Posted on 01/27/2025 3:38:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Fresh off a controversy over a gesture many saw as a Nazi salute, tech billionaire Elon Musk appeared virtually at a campaign event for a far-right German political party on Saturday, where he urged listeners not to be ashamed of their country's history.
Musk — the head of President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency — was met with roars of applause from the more than 4,000 attendees gathered in the German city of Halle as he appeared on screen at a rally for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.
"I think you really are the best hope for Germany," Musk told them.
Musk was introduced by party co-leader and chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whom he endorsed and praised effusively during a more than hour-long conversation live-streamed earlier this month on X, the social media platform he owns.
Since Germany's president dissolved parliament in December, he has accused Musk of trying to interfere in Germany's national elections, which are scheduled for Feb. 23.
Musk, the world's richest man, has waded into politics in other European countries, throwing his support behind far-right leaders such as Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and trolling Britain's center-left government.
On Saturday, Musk spoke repeatedly about the importance of Germans taking pride in their heritage.
"It's good to be proud of German culture and German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything," Musk said.
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Good advice considering any German who was alive during WWII is either dead, or VERY old.
So just how long, hate filed Alt Left, are they suppose to wallow in their supposed guilt?
The Germans of today are the great grandchildren of the Nazis.
At some point this garbage propaganda from the Alt Left needs to start being laughed at instead of taken seriously
Given how long ago we got rid of slavery, and white man is still evil, I’d say never...
Conversely, leftists are proud that communism killed >100 million people.
Have the communists ever paid repentance for Holodomore?
Or the Turks for Armenian genocide?
Nope. Only Germans and white Europeans / Americans must pay.
Germans my age (53) that I have met are morally ambivalent about WWII. That’s not good. Sort of a fine line here. Own WWII but don’t let that mean you have to let the entire 3rd world into Germany.
I don’t think you can hammer a national psyche forever without creating something dangerously reactive in it.
The source of WWII, exactly.
But German guilt is the foundation of the rules based international order.
If the Germans start taking their own side what will happen to the Global American Empire?
Gaslight Media fabulist Rachel Treisman weighs in.
These Media brownshirts are becoming tiresome. Didn’t the November election give them the memo about how useless they are?
If the Germans start taking their own side what will happen to the Global American Empire?
It works against us too because ever since IKE, the Military-Industrial-Complex has been running this country.
Defund NPR tomorrow
All the World War II Germans are dead. It’s time to get over it. The leftists, leftist Germans included, want to punish Germans until they no longer exist. The leftists is practicing genocide by propaganda and humiliation.
“Good advice considering any German who was alive during WWII is either dead, or VERY old.”
I agree, I once teased a German friend as we were watching a WW2 movie and I was rooting for the American, so he started rooting for the Germans and I gave him a dirty look. His face turned to complete guilt - so I told him, it’s ok, you had NOTHING AT ALL to do with it.
Until recently I thought that the idea of beating the horrors of the Nazi past into Germans was a good idea, especially compared to Japan which was just as horrific (perhaps more so), but instead pretty much hides that from their people. Now I ask a simple question: Which of the two will be around in 20 years as a coherent nation, and which will be in civil war.
**All the World War II Germans are dead. It’s time to get over it.**
I dunno. The mind think is still there. Saw it on cruise ships. Buttheads & a—holes.
Saw the same thing in Japan. When given a choice between doing the right thing or doing their duty it’s their duty they’ll do. Think kamikaze pilots.
DUH!! We have MORE ANTI SEMITES HER than in Germany,most likely!
Your passion for collective ethnic punishment comes straight from a leftist mindset and the absurd feeling of moral superiority the Allies, particularly the French and British, had at the conclusion of World War I.
YES! The past is history. As long as we learn to not repeat the same mistakes, all is well.
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