Elon Musk's salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn't working this time around

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It's a good point about not taking the bait of debating with the far right about their nonsense, but I'm not convinced it quite counts as trolling when, being a proud Nazi, you get up in front of a bunch of Nazis and do Nazi salute to show them you are a Nazi. I guess the trolling is what he did afterwards.
- Yeah, it's never been as a troll, but as a sign of solidarity and beacon for others. Continuing to treat this like a trolling is continuing to give cover for Nazi/fascist behavior happening more and more in the light of day.
The Alt Right Pipeline depends on edgy immature people ironically saying edgy stuff for dopamine hits until they are effectively trained to repeat the edgy stuff unironically.

When they put away the dog whistles and just come out as evil fascists then it causes a lot of their supporters to have a "are we the baddies?" moment
- I really hope you're right.
  
  Yeah, that almost seems like giving them too much credit. I hope I'm wrong though.
How is only one "main stream" American News source calling it what it was "falling flat"?
- The author is comparing it to previous trolling attempts, and how this one isn't being picked up except by neo-nazi groups.
  
  Why are we calling a Nazi paying homage to his fellow Nazis "trolling"?
The article is fairly good, the headline only really makes sense after reading the article.

Not a great headline.
- I'm so glad you commented this. Yes, great article with a terrible headline

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