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Diventa virale il video del bacio tra Meloni e Musk, un deepfake realizzato con l'AI | 10 Dec 2024 |
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Acca Larentia, centinaia di neofascisti per il rito del 'presente' gestito da CasaPound
Like every year, hundreds of neo-fascists gathered in front of the MSI headquarters in via Acca Larentia to remember Franco Bigonzetti, Francesco Ciavatta and Stefano Recchioni, killed on 7 April 1978.
Acca Larenzia episode reaches Europea Parliament. Jan. 16 debate on "fighting the resurgence of neo-fascism" | EU News - 10 Jan 2024 |
Elon Musk says his critics need `better dirty tricks' after `Nazi salute' accusations | The Independent - 22 Jan 2025 |
The "first buddy" didn't outright deny that the gesture he performed twice on Monday was a fascist salute. Instead, he just mocked critics for attacking him as "Hitler"
In response, Musk posted on X: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."
Musk, the world's richest man and a close ally of President Trump, was speaking at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC when he made the gesture.
"My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilisation is assured," the 53-year-old said, after giving the second one-armed salute.
There was immediate backlash on social media.
Historians of fascism and neo-Nazism also weighed in following Musk's speech, saying that they believed Musk's gesture was a "sieg heil" and that viewers "should believe your eyes. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, added: "Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too."
With the audience going wild, the Tesla CEO turned around and repeated the salute, this time towards the back of the stage where an American flag was hanging above.
"My heart goes out to you," he added,
putting his hand on his chest again.
"It is thanks to you that the future of
civilization is assured. Thanks to you!"
Additionally, other observers noted that Musk was performing a "Roman salute" and that far-right extremists were excited over the gesture being aired to a television audience of millions. While the Roman salute was initially performed by soldiers in the ancient empire as a greeting to commanders to show loyalty and respect, it was later adapted by the Italian fascist regime - and a form of it was eventually used by Nazi Germany.
Andrea Stroppa, a close confidant of Musk who has connected him with far-right Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, was reported by Italian media to have posted the clip of Musk with the caption: "Roman Empire is back starting from Roman salute".
The Roman salute was widely used in Italy by Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party, before later being adopted by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
Stroppa later deleted his post, Italian media said. He later posted that "that gesture, which some mistook for a Nazi salute, is simply Elon, who has autism, expressing his feelings by saying, 'I want to give my heart to you'," he said.
"That is exactly what he communicated into the microphone. ELON DISLIKES EXTREMISTS!"
The gesture comes as Musk's politics have increasingly shifted to the right. He has made recent statements in support of Germany's far-right AfD party and British anti-immigration party Reform UK.
Appearing at the Davos at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was asked about the comparison to a Nazi salute, something that is banned in Germany.
"We have the freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany," he said.
"... what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme right positions. And this is what I would like to repeat again."
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Piccolotti a Vannacci: "L'abbiamo capito che lei non è contro il fascismo"
Who is Roberto Vannacci, Italy's favourite far-right general
When Roberto Vannacci's controversial book came out last August, he was widely mocked and criticised for his extreme views - yet now he's the lead candidate for Matteo Salvini's far-right Lega party in the European elections.
For many years, Italian General Roberto Vannacci was a complete unknown despite his illustrious military credentials.
If anything, the Spezia-born paratrooper was only familiar to those in the army. His participation in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and interventions against the so-called Islamic State group made him a war hero among his peers.
Today, he is the lead candidate in the European elections for Matteo Salvini's far-right Lega party and will almost certainly go to Brussels.
"I will be an independent candidate who has his own identity and who will fight, with courage, to affirm my own values of homeland, tradition, family, sovereignty and identity that I very much share with Lega," Vannacci said after Salvini announced him as the party's top choice earlier in April.
Vannacci difende Elon Musk: «Ma quale saluto nazista, voleva coinvolgere il pubblico. Stampa maliziosa e in malafede»
#GiletArancioni, thousands in the squares: «We want the Italian lira and a government voted by the people»
Biden and Democrats Erased
Pro-Israel ADL criticised for defending Musk's 'Nazi salute' at Trump inauguration | The New Arab |
In 2023, the ADL condemned Musk for antisemitism after he endorsed a post on X that accused Jewish people of "pushing hatred against whites".
Musk later apologised for this during a visit to Auschwitz with far-right anti-Islam media figure Ben Shapiro.
In the last couple of years, Musk has endorsed Islamophobic political parties in the UK and Europe, including Germany's Alliance for Deutschland (AFD) party, which has links to Neo-Nazi groups.
Earlier this month, Musk repeatedly expressed his support for British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson
and repeated Islamophobic lies about "grooming gangs" in Northern England.
Journey from Charlottesville to Capitol Hill ..
White House blasts Elon Musk for promoting 'anti-Semitic and racist hate' | CNBC - Nov 2023 |
Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group, associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians.
The White House lashed out at Elon Musk for promoting "anti-Semetic and racist hate" after the Tesla CEO and X Corp. owner said he agreed with a social media post accusing "Jewish communities" of pushing "hatred against whites."
Musk responding on X, wrote that that post "said the actual truth."
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In a search, this AI generated response came forward ... the LBJ Library.
Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Aldo Moro of Italy
April 20, 1965
Mr. Prime Minister, Mrs. Longworth, distinguished guests:
It was 100 years ago that Mark Twain journeyed from the heartland of America to your country, Mr. Prime Minister, and in one sentence unveiled the eternal appeal of Italy. "Simply say," he wrote, "that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo."
When the world was young, Italy was wise. The world is older now, but the wisdom of Italy is everlasting.
In our libraries reside Horace and Dante. In our courts are the ageless charters of Roman law and Roman order.
In our museums are the great masters, whose names and style and value are unmistakably Italian. We have some great singers who are unmistakably Italian here tonight and, Mr. Prime Minister, in the highest councils of this Government-Secretary Celebrezze, Senator Pastore, Congressman Rodino, and a dozen or more who serve with him in the House. Yes, even in the most inner circles of the White House--Mr. Valenti--are men whose antecedents are also unmistakably Italian. And they seldom ever let me forget it.
Your nation's culture has endured, Mr. Prime Minister, because it contains values that are enduring, values that tower beyond the oceanic upheavals of today's crises, and values that uplift the human spirit in every generation in every land.
It is very hard at my desk to sift out of each day's business what will last and what will perish, but the leader of each country must try to do that or he must pay the consequences before the judgment seat of history. So, the aim of my country now in the struggle in southeast Asia is to defend universal and lasting values. That is why we are so deeply grateful to the good people of Italy for their unwavering support of our efforts.
Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Foreign Minister, we seek not to preserve what never should have been. We fight tonight to protect the right as ancient as man, the right of people to guide their own destiny. Our aim in Viet-Nam is clear--to give the people of that little country a chance to choose their way to the future without the terror of aggression from their neighbors.
There is no soil in Asia, or anywhere else, that we covet. There is no territory in Asia, or anywhere else, that we seek to conquer. There are no bases that we seek to hold. There is only the stake that all free men have in South Viet-Nam's efforts to stand on its own feet, and to choose its own path.
If those efforts fail, more than a nation dies. There are 99 others that are watching this outcome with anxiety tonight, but the right of self-determination dies with it, and the hope of people all over the world who strive to fashion out of their own culture and their own history the kind of a nation that they want.
The people of Italy and the people of the United States are deeply committed to this unchanging principle. Together we believe in, together we work for, the right of other people to decide for themselves.
