Summary

Trump supporters are calling to defund PBS after it reported that Elon Musk’s post-inauguration gesture resembled a Nazi salute.

PBS described it as “similar to the ‘Sieg Heil’ used by Nazis,” sparking conservative backlash, with figures like Tomi Lahren and Rep. Andy Biggs accusing PBS of propaganda.

Musk denied the claim and criticized “legacy media” and Wikipedia for bias.

Calls to defund PBS align with longstanding conservative goals and plans like Project 2025, which includes eliminating public media funding under a new Trump administration.

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    2 days ago

    PBS covered this subject from bais.

    I can’t believe how far this has been taken…

    As an extremely awkward autistic person, I commiserate with Elon…

    Think whatever, Elon didn’t know what to do with his his hands, or limbs in general.

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      Elon didn’t know what to do with his hands, or limbs in general

      Lol. Elon’s alleged autism comes in handy whenever he pulls off something that would embarass a teenage edgelord

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        Alleged is the right word, especially because he keeps saying he has Asperger’s, which hasn’t been a medical diagnosis in years, and there’s no evidence he was ever evaluated.

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              And if we help them [the abnormal children] with all our dedication, we also render the best service to our Volk; not only by avoiding that they burden the Volksgemeinschaft with their dissocial and criminal acts, but also by trying to ensure that they fulfill their duties as productive individuals in the living organism of the Volk. (Asperger H. Das psychisch abnorme Kind. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1938;49:1314–7.)

              Dude was a Nazi, somehow people made up this story that saw him as a sort of good guy who wanted to protect children

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      As an autistic person, I have no sympathy for Elon. Nor do I have sympathy for anyone so blatantly refusing to call a spade a spade.

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        refusing to call a spade a spade

        Ah. So this is actually a great point.

        Do you honestly believe Elon acts or has views similar to a nazi? If so, in what way?

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          I’ll raise you one. If what he did isn’t a Nazi salute, try doing it at work and see how it goes.

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            Yuck… I torture myself… your public schooling stupidity is too much…

            I don’t understand what sadistic pleasure I derive from this…

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      Yeah, people with autism are sieg heiling left and right, it’s a common symptom described in the DSMIV /s

      Get fucked nazi apologist.

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        You probably won’t believe me… but yes, I have accidently done a nazi type salute… unintentionally. I dare say it has happened more than once… I just don’t know what to do with my arms sometimes…

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      I have ADHD, Autism and god damn OCD. People are akward with me and I am with them. Never in my fucking life did I need to stim using a Sieg Heil. Never in my life felt I that my body, as motorically challenged as it is, that the thing it should be doing that motion bang on perfect. Twice. On TV.

      If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, Sieg Heils as a duck it is a nazi.

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        Never in my life felt I that my body, as motorically challenged as it is, that the thing it should be doing that motion bang on perfect. Twice.

        Ok? Are you some poster boy of all awkward movements? I once flicked off a whole crowd after piano recital, unintentionally.

        Yall are some kinda dumb around here… hypocritical. Shameful.

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          Once. You did it once. Without doubling down. And continue going on that same road.

          So stop watering down what he did. I am not even hypocritical. At most it could be virtue signaling. But it is a virtue apparently to not make the god damn Sieg Heil on national television.

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      I understand awkwardness and if that was the only thing he did i might sympathize, but does your autism also make you financially support far right candidates like the AfD and repost neo nazi talking points?

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        Musk hasn’t tried to clarify anything, because he shouldn’t have to.

        All those that honestly, sincerely believe that Musk was “sig hailing” are either full of shit, stupid, or lying.

        These responses: It’s a little sad, a little funny, but fully expected. Most yall done gone full retard.