Scholz says Musk support for far-right ‘threatens democracy’

https://www.dw.com/en/scholz-says-musk-support-for-far-right-threatens-democracy/a-71324939

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  2. And no European government does a damn thing about it. As usual. Talks

  3. Seems to be an awful lot of threats towards democracy these days. Ironically its always because someone else supports an opposing view. Isn’t that democracy itself?

  4. A state either stands up to this or doesn’t. Is “free speech” more important than your nation as you know it? If so, get ready to join the US, or you neighbors nearer by. We’re fucked.

  7. It’s not really up to the people, it’s up to the wealthy in control because those are the people that have a say in if we have democracy or not thanks to capitalism. And its those people that Musk is appealing to.

  8. If only Scholz were half as strident over attempts to ban AfD as he was about Elon endorsing them or *gasp* streaming conferences/discussions.

    “B-but the paradox of tolerance means we can ban anyone we deem intolerant! If AfD rises we can get another Nazi Germany!” Never mind that banning political parties was literally how Adolf Hitler seized power.

  9. People who claim that free speech threatens democracy are the true threat to democracy. 

  10. No fucking shit. I cannot believe that this is where our media is at. Un fucking real. We have been screaming this shit from the rooftops for years.

  11. Democracies which tolerate conservatism will be destroyed by it

  12. So supporting something, which is something democracy explicitly is for, is…threatening democracy. And people wonder why the left keeps losing, they just make zero sense

  13. Wake me when this dipshit pulls his thumb out his ass

    We need action and so does Ukraine

  14. Good move, now actions need to follow. The propagandists and troll-farms need to be extinguished. No one should have monopoly over any social media platform like this. Or involve themselves as an oligarch into a government. Or pay to get government influence and manipulate the people with AI generated Lies.

  16. Then maybe tackle the problems that are making the people vote for them worked in Denmark.

  18. Threatening democracy is the goal. Musk is a fascist and he wants to see fascists rule with absolute power.

  19. Musk is so wealthy that he is playing the ultimate game of Civilization (the video game). The only problem is that this is not a simulation.

    Also, it has been revealed that he cheats and otherwise sucks at video games.

  20. Ok so he basically admits here that the far right is a threat to democracy. Yet they still allow them to be in parliament.

  22. I just finished watching the Star Wars series, so many similarities.

  23. Yes, and selling off own country to russia and betraying own allies was not, right?

    I despise Musk as much as he deserves, but damn it, Scholz is not the right person to beat this horse. He and his companions should clean up their own party first before any of them start making comments about Musk.

  25. Then do something about it. Jfc.

    I thought Germany learned this lesson. When someone threatens democracy you don’t sit idly by and hope they go away.

  26. I think Scholz undercuts his own argument here by making out that it threatens democracy because of who Musk supports rather than how he is doing it.

  28. What Scholz meant to say is that Musk is a threat to them being able to control the narrative. In the history of the world, free speech never endangered Democracy. People like Scholz that want to shut down free speech are the real threat to Democracy.

  30. Musk isn’t the problem, he’s just jumping on the bandwagon of the biggest change agents he can find. It’s not his fault that people are giving systemic change powers to the hard right only.

    Also Musk hasn’t learned from history, once you unleash populism/nationalism/identifying undesirables as a norm, you don’t get to direct it to your pet projects, you end up riding that wave instead of directing it.

    Another billionaire could come out tomorrow, with more extreme policy ideas than Musk and become celebrated even more by the power that Musk helped create. It would be hilarious if it probably didn’t mean life as I know it is going to change for the worse.

  31. I don’t know why *anyone* would think it a good idea to put the far-right in charge of Germany again. Like it was such a great success the first time around!

  32. Anyone asshole with millions or billions is an outsized threat to democracy and humanity itself.

  33. “Democracies are for liberals to dream of” – Musk, probably.

  35. No. It’s the fact that billionaires can exist, and buy the country.

  36. Just ban twitter and shut down tesla, very easy to do as i am sure they have gone against lots of regulations.

    Not that it will make much difference, as tesla is in the midst of collapse as we speak,

  37. What an odious toad.

    Conservatives winning elections is democracy working.

  39. Foreign billionaires trying to install a government of their choosing by spending an exhorbant amount of money? No shit it’s a threat.

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