Die Welt is a very conservative newspaper. For its opinion editor to resign over an op-ed means all sorts of red lines have been crossed.
The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it
The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it
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Elon Musk’s pro-AfD commentary in German went online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns Politico. The editor of the German paper’s opinion section resigned in protest
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Not that his behaviour is surprising since the Reichelt-related messages were published in the NYT
Why do we let this shit happen?
Because prosecutors in @ukparliament.parliament.uk
@ec.europa.eu
@bundestag.de
get wobbly knees , when it comes to prosecuting the richest also one of the most fascist guys on the planet?
This was shortly after the publication of a meeting in Potsdam. It was about so-called "remigration" and the plans for it. Not only AfD people were at the meeting, but also some.
https://bsky.app/profile/sloanea.bsky.social/post/3lds3wxvuhk2e
won't stay in their lanes.
What did you expect?
And the lunch three Canadians had with Anderson of AfD and her tour of Canada is very telling. They're working together. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/three-conservative-mps-remain-in-caucus-1.6769523
Context: her RN party used to be called the Front Nationale and led by her father, Jean-Marie. His co-founder was actual OG Nazi, an SS officer, not even neo-.
I am sure it's a PR move for her, but still, some heirs to the SS say the AfD is too much.
For my part, as I am no kind of reporter now, just a private citizen, I can opt not to give any of the above the benefit of the doubt. And as a Jew and a bleeding-heart liberal, I cannot afford to give it to them.
Worlds smartest man my ass.
Full statement here:
https://www.change.org/WeThePeople-DemandActionNow
On 23 September, E.M. tweeted about a (presumably) right-wing Italian organisation that criticised sea rescue. The AfD was also mentioned. For me, that was the last straw. I left Twitter after about 11 years.
Die Welt was a very conservative newspaper.
It isn’t anymore.
Together with BILD they represent the new „anti woke“ anti green and disinformation media machine
https://bsky.app/profile/wasnu.bsky.social/post/3legv44wb5s24
(paraphrasing Herrndorf)
It doesn't make bad people good.
It doesn't make dumb people smart.
Hear that some editors resigned over this. The Oligarch has no standing. He should never have been published in Germany.
On the one hand he's publicly supporting the super far right, on the other hand he's now telling America they need immigrants and pissing off MAGA because of it.
Fascist billionaire out here making no sense
He's too stupid and arrogant to understand that it happened because he's a shit parent/person
Maybe what I'm really trying to get out is how are OTHER people not seeing this? It's so obvious that his own views don't align with each other and that he clearly doesn't have anyone else's interest at heart
Just as right-wingers took over the media landscape in USA, the same is happening in Germany , for at least 15 yrs now.
You can always find MAGA/rightwing support articles in Politico,too.
But the Handelsblatt and the President have the most accurate assessment:
It's an agitprop attack on the German Constitution and democracy .
Springer is the Fox "News" of Germany.
Fix is a spy den with some weird people sitting around opening their pie holes and yapping.
Springer is more like NYTimes and CNN with real journalists, who are supposed to write PR pieces for people like Döpfner, Edolfs, Trump... for a living.
Several of them quit in protest.
Also trying to submit "Kashtapo" for the new FBI regime.
I'm also not even sure that Musk will move the needle at all, or even if it backfires. He isn't idolized by many here, and many others are repulsed by him.
We secured our Supreme Court now to 2/3 vote
THEY WILL BE VERY SORRY THEY DID. Unfortunately, THE REST OF US who are not so damn ignorant have to suffer because of their ignorance, too.
I DESPISE having to suffer for FOOLS.
https://www.dw.com/en/will-german-far-right-afd-party-be-banned/a-70531838
AfD plays on myths about safety, but these are delusions not realities
Living standards are replaced by high living cost, that is easy to look up and factual.
The crime rates however are more grim, since ppl report way less.
Again, you're not solving anything by simply dismissing, it'll be become worse.
for ugly bedfellows
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2012/05/02/mohamed-moulay-l-homme-au-poignard-de-le-pen-est-mort_1694213_3382.html
I don't see a conflict there.
One does not exclude the other.
It’s crazy how much biblical rapture prophecy shapes American Foreign policy.