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Musk uses X livestream to amplify German far-right leader's views ahead of an election (apnews.com)

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Elon Musk livestreamed a conversation with Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, on his platform X, endorsing her and urging support for the AfD ahead of Germany’s February 23 election.

The livestream, which drew over 200,000 viewers, raised concerns across Europe about Musk’s influence in foreign politics.

AfD, under observation for extremism, has gained popularity amid discontent with Chancellor Scholz’s government.

Musk’s promotion of Weidel and controversial remarks on other European issues are being monitored for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.

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[-] Metz@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

The polls show AfD at 18% now. I have to admit I'm seriously scared. We need to ban this bastards asap.

[-] Spezi@feddit.org 11 points 7 hours ago

18% was before christmas. Now they are at 20-21% in the polls.

[-] Metz@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Had not seen that Allensbach has not updated yet. It is usually much closer to the results than e.g. INSA. But yeah, looks they went up a bit indeed. ffs..

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

Foreign election interference is a thing. Maybe issue an international arrest warrant?

[-] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 35 points 13 hours ago

The power the ultra wealthy have to cross historic boundaries and bend the world to their will is unprecedented in history. We have to safeguard democracy against these people. Billionaires need to be taxed into the worker class for the safety of democracy. And doing so would mean massive societal improvement relatively overnight.

[-] rammer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 hours ago

Tax the rich! They taste bad!

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

Ban AfD, issue arrest warrant for Musk for spreading nazi propaganda. Problem sorted.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

Unbelievable how many People can give an in-depth analysis from an Ocean away what exactly the Problem is and how to fix it.

How about you start by don't electing Musk and his Sidekick as President?

That would be a good start and a lot of help for everyone.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 17 hours ago

We need to treat Nazis how they used to be treated

[-] heroheman@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

We need to treat Nazis how they used to be treated - after 1945

FTFY

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 22 hours ago

Why is Germany not just blocking Twitter? I don't get it.

[-] galaskorz@discuss.online 46 points 21 hours ago

Why are we just letting Nazis take over again? Seems like we had a solution to them before.

[-] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago

Money and power..... And propaganda.

The elites don't want immigrants, they want wage slaves. Who will come when they are told to, live like they are told to, work in any condition they are given and leave when they are told to.

So the goal is to deport these pesky immigrants with rights and import those slaves, then those slaves will work for extremely cheap cuz the threat of deportation and how their home countries are beyond fucked anyways.

Who benefits from slavery? Is it the working class (poor and middle) or the elites who will have cheap labor?

Not to mention this will reduce the salaries for everyday Germans, and then elites gets to claim 2 things to fellow germans:

look at all the immigrants who are stealing your job and driving your wages down.
look at how much our economy is growing (it will be the elites who will be getting all the wealth not the working/poor class)

Btw you can replace the whole scenario in USA as well with the whole H1B visa stuff.

[-] galaskorz@discuss.online 3 points 6 hours ago

And because people are too wimpy to kill the rich, they’ll go after the next best thing, the slave.

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 20 hours ago

The more serious issue is, why haven't they banned AfD. Where the fuck is the "Defensive" in "Defensive Democracy"?

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 9 points 14 hours ago

After the actual Nazis banned a party, people made it far more difficult to ban parties.

You can try it, but it could fail. And the whole spectacle means more attention for them.

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[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

"Musk likes it, so you know it's bad!"

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