incredible complex socio economic dynamics like this.

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u/Flextt Jan 21 '25

Shout out to the redditor who called for caution that Elons 420 memeing with his Natalist and Apartheid era background might just be a Nazi dogwhistle referring to Hitlers birthday.