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Daily Stupid: “Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes” Edition
Elon’s Salute Was “Just His Autism,” Said Musk Advisor
Oh, as someone with autism, I call BS on that excuse
I was going to let this go. After all, everybody knows what Elon Musk is all about, politically speaking.
He is backing the AfD party in Germany — whose leader has used the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany,” which was engraved on Nazi stormtrooper daggers.
At the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden, Elon sported a very special font for his MAGA hat:
It is the Germanic Fraktur font, popularized during the Nazi regime. It is not something you see every day… other than in white supremacist circles as they know and appreciate its history.
That is known as “blackletter” font.
If you have ever caught even one minute of the History Channel… or really any documentary about World War II, you have seen this type. You’ve seen it on Nazi posters, on Nazi office buildings, on Nazi roadwork signs. Today in Germany, blackletter typefaces are frequently used by…