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   Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 18:53:19 JST Baldur Bjarnason

   A useful aspect to a completely unambiguous fascist gesture, even though it’s ultimately performative, is that you can use it to gauge which news media you can trust to call a Nazi a Nazi, which will obfuscate things with layers of “both-sidesing”, and which will outright be regurgitating propaganda

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     Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:24:25 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     The Icelandic media score card:

     RUV (The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service): musk throws what looks like a Nazi salute, quotes a historian specialising in WW2 saying that it was absolutely 100% a Nazi salute

     Visir.is: both-sides the story into bullshit

     Mbl.is: Calls it a Nazi salute. (Guessing Davíð Oddsson either hasn’t gotten out of bed or personally dislikes Musk)

     Heimildin: calling it a roman salute is propaganda invented by the Nazis

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 22:40:02 JST botvolution

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     @baldur
     I've been irritable since at least 2016 at the media's insistence on looking at what they say ("they" being oligarchs, far right pols with power, or simply Tories) instead of paying attention to what they *do*.

     And of course, that was naive of me. Because media are rarely capable now of seeing their noses in front of their faces.