“It’s a Roman salute!”
“Where do you think the Nazis got it idiot?”
The Nazis got it from the fascists who got it from a screenplay from D'Annunzio that Mussolini liked. D'Annunzio pulled it out of his ass, Romans didn't salute like that.
apparently the stage production of Ben-Hur had it in 1899 and "Historians have instead determined that the gesture originated from Jacques-Louis David's 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, which displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting." - Wikipedia
but your point stands Romans didn't do that shit.
But the very next day, I gave it away.
the political compass is bullshit and the assigned wojacks are stupid. but yeah that's a nazi doing a nazi salute.
It's due to it being ill-defined, but we shouldn't just throw it away. The left to right axis is how much capital is used as a commodity and the vertical axis is how much common goods are used as capital.
Copy left for instance views works as a public good not for use in capital gain whereas permissive licenses are for the public good, but are able to be reowned.
Authoritarianism is the same as enshittification as everything is viewed as capital to be exploited either in the ownership of said capital for private use or in a bureaucratic system that tightly controls it. People will be fighting left v right saying the other is authoritarian when we really need more anarchism/libertarian systems.
Also Elon is totally throwing up a sig heil.
Here’s how you know he wasn’t “throwing his heart out”: No gesture of that level of verve and publicity has EVER, in the history of media or public speaking, been interpreted as a Nazi salute EXCEPT a Nazi fucking salute.
They know it is, this is standard gaslighting, and wherever they do this it should be pointed out together with a video showing it side by side. So far I did not get response from them after that.
That doesn't look like a Nazi salute to me looks up the video of that OH FUCK!
wrong, the Libertarian would gladly sell him a do a hitler salute pass(TM)
I'm a little confused with the auth/right in this one
The extreme auth right, AKA the auth right of the US, are literal fascists and as such "secretly" approve. I'm personally picturing this as auth right talking to a like minded peer rather than to the general public, in which case it fits.
I think that's right. It's also just the way they're depicted with the same head base as the others. Typically memes with these use the head base to denote respectability, like in the libertarian right, to degrade them. But they're also a Nazi still? So I assume they're not sympathetic to them. Feels like the meme equivalent of a typo I guess
