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Elon Musk sparked outrage in Germany by endorsing the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on his platform, X, claiming “only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD, which polls second ahead of Germany’s February snap election, has been labeled extremist by German intelligence.

Political leaders accused Musk of election interference, while others criticized his remarks as harmful. Musk later doubled down, calling for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s resignation.

Musk’s comments align with his past support for far-right and anti-immigration figures across Europe and beyond.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 39 minutes ago

TBH he is. Ford was a piece of shit amd so is here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Well, the nazism, the car thing, the evil vulture capitalist…kinda similar.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

We're running into the paradox of tolerance real quick here folks. Democracies need to legislate limits to the political influence of rich idiots and soon, otherwise we'll all end up like the US.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

What the fuck does he even know about germany?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

It doesn’t matter to him. All he knows that he’s a Dark Enlightenment fascist white supremacist. The poors and non-whites must die. Fascist governments must be in power everywhere so he can have his world where he is king, he has robots to do his bidding and can try to live forever.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

His knowledge is mostly restricted to the years 1933-1945.

He didn't read the ending. No one tell him the spoiler.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

It's not an oligarchy yet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Someone call luigi

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago

He knows that Nazis are from there, and that's pretty fckn rad baby

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 hours ago

Musk later doubled down, calling for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s resignation.

This stupid POS doesn't even know that this already happened a few days ago.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago

This country collapses when the far right party is in power.

We have a huge problem. Me need young people from other countries, because Germany is pretty old.

Having those clowns in power will worsen the problem.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No country is safe from Elon Musk's election interference. It's urgent that we boycott Twitter and Tesla. If you have a Twitter account do the following now:

  1. Send a DM to your favorite accounts and urge them to stop using Twitter.
  2. (If you haven't already) register for Bluesky.
  3. Make a Tweet saying you are no longer using Twitter.
  4. Tell your friends to follow the same instructions.

These could take as little as five minutes of your time but it will make a huge difference because of the ripple effect. When one person leaves it will automatically incentivize your friends to follow you. You have the power to make a difference.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

register for Bluesky

Replace that with Mastodon and you're golden.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Either is better than X/Twitter for now. Bluesky is "easier" for many people. I prefer Mastodon myself, but there's a bridge so I can follow Bluesky profiles (and vice-versa) which is nice.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Bluesky is not better, it's at best a sidegrade and possibly worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

This is false. It still has areas in which it could improve, but it is a thousand times better than twitter.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Elon grew up and enjoyed the South African Apartheid regime and he is a neo-Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

American here. Can we begin our deportations with Musk?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Not while he's our president.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago

It should be unsurprising that he's trying to destroy other major economies around the world, seeing as that's the policy of those who he's aligned himself with politically.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

can we get an Alternative for Douchebag already

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I propose flaming turd.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 12 hours ago

Literal supervillain

[–] [email protected] 65 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Stfu Musk you know shit about Germany

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

English teacher here. Often editing to use less words can make your statements more concise and accurate. For example, try "STFU Musk, you know shit"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Elon has a lot of money, therefore people listen to him, therefore he knows everything about anything he pleases.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

Fascism loves capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

Shut up musk. Go back to being Trump's little money bitch before he gets mad and divorces you.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 13 hours ago

Elon Musk is a danger to democracy all over the world

[–] [email protected] 176 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

It's important to note that right after saying this...

A German AFD supporter who retweets Musk drove into a Christmas market in a terrorist attack

Germany has stricter laws about inciting violence, it's a long shot but maybe he'll get charges

[–] [email protected] 29 points 12 hours ago

And the AfD's knee-jerk reaction was to assume he was a muslim jihadist, proving his point about German attitudes about Saudi refugees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

A German AFD supporter who retweets Musk drove into a Christmas market in a terrorist attack

Ohhhh, that’s why I haven’t seen the regular racist memes on conservative social media. Pretty on brand

[–] [email protected] 62 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Elon Musk is, as far as I am concerned, directly responsible for (so far and let's hope it stays that way) the murder of five people.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Why do Putin and the billionaires he shepherds think that all this far-right democracy killing shit is so super duper? I marvel that they never seem to stop and think "this could eventually go badly for me."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago

They want every place to be like Russia. It's always been their main contention that democracy is just a sham and basically everyone is a fascist. This is one of the main reasons for invading Ukraine because he couldn't tolerate a democratic nation as his neighbour. It'll give the plebes ideas, you know.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago

Because Putin wants Russia to be the geopolitical superpower it was in 1960. It's a hell of a lot easier to tear the rest of the world down than it is to build up Russia.

That's part of why he's so eager for war. The last big shakeup of the global order was WWII. He doesn't have the patience to accomplish geopolitical power closer to the way China is, by slowly building up their economy over decades.

And he's right that a bunch of people dying often helps the economy. The black plage was 1350, followed by the Renaissance around 1400-1600. We're familiar enough with post WWII.

But that's the dumb and evil way to grant power to labor. You can create more demand for labor without literally killing half your laborers. And it turns out having a real, healthy middle class is great for the economy.

Personally, I believe you could accomplish a similar effect by having a ridiculously high minimum wage and mandating a maximum of 32 hour work weeks. Seems like it might be worth experimenting with when the alternative "fix" is to kill half your people.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

What clearer and more obvious sign does one need to call him a Nazi? Disabling his right-wing ex-twitter propaganda network in Europe (and other civilized places) should be a top priority.

[–] [email protected] 153 points 16 hours ago

Nazi supporting Nazi also supports other Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

An apartheid-loving nazi calls for the nazi party to be the savior of Germany? Never would I have guessed.

The information, I as a not very politically interested German (understatement) have: We are holding re-elections on Feburary 23rd because the current government imploded. Basically, the rich guys' party doesn't want to make rich guys pay taxes and being children about it, most other parties seem desperate at this point, else they wouldn't have challenged that much. They have never cared that much, so I have no idea what changed. The populist nazi party Musk cheers for has a lot traction because people are beyond stupid and self-centered and I fear that they will get a significant amount of votes. Maybe they don't win outright, but they will realistically take second place. I regard everyone that considers to vote for AfD as a nazi.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Brown people I guess.

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