Quite instructive interview with Quinn Slobodian
not only about the eugenicist viewś of Musk and the connection of far-right US-politicians to the apartheid regime in South Africa
but also about his influence on German elections. It's the first time I heard about the AfD-Influencer Naomi Seibt being mentioned in US media:
"Naomi Seibt, the Alternative for Germany influencer, who he has done so much to boost, sort of cultivates this sort of anime-like appearance."
As it happens her prominence in Germany is massively supported by Elon Musk who promotes her on X as a kind of German voice for his agenda. She actually alleges that he only became aware of the AfD by noticing her tweets on his platform.
So already being published by Welt am Sonntag Musk gets all the credentials you need to actually influence the democratic decision process in Germany.
The argument that he is an important investor in the German economy amounts to a meritocracy where the biggest capitalists get the most power to determine the political decision process. While that seems to be already the case in the US the traditional transatlantic axis between Berlin and Washington seems to take care of enthroning US-billionaires also in this country boosting the far right marching to the drum beat of upcoming fascism.
[#]AfD #Musk #fascism #ElonMusk
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/quinn_slobodian_musk_global_far_right
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