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The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning new public step in his support for the far-right German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing a supportive guest opinion piece for the country’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper that has prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest.
The commentary piece in German was launched online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns the US politics news site Politico.
Musk uses populist and personal language to try to deny AfD’s extremist bent and the piece expands on his post on the social media platform X that he owns, on which he last week claimed that “only the AfD can save Germany”.
Isn’t he angry that the gop is full of racists. And now he’s supporting the racist AfD? Man if only he could have some form of consistency. I’m sick and tired of him.
If he’s angry that the GOP is full of racists then he’s got a funny way of showing it.
Musk has been a racist for a long time, sounds like he finally found his people.
Oh, he is super racist
Has he looked in the mirror lately?
He’s angry that the GOP might cut off his supply of cheap, vulnerable, exploitable H-1B workers. Otherwise, racism is still his thing.
We are witnessing two competing forms of racism. Which one will prevail? Exclusionary or exploitative?
Apparently he thinks the AfD and Obama era Democrats have the same political positions. So. Uh. I don’t know, don’t look at me like that. ¯\(°_o)/¯
full of racists who say he can’t be President and Emperor of the USA because he wasn’t born there? I think that’s what he means
He’s accusing others of racism, but it’s really about him wanting cheap H-1B workers from India.
This article has been in the works for longer than the recent row about importing indentured servants.