What’s Behind Elon Musk’s Love-In With the Far Right?

Novara Live broadcasts every weekday from 6PM on YouTube and Twitch.
Episodes of Downstream are released Sundays at 3PM on YouTube.
__________________________

Support our journalism by buying Novara Media merch:

Donate one hour’s wage per month, or whatever you can afford:

[Scottie]

Destroying unionised workforces, and individual workers rights is a big reason.

[Brellowcrop]

Musk is fast becoming the world's first real-life super villain

[MrHsox]

I like how her argument breaks down immediately at 1:45 she is so used to being told to shut up at that point that she hasn’t formulated any depth to her dumb thesis. When musk meekly agrees with her she doesn’t know where to go lol

[alexandredebrito]

He was born and raised under apartheid why are people surprised with is racist views

[zaisaber]

He’s best friends with Rupert Murdoch…..say no more

[barrywalls]

Teenager during South Africa Apartheid

[dalekrenegade]

He's desperate for any kind of praise.

[aleaiactaest]

EU/Europe is in deep deep trouble...on many fronts.
First thing to understand: US is not our friend or ally. Second: Sovereignty is of existential importance

[Eva-xtnv]

Thank you for your work and analysis. For me as a German the interview between Musk und the AFD leader was highly concerning, even more alarming are the euphoric comments left below.

[chriswrathall]

This is great analysis. Well done. Let's not forget how keen Trump was for Brexit and the disintegration of the European Union.

[Tom-kphh]

Europe needs to cut as many ties with the US asap. Then start to build up capabilities across many areas. Those statements from Zuckerberg worried me deeply. The US right wing/tech establishment has zero respect for Europe.

[dr.florence]

Good grief, her English makes my toes curl (I'm half-German). Apart from everything else. -- I'd also like to tell everyone that German has majorly majorly shifted to the right, and that is ALL parties! The socialists have been pushing conservative anti-immigration rhetoric, and the CDU chancellor candidate has suggested a coalition with the AfD for years. His party actually publishes posters saying "we do what the AfD promises in a democratic way" -- what the hell!!!! It's dire and dark, and it reflects the soul of the people here.

[liambishop]

When you put "Elon Musk" in the thumb nail, you attract a whole bunch of bootlickers apparently; at least going by the state of these comments.

[markpostgate]

It is part of the right wing libertarian mythology that authoritarianism and left wing are synonymous and in correlation, so they use the two terms interchangeably. Though there were in fact left wing members of the German National Socialists and they were all killed in the Night of the Long Knives. But they also think Starmer is extreme left, which is ludicrous to us because we know how Starmer has treated the left of the party.

[FriedEggSarnie]

Aaron is spot on about europeans needing to develop our own tech industry

[philiphall]

You don’t expect Musk’s fans to know anything about history do you? They seriously think he’s going to build a city on Mars and if they believe that they’ll believe anything.

[AliKazi]

17:00 that's is absolutely right. Everything we do in the UK every transition we made money goes to American companies

[fruitylerlups]

its about subsidies tax cuts and labor laws

[coasterblocks]

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a democracy right? It’s right there in the title!
What did Sir Humphrey say about disposing of the most controversial part in the title?

[irsaa]

People, wake up, we dont want US business men