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applegrove

(124,570 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 04:23 PM Jan 25

"It's OK to be proud to be German": Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event

"It's OK to be proud to be German": Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event (Musk is just trying to weaken the administrative states around the world)

Days after throwing what experts called a Nazi salute, Musk addressed the far-right party conference

By GRIFFIN ECKSTEIN
PUBLISHED JANUARY 25, 2025 3:57PM (EST)

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/25/its-ok-to-be-proud-to-be-german-musk-echoes-neo-nazi-slogan-at-afd-campaign-event/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

"SNIP.........

Billionaire and Trump administration insider Elon Musk spoke virtually to a crowd of supporters of the far-right AfD party in Halle, Germany on Saturday, telling Germans to let go of “past guilt” in his strongest endorsement of the party yet.

"It's okay to be proud to be German, this is a very important principle,” Musk said on Saturday, drawing cheers from the crowd. “It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything.”

The phrase was a near-direct quotation of the neo-Nazi NDP party’s former slogan, “Ich bin stolz, ein Deutscher zu sein.” ("I’m proud to be German.”)

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During his speech, Musk told rallygoers their party was “the best hope for the future of Germany.” He also suggested that voters shouldn’t feel guilty about the Holocaust or other “sins” in the nation’s past.

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"It's OK to be proud to be German": Musk speaks at far-right AfD campaign event (Original Post) applegrove Jan 25 OP
The message is implicit... Mike Nelson Jan 25 #1
The writer opines that Musk is 'just' weakening the applegrove Jan 25 #2
We can all see what's behind Muskrat's facade sakabatou Jan 25 #3
Germans do have much to be proud of right now. They have more engineers than applegrove Jan 25 #4
He's not fooling many Germans DFW Jan 25 #5
AfD was at Mar-a-Lardo before trump and muskrat went to inauguration Blue Full Moon Jan 25 #6

Mike Nelson

(10,472 posts)
1. The message is implicit...
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 04:35 PM
Jan 25

... of course, it's fine to be a proud German. However, this proclamation of pride is made at a time when Elon is in the news for what appears to be a Nazi salute. He knows exactly what he is doing.

applegrove

(124,570 posts)
2. The writer opines that Musk is 'just' weakening the
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 04:39 PM
Jan 25

Last edited Sat Jan 25, 2025, 05:27 PM - Edit history (1)

administrative state so he can make more money.

applegrove

(124,570 posts)
4. Germans do have much to be proud of right now. They have more engineers than
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 05:17 PM
Jan 25

anybody else and labour is represented on the board of directors of many corporations. They don't need a man-child telling them who to be or how to feel.

DFW

(57,199 posts)
5. He's not fooling many Germans
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 05:38 PM
Jan 25

Most Germans are quite OK with being Germans. My wife is one of them, and my daughters are two more. They are half German and half American, and don’t feel that one half is better than the other. Having grown up in western Germany, they were taught the evil deeds of their Nazi ancestors, those that had them, and learned to live with their past, and try to never repeat it. It is fitting that Musk got involved with an AfD rally in Halle, in the former socialist East Germany, whose official propaganda line was that they needed no de-Nazification because there were no more Nazis lurking there, just good socialists. So, when the wall fell, guess where all the suppressed neo-Nazi sentiment surged most? Right there in East Germany, where it was freed from its shackles.

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