Please Elon, come over and discuss election campaign strategys with us in this secluded hut in the woods, far away from the prying eyes of the public
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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Perhaps he can visit Germany, and the Germans are better marksman 🎯
As recently as 5 years ago I was convinced that at the end of the day this guy does more good than bad for the human race. But he is really, really putting an effort into tipping the scales, isn't he?
I was certain he was a net negative when he called that diver pedo for mocking his unserious marketing pitch for a rescue submarine. That was the point I realized he was just a pile of cash with an ego.
Go Israeli on him
Slowly feels more and more like Cyberpunk 2077.
Just like he did in the US election. I hope Germany has better safeguards than we did.
Safeguards: Harder to bribe any one single politician due to the sheer chaos that is their parliament. Either everyone gets a bribe or no one does.
sheer chaos
Because there's more than two parties...? I don't know if I necessarily disagree (because, you know, politics haha am i right) but the wording is curious.
kinda yeah -- I'd argue that people rarely vote "tactfully" in Germany (vote for purple otherwise yellow will win), so if one party is rampant with corruption and the media reports it, then people can happily vote for another party.
Or the party itself can split off into something else, as what with happened with the BSW being an interesting faction centred around one woman (though I've heard she is quite progressive).
Contrast that all with the UK. The only true left-wing leader we had was Jeremy Corbyn and his own party (Labour) cannibalized him. Due to our FPTP voting system, the left still had to vote for Labour or let the Tories win.
I mean, right now people are desperate to prevent the AfD so many of us are indeed considering which of the larger parties to vote for, just for that purpose alone. So we do have that sort of phenomenon but to a lesser extent.
Calling it "chaos", like it's a bad thing that change in the landscape is easier than elsewhere, is still curious lol.
I’ve heard she is quite progressive
She considers herself leftist but that's all it is.
You mean that?
Do I mean what?
You said you meant it. I wanted to be sure.
Tap for spoiler
(I am very amused)
Chaos
I meant it in a good sense. In the Chaos Computer Club sense.
considers herself leftist
I've heard she's got some good anti-corruption policies, but that's all I know. I do find it weird that there's a whole party centred around one person.
Chaos Computer Club
Got it lol
Not every opinion Wagenknecht has voiced in the past has been bad but in general, imho, she and her people just like being against whatever the government does (they do have that in common with the AfD). Also she longs for the good old GDR days so there's that.
I do find it weird that there’s a whole party centred around one person.
Yes.
Boy, I bet that Welt editor felt great paying for airing Elon's grievances with her job. FAFO, you useful idiot.
It read more to me as if she resigned in protest
I'm thinking they edited the article, because it read differently earlier. The way it's worded now makes me agree with you.
So arrest him or shut up and take it like we Americans do.
or fucking drop a bomb on him, Germany. The EU should see him as a threat to democracy and a russian asset.
I'm looking forward to watching Fallout season 2, I don't wanna live through Fallout.
Ban X (Twitter).
As much as I'd love to see this happen: For which legal reason?
The EU has strict content moderation laws that Twitter currently violates, which Elon explicitly ignores. The EU could take actions based on the same principles that Brazil did.
Dunno about legalese, but maybe along the lines of election interference?
I doubt it's election interference when he simply posts his opinion online, if that were to get censored, as much as I'd like to censor Musk, I'd be deeply worried about what else could be censored (especially when the AfD is in power)
Afaiu the AfD are considered Nazis, which just haven't been banned yet.
While I do have issues with censorship I see necessary limits of freedom of speech and applying that to Nazis and their allies is very much within these limits in my opinion.
Inhumanity deserves no forum nor freedom of speech.
I'm not fully familiar with the AfD but if they were Nazis they'd already be illegal (being a Nazi is illegal in Germany and a few other countries). From what I know they're just your usual far-right populist pro-russian anti-eu party, which sadly isn't enough to stop them legally.
The due process to ban the AfD was already started, but won't conclude before the election
They are Nazis, plain and simple. Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy banning an entire political party, even if they're considered actively hostile towards the constitution. Well. I say "unfortunately" but it should of course be difficult. Democracy isn't easy.
So maybe not the whole of AfD can be called Nazi, but at least one of their leaders according to https://www-hessenschau-de.translate.goog/politik/demonstranten-duerfen-afd-politiker-bjoern-hoecke-als-nazi-bezeichnen-v1,ermittlungen-hoecke-ist-ein-nazi-eingesellt-100.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp:
The Frankfurt public prosecutor's office has dropped proceedings against a demonstrator who called Björn Höcke a "Nazi" during anti-AfD protests. This was not a criminal insult, but a "value judgment based on facts," according to the investigators.
maybe not the whole of AfD can be called Nazi,
And as we all know, if there are 9 people and 1 Nazi sitting together at a table, then there are 10 Nazis sitting together at that table.
I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.
I wonder if he’ll throw lotteries there too
Nah, this is not allowed in working democracies.
Duh
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