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Remember when he was investigated by the SEC for Tweeting out that he was buying back Tesla stock for $420 apiece?

And when he got booted out of the company he started because he insisted on naming it "X" despite everyone telling him that made it sound like a porn site?

And when he accused those divers of being pedophiles because they rescued stranded children before he could find a way to make it about himself?

And when just about every time he announces he's saved government money, the number "saved" is immediately backtracked?

And how the whole reason he owns Twitter is he made on offer that he immediately tried to back out of and would have if not for the threat of a multimillion dollar suit for breach of contract?

Elon Musk does not think shit through. However smart or stupid he is, however deeply he does or doesn't believe the Trump Administration's fascist bullshit, he does not dedicate much time to thinking about it before he does stuff. I do not doubt for a moment that he performed and meant to perform a Nazi salute. As to what he was thinking, I cannot say. Maybe he cannot. He definitely has sympathies for anti-semitic and racist movements, but I don't think he thought he was going to be hailed as the savior of the Aryan race for doing it. Maybe he thought it would be funny. Maybe he thought it would be "ironic." Maybe he thought it would get "teh libz" in a tizzy. He probably didn't think he would have to avoid ever going to Germany again under threat of being arrested. Whatever he was thinking, he probably wasn't thinking it more than five seconds before he did it. And he's clearly not thinking it now. Because despite being the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk is a bumblefuck who doesn't think things through and has thus far been able to buy or otherwise ride his way out of any consequences of the things he has done without thinking about them.

I think he wants it removed because of the effect on Tesla. He’d prefer if he could do things without consequences for his actions.

Spez is also a cocksucker

In Musk logic: it's not bad when he does it. It's bad when people start discussing it, because they might come to a disapproving conclusion.

Reddit caved to facism. Another coward CEO takes it up the ass from a south African immigrant.

What's wrong? Just own it already.

He wanted to do it to please the Magats but not take any responsibility or have it used against him later.

Well this was the tiny little push I needed to make an account lol

Comparison of Nazi salute circa 1940 to Musk salute circa 2025:

Video of repeated Nazi salutes at Trump's Inauguration

On TV the heil reaches the target audience in a way of plausoble deniability, on the internet it can be perceived constantly, thought of, discussed. That breeds dissent much more than passive, temporary consumption.

That and he definetely wasn't expecting the backlash to be as big as it was

He doesn't want it removed. He wants to target those using it against him. Nazis using it to praise him are not in the crossfires now.

If he really didn't want people to share a picture of him heil-ing, then he could always, oh, i dunno, STOP FUCKING HEIL-ING you stupid fucking twat

Time to introduce him to the Streisand effect

A Handy visual reference guide to spread around.

Fuck his Nazi ass. Let him stew

I’m more shocked that Reddit didn’t comply.

Actions do have consequences. Trying to erase posts and people calling you out for what you did and explaining why those actions are bad does not make those things that you did go away and is honestly a bad look. If you don't want people on social media calling you a Nazi, there's a really easy solution for that - don't do Nazi salutes on live TV, don't make Nazi puns instead of apologizing, and don't keep regurgitating anti-semetic conspiracy theories like the "great replacement" conspiracy theory.

I'm sure the main concern is the protests that are taking place all over the world against one of his companies

because it didn't work.

the whole idea was to trigger the libs with a vague gesture, like that one bitch who turned it into an awkward wave, but he got a little too into it and now people are setting his cars on fire.

Awweee poor baby... I thought he loved free speech.