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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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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 46 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

What the fuck does he even know about germany?

[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 minutes ago

It's not an oligarchy yet.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

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

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

[–] FLX@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

Someone call luigi

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 31 points 5 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.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 16 points 4 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.

[–] WeUnite@lemm.ee 38 points 6 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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

register for Bluesky

Replace that with Mastodon and you're golden.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 14 points 5 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.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 4 points 26 minutes ago

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

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 67 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

American here. Can we begin our deportations with Musk?

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Not while he's our president.

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 20 points 6 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.

[–] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 6 points 5 hours ago

can we get an Alternative for Douchebag already

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 17 points 7 hours ago

Fascism loves capitalism.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 49 points 9 hours ago

Literal supervillain

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Stfu Musk you know shit about Germany

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 hours ago (4 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"

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a native English speaker, thank you!

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't listen to them, your statement was fine, your English is good, and I think what you wrote is better than their edit.

I think they're trying to be funny by implying that he doesn't know shit about anything, rather than just Germany, but it's not a well crafted joke if that was the intention.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago

Oh i knew that, my reply was purely ironically :)

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[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 87 points 11 hours ago

Elon Musk is a danger to democracy all over the world

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 6 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.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Seems like something that I would expect from Elon nowadays.

[–] vodkasolution@feddit.it 2 points 5 hours ago

Hi Elon, only Pasquale, the best pizza maker of my hometown, can save your Tesla truck

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 172 points 13 hours ago (4 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

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 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

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 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.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 60 points 11 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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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn’t the driver himself an immigrant?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 7 hours ago

Yes. An atheist 50 year old Saudi man.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't trump voted by many Latinos?

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Most Latinos still voted for Kamala, especially Latina women. There is a culture of machismo even worse than the US in some Latin American countries, so they see Trump as a strong man who does whatever he wants and gets away with it.

The worse part is that many Latinos who immigrated the official way, which is a huge pain in the ass, feel no solidarity with undocumented Latinos. I've heard worse anti immigrant shit on many occasions from Latinos than I've heard from black and white Americans.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 31 points 10 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."

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 28 points 10 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.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 23 points 10 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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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 152 points 13 hours ago

Nazi supporting Nazi also supports other Nazis.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 97 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

For someone not very politically interested you seem to know a good bit. Please vote in February.

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