Elon Musk backs Germany's far right AfD ahead of election
Elon Musk publicly endorsed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of Germany's national election, signaling he wants the party to win. Germany's leading political figures criticized the endorsement and warned Musk could face political and diplomatic consequences for backing a party associated with anti-immigration and Euroskeptic positions. Musk's intervention matters because his global profile and media influence can shape voter perceptions at a decisive moment, potentially boosting a party that would reshape Germany's immigration stance and relations with the European Union.
No problem. When we run out of Elon Musk’s money, we’ll move on to Jeff Bezos, then Mark Zuckerberg, then… This could go on for a very long time.
Laura 8647 Woke, not asleep4Then we move on to this president. He has property in NYC.
Lord Admiral von Tired 🇪🇺🇺🇳🕊️4They don't have much money. They have stocks, mostly. And to convert that to money you need to sell it. And you can't sell it quickly, because no one has that much cash. This is important, not just a detail. It shows why a wealth tax can work, but just taking their wealth can't.
imagine being so terminally online you become fungible with the subject of the “killing baby hitler” thought experiment. elon musk is the early 21st century’s greatest moral monster.
Shazbot Vexed2Don’t let Marco Rubio off the hook for this. He is equally responsible for these hundreds of thousands of needless deaths, and in a serious and moral country would never be considered a potential candidate for the Presidency
David William Sheridan2Whenever I see his name, I like to give him his full title.
Maddy2He is 💯 He is delusional maybe the ketamine, regardless we could have kept USAID and the east wing. He is also in Europe trying to steer people to abandon good governance. 🗳️
SpaceX is an imperfect company and Elon Musk an imperfect man. Investors will be saddled with his bad business decisions and his obnoxious politics. But the firm is also a marvel of free markets
Lauren Colton17Losing $4.9 billion last year on a revenue of $18.7 billion? With how many government handouts?
Lil Flonase15Welfare king who make exploding rockets. What a marvel
Mark Bjorge10The word “Imperfect” is doing such an utterly shit job of the heavy lifting in your lead that one might expect it to be all alone in its shiftiness but, luckily for it (if not us) you sent it company in the phrase “free market” which is an epic joke of a thing to write about Oligarch gov contractor.
Tobias Denskus10Economist editors: „Let’s take a break from critical, analytical journalism today and pontificate about the ‚marvels of free markets‘“…
Jen V-E6It's a marvel of being propped up by government subsidies while helmed by a white supremacist loon. A person could start to think that the media is complicit in this state of rot.
eperkin.bsky.social4The @economist.com doesn't believe in the free market economy for corporations. They believe in bailouts, subsidies, tax breaks, tax avoidance, low wages, the right to pollute, weak safety regulations for workers and no union memberships.
Liz4"Obnoxious politics" is a hell of a description for an open white supremacist.
Partyglouberman2Its a drug addicts vanity project funded by government subsidies that returns nothing of value to the general public
Catherine McLeod2Elon is a con man. We don’t need space travel. We need health care
Old Dog2Free markets (but with government support)
Betty Ann2Come on, man. Y’all gotta quit playing in our fucking faces over here.
David Sandahl2"the growth of the subsidy state, as governments have chosen to compete by throwing subsidies at large corporations and rich individuals. In so doing, they have regressively depleted public budgets." Free markets are an elegant theoretical abstraction, not a description of reality.
