• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The Romans didn’t even use it. It’s from a French painting of Rome that became popular after the revolution. It existed for barely a hundred years, and was hardly used by anyone, until it was adopted by fascists and Nazis.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      3 days ago

      Really could use Occam’s razor with this bullshit. If you gotta make so many assumptions, then you’re likely not on the correct path.

      Elon musk is a Nazi who did a Nazi gesture. Simple as.

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      And even if it was the “Roman salute”, didn’t they introduce the fasces? Isn’t it just a symbol for “power”? Although I read, that it initially should signal “unity and harmony”. Hmm, lost in translation