Journalist does everything possible to avoid calling this what it clearly is

I love how certain media call it a Roman Salute in an attempt to defend him.

Like, do they think Hitler just made it up himself?

He stole it from the Italians under Mussolini, who basically took it from a painting. There's no evidence the Romans used this salute, so it's always been associated with fascism.
- Unfortunately, evidence isn't something these folks are worried about.
Even if it was a roman salute, that was a symbol of fascism.
- That's what I'm saying, it takes literally four seconds to look up where the "Roman" salute came from.
  But these kids aren't big on the whole "reading" thing.
Same people that say the swastika is a symbol of peace.
- the swastika remains a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain countries such as Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, China and Japan, and carries various other meanings for peoples around the world, such as the Akan, Hopi, Navajo, and Tlingit peoples...
  Also, I think Hitler took the salute from this. Which is similar to the Roman salute.
  Hitler had no great ideas, he stole from everyone, and was overall a terrible person full of hatred. But, he did ban human zoos.
No they know they will be sued. Because it's not a nazi salute.
I wish you guess out this much energy into criticising the genocide in Gaza.
I guess we know why that is.

I for one am absolutely amused that every reputable news source calls it a nazi-style salute, since Elon couldn't even get the salute right, despite his best efforts.

Isnt this the wrong community? This is not an onion or onion like article... I know Chaser usually does that, but there are no jokes or lies in there really are there? All those quotes have been said/written by someone.

Yeah, that's what nottheonion is for.

It's really not clear that he isn't just pointing at something/acknowledging someone with his thumb and the rest of his fingers violently

And when he turned around and pointed violently at the flag in the same style? Does that make it more clear?
- It wasn't completely clear that my comment was pure sarcasm? Seriously?
Lmao sorry you're getting downvoted dude. How anyone took this comment, in this community, seriously... is beyond me!
- :D
you really have to write a /s for a lot of these folks to not take everything at face value here it would appear :-/
- Might be because people are actually making this argument in defense of musk
- Eh, the richest and arguably most powerful man on the planet just did a Nazi salute, twice, on live TV. I think it's understandable that some of our nerves are a bit frayed when it comes to sarcasm/jokes about the subject.
- Subtle sarcasm is really hard for a lot of people who comment in a community focused on satire, ironically.
Just throwing this in here, looks like he's pointing at something?
https://streamable.com/29p7q1
- He's obviously grabbing his love from his heart and throwing it out to all of his supporters. I don't know how else you could possibly interpret this.
- Oh wow, that’s even worse than I had guessed. He looks…well exactly like himself, which is to say an over-grown child who thinks being hated for being a nazi is “being a rebel”.
  Incredible.
When you caught me fisting your mom did you think I was acknowledging her with my thumb and the rest of my fingers or when I was elbow deep and shouted, "I'm fisting your mom!" in your face was it clear what was actually happening?
- Weird.
- You shouldn't have tried that
Ok, so imagine that you're a billionaire and a really smart dude (as claimed by so many people on the internet). And you get into government and appear on TV and want to look good. You might hire a publicist, a PR team, some speechwriters, hell how about a body language consultant. When you go on TV you're going to project exactly the image you intend to. Anything less would be careless and stupid, right?
So yeah. This was a Nazi salute. And if you really want to argue that it wasn't, that Musk doesn't even know what a Nazi is, you gotta also accept that he's grossly incompetent and should not be in government at all. Throw him out, we didn't vote for him.