After the elongated muskrat threw the Nazi salute at the inauguration podium yesterday, my long pulling away from what was once Twitter came to an end (never could bring myself to call it what he wanted after he bought it). This morning I deactivated my account which had 2.6k followers yet almost no reach since the muskrat set the algorithms to discriminate against people with my political views. So no big loss on the communication front, right? I had been hanging in there for the news feed. Especially the direct news shared by Palestinians. I can get some of that on Bluesky and some on reddit, plus my inbox is full of links people want to share with me.
Of course the servants of power quickly revealed themselves as useful.
Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.lol) January 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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More to the point, NBC and others simply edited out that segment of the video. As did Twitter.
Uber Zionist organization the Anti Defamation League (ADL) denied that it was any flavor of historical fascist salute. "Awkward gesture" was offered as an explanation without a trace of irony? What could be more awkward than Holocaust survivors and descendants pretending they don't know a Nazi salute when they see one? (This is why it is nearly impossible to write satire in these times.)
It's not that we haven't seen him make awkward gestures at an event honoring 47 before. Note that the "gesture" above at a campaign rally was more reminiscent of a high school cheerleader all aflutter over the quarterback.
Many in the high functioning autistic community are furious that giving the Nazi salute before a world audience is being excused on the grounds that the elongated muskrat is HF autistic.
Remember back in 2022 when the muskrat announced that he had Asperger's? I did not, but I also did not know that term is now out of fashion because the person it was named after was a practicing eugenicist. Yup, Hans Asperger worked for the Nazis picking out children to be euthanized.
You can't make this shit up.
Modern diagnostic terms are "on the autism spectrum" or the previously referenced "high functioning autistic." Another hot term that encompasses things like autism and ADHD is "neurodivergent." The actual historic Nazis exterminated neurodivergent people as weaklings and a burden on society. This is beyond ironic.
One thing we know for sure about the muskrat and his buddies seated in the front rows at yesterday's inauguration is that neurodivergent or not, they are CEOs -- at a time when public sympathy for CEO assassin Luigi Mangione is still surging.
What strange, post-ironic times we live in.
I will miss Twitter but I've got plenty to keep myself occupied: learning Mandarin and also trying out Red Note 小红书 (xiao hong shu).
