edit: seems that gif images don’t work, so here’s the gif:
edit2: another angle from a different TV camera: https://i.imgur.com/Jezrgss.gif (I’m not embedding it because it’s larger and one animation is enough)
For context:
Recent https://piefed.social/post/499497
Source video on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/1iyrln3/călin_georgescu_face_salutul_nazist_la_ieșirea_de/ from a Romanian TV (I wouldn’t call it “news”, it’s like OAN for Trump now)
Broader issue of election meddling:
Here’s the short gif: https://i.imgur.com/OR56MVe.gif
Not sure if this should be NSFW.
I’ve killed a lot of Nazis in my day (in Wolf3D) but I gotta say that’s a bit of a stretch. I don’t know anything about this guy, or indeed Romania, so perhaps my Canadian benefit-of-the-doubt is blinding me
I put some context links in the body of the post, to read.
Georgescu has a platform of autarky, which he calls “sovereigntism”. He’s also surrounded by fascists (“legion of archangel Michael”), is directly connected to a paramilitary mercenary group, uses dogwhistles regularly. He also believes he’s a new messiah who is chosen by God to “save” the People (he may actually be schizophrenic, but the people around him are encouraging it). He’s also constantly spewing conspiracy stories and wellness pseudoscience on social media, parroting them and mixing them up with famous speeches from movies.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/trump-populist-conspiracism-autocracy-rfk-jr/681088/
Georgescu is like if Trump and RFK Jr. had a son with Alex Jones as the nanny.