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cocacola1
One might be forgiven for thinking that the United States lost World War 2. Wild times.
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[dead] jazz9k
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yakshaving_jgt
A Roman salute is a bit more widely recognised historically than an ok sign or a cartoon frog.

Left-wing histrionics don’t give Elon Musk’s Nazi symbolism a pass.

licebmi__at__
Let's not forget that ok sign was used by the Christchurch mosque shooter. The fact that nazis have lost the sense of aesthetic doesn't mean those that ring an alarm about these symbols are wrong.
ashoeafoot
well it was a left empire that jumped poland together with hitler. For 1 awkward year this could have been the salute of the comintern left too.
yakshaving_jgt
I’m half-Polish and I’ve been living in Ukraine during the war. I don’t need a reminder of where the evil lies.
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anigbrowl
What, then? It seems like it would be quite consistent with his support for right wing political groups (eg the AfD in Germany) and his very public antipathy to anything he deems 'woke'.
ashoeafoot
whose youth group was just dissolved for right wing extremism .