No Stupid Questions

Nazy sympathizers.

gaslighting. it's just gaslighting

If he didn't want to be labeled a Nazi maaaaybe he shouldn't have made a Nazi salute twice during a speech in front of a crowd full of press and broadcast live on national tv.

Stupid games, stupid prizes. He gets everything that's coming to him.

It's called nazism. People who defend nazis are almost certainly nazis themselves. People who claim the nazi salute was used by Romans are wrong or lying, and also probably nazis; the earliest known record of the salute in a Roman context was created a millennium after the end of the Roman empire.

Edit: It's probably worth noting that Hitler was likely a fan of the Roman empire. Nazi Germany was known as the "third reich" where the first was the the Holy Roman Empire and the second was the German Empire. It's likely they appropriated the gesture thinking it was a legitimate Roman salute.

Victim of Lead Poisoning

Wait actually, Philly has a lot of lead poisoning but most Philadelphians aren't nazis.

So just nazis then. There is zero excuse.

I've had a coworker argue that he's not a nazi, despite doing all the nazi shit and saying all the nazi stuff, because he does it only for the money.

If I stick my arm out in front of me and it looks like a Nazi salute, but I tell you that I only did it because I'm autistic and don't understand social norms even though I run a multinational corporation, meet with world leaders, and have a ton of nationalist and racist content on my social media, am I a Nazi?

To actually answer your question, it's called plausible deniability. This exact question has actually been asked here before in recent weeks, was that also you?

The best way to burn off bad faith is to ask them to affirm their standard: "so you think it's dishonest to intuit intention when you have no proof"? and if they're stupid enough to claim they believe that, hit them with something like:

"What do you mean video games have a woke agenda? You can't know the intentions of game designers". "How do you know that the media is biased against Trump"? "You can't read their minds".

EDIT: My point is that debate should cut straight to a question of values, not argument. Talking about values (which cannot be disputed or proven with "facts and logic"), divides good and bad faith like a lightsabre.

bad deontology

The comeback is easy: Intent doesn't matter, actions do.

Basic psychology.

Anyone who has already decided that they like Elon (or MAGA) do not want to believe that they are the bad guy. So they will reach for even the worst of arguments to make themselves believe they aren't the bad guy.

Remember: Nazis themselves refuse to believe the Holocaust happened. Same same really. No one wants to think of themselves as the bad guy.