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Elon Musk published a controversial opinion piece in Germany’s Welt am Sonntag supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, prompting the newspaper’s opinion editor to resign.

Musk denied the AfD’s extremism, citing its leader’s same-sex relationship, and reiterated his claim that “only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD, classified as a suspected extremism case by Germany’s intelligence agency, has surged in polls ahead of February elections.

Musk’s support drew backlash, with critics highlighting the AfD’s anti-immigration stance and calls to leave the EU.

  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    25 days ago

    AfD is not just anti-immigration, it is anti-immigrants. Anti- immigration is a fake facade to hide their racism behind.

    Unfortunately, pretty much all German parties now have a similar anti-immigration stance but ask yourself this, is it “anti-immigration” to deport people living in a country for almost a decade or is it “anti-immigrants”? Cuz when assad regime fell, the first thing that comes to their mind is deporting syrian refugees.

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      Technically the AfD is actually pro immigration.

      But the tone quickly becomes sharper. We have to make sure, says Lüth, that the Federal Republic is even worse off, because that would play into the AfD’s hands politically: “If everything went well now (…), the AfD would be at three percent. We don’t want that. That’s why we have to think about a tactic between: How bad can things get for Germany? And: How much can we provoke? It’s like this. (…) It’s difficult, very difficult.” All of this was “discussed at length” with Alexander Gauland.

      In the end, Lüth even indulges in violent fantasies. Lisa Licentia asks him: “Above all, it sounds as if it would be in your interest for more migrants to come?” Lüth replies: “Yes, because then the AfD will be better off. We can always shoot them all later. That’s not an issue at all. Or gas them, or whatever you like. I don’t care!”

      https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-09/christian-lueth-afd-alexander-gauland-menschenfeindlichkeit-migration

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    Elon is an egomaniacal Nazi idiot. But seriously, “pens”? He probably hasn’t touched a pen since gradeschool, and certainly didn’t use one for this. “Writes” is being generous,“rants” is probably more accurate. But imagine what the paper would have looked like if he had penned it. Illegible scrawl wandering over the page, full of scratch-outs and errors…all his insanity fully on display. Without the dignifying effect of corrected spelling and grammar and typeface, people would see the pure Unabomber-level madness it all is.

    Same thing with Trump, his tweets are idiotic enough as it is, imagine if he had to actually write them out with a pen. Or those fat washable Crayola markers is more his style, so he could use colors for emphasis.

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        25 days ago

        And to dye his hair blonde, like frumpf does, rather than black. In the last pic I saw of Musk on stage, hopping around with Cheeto, he already had the big whale gut showing, so he’s almost there.