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Elon reminds AfD crowd how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight. [1]
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Date: 2025-01-25
Darn ‘roman salute’. Elon Musk tells an AfD rally in Germany: "I think there is too much focus on past guilt (in Germany), and we need to move beyond that. Children should not feel guilty for the sins of their parents - their great grandparents even"
Could not make this up. [image or embed]
Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
"The rise of Nazi Germany, where industrialists and financiers made a pact with the devil, is similar to what Russian oligarchs did in 2000 with Putin ... But Musk is symptomatic of something. Look at the way Zuckerberg made this perverse transformation. Businessmen are adjusting to appease Trump." [image or embed]
x “5 Things to Know About the AfD, Elon Musk’s New Friends on the German Far Right” A good to day to re-up this piece of mine with a lot of (shocking) receipts:
[image or embed] — Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
So here we go. To pretend the AfD is a mainstream political party, similar to the US Democrats, is absurd. The AfD may have begun in 2013, barely a decade ago, as an anti-euro party focused on the European Union and economic and monetary issues, but it quickly morphed into an anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim party filled with cranks, extremists, and Nazi sympathizers.
Don’t take my word for it. Jörg Meuthen, who was the leader of the AfD from 2015 to 2022, quit the party after he was unable to expel a senior AfD member who described himself as the “friendly face” of Nazism. “I could tell you a large number of stories about these people,” Meuthen told the Financial Times over the summer. “I would never elect one of these guys. Never!” Financial Times
Bernd Lucke, a co-founder and former chair of the AfD who quit the party in 2015, believes the AfD contains officials “whose loyalty to the [German] constitution can be doubted.”
But you don’t just have to take their word for it, either.
Consider the shocking events of just 2024 alone – which Elon Musk, of course, would like you to ignore.
1. Secret Far-Right Meeting
In January, it emerged that AfD officials had attended a secret meeting with far-right and neo-Nazi influencers, at which they discussed the forced deportation of millions of people – including German citizens! Thousands of Germans took to the streets in protest, some carrying banners which included: “Nazis, no thank you.”
“The meeting took place in a hotel outside the east German city of Potsdam on 25 Nov, but did not come to light until 10 Jan…A central focus was a presentation by Martin Sellner, the Austrian leader of the ethno-nationalist Identitarian movement, about… carrying out mass deportation.” – The Guardian
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