And here we are again, sigh…

This time too I have another excuse. This is again not directly about Elon Musk, but all of you out there, paying attention to the obvious, irrelevant part, and ignoring the important one. This is why “they” keep winning, and why their opposition continues to fall clumsily into traps that should otherwise be obvious.

From my point of view there’s no chance that “the salute” was the result of some autistic or “socially awkward” behavior. You don’t go to those kind of events improvising. I think Elon Musk played in his mind that exact moment many, many times. To the point of obsession. And if you followed, like I’ve done, his behavior online for the past few months, you’d understand that he’s sent plenty of “dog-whistling” types of messages. Way, way too many times, and always perfectly targeted to be a product of randomness and mistaken intention.

But in the exact same way, you’d be WRONG thinking that one was a FASCIST salute, intended that way. This is where you fall in the trap and react precisely in the way he predicted you would. If out there the debate is wholly about the act being or not intentional, what I’m saying is that the act IS intentional, but only to drive you then to the wrong conclusion. You slip right into the trap he deliberately set up.

Same as everything he has done up to this point, including the recent “Kekius Maximus”, that salute is meant as a pure act of trolling. That’s what it is. You can see how he deliberately emphasized the gesture as coming from his “heart”, because he was first and foremost sending a signal to his own party. To set the context and anticipate the outrage. On the other hand the deliberate gesture has the sole effect of ENRAGING his enemies. Because that’s what happens in his mind. He has calculated that the gesture would cause no harm on his side, no new enemies because he drove explicitly the meaning by “preparing” the alternative reading. He set the stage, a trap triggering ONLY for the haters. And yet he knew how much he would PISS OFF all those who were already against him.

So the moment you get pissed off, is the precise moment when he starts laughing because he predicted your behavior, all wrapped up in an event that will have no other consequence than driving more support to him. You just got gamed. You all got angry and unable to do a thing about it. The pure essence of trolling.

There is a regularity in what he’s doing, or at least a descent down the same pattern: a complete erasure of scruples as long he gets closer to his goal. This lets him once again focus everything on himself and distract from other recent controversies. Enrage the haters so that he can reinforce his own tribe with a renewed sense of unity. He’s drawing more and more the core matter to pure belief: either you are with him, or against him. In or out. That salute works perfectly because of its obvious double face and function: those on his side will read it positively, and those against him get successfully trolled. A complete win.

Those like Elon Musk don’t look at Mussolini and Hitler out of a desire to bring back fascism. Because those like him don’t want to live in the shadow of another man. If he looks at fascism it is because he wants to SURPASS IT. To go beyond.

And this is the part that even makes sense. Because if you clean the table of all morals and scruples, and your intention is solely make humanity multi-planetary, no matter the costs or the rationality of it, it may well be true that a fascist state is the shortest path to that goal. Why not.