I can tell you from experience, leftists are having the brain meltdown of the century over Musk's supposed sieg heil.
I'm active on a different forum, dedicated to a certain video game series rather than debating. It does, however, have one thread where political commentary gets a pass; whether or not it does officially according to the rules, that has been the de facto situation for quite a long time. Anyway, yesterday evening I dared to suggest that, based on a number of differences between the historical sieg heil and Musk's gesture, there's no reason to assume that Musk intended to do a sieg heil, and that the only way to prove Musk's intent one way or another is to ask him.
The far-left users of that site, who were strangely quiet on inauguration day itself, lost their fucking minds over what I was saying. People got triggered that I was supposedly pushing "Nazi apologia", whatever that means. One guy declared "I'm not going to post in here so long as he's here", and of course I was being wolfpacked from several different angles and being verbally abused well beyond what I was dishing out.
To reiterate, I wasn't arguing "Nazism isn't bad, actually". I was saying "Musk's gesture is ambiguous and we can't prove it's a Nazi gesture". That's literally it. I said not the slightest thing wrong or ban-worthy. Mind you, I will admit that in at least one instance in the past, I deserved an internet ban imposed on me (on a different website). But that emphatically wasn't the case this time.
I could've forgiven the verbally abusive exchange, because I've had exchanges like it before; not all the time, but maybe once every couple of months or half a year, or even longer than that. But then that absolute mouthbreathing cvnt-wipe of a mod, apparently the only active mod on that forum, imposed himself into the conversation as if he was solemnly confronting some disturbance to the community's peace (I was arguing civilly, aside from once saying that X user was "slandering an innocent man", and in fact had already publicly stated that I was going to end the argument) and gave me 8-9 days for some fabricated crime, and told me I was "on thin ice" for this supposed crime and that "this is your only warning". Again, for doing absolutely nothing. In his delusional mind, of course, I did do something, but that doesn't change the actual facts. And of course, he took zero actions against the myriad of people who talked shit to me.
"Snowflakes" is beyond trite at this point, but liberals 100% deserve the label if this is how they treat merely disputing that it was, in fact, a sieg heil and not something else (as it plausibly could've been and probably was). It seems to me they're increasingly unable to cope with normal everyday reality where different viewpoints coexist, hence their needless gravitation toward echo chambers like BlueSky despite not being the victims of mass censorship on platforms like Twitter.
