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makyo@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’m convinced they do this shit on purpose - it riles up the base and it distracts the rest of us. While we’re debating each other about whether this is a nazi solute we’re not talking about the dozens of consequential things they did yesterday.
Is there a debate?
I showed the video to a random person that had not much idea of any of this, we are not even American so they didn’t know that there was an inauguration or anything. I said nothing, just: “see this video and tell me what you think”.
The answer was: “did he just do the nazi salute?”
BakerBagel@midwest.social 19 hours ago
So then don’t debate it. They keep doing Nazi shit, so clearly they are Nazis. Anyone claiming otherwise isn’t woeth listening to
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I think it’s worth being compassionate with people who try to rationalize it because I found myself doing so from the shell shock of the whole thing. I just didn’t want to believe it.
jj4211@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, I think a healthy amount of skepticism is good, that the likelihood of an awkward still out of context or AI generated slop is significant enough to always be doubtful. So yep, when I saw the still, ok, maybe it’s awkward still. Then a 2 second clip. Ok, maybe AI generated. Then certainly real and I’ll try to watch more for any plausible context I could have not imagined. Yeah, that was full stop a “Nazi salute but I can say it wasn’t a Nazi salute”.
It’s not that I doubted he would be totally game for some Nazism, just disbelief that he would openly do the salute, especially on the first day.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I was fucking flabbergasted. I couldn’t believe it. I mean, I knew the man has some far out there right wing views and is a fucking edge lord. But when I saw it I found it unbelievable.
So I related the action to myself, and tried to find an explanation where I could maybe see myself doing it. But honestly after sleeping on it I did realize what actually happened.
Of course while I slept, my comment was attacked. I don’t really blame anyone, commenters outside Lemmy Shitpost are barely aware of me, but I do think there’s room for understanding that seeing that was fucking jarring.