Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Elon Musk defecting to the far-right was an unbelievable Black Swan moment for politics in the West. One of the most influential individuals in the world aligning their politics with what had been a relative ideological fringe and even buying popular distribution for them was an unprecedented step that has already had real world impacts. A few years ago it seemed that liberal progressivism was still on an unstoppable roll but I think that Musk may succeed in halting or even destroying it over time.
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Rando
@chasing-pointers
he's nowhere near "far right"
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
OK
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Rando
@chasing-pointers
not trying to be snarky, but having had the displeasure of dealing with actual, bone fide, real-deal "far right" types as the connotation implies in the current zeitgeist, media-defined defamatory labels against partisan opponents is tiring and unhelpful to addressing actual bad guys.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I've interviewed AfD activists in Germany, they describes themselves avowedly as belonging to the radical right and are also seen as that by mainstream right and center-right conservatives. Presumably by this standard there is literally no one on the political spectrum who could be called far-right.
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@chasing-pointers
Do they officially speak for the AfD? If so, links please auf deutsch. I can find activists to interview who will say any crazy ass thing. Antifa, e.g. Saw an interview of a famous antifa guy in Portland claiming they want to kill all capitalists. So that's now Antifa policy, according to your standard?
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Antifa is not a political party? Obviously Antifa would be considered a radical left movement.
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