#germany #AfD #musk
this is old news to anyone who follows politics in germany, but it's such a great summary, i had to post it.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/breaking-in-latest-threat-to-german-ea3
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Joachim @joachim@boitam.eu
Avec #Musk qui influence les élections allemandes en poussant l’AfD, et qui reçoit Farage (sans doute pour le financer et influencer des prochaines élections anglaises ?), comment est-ce que certains doutent encore de l’utilité de sortir de son réseau ?
“oui mais il y a de la visibilité”, “ah mais j’y suis juste parce qu’il y a de l’argent à la clé”, “il faut lutter de l’intérieur” ? C’est des mauvaises raisons. Tu vas réclamer des colonnes dans Minute ? Tu achètes des pubs chez Valeurs Actuelles ? Tu envoies tes communiqués de presse à Radio Courtoisie ?
Non ?
Alors casse-toi de Twitter. Tu n’as rien à y faire. Ton asso n’a rien à y faire. Ton business n’a rien à y faire.
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Good news, Germans. Musk knows what's best for you.
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Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
by Reuters
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's
administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday,
calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's
savior.
The AfD is running second in opinion polls and might be able to thwart
either a center-right or center-left majority, but Germany's
mainstream, more centrist parties have vowed to shun support from the
AfD at national level.
Europe's leading power is expected to vote on February 23 after a
center-left coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz
collapsed.
"Only the AfD can save Germany," Musk wrote in a post on his social
media platform, X.
Musk, the world's richest person, has already expressed support for
other anti-immigration parties across Europe.
The German government said it had taken note of Musk's post but
declined to give any further comment at its regular press conference.
Musk reposted a message by German right-wing influencer Naomi Seibt
that criticized Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate for the
conservatives, who are comfortably ahead in surveys.
Musk had already voiced support for the AfD last year, when he attacked
the German government's handling of illegal migration.
Last month, Musk called for the sacking of Italian judges who had
questioned the legality of government measures to prevent irregular
immigration.
And this week Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK
party and friend of Trump, posted a photo of himself and Reform's
treasurer meeting Musk at Trump's Florida residence, and said he was in
talks with Musk about financial support.
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#musk #elon-musk #billionaires #anti-german-extremism #nazis #afd #germany #deutschland #far-right
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in
Elon #Musk is, more or less, a #RogueState. His intentions are self-serving and #nefarious, and his nation-state level resources allow him to flout the law with impunity.
To put it into context, if dollars were metres, Musk’s money would be enough to take him to Mars and back, while a mere millionaire could only make a round trip from Paris to Amsterdam.
He has:
- Bankrolled #elections
- Stoked #riots
- Ignored laws
e mustn’t make the mistake of playing nice with the world’s richest bully
#corruption #authoritarian #Orwellian #tyrants #HybridWar #wealthy
Nur für den Fall, dass jemand gerade sein Brechmittel nicht zur Hand hat und doch so gern herzhaft kotzen möchte. Ich bringe ja wirklich nicht gern Screenshots von irgendwelchen S/M-Websites, aber verlinken geht hier noch weniger. Gut, dass Elon #Musk für den Deutschlandretter gerade »nur« die #AfD zur Hand hat und nicht »die Heimat« oder ihre Vorgängerpartei NSDAP… ach, so gut kennt er die »Szene« in der BRD gar nicht. | #Weltknall #Braunes #Twitter
But because plutocracy and pursuing a radical social agenda in the US still isn’t enough, Musk has set his sights on other nations as well. Over the past half-year, he has gone after Italian judges who blocked a migrant detention plan, promoted misinformation and stoked riots in the UK, floated the possibility of interfering directly in UK electoral politics by giving Nigel Farage’s party $100m, and persistently ignored EU law regarding content moderation and disinformation on X.
I've already posted this for Friday Night Jukebox but Trump is old enough to have lived at the conclusion of the career of Edith Piaf, whose birthday is today--and she has some absolutely compelling advice to give the Orange Scrooge who can just as easily be compared to Pauvre Jean. English subtitles are provided:
#LaGoualanteduPauvreJean #PoorPeopleOfParis #Trump #Musk
https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/113675204768119985 davidaugust@mastodon.online - The astronauts mission grew from eight days to eight months.
These kind of delays are the Boeing difference®.
And now, additional further delays are just the stink of musk™.
(shadow president-elect musk runs SpaceX which added these additional delays, the only things he increases the efficiency of is personally accumulating money and harming people.)
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-stuck-astronauts-77e8f0b988e483a793732297cd868490
Interesting (and free) #AI fun toy, the new gift from the Mayor of #Muskville
Anyone remember Alice and the various 'chatbots' pre Chat GPT? Fun.
Now here is #Musk and his version, finally giving up on charging premium for his #cult and now "it's free!".
So I gave it a whirl, wondering how a #MuskVirus rendering of a response might go, if its fed #truth to #TrumpVirus.
As tends to be the case with public AI chat, it's very 'cautious', ambiguous, and 'both sides'y - just like the role model it may serve.
Trump team wants to scrap car-crash reporting rule that Tesla opposes
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon #Musk’s #Tesla according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with #automated-#driving systems.
Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping #Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program.
#bribes #corruption #dictator #authoritarian #cars #automation #safety #crashes
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113641450968250466 GottaLaff@mastodon.social - NYT— New tax filings show that Elon Musk’s charitable foundation fell $421 million short of the amount it was required to give away in 2023. #Musk has until the end of the year to distribute that money, or he will be required to pay a sizable penalty to the IRS.
The London economic (traduction DeepL.com/Translator)
La Fédération européenne des journalistes cesse de publier du contenu sur X
https://mcinformactions.net/la-federation-europeenne-des-journalistes-cesse-de-publier-du-contenu-sur-x
#journalisme #Musk #X #Trump
Christian Lindner
Die libertären Posterboys
Von Dirk Knipphals
Die FDP kratzt am Existenzminimum – der Fünfprozenthürde. Parteichef Lindner sieht das als dornige Chance und setzt auf irre Vorbilder wie Elon Musk.
#taz #tageszeitung #Christian #Lindner #FDP #Elon #Musk #Liberalismus #Klientelismus #Javier #Milei #Geldpolitik
#Trump fired his first minister before he took office. Trump thought he was no longer viable after it came out that he wasn't hitting on enough women. The guy was too woke.
Trump wants to sell #Poland to #Russia. The deal was arranged by Elon #Musk. In return, Russia will place more #advertising on #X.
Trump will shift all #government and official #communication to X. US citizens will have to buy X-Premium in order to communicate with the authorities. Trump confirmed these steps by saying that he is not interested in low-income earners anyway and that excluding them would make everything more efficient.
An Elon #Musk kann man gerade die Endstufe des #Kapitalismus beobachten indem man sieht wie er sein Kapital in #Macht umwandelt. Demokratische Grundwerte bleiben dabei natürlich auf der Strecke.
#politik #Demokratie #Regierung #Freiheit #zukunft #usa #Problem #menschenrechte #ethik #moral #Chancengleichheit #Gerechtigkeit #armut #Reichtum #geld