Tesla boss Elon Musk has added German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to the list of politicians he has insulted in Europe. He also announced a plan to speak to the leader of the country's far-right AfD.

(…) Plans for online Musk-Weidel meeting

The spokesman for the leader of the AfD, Alice Weidel, said concrete plans were underway for an online meeting between her and Musk.

That came after Musk himself suggested a meeting between the two via X’s Spaces chat feature. “Wait until Alice and I do an X Spaces conversation. They will lose their minds,” he posted. (…)

“Elon Musk is equipped with billions and unbridled communication power,” Habeck wrote on X. “His call for the AfD is systematic: He wants to weaken Europe. Power must be limited: no business model must destroy our democracy. Europe must now use its power consistently.”

Concerns are also growing in the UK as Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain’s political scene, aligning himself with hard-right lawmaker Nigel Farage.

Musk has busied himself with taking aim at the UK’s center-left Labour government, launching a series of blistering comments against British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    21·
    5 days ago

    1573rd time elon the unelected oligarch calls a democratically elected leader representative a dictator and remains obediently silent on russia, China, etc. Traitorous moron. He wants to enslave everyone to his ketamine-addled pet projects.

    Democracies need to regrow some balls and some teeth to put these dipshits in their place and at the very least tax the shit out of them before they turn every country into a cryptobro fascist wasteland.

    • Riddick3001@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      calls a democratically elected leader a dictator and remains obediently silent on russia, China, etc.

      I think you are spot on . There is a definitely a pattern here.

      I fist saw a similar comment like this some weeks ago. I’ve been scanning the media to see whether the US oligarchs Trump & Musk have issued any criticism towards real autocratic systems, since the US elections; and, I have seen none, so far.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      5 days ago

      unelected oligarch calls a democratically elected leader a dictator

      I know who Musk is, but calling representatives and office holders “leaders” is wrong too. You can put model of a coffee machine in some building to a vote, but it doesn’t become a leader. Just a choice made this way.