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Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support the AfD, a far-right extremist political party (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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In the post shared by Musk, the account lamented the presence of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean Sea that rescue migrants from distressed vessels.

"These NGOs are subsidized by the German government," the account posted. "Let's hope AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide."

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[–] virku@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I honestly thought he founded both companies back then. I don't know if that he just bought them was obvious/something everyone should know or if I was clueless. I guess maybe it is a mix of both.

[–] Skies5394@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He had remarkably good PR back then

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

See it this way: it was so good he started to believe his own PR, after which he fired them. I wonder if he will ever deal with reality

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did found SpaceX

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

He didn't found Tesla but it had 7 employees and was about to go bust when he bought in (2014) 8 months after it was founded

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.

[–] virku@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, thanks for the history lesson! :)

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

He did call himself a “founder” of both