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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@chasing-pointers
You're missing the point. Got any official docs from the official party describing themselves as far right or the equivalent thereof? You might. I'd like to be elucidated. Otherwise, it is media framing.
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