Paris MarxGermany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.
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@parismarx yeah, they just want to ethnically cleanse Germany. not extremist at all. they just want a fascist ethnostate. of course the Afrikaner son on a mine owner doesn't see an issue with that.
Lulu · לולו@parismarx Billionaires have become indistinguishable from fascists.
enoch_exe_inc
WallOffTrump@lulu @parismarx
This latest global rise of fascism is entirely the work of the proud citizens of Billionairistan. Ensuring that they get every penny they can while being free to burn down the world before they head to their luxury bunkers.
This latest global rise of fascism is entirely the work of the proud citizens of Billionairistan. Ensuring that they get every penny they can while being free to burn down the world before they head to their luxury bunkers.
libramoonthese wealth hoarders are obviously suffering a severe mental illness which compels them to destroy the world they depend on all the while appearing miserable -- if it's not big fun, why bother?
@libramoon @lulu @parismarx
They'll be disappointed that fungible tokens are not edible.
Nobody eats on a dead planet
They'll be disappointed that fungible tokens are not edible.
Nobody eats on a dead planet
ryan onstott@parismarx he doesn't *misunderstand*, he is ACTIVELY trying to normalize AfD
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊@parismarx And incredibly full of crap.
chuckadeus kummerer@parismarx it's almost as if the neoliberal shit show must go on
Luna chan@parismarx Musk wonders why so many people including myself have lost all respect for him.
@Luna @parismarx He didn’t come up with any of the designs for the Falcon Heavy, Starship, or any of his Teslas. He just takes the “risk” and takes all the earnings while paying his workers—who actually did the work—less than a pittance. Basically, like most CEOs, he’s a freeloader who’s never worked an honest day’s work in his life.
That’s what ultimately killed most of my respect for him.
Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗😷@enoch_exe_inc @Luna @parismarx He didn't even start Tesla. He bought his way in then legally prevented the founders from stating that they are.
@SiteRelEnby @enoch_exe_inc Yeah, I know. I just couldn’t fit it into 500 characters.
The dream of interplanetary travel is nice. But Elon Musk is not the man to realise that dream. Plus, I have a far more ambitious plan than high(er) speed Internet, and that’s #SpaceBasedSolarPower. Instead of swarms of tiny comms satellites in low orbit, why not enormous solar arrays at the Lagrange points where the Sun always shines?
D. G. Marshall@enoch_exe_inc @Luna @parismarx
In fairness, he did come up with the idea of removing the cooling ponds from the SpaceX launch pads, a brilliant innovation that *checks notes* caused the rapid unscheduled dissasembly of both the launch pad and the rocket.
astroPugI dimly remember the Afd program and advertisement leaning heavy into the trad wife and “women’s role is children” stuff. (They downplay it to attract the crowd that’s more racist than misogynistic, and they know well how to downplay their racism, too, when they’re pretending to be respectable, but it’s all there.)
Come to think of it, I recall reading Elon had agreed with some “women’s natural nurturing bla bla feminism bad” on his site so that tracks.
Kevin Karhan 
@parismarx the fact that the #SpaceKaren isn't facing arrest warrants for hatecrimes is already more leniency than warranted - espechally since he's not a foreign dignitary.
Chris WhoIf it wears jackboots like a Nazi,
and if it goosesteps like a Nazi
and believes in eugenics and replacement theory like a Nazi
and vocally supports Nazis...
obscurestarAs a white person, I absolutely support replacement of these dim bulbs. If they can't keep up with immigrants, they're just dead weight wanting special protection so they can have jobs despite their incompetence.
I've never worried about being replaced and I grew up lower middle class in rural OK in an 'oppressed' conservative christian family/community. To reflect their rhetoric, why don't racists pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? :)
Oh, also, as a successful white person and home owner, with a long and solid career, I'm 100% right racists. Now don't argue with your betters. Go back to pretending that 'racial purity' means anything other than inbred.
NOTE: None of those things make anyone better than anyone else. I am NOT better than you. I am just using the rhetoric of racists to illustrate to racists how stupid racism is.
PetterOfCats@parismarx if you don’t think what the Nazis are saying is wrong, you’re a Nazi.
Bill Zaumen@PetterOfCats @parismarx Even if you think what the (current) Nazis are saying is wrong, you can still make fun of them --- check out this video clip, from the original "To be or not to be", which was made during World War II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NnognNifY0
(after the clip, you realize that it was the rehearsal for a play, with the director saying, "That's not in the script!")
(after the clip, you realize that it was the rehearsal for a play, with the director saying, "That's not in the script!")
Jack Benny - To Be Not To Be - "Heil Hitler!"
Wayne Werner@parismarx when you're a Nazi the KKK seem pretty reasonable
HackerYeeeeessssssssss
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NotMyBub 
全知全能大先生@parismarx Yep, Elon obviously missed some parties near Potsdam and in the Island of Sylt. He keeps wasting his precious time in X.
@parismarx Sorry folks, my German spell Checker messes my Posts in English. (In 2016 I decided to abandon English, mais mon francais ne suffit pas.)
Isaac Freeman@parismarx I think it's safe to say that Musk knows perfectly well that AfD are fascists. But he's modelling what he would like naive readers to do: put aside everything you've heard from anybody else, and get your information about AfD directly from AfD. They say they're not extremists. Makes you think, doesn't it?
Alex P. 👹@parismarx
worse in context
he posted this in response to Naomi Seibt (a 23-year-old german woman paid to be "the anti-Greta" by far-right climate-change denier think tanks) saying she voted AfD
Michael FenichelOh yes, he IS missing something.
Meg@parismarx when they tell you who they are etc etc...
si_iriniAnd when I read this I couldn't help myself...
I logged in and replied...
Nobody reads my stuff over there, I'm almost invisible, but I had to reply
Every day, as a foreigner here, in Germany I am shocked to see how a country drifts into extremes and, unfortunately, this is often not even meant in a bad way by many.
But then they become tools of real fascists and don't realize how they are being manipulated
It is so sad.....
mtillman@parismarx they’re against climate change and he started an electric car company to fight climate change so I’m at the very least, confused.
cohomology is FUN!@mtillman @parismarx he started (correction: bought, thanks @nini) an electric car company to make money. I don’t think he gives a damn about climate change
Nini
xs4me2Guess he did Natzi it…?
DavidLeigh55@parismarx musk is onto something…maybe, just maybe what he is missing is brain cells.
Mathaetaes@parismarx it says something when you’re too racist for Germany, the literal birthplace of Nazism.
(Yes, I know Germany has swung the other way and are far more cautions about nazism than most other countries… just take the joke without overthinking it.)
samiamsam@parismarx a team of therapists couldn't make a dent
Peter Prevos 💧🎓📊🇳🇱🇦🇺@parismarx What Elon is missing is that he is also an extremist.
Nicole ParsonsElon Musk says whatever his planet-frying investors want him to say to support a global anti-democracy movement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/03/russia-europe-far-right-espionage/
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/europe-elections-right-populism/
Especially his Russian & Saudi oil despots.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-gas-should-not-be-demonized-elon-musk-says-2023-12-16/
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-defends-fossil-fuels
Fossil fuel interests fund fascist movements against any entity that dares address climate catastrophe
https://fortune.com/2024/05/27/elon-musk-xai-raise-6-billion/
Julia Clement@parismarx
As someone else pointed out on RNZ a few months back: The USA doesn't have a left wing party. The Democrats are to the right of any other country's centre right. The left of the Republicans are far right & nobody else has an equivalent to the right of the Republican party.
Naturally Musk sees AfD as dangerous lefties.
As someone else pointed out on RNZ a few months back: The USA doesn't have a left wing party. The Democrats are to the right of any other country's centre right. The left of the Republicans are far right & nobody else has an equivalent to the right of the Republican party.
Naturally Musk sees AfD as dangerous lefties.
GhostsheetZIt's me, hi, I'm the problem It's me.
Toni Aittoniemi@parismarx Hah. Stupid he is.
Always so overt about trying to be covert.
In Finland we have a saying: ”This thing is visible enough to be seen by a blind man with a walking stick.”
Tina@parismarx Musk is an idiot but the AfD was not kicked because they are too extremist but because they are too stupid not to get caught while taking Russian money. It was incompetency not politics that got them booted out.
PictoPulse356@parismarx I never liked this man.
Hartmut Neubauer@parismarx Kehrt endlich #Xwitter den Rücken!
Lee 🌏@parismarx
Elon opening The Overton Window.
Elon opening The Overton Window.
RealFinoxy@parismarx Elon takes mind extending pills. Who cares what drug addicts say ?
Oliver SchafeldIs there nobody among his court jesters bold enough to tell him that brown-shirts don't drive electric?
(Brief transcript from German parliament on that party's position regarding EVs: https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/849512-849512 )
Oh, wait, Germany doesn't like Tesla anymore… so this is his way of retaliation? 😏🤢
Wondering how Tesla is faring in Germany/EU?
Have a look: https://mastodon.online/@oliver_schafeld/112579940867727920
Lett Osprey 
@parismarx Another point can be that US politics is so aligned to the right thar "far right" in Europe is more "center/right" in the US. center/left in Europe puts you off the far left communist category in the US.
So, AfD may seem "not that right" to a lot of Americans. :(