Mildly Infuriating

"Mildly" is putting it mildly.

This gif is real.

The US didn't even get the excuse of being forced to pay obscenely high war reparations to justify their fascism. Instead, it's dissatisfaction with inflation which, in turn, is the predictable combination of the exponential depletion of scarce resources (real estate, water) and the consolidation of property into the hands of an ultra wealthy minority. If one must frame the emergence of fascism in a “war” context, then the cause is plutocrat beligerantes strategically fighting a social class war while most of everyone else think it's a culture war.

I want this picture on a sticker so I can put it on every Tesla I see.

Ngl, I was sceptical since still images are not a good representation of what's really going on when people are moving around, but then I checked out the video. Good lord, he even did it twice.

Lookit his face. Makes me wanna slap the text FUCKTARD on it

Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our times to the Henry Ford of our times.

Remember when everyone hated on regular Russian citizens for not forming a rebellious revolution against Putin and assassinating him in his sleep? For not shooting every Russian oligarch and everyone who rubber stamped the invasion of Ukraine? Remember when people called them cowards and “as good as nazis” for being complacent and not getting up and doing something about it?

Where are you keyboard warriors now that the USA needs you?

Just sayin’

And it's day fucking 1! We still have (at least) four more YEARS of this!

I'm reminded of Trump's first term, when we all thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, and yet it always did keep getting worse.

Next he'll be wearing a swastika on his arm and claiming "oh this is just a whirling log, a symbol of prosperity and peace". And also "oh this is just a very black uniform that Hugo Boss made for me"

In the meantime while everyone is looking at Elon Donald is signing executive orders to

• Grant top secret security clearances to White House staff without going through traditional vetting procedures.
• Open the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
• Eliminate environmental justice programs across the government, which are aimed at protecting poor communities from excess pollution.
• Move to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, for the children of undocumented immigrants.
• Declare migrant crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border to be a national emergency
• Remove protections for transgender people in federal prisons.
• Ensure that states carrying out the death penalty have a “sufficient supply” of lethal injection drugs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-list.html

Reminder that ~~~270~~ 170 million Americans allowed this to happen.

Real funny how r/elonmusk official stance is that it was not a nazi salute. And yet the entire place is on complete lockdown. its as if someone just threw 3 sig heils while the cheers got louder only during the gesture.

We need to save and remember this moment. The assholes are already rewriting history as we speak.

I wondering if he did it to win a bet: "Hey man, we already get away with some fucken outlandish shit, and people ate that up. I bet you that you can't get away with throwing out a nazi salute on live tv"

fElon: hold my K...

"MildlyInfuriating"

Nah, this belongs in "ActuallyHorrifying"

The rise of fascism call it what it is.

The truth is all his supporters know exactly what it was and support him 100%

So this is how I'm gonna get radicalized huh

You know what the worst part of this is? This run of western fascism doesn't even have the aesthetics to make it palatable. That "seig heil" was so fucking uncoordinated it made the Australian break dancing lady look like a prima ballerina. Everyone is dressed like they bought clothes from the bargain bin at Ross. The decorations are giving mid-budget state fair.

We're gonna be ethnically cleansed by old, poorly dressed, unatheltic losers 😭