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Summary
Elon Musk published a controversial opinion piece in Germany’s Welt am Sonntag supporting the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, prompting the newspaper’s opinion editor to resign.
Musk denied the AfD’s extremism, citing its leader’s same-sex relationship, and reiterated his claim that “only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD, classified as a suspected extremism case by Germany’s intelligence agency, has surged in polls ahead of February elections.
Musk’s support drew backlash, with critics highlighting the AfD’s anti-immigration stance and calls to leave the EU.
Elon is an egomaniacal Nazi idiot. But seriously, “pens”? He probably hasn’t touched a pen since gradeschool, and certainly didn’t use one for this. “Writes” is being generous,“rants” is probably more accurate. But imagine what the paper would have looked like if he had penned it. Illegible scrawl wandering over the page, full of scratch-outs and errors…all his insanity fully on display. Without the dignifying effect of corrected spelling and grammar and typeface, people would see the pure Unabomber-level madness it all is.
Same thing with Trump, his tweets are idiotic enough as it is, imagine if he had to actually write them out with a pen. Or those fat washable Crayola markers is more his style, so he could use colors for emphasis.
Elon probably has access to some LLM without any anti-Nazi safeguards and probably used it to help him out.