Nazi Business

He knew what he was doing.  The fascist fuck.  I'm obviously referring to techno jerk in chiel Elon Musk and his Nazi salute at the recent Nuremberg Trump inauguration rally.  Yeah, I know that there have been plenty of apologists for the arsehole explaining how that wasn't a Nazi salute, or that he didn't mean it to look like that.  Not to mention all the usual right-wing lackeys on social media posting photos of various non-Nazi politicians caught with their arms outstretched, accompanied by those emojis with shit-eating grins, as if they've done something clever.  Except, of course, that a momentary freeze frame capturing an individual's arm extended as part of a wave to a crowd isn't the same thing as a billionaire backer of right-wing extremists deliberately thumping his chest then extending his arm, the palm of his hand open.  Twice.  I know there are some people trying to claim that he was actually giving a Roman salute but, FFS, everyone knows that this was a gesture co-opted by fascists in the thirties and which is now exclusively associated with them, most specifically the Nazi party.  (Another case of the Nazis irrevocably tainting and ruining something by association - just look at the bad name they've given to goose-stepping and jackboots, for God's sake).  But to get back to Musk, of course he knew what he was doing - he certainly hasn't actually denied that it was a Nazi salute, instead trying to brush off critics by trying to mock them for characterising anyone they don't agree with as a Nazi.  

But that doesn't answer the question - was it a deliberate Nazi salute?  To which the answer is an unequivocal 'yes'.  I mean, a South African who grew up during the apatheid regime and who has vocally backed right-wing extremists in Germany and the UK makes a gesture that looks like a Nazi salute and we're supposed to think that it is an accident?  He's trying to push the boundaries, to see what he can get away with - witness also his slew of tweets involving Nazi 'puns' following the Nazi salute - as part of a strategy by the extreme right to 'normalise' fascistic policies and attitudes.  Damn it, he bankrolled the election campaign of a president who seems to be keen to implement the old Nazi policy of 'Lebensraum', with Canada, Greenland and Panama apparently top of his list for annexation.  Again, the apologists will tell you that 'hey, this is just Trump talk!  You shouldn't take him seriously and engage your sense of humour to see when he's joking', except, of course, that Trump is dangerously unpredictable and obsessive.  Moreover, he's now repeated his intent to seize the Panama canal and Greenland on several occaisions and, reportedly, alreadt attempted to coerce the Danish PM into selling the US Greenland with the threat of tariffs if he doesn't get his way.  I can't help buy feel, though, that his other target, Canada, is currently being given an opportunity to pre-empt Trump.  They should seize the moment as the US deploys its army to the border with Mexico in its war on unarmed immigrants, Canada should imvade from the North and take control of New England in order to offer its inhabitants the benefits of proper health care.  There's a fair chance that Trump won't do anything to retaliate as the states making up New England usually vote Democrat.