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It goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds!

We all thought that the 88 mph easter-egg was an easter-egg for Back to the future. But in reality, it might be the other 88 (see, "what means 88 in germany")

Also, the decimal ASCII code for capital letter X is 88, and Musk likes to quote the infamous “14 words” slightly paraphrased.

Damn strange coincidences.

I can’t believe I bought a car from this dude. Never again. (He also lied to me about FSD for years after I’d already paid for it, but now that fraud pales in comparison to all his latest insane bullshit.)

I guess he just doesn’t need us, his customers, anymore now that he’s captured an authoritarian government.

I was saying it as a joke, but ahem, this 14 words thing is a bit concerning.

I wouldn't be surprised if he sees himself as some sort of Wernher von Braun.

He was named after the elon in von Braun's book.

I was joking that the salute he gave at Trump's inauguration was just a von Braun salute.

It was technically a Bellamy salute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute), which the Americans invented and used a lot before WW2. Not that this excuses anything, it is still out of style.

Specifically, it went out of style because it was easily confused with that Nazi salute...according to your own link.

Yes, “before WW2” should have made that obvious. I’m pretty sure this is common knowledge.

No need to get defensive! Lots of things that are causally unrelated to WW2 happened before it, and there are many people around trying to excuse Musk's Nazi salute as something that it is not, including as a "Bellamy Salute" or "Roman Salute"

I know, but rockets.

His response to Trumps napoleon tweet had 14 American flags.

At some point (IMO: the first time you do it), cosplaying a Nazi is no different than being a Nazi.

Not even Corporal Schultz or Colonel Klink are excusable.

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