Is Elon Musk a fascist?

Musk certainly has had associations with far-right organizations in numerous contexts with fascist relations. He laughs: \"am I Zionist or Fascist - make up your minds!?\" Yet Zionism is a far-right Jewish ideology which in the distant past has gone so far as to seek alliance with Italian fascists, presumably until it was clear that no Nazi could ever see a Jewish person as an ally. It\'s been claimed that Musk has empowered fascist profiles, even most recently by a supposed whistle-blower who has kept his profile anonymous. And certainly when he recently performed a sieg heil on stage he did not deny being intentionally fascist in his expression.

I ran into a weird thing though that has me wondering. Two years ago this random redditer with a string of numbers for a name made this clear misinformation post that offers the salute as a historical token of \"giving your heart.\" Of course it\'s utterly false - the salute emerges in the 18th/19th centuries in the art and play world. Musk also says \"I give my heart to you!\" When he does it... And it has me wondering if he was just silly enough to read this comment and believe it uncritically? And then go so far as to act upon it? He does seem to project a love of Rome with respect to films like Gladiator and uses Romanesque names for himself frequently enough...

Could he have just read this misinformation and then very stupidly acted upon it in the most embarassing of possible contexts?

If you look into it you\'ll find this to be the only claim made online about \"giving your heart\" with the salute, since of course, it\'s entirely made up. So it could be a trap.

Another possible explanation is that it was seeded not by people to trap Musk but rather, as a source of plausible deniability such that if Musk wanted to he could both perform a fascist salute and say \"oh, whoopsie. I guess I was wrong about that source. Well, no, I\'m not a fascist, I just made a mistake in trusting this source...\"

What\'s hard to believe about the \"Musk uncritically believed the comment\" hypothesis is that it would require a rather brilliant person assume that a single Reddit comment was true, and throw out quite common knowledge about the fascist Sieg Heil because of it. Which is hard - imagine he did the same thing owing to a comment on heat shields with space craft on a Reddit and blew up a rocket? It just seems... Implausible. Yet...

It also feels implausible to be a coincidence. After all, the only two people to pair the \"give my heart to you\" meme with the Sieg Heil is this dude and Musk so... Hard to imagine they\'d do that independently.

All theories seem implausible. Either this was planted to set Musk up, or Musk planted this for plausible deniability (both are conspiracies) or two individuals coincidently pair \"My heart goes out to you\" with the sieg heil incongruously.

What do you think?