Firstly, I am not American. Secondly, being right of the centrist party doesn't make them far right. The CDU have arguably moved from centre to centre-right bu

Firstly, I am not American. Secondly, being right of the centrist party doesn't make them far right. The CDU have arguably moved from centre to centre-right but that just makes the AfD plain old normal right. Not hard or extreme or far. Not centre or soft or light. Just right-wing. Not a nasty, dirty, wet right, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy right with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat. >But anyway, why shouldn't Germans be angry at Musk, a foreign oligarch, using his wealth and influence to help the right-most party? I don't remember Americans kicking up a fuss over European leaders criticising Trump during his election campaigns. And if they did, they were wrong to do so. We are allowed to have an express opinions about what goes on in other countries including in their elections. It appears to have made almost no difference anyway. How many German people are really going to change their vote because of what an American thinks? >if Americans want to surrender their government to power drunk robber barons, they're free to do so. But stay the f away from our continent, we still care about "woke stuff" like human rights and basic empathy. Except you also demand they defend you, police the world's trade routes, buy your products, sell things to you, invest in your markets, act as the world's reserve currency so you can trade, etc. How many countries want to sell goods internationally for Euros? Not many. Most want US dollars. The European idea of human rights has become so divorced from the original definition that it is a joke. It is a new and different concept masquerading as "human rights" because those words have some cultural cachet, although that is fading as it becomes clearer and clearer that is is just used as a cudgel to mean whatever policies the Greens and socialists want to pass. Can't convince people that your energy policy is sensible? Don't worry, it is "environmental human rights". Climate rights and cultural rights and social rights and everything under the sun is now a human right. Privacy is the worst. It now means everything. Privacy is the right to control everything about how you are observed, perceived, remembered, and recorded. You have the right to control how information about you is sent and received. No longer can you do something as simple as ask the question "When he worked for you, how did he do?" No no no. That is collecting personal information about him without his consent! You can't google him, that is using the information for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was created! Human rights have become a way to control what you may think about other people and to justify any policy. If you have a human right to everything the term loses all its meaning. If you have a right to everything, you have a right to nothing. >As for his nazi salute, at the very least that "akward gesture" was a dog whistle to actual neonazis. No it wasn't. It didn't look anything at all like a Nazi salute. It is 100% confirmation bias because of people being primed by headlines.