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Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election.

“Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote on the platform on Friday in the latest of a series of endorsements of European far-right parties.

Musk has recently supported European populist-right politicians in increasingly clear terms, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniand Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Earlier this week, Farage boasted that Musk is “right behind” him — and raised the prospect that the tech tycoon would financially back his Reform UK party.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 70 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Musk is a real danger to the world. He is throwing his essentially infinite resources behind fascist politicians everywhere he can. We are looking at likely fascist takeovers in Germany, France and the UK, as well as the USA and a swing to the hard right in Canada. Other European countries have already gone fascist. It would be like the 1930s and 40s except that some powerful countries still fought against fascism then. Now it seems to be taking over everywhere.

Musk is a significant force in this movement. We urgently need an effective popular movement against billionaires.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Musk isn't acting alone because he doesn't directly have much money.

Let us not lose sight of the banks that offer wealthy individuals zero interest loans against hyper pumped stock portfolios that are only worth a mere fraction of their on paper value.

Musk is absolutely a villain but we also have a fucked up system ready to empower a replacement. They're both problems.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Let's crash some stocks then...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

His dad recently saying how proud he is that elon is finally embracing his family's political leanings and then immediately talking about there's a long history of Nazis in the family is just hilarious

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

His dad is even worse than he is. Which is pretty amazing.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 51 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We're still not even a single day into Trump being president.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

You mean Musk being president.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

~~far-right~~ fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD)

European ~~populist-right~~ fascist politicians, including Italian Prime Minister and Mussolini devotee Giorgia Meloniand Reform UK leader and inbred British bigotry incarnate Nigel Farage

Fixed it.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Nice, well done, I was already triggering on how text was formulated.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We really need to do something about him.

Any ideas?

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

He wanted to go to Mars right? I say we give him any means so he can.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully Germany sees how shit he is at anything and rejects any party influenced by him.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the dealbreaker for any German politician: inefficient bureaucracy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Dealing with the German bureaucracy when I don't even speak the language is exactly why I haven't explored getting German citizenship even though I technically am eligible. The technicality involves Nazi Germany and my Jewish grandfather being declared stateless by them, but not becoming a UK citizen until after my father was born.

One day maybe I'll work to untangle that mess, but it sounds like a nightmare.