Musk gesture

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v3ySs1ALrxU
My heart goes out to you?


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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6h6QGVfrgQ

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mzMPuJfPH2A
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‘Fascism’
Fascism has been a top lookup in our dictionary for months, and is often the top lookup on a given day. This week the word has been trending, possibly as it has figured prominently in articles and online discussion about a salute given by billionaire Elon Musk at a celebration for the inauguration of Donald Trump.


Some ran to Musk’s defense, saying what he did was “a Roman salute,” like the kind of thing you’d see in a gladiator movie. The problem with that is the pop-culture-ized Roman salute lacks a historical basis. According to “The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology” by Martin Winkler: “Not a single Roman work of art—sculpture, coinage, or painting—displays a salute of the kind that is found in Fascism, Nazism, and related ideologies.” Suffice it to say that when anyone sees that style of salute, the first thing they think of isn’t ancient Rome.
— Rex Huppke, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2025

We define fascism (sometimes capitalized Fascism) specifically as “a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual, and that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition,” and more broadly as “a philosophy or system with some combination of fascist values and governing structures.”