In the post shared by Musk, the account lamented the presence of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean Sea that rescue migrants from distressed vessels.

“These NGOs are subsidized by the German government,” the account posted. “Let’s hope AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide.”

    • Carighan Maconar
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      832 years ago

      The replies are insane, tbh.

      It’s crazy just how quickly Musk has centralized such an extremely xenophobic and fascist community on Twitter, even compared to before.

      And of course they all have that paid checkmark. No wonder he does it so consistently, it makes a fortune. Sigh.

      • @CosmoNova@feddit.de
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        512 years ago

        The platform will likely get blocked within the EU quite soon if it stays this way. After a devastating report about misinformation, they loosened oversight even more, meaning it actively does not conform to EU regulations (regarding hate speech for example) anymore. Facebook has already received hefty fines for less so I honestly don’t expect Xitter to be around much longer.

      • @br3d@lemmy.world
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        152 years ago

        You’re assuming those accounts are real, and also assuming they’re funded externally

        • Carighan Maconar
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          92 years ago

          As if they’d need to fake fascist accounts. There’s plenty of people to go around for posting that, just look at he numbers fascist parties poll in most countries.

    • DessertStorms
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      Shame the people the reply is aimed at don’t see refugees as humans worth saving, instead they probably claim it is the German lives that the refugees “threaten” that need to be “saved”.

      There is no logic-ing someone out of a position they didn’t logic themsleves in to…

      • @4am@lemm.ee
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        22 years ago

        Gee I wonder where they all got these brain worms that their comfort is so fragile and that everyone else envies their comfort and wants their treats and is only on a mission to steal their precious from them

        I’m sure the capital owners don’t want to keep these refugees “illegal” and looked down upon so they can be exploited for cheap labor and no one will care

        “Oh you had to escape the terrible material conditions created when the west either directly or indirectly installed a horrible dictator in charge of your country and people started starving/dying? Pathetic!”

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      And that, for one, makes a section of my moral mind and heart go “And now this again? How have people have largely forgotten our ancestor’s egregious transgressions just to go root for those people who vow to pleasurely subjugate their fellows according to their flawed, sadist worldview, be it overt or covert?”

      And looking at our planet as it stands right now, culturally, politically, and morally, it seems that we are bound to repeat this vicious cycle of homicide, destruction, tyranny, cultural heritages being lost and razed out of existence, as per Derivakat & Netrum’s recent collab tune, unless we band together, whatever the cost, and at the slimmest least, uphold the positive ideals of humanity we so seek, regardless of nationality, gender, economic standing, and so on.

      • Maggi_Man
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        22 years ago

        U mean a rainbow coloured Swastika! LGBT friendly

  • @virku@lemmy.world
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    692 years ago

    Ten or so years ago I liked the guy. He did great things with tesla and spacex. Now every bit of information I get about him deminish my respect more than the previous. It seems like tesla and spacex has done great in spite of him, not because of him.

      • Ech
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        222 years ago

        reading the whole comment is usually useful.

      • @CosmoNova@feddit.de
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        82 years ago

        In the 2010s, friends and family always rolled their eyes when I told them he didn’t found Tesla, wasn’t a rocket engineer and got kicked out of Paypal. I was always just a Debby Downer who just didn’t want it to work or something. Now after Hyperloop Vaporware, dead monkeys from brain transplants, shut down Starlink for Ukraine and the Twitter aquisition, they finally joined my choir. I will admit it’s quite gratifying to hear some of them say “you were right all along” after years of being dismissed.

        Of course nobody on the internet will admit they were wrong, though. They’ll either stick to him, claim they always doubted him or say he just changed. Whatever, it is what it is.

    • @Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
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      -62 years ago

      He was okay before he started engaging politics. Although his treatment of workers and women always had me concerned

      • fiat_lux
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        The treatment of his workers and women is politics. Probably just not the kind of politics that personally negatively affects you.

        Musk was never okay.

  • @puppy@lemmy.world
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    Has Musk forgotten that without government subsidies there wouldn’t have been a Tesla today? Fucking hypocrite! Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.

    • @blazeknave@lemmy.world
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      62 years ago

      Seriously, I want my fucking tax dollars back with the same returns he’s made on those dollars. Welfare bitch shitting on the poor.

    • @variaatio@sopuli.xyz
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      Also it seems he never ever wants Tesla or any of his other companies getting any kind of warm treatment from any German Federal or State regulatory or licensing body. Well actually probably most of EU, given his behaviour towards Germany. After Germany treated him completely normally and business like and actually at parts some what welcoming with his business. Not their fault, if he can’t comprehend the concept of EU is not USA. Things don’t work the same.

      He also absolutely will not need that good will… Given that his Tesla imports to Europe from the Shanghai factory along with all Chinese EV imports are about to get dunked with extra tariffs soon over Chinese government subsidies to “level the playing field”. It ain’t official yet, but the grumbling from EU Commission is pretty hefty to that direction.

  • @seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de
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    552 years ago

    Ah, the party whose members are actual Nazis. I would say mask off, but that mask has been off for longer now. Sad that he feels empowered to be this blunt.

    • @lorty@lemmy.ml
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      52 years ago

      It’s past time AfD was disbanded and its leadership arrested. The fact they can still even run for office is absurd.

    • @CosmoNova@feddit.de
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      32 years ago

      It will be intesting to see what effect his support will actually have among potential voters, given he’s an american entrepreneur, controlling the biggest spy satellite network in the world, likely used by the CIA. On top of that, Tesla is the main driver behind EVs popularity. Musk should be the nemesis of any right wing european, honestly.

      • @seSvxR3ull7LHaEZFIjM@feddit.de
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        72 years ago

        Right wingers don’t actually believe in anything they say about the economy or foreign policy. They just care about power, and they’ll gratefully ally with any industrialist that is able and willing to help them.

  • qyron
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    492 years ago

    Can someone tell that loon EU is not the US?

    Statements like that can bite back and hard here.

  • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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    482 years ago

    Breaking news: African who lives in America suddenly cares about the influx of immigrants in Europe, for no apparent reason whatsoever

    • theJWPHTER88
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      Him, and the rest of this power-greedy horde emanating in this world, too.
      Although they have been trying again and again to subvert that one adage regarding who gets to rightfully write human history: the sole victors at large, the underdogs with their numbers, or the tricksters that pull the marionette strings behind the show.

      And yes, the fictional Dream and DreamXD characters fit in, too.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    472 years ago

    What?

    The apartheid emerald mine baby doesn’t have the most tolerant views of migrants?

    I’m shocked! Shocked I say!

      • Pleb
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        52 years ago

        Was gonna say, we should fulfill his wish. Shoot him up to Mars, he can be Emperor of the rocks up there.

          • Pleb
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            22 years ago

            He has a thing for those too, sure. But I’d say we shouldn’t pollute our oceans even more than we already do. Who cares if some rocks on Mars get taitned by him?

  • @braxy29@lemmy.world
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    432 years ago

    yep, definitely turned out to be the kind of hateful shitbag his grandfather would have loved. bleh

      • @Rose@lemmy.world
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        302 years ago

        His grandfather J. N. Haldeman was a staunch anti-Communist from Canada who in the nineteen-thirties and forties had been a leader of the anti-democratic and quasi-fascist Technocracy movement. (Technocrats believed that scientists and engineers should rule.) “In 1950, he decided to move to South Africa,” Isaacson writes, “which was still ruled by a white apartheid regime.” In fact, apartheid had been declared only in 1948, and the regime was soon recruiting white settlers from North America, promising restless men such as Haldeman that they could live like princes. Isaacson calls Haldeman’s politics “quirky.” In 1960, Haldeman self-published a tract, “The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship & the Menace to South Africa,” that blamed the two World Wars on the machinations of Jewish financiers.