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Elon Musk angers German government with post backing far-right party - UPI.com (www.upi.com)

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Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Elon Musk is under fire after publicly backing a far-right political party in Germany, suggesting the current government should not be re-elected over its position on the current migrant crisis in Europe.

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[-] gabe@literature.cafe 59 points 1 year ago

Wow. He straight up just admitted he's a Nazi. Absolutely fucking vile.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

He thinks it's controversial to not let migrants (men, women and children) drown and die, and has no problem promoting a party which is full of nazi sympathizers.

He's a sociopath, a racist and a fascist.

And those likely aren't even his worst characteristics, given the stories of sexual assault, links to Epstein, and the fact his father married his own daughter.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] quantum_mechanic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That's why he loves the letter X so much. With a slight modification, it becomes a swastika.

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[-] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 54 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk is a South African who lives and operates in the US. Why tf is he trying chiming in about any German electoral process?

How about Apartheid Clyde stays in his lane.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I wish the news would just pretend he doesn't exist. I'm so tired of him.

[-] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

He's a Nazi and he supports Nazi's

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[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 year ago

I'm trying my damndest to ignore Musk. I invite you all to join me

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago

Does ignoring influential fascists make them stop trying to increase their influence? Or make them stop being fascists?

Maybe we should ask Neville Chamberlain how well that works?

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[-] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk is starting to go so far off the deepend that we may need to call in Britney Spears dad to take conservertership of him.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

Fuck Nazis. Especially billionaire Nazis.

[-] wabafee@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dude just admit his a nazi? Or the far right in Germany is not what I think it is. Not familiar with the party structure there.

[-] legofreak@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago

In 2022, it was ruled that the BfV may classify and monitor the entire party as a suspected right-wing extremist group. A corresponding lawsuit by the AfD was dismissed because "there were sufficient factual indications of anti-constitutional efforts within the AfD".[36] On 26 April 2023, the BfV, after four years of investigations into the Young Alternative for Germany, categorized that group as a confirmed extremist organization. This allowed the chief of the BfV Thomas Haldenwang to place the youth wing under even more intensive surveillance than the tapping of phone and the use of undercover agents that had been the case until then.[45][46]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

Just summarizing here. They are right wing extremists that have taken over old Nazi talking points and are gaining popularity with anti immigration, anti climate change and populist propaganda.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

BfV is the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a domestic intelligence agency, so somewhat comparable to the FBI in the USA.

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

They're also famous for very much being “blind on the right eye”. They didn't ban the neonazi party “NPD” (for reference: the original Nazi party was the NSDAP) and their last ex boss (Hans-Georg Maaßen) is a far right conspiracy nut.

They've partially come around apparently as they're now watching the AfD (which is far stronger than the NPD ever was) as well as Maaßen.

[-] xome@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

BfV cannot ban parties. Only the highest court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) can. The only reason they did not do it was because the NPD has too little meaning to be a thread to the German constitution.

[-] theKalash@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think that comparison is very fitting. The FBI is equivalant to the German Bundespolizei (Federal Police).

The BfV is more like the NSA or the Dept. of homeland security. It's an domestic intelligence agency.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

He's been cheering for nazis for ages by now. Doesn't that make him a nazi?

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

They're against immigration, Islam, refugees, gender equality, gay marriage, and Kosher food. They want the German army to bring back conscription.

They're fucking Nazis.

He's endorsing Nazis.

He's a Nazi.

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[-] taanegl@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

He only wants a political party that will side with his delusions. Unfortunately his delusions sided with nazis.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago

No, you see, HE isn't a Nazi, he just happens to agree with everything Nazis say.

[-] duviobaz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

According to an expert assessment from the German Institute for Human Rights that's a hundred pages long, all the conditions for banning the AfD party are met. Talks about the urgent need to do so are being kicked off. If a party ban is seriously being considered, you know they are doing something wrong. Party bans in Germany are very difficult to achieve for obvious historical reasons. So far only two have been banned, one of them was the SRP, the follow-up party of the Nazi party.

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[-] zhunk@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Twitter is so easy for people to get off of. But they won't.

Now, if any companies could give any serious competition in the US to SpaceX (launch or Starlink) and Tesla, that would be phenomenal.

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[-] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Someone lock him up

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[-] kitonthenet@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

this guy's a threat

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[-] IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Musk is an unwelcome immigrant sucking off the teat of the American taxpayer and taking their jobs. I dont understand why we dont seize all his assets, retake our money from him and ship his ass back to Africa

[-] Rottcodd@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn't matter how much money he has - every time I visualize Musk posting to Twitter, I see him as a teenage edgelord in a shabby suburban tract house, hunched over an off-the-shelf desktop PC in a room with green shag carpeting and fake wood paneling, lit only by the glow from the screen, giggling to himself.