This would be a great moment to totally and completely ban foreign billionaires from meddling in european elections.
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Labeling the AfD as far-right is clearly wrong when you consider that Alice Weidel, the party’s chairwoman, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? I beg to differ!
Fuck you. There were gay Nazis. There are gay neo Nazis today. Fascism cares about power more than any internal consistency. The moment those gay Nazis are no longer useful to their higher-ups, they'll be disposed of.
When will someone with more reach than I, a random internet commenter, start saying this shit to his face?!?! The people who are swayed by his bullshit rhetoric are not coming here to read our takedowns, and I can't tell if I can expect them to read the counter- and response op-eds...
I can expect them to read the counter- and response op-eds...
Anyone reading Welt is a little lost anyway. Welt was already not a particularly good paper, even on good days it has fairly noticeable rightward spin. And as this top-down-imposed op-ed shows, they're not developing in a positive direction either.
Welt is (and always has been) BILD for intelleckshuals.
There were gay Nazis?
Or do you mean, like, self-hating closeted gays?
There were gay Nazis?
E.g.: Ernst Röhm - the leader of the Nazi SA - was gay.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6hm_scandal
And to make your head explode: There where jews who supported Hitler.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
Spoiler: It didn't end well.
Twitter® - By Nazis, For Nazis
Elon Musk is a Nazi, this isn't a surprise.
prompting the commentary editor to resign
Lmao what
probably an, "I didn't want this published, but was overruled by the powers that be, and don't want it to look like I endorse or approve of this horseshit" situation
And post this on... wait for it ... X.
As it should be
She was the commentary editor, not the one responsible for the piece.
The article states that she was the editor for the opinion section... this was published in the opinion section... I think it's still reasonable to conclude that she attempted to stop it from being published, even if she was not the person with the final say
The publication of the article was enforced by Mathias Döpfner, who is the CEO of Axel Springer, which owns "Die Welt". There is a lot of damage control ongoing at "Die Welt" at the moment, with opinion pieces and comments by some editors, why this article was a mistake.
Nevertheless, still a very shitty rightwing newspaper.
There is also a rumour in circulation that Döpfner motivated Musk to buy Twitter in the past...
There is zero reason for such conclusions. You could just read her statement
I did read her statement. Do you have an alternative inference that you think is more reasonable?
Go Elon! Pleasure those 3 invisible giants with your mouth and hands!
This could be "cope" on my part, but I feel like Elmo is spreading his initiatives a bit too thin and is failing to capitalize on the benefits of subtlety and backroom dealing.
American-style pomp and bombast are good and all, but they need to serve an end purpose (e.g. manipulation, corruption, "personal brand development"). It's one thing to tell the plebs your shit doesn't smell, it's a whole different thing to actually believe it.
I for one enjoy the current display that looks a lot like complete loss of self-control from the outside. However, I fear we might come to learn that it won't have any impact whatsoever.
The sad thing is you're probably right.
It would take massive social changes, setting Elmo as an explicit target (corruption, fraud) and unprecedented global political realignment.