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Whatever you hear as an explanation for this, Musk knew how this would be seen/received and made a show of doing it.

If I suspend all possible disbelief, the best scenario is a rich white kid raised in Apartheid South Africa giving "Roman Salutes" to troll people for his own personal LOLs?

>>jprd+(OP)
> If I suspend all possible disbelief

I tried, watching the video a few times. I can't believe that he didn't know what he was doing.

At best, he wants to demonstrate that he can make one of the worst gestures anyone can do in this position and suffer no consequences. Some kind of demonstration of power.

>>palata+jb
He will do anything so that his biggest fans love him even more. They think this was so based and now he's a god among men for doing this so all is well

>>palata+jb
He is rich because of Tesla. Stop buying Tesla's. Then his debt collateral is gone and his loans get called in.

>>jprd+(OP)
That is not "Roman Salute" in first place.

"... commonly considered a symbol of fascism that had been based on a custom popularly attributed to ancient Rome.[1] However, no Roman text gives this description, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern so-called "Roman" salute."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

>>sidibe+Lb
s/men/edgy twelve-year old boys/g

>>jprd+(OP)
Trolling in the most idiotic, childish way possible is exactly what he's doing. He's done this forever. This is the guy who literally publicly trolled the SEC on Twitter when they charged him with fraud in 2018. The same guy who named the car models of his $1 Trillion company to spell "S3XY". He clearly has some kind of unresolved complex originating from his childhood that has stopped him from progressing to the mentality of a normal adult. What he fears most is being ignored. He needs everyone to be talking about him all the time.

>>disqar+uW
the boyz we tell to work the mines, like their fathers before and all be well while the world is going to hell. We do make it pretty easy to sell ideology atm and musk is just selling facism (and hope) faster than the natural growth rate of socialism

>>_DeadF+td
Not at all. Tesla, all included, is just 39% of his wealth. 175 of his 449 billions USD.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/

And he isn't leverage. In the end, he sold Tesla share and bought Twitter with cash, contrary to what most newspaper wrote (and never corrected).

>>timeon+bh
What are you trying to accomplish with this comment, protecting the reputation of the ancient Romans? The article you linked says, in the first line: "The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute"

While (ancient) Romans may have not done this salute, the salute is commonly referred to as Roman salute nonetheless

>>_DeadF+td
Or since this is HN, stop working for his companies!

>>_DeadF+td
Tesla has consistently had a stock valuation that is completely disconnected from reality.

>>_DeadF+td
Tesla stock doesn't seem tied to how well Tesla is doing, if you haven't noticed.

>>timeon+bh
It was certainly done in Rome, but 80 years ago isn't ancient.