Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election.
“Only the AfD can save Germany,” the billionaire X owner wrote on the platform on Friday in the latest of a series of endorsements of European far-right parties.
Musk has recently supported European populist-right politicians in increasingly clear terms, including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniand Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Earlier this week, Farage boasted that Musk is “right behind” him — and raised the prospect that the tech tycoon would financially back his Reform UK party.
Musk is a real danger to the world. He is throwing his essentially infinite resources behind fascist politicians everywhere he can. We are looking at likely fascist takeovers in Germany, France and the UK, as well as the USA and a swing to the hard right in Canada. Other European countries have already gone fascist. It would be like the 1930s and 40s except that some powerful countries still fought against fascism then. Now it seems to be taking over everywhere.
Musk is a significant force in this movement. We urgently need an effective popular movement against billionaires.
Musk isn’t acting alone because he doesn’t directly have much money.
Let us not lose sight of the banks that offer wealthy individuals zero interest loans against hyper pumped stock portfolios that are only worth a mere fraction of their on paper value.
Musk is absolutely a villain but we also have a fucked up system ready to empower a replacement. They’re both problems.