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"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
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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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Mike Nelson
(10,472 posts)... 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
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administrative state so he can make more money.
sakabatou
(43,982 posts)applegrove
(124,570 posts)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)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.