Comments like this one make me angry. You presume to objectively know the inner workings of Musk, and go on to accuse everyone who disagrees with your assumption to be "making extreme things up to align with a particular political ideology".
Because we cannot truly gauge Musks motivations, it is simply not possible to objectively determine whether he meant it as a Nazi salute. But we can look at his other actions to try to approximate his state of mind, for example by looking at what his own reaction afterwards. If Musk had apologized and clarified that it was not meant to be a Nazi salute, I would give him some leeway. But that did not happen! Instead he publicly responded with Nazi- and Holocaust-related puns.
This is already enough to reasonably conclude that it was no accident, and we haven't even taken any of his many previous blunders into account. I mean come on - it's really a total coincidence that the guy with nationalist views, who is also pumping millions upon millions into propping up extremist-right movements across the globe and whose AI just happened to start spewing white supremacy propaganda, did two salutes and joked about it after?
I can't understand how anyone could reasonably arrive at the conclusion that it was not a Nazi salute, yet I don't have to accuse you of making anything up to state my position.
Because we cannot truly gauge Musks motivations, it is simply not possible to objectively determine whether he meant it as a Nazi salute. But we can look at his other actions to try to approximate his state of mind, for example by looking at what his own reaction afterwards. If Musk had apologized and clarified that it was not meant to be a Nazi salute, I would give him some leeway. But that did not happen! Instead he publicly responded with Nazi- and Holocaust-related puns.
This is already enough to reasonably conclude that it was no accident, and we haven't even taken any of his many previous blunders into account. I mean come on - it's really a total coincidence that the guy with nationalist views, who is also pumping millions upon millions into propping up extremist-right movements across the globe and whose AI just happened to start spewing white supremacy propaganda, did two salutes and joked about it after?
I can't understand how anyone could reasonably arrive at the conclusion that it was not a Nazi salute, yet I don't have to accuse you of making anything up to state my position.