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Musk draws ire because 'isn't left-wing': Italy's Meloni
AFP via Yahoo ^ | 01/09/2025 | Ella IDE

Posted on 01/09/2025 1:24:20 PM PST by DFG

Italy's far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said on Thursday Elon Musk's political interventions only caused outrage because he wasn't left-wing -- and that foreigners had been interfering in Italian politics for years.

Meloni, head of the post-Fascist Brothers of Italy party, said Musk was exercising his right to free speech. Instead, she accused powerful people on the left of political interference, including billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.

Musk -- a billionaire ally of US President-elect Donald Trump who is set for a role in the incoming administration -- has provoked fury across Europe with a string of attacks on the continent's leaders, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Meloni rejected a suggestion that Musk's comments on his X social network constituted "dangerous interference".

"The problem is when wealthy people use their resources to finance parties, associations and political exponents all over the world to influence the political choices of nation states", Meloni told reporters at a yearly press conference.

"That's not what Musk is doing," she insisted.

"Elon Musk financed an election campaign in his country, by his candidate, in a system in which, by the way, I would point out that this is quite common," she said.

"But I am not aware of Elon Musk financing parties, associations or political exponents around the world.

"This, for example, is what George Soros does," Meloni alleged.

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; European Union; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afp; frenchpropaganda; giorgiameloni; musk; yahoo
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1 posted on 01/09/2025 1:24:20 PM PST by DFG
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Far right?
Post Fascist ?


2 posted on 01/09/2025 1:27:36 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: DFG
Cough soros cough.
3 posted on 01/09/2025 1:29:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: escapefromboston

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘. NaughtZ, naughtZ, naughtZ.


4 posted on 01/09/2025 1:29:20 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: escapefromboston
From Wiki:

'Post-fascism is a label that identifies political parties and movements that transition from a fascist political ideology to a more moderate and mainline form of conservatism, abandoning the totalitarian traits of fascism and taking part in constitutional politics.'
5 posted on 01/09/2025 1:32:24 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: rktman

And may Gyorgy boy face the music soon.


6 posted on 01/09/2025 1:32:32 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who youโ€™ll know me as)
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To: DFG
Ever seen the two of them together ? She has the hots for him and I think the feeling is mutual.

Good Luck to both of them.

7 posted on 01/09/2025 1:33:09 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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8 posted on 01/09/2025 1:34:09 PM PST by Bratch
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To: DFG
Smart woman, and her comments are spot on. Too many people don't realize that the true threat worldwide is Marxism - in any form.

When the USSR fell the left didn't just double down, they quintupled down. They've been plotting and planning ever since. Their ideology is anti-human.

9 posted on 01/09/2025 1:34:33 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: escapefromboston

Post “Fascist Italian Brothers”, or post-Fascist (meaning after WWII), “Italian Brothers”?

Deliberate Far-Left wing smear.


10 posted on 01/09/2025 1:37:49 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

She did belong to the Italian Social Movement when she was young, and then the National Alliance.


11 posted on 01/09/2025 1:52:34 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Gyorgy boy? Guess for a change I missed something. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘


12 posted on 01/09/2025 2:04:02 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: Bratch

Yeah Elon, go for it. She looks like she likes you.

I’ll be proud of you...


13 posted on 01/09/2025 2:05:51 PM PST by OKSooner (Always remember to say "After the fair trial".)
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Italy’s far-right prime minister”

AP is such trash. She is maybe center right on some issues. She is light years from being “far right”.


14 posted on 01/09/2025 2:09:35 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DFG
This left wing/right wing thing has really gone global.

It's a very encouraging. I was under the assumption that Europe was gone forever and we stood alone. Now I see that hope remains that men of the west will unite to repel the socials hoards of Mordor.

15 posted on 01/09/2025 2:09:37 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: DFG

Maloni knows whereof she speaks and she’s not afraid to speak it. God bless that woman! Her countrymen should be supporting her 100%! Anyone who attacks Soros and any of the other FAR-LEFT EU apparatchiks is on the same page as our fearless winner of three consecutive Presidential elections!
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16 posted on 01/09/2025 2:28:20 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Never forget, the Marxist-Democrats & RINOs who would destroy our country ARE STILL HERE!)
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“Italy’s ‘far-right’ prime minister”

It never fails. Why don’t we ever hear ‘far left’?


17 posted on 01/09/2025 2:31:33 PM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: dljordan

Far Right = Anyone to the right of Trotsky.


18 posted on 01/09/2025 2:33:40 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: OKSooner

Yeah Elon, go for it. She looks like she likes you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yeah go for it, but be cautious and use a rubber!


19 posted on 01/09/2025 2:33:43 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Never forget, the Marxist-Democrats & RINOs who would destroy our country ARE STILL HERE!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Italian girls are more dangerous than shotguns.


20 posted on 01/09/2025 2:35:40 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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