The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.
The commentary piece in German was launched online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns the US politics news site Politico.
Musk uses populist and personal language to try to deny AfD’s extremist bent and the piece expands on his post on the social media platform X that he owns, on which he last week claimed that “only the AfD can save Germany”.
“Jean-Baptiste… Emanuel… Zorg.”
And his worst enemy - fruit.
That’s not who I was thinking of, but sure. Him too.
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I call it as I see it.
Hitler did horrible things the old way, with killing and hotting. In many ways, these billionaires are worse. Not wanting to defend him, but Hitler didn’t try to meddle with all governments around the world and enslave the whole working class. If people like Elmo get his way, slavery would be back on the menu.
I think it was more that he didn’t have the means. Propaganda was much harder before the Internet and social media.
That’s kind of where I was going with my comment. 80 years ago, what these billionaires are doing was simply not possible. I’m not saying Hitler is not worse than Musk. Hitler could only dream about having this much power.
This is AI generated! No way he actually ever styles his hair like that!
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
At least we agree: his wealth is everyone’s problem. The difference is that I think it’s time we do something about it.
Love that logic–“i opened up shop in your country, therefore i have the right to meddle with your politics”
It took me a while to notice.
For those still unaware: there are barely hidden salutes.
pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right
It seems bizarre to me that the prevailing assumption is that Musk’s interests align with those of the working class.
As in, why TF would anyone who is not a billionaire want a billionaire to restructure government?
His blunder in Sweden should tell everyone clearly where he stands on workers rights.
The AfD does not have interests in favour of the working class. They constantly vote against laws helping anyone but the rich. They are just a tool for the rich and russia to destabilize our democracy.
Isn’t he angry that the gop is full of racists. And now he’s supporting the racist AfD? Man if only he could have some form of consistency. I’m sick and tired of him.
If he’s angry that the GOP is full of racists then he’s got a funny way of showing it.
Musk has been a racist for a long time, sounds like he finally found his people.
Oh, he is super racist
He’s angry that the GOP might cut off his supply of cheap, vulnerable, exploitable H-1B workers. Otherwise, racism is still his thing.
We are witnessing two competing forms of racism. Which one will prevail? Exclusionary or exploitative?
Isn’t he angry that the gop is full of racists.
Has he looked in the mirror lately?
full of racists who say he can’t be President and Emperor of the USA because he wasn’t born there? I think that’s what he means
Musk needs to fucking watch himself.
You know, if people like Musk hate immigration so much then they should encourage investment and peace in other countries so that people don’t want to leave their home countries.
No one really wants to go to Europe etc., they’re either literally dying in poverty or being killed in their own countries.
Let’s be honest, the poor state of countries where these immigrants are coming from is the fault of decades of neoconservative policies of regional destabilization. The West needs to answers for its short-sighted thinking now, and they’re having a hard time understanding how this is a self created problem.
Indeed. Imagine if Mexico was governed like Canada. The Mexicans would be building a wall to prevent the Americans from swamping their country.
Damn, gotta wonder what Putin has on Elon.
I think putin just showed him that he can do what happened in Russia in 1990 and 2000 and get richer from stealing from the country.
Why the Welt am Sonntag? Was the Bild overbooked? Because that’s where this kind of trash belongs in.
Welt is Bild in disguise. Same publisher.
Musk fails to understand the racist themselves are attracted to the people they want to kill. DNA samples were taken from Hitler’s relatives and they found Haplogroup E1b1b1, which means the motherfucker was part African and Jewish. His excuse for supporting Weidel and the fucking AfD is pathetic.
The most fun part is, that Alice Seidel is a lesbian, living in Switzerland that adppted a Child with -how do i put it- high melantonin
Yep, +1. Like the Nazis, MAGAts, Communists and all the other extreme right and left nutters, a bunch of hypocrites.
Man, I don’t care how female, lesbian, or interracial anybody at the AfD is. They’re a bunch of Putin dick riders. Their private lives don’t enter into it.
(Incidentally, people like Musk and Trump love to question the credentials of politicians sharing the exact same attributes that this time around Musk has decided to praise. So, Musk, are they incompetent diversity hires, or are they “proof” that the party isn’t racist? They can’t be both!)
+1…Indeed.
E1b1b1 is common in some Afroasiatic speakers. It probably traces back to the Neolithic Levantine farmers who spread around the Mediterranean but only a guess.
I’m having trouble finding the original op-ed. Could somebody provide a link?
This is what they claim as the source https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/plus254982012/Warum-Elon-Musk-auf-die-AfD-setzt-und-warum-er-dabei-irrt.html
Well, thanks, fwiw. Now, the only way for me to check the quotations first hand is to give money to the idiots who printed it lol. Ausgezeichnet. I checked the Internet Archive. They just show the same opening paragraph.
Noice. Thanks!
So you want to tell me that a nazi supports nazis??
So you wanna tell me an american billionaire bribes a german billionaire to support a far-right party that’s founded to help poor people? Really? REALLY?
He really wants to be Göring.
