edit: seems that gif images don’t work, so here’s the gif:
edit2: another angle from a different TV camera: https://i.imgur.com/Jezrgss.gif (I’m not embedding it because it’s larger and one animation is enough)
For context:
Recent https://piefed.social/post/499497
Source video on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/1iyrln3/călin_georgescu_face_salutul_nazist_la_ieșirea_de/ from a Romanian TV (I wouldn’t call it “news”, it’s like OAN for Trump now)
Broader issue of election meddling:
Here’s the short gif: https://i.imgur.com/OR56MVe.gif
Not sure if this should be NSFW.
Why do all the nazis seem to like Russia so much? Weren’t we told that Russia is fighting nazis in Ukraine or could that have been a lie?
Russia was an ally of Germany via their non-aggression pact of 1939 until Germany tried to invade them and ended the alliance in 1941. Not a very long lived alliance, but it tells a little more of the story.
Trying to wrap the current situation around 80-year-old contexts is obviously bound to fail. Then is then, now is now. The people are different, the systems are different, the power axes are different.
Sorry, I saw Nazis in the parent post and didn’t realize they meant neo-nazis. I was addressing their claim as written, not within the current context. And no, I don’t think they should have to differentiate, a Nazi is a Nazi. I just don’t pay that much attention sometimes.
It was more of a non aggression pact, to be fair.
Molotov ribbentrop pact is a bit more than non-agression.
They also shared technology for tanks, traded vast amounts of raw materials and split poland in two.
I was about to say that he was waving, but he actually stopped for a second during the salute. This guy is mental lol. If I’m not mistaken, there’s no first amendment equivalent in Romania that he can get behind to justify this.
I added another version from a different angle: https://i.imgur.com/Jezrgss.gif
There should be no* debate, but there will be, of course.
Seeing the video makes it clear. To me it looked like a Nazi salutation. Very much like the one Musk did.
I guess you could debate whether his shoes matched his outfit, but that salute was crystal clear
Now that Elon’s done it it seems to have become a meme and all of the wannabe Elons are doing it 🙄
