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  Just say FAKE NEWS, dude. We're used to it.
context: For context: AfS (Alternativ för Sverige, Alternative for Sweden) is a far-right political party, and NMR (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen, The Nordic Resistance Movement) is Sweden’s largest neo-nazi group >
  
  Is Afs related to the German afd? >
  
  Yes and no. No, they aren't an internationalized party, but the right-wing populist to fascist parties of Europe maintain close relations with each other and with Russia. >
  
  
  Shapiro told Expo that he is happy to answer questions concerning his journalism, but that he does not want to answer questions concerning whether he has been involved in contacts between Nya Dagbladet and FLI.
  “I have no comment on that”, he stated in response to our questions.
  
  So I take that as a yes then, since Max Tegmark (the MIT professor) is his brother. 
  
  Markus Andersson, the editor-in-chief of Nya Dagbladet, had little to say to Expo upon hearing our questions about the newly-registered foundation, ending the call with the words: “You may not ask any questions at all. You can go to hell.”
  
  Lol >
  
  MIT you say? Interesting. Should be fun seeing where this goes in the next couple weeks >
  
  I should say so >
  
  
  Nya Dagbladet received a message: the foundation to promote “independent journalism” that he was in the process of setting up had been approved a major grant of money. The sum of $100,000 – about one million in Swedish currency 
  
  BRB, have to go start a foundation for sexy parties uhhhh I mean journalism. >
  
  Nobody is reading the article. The non profit group that is also funded by musk and Morgan freeman did not pass a regulation process.it was a grant and failed. 
  This is a non story…and Tesla fud. >
  
  
  The non profit group that is also funded by musk and Morgan freeman 
  
  The article says that Elon Musk funds the group, but that Morgan Freeman is merely listed as an advisor, so they would seem to be pretty different positions. Did you bother to read the article? >
  
  I did, did you read the headline? >
  
  Feel free to quote the part of the article where it says Morgan Freeman funded the Future of Life Institute. I feel silly having to repeat myself because this is such a simple concept to grasp, but in deference to your struggles with this here you go: the article says Elon Musk funded it, but Freeman is only an advisor. You can find this information elsewhere online if you think this article is not credible. Wikipedia says Morgan Freeman is merely one of many advisors, whereas Elon Musk gave them $10 million. Sorry, but Musk is funding a Nazi organization. >
  
  So Morgan Freeman advised a pro nazi group? Think about it. Why wasn’t that put in the headline? >
  
  What advice did Morgan Freeman give? Do you know the answer to that? If he advised against this, do you still think he's culpable? What if this was done without his input at all? Musk, on the other hand, is paying for this. That's his $100k that wound up in the pockets of Nazis. I would wager that Musk has more of a say-so of what happens with the finances than Morgan Freeman does, considering it's Musk's money, not Freeman's. You Musk defenders are ridiculous with the gymnastics you go through to try to apologize for that asshole. >
  
  You obviously don’t know about headlines. >
  
  Yeah, if this letter is genuine, and went out before the “non profit” paperwork had even gone through, I’m very curious to know how that connection came about, and why the FLI guys felt so passionately about the issues that they were proactively okayed a $100K grant to an org that didn’t even exist yet. 
  Because the associated website has gone viral a few times, but for reasons that don’t exactly scream “deep thinkers worthy of major funding”. That’s just me though. >
  
  Elon musk supporting Nazis who would have guessed it? Almost everyone's? Oh ok. >
  
  Oh please... You say it like his background somehow would have like ties with an oppresive and racist system like the "Apartheid" or something and how his family profited off of it
  Oh wait that's literally true
  Weird uh? >
  
  The only thing I didn't see coming is that Musk would have the good sense to launder the money through a third party rather than donate to the Nazis directly. >
  
  Why not? Centrist dumbfucks will still defend Elon Musk anyway >
  
  It's really an example of one of the "Famous Moments in History, Reimagined By Centrists" >
  
  Im thinkin it might be time to take a harder look at "nonprofits" >
  
  Waaaaaay overdue >
  
  And the balloon releases. I am sorry your aunt has cancer, but do the fish and ducks have to die because of it? >
  
  All that he wants is another baby, he’s gone tomorrow grimes >
  
  Must be craving a California cheeseburger. >
  
  Is that anything like Colorado candy? >
  
  It’d be great if Nazis could just go the fuck away. You lost a world war. Your ideas are bad. Take the worlds biggest L. >
  
  Also impractical, they estimate that only like 10% of the world identifies as “white” (or whatever the regional equivalent is) and in that group nazis would prob only claim 5% based off their ideals. It makes not sense and is pure evil, literal demons. >
  
  Let's not mischaracterize perfectly rational white folks. Nazis were no more demonic than say early settlers of the US were. >
  
  Musk, who grew up in apartheid,  having connections to racism? Naaaaaah. >
  
  Who left to avoid serving that apartheid government. >
  
  I miss the days when assholes with too much money made insane villas on huge estates with super lasers in the basement, tormenting secret agents, instead of funding grubby little fashes. >
  
  I always wanted to ride on the underground trams the henchmen used. >
  
  Right? They may be a supervillain but they design good mass transit! >
  
  And wicked cool lairs. >
  
  Shit birds come in flocks. >
  
  I think a group of shitbirds is called a 'scatter'.
  As in: 'a scatter of shitbirds.'
  I could be wrong though. >
  
  That's real good, Ran'. Can you make a run down to the store for me? >
  
  Elon 👏 has 👏 always 👏 been 👏 alt-right 👏 >
  
  Bruh like he comes from apartheid emerald money. How was he able to trick people so easily?
  oh wait >
  
  He's now denying it even existed and his fans are eating it up 😂 >
  
  The denials are amazing. "He only owned HALF an emerald mine! And the emeralds weren't that big!" >
  
  EIon's just following his passions. >
  
  Is there actually any reason at all to think he's a secret nazi, or are we just calling him that because we don't like him and we don't like Nazis so QED?
  Edit: lots of downvotes but somehow not a single reference or piece of evidence. How very strange >
  
  I mean. Is he a secret member of a neo-Nazi sect? Probably not. Is he increasingly sharing a lot of ideology associated with neo-Nazis? You bet. >
  
  Such as? >
  
  Supporting Ye for president lmao >
  
  Oh, do you mean the endorsement he took back after Kanye elucidated his far right views? >
  
  You mean after Ye said the quiet part out loud? Big “I was only joking” energy from Elon. Unless you agree that Elon is a clueless fuck that didn’t know anything at all about the guy he was endorsing? >
  
  If you're insistent on assuming the worst about people I won't interfere >
  
  Time to get James Bond...oh wait... >
  
  Can't we just send him to Mars already? >
  
  What a combination of demographics. Rich emerald mine heir, MIT professor, Swedish folks, and Nazis. >
  
  It would not be the first time in the last hundred years when rich miners, professors, Swedes and Nazis came together. >
  
  Things that don’t surprise me, this. >
  
  FLI does a lot of great things, I can't believe they fucked up this badly >
  
  Musk, the same guy who funded a Venezuella coup under orders from Trump. Doesn't make me curious. >
  
  The future of life institute is not an "Elon Musk-funded" non-profit. It is funded by thousands of individuals including Stephen Hawking before his death. 
  Seems media has made adding Musk's name to anything to get clicks a standard at this point. >
  
  They are definitely playing the internet-click game with that headline. The title for the Swedish version was "Famous Swedish scientist were to donate a million (SEK) to far-right foundation.".
  I'm more disappointed in Max Tegmark who signed the donation. He's probably the most famous scientist  in Sweden and has done a lot to promote science. >
  
  The man is partially Jewish, lol. His dad was/is Jewish >
  
  Not sure what is scarier:
  - Musk doesn't know what he is doing, and he didn't know the money was going to Nazis, or
  - Musk knows exactly what he is doing and he is a nazi too. >
  
  Or Musk donated to a popular foundation, and the guy running the foundation doesn’t know what he’s doing. >
  
  Fuck.  I'm a science nerd.  
  Musk is garbage.  But I've read Max's books.  He's taught me a lot.
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  This makes me really sad. >
  
  Yeah Max is a good scientist to follow, his ideas on a mathematical universe are an example of the way he throws interesting perspectives into the mix.
  I'm hoping this is all due to Max naively trusting his brother (Shapiro), not noticing that he's devolving into fascist reporting. But the chances of him sharing views with his brother seem high. >
  
  I’m afraid to ask. His brother (Shapiro)?
  Not the one that’s in the news today? >
  
  His brother Per Shapiro. 
  Shapiro is a common Jewish surname, which makes it so baffling that he's a columnist for a pro-nazi online news paper. >
  
  Shapiro and Tegmark share a Shapiro grandfather, so they are Jewish; and I don’t understand Jews like they who associate with Nazis. >
  
  Yeah, there had to be some. There were collaborators in every era. All I can think is that they were not Jews in their previous lives. Gallows humor. >
  
  I’m honestly shocked! No not really. Birds of a feather flock together >
  
  And shit birds shit together >
  
  Not related but I have watched Tegmark’s videos on YouTube about physics and it sounds like he has no idea about the subject. He just recites buzz words >
  
  “I can confirm that FLI hasn’t paid any money to the organization you mention and doesn’t plan to. Please direct any further questions to Max.”
  where is the evidence of the offer?
  famous professor's conspiracist brother either puts a request in to brother's foundation.... which they grant (then rescinds when they realizes it's nazis, not just loonys) or his brother doesn't grant it at all.
  I'm no fan of musk AT ALL , but let's not tar everything he touches with his stink. 
  Meanwhile r/vpuetf is spamming this everywhere. I'm gonna crosspost this reply. >
  
  I wonder why Morgan Freeman’s name isn’t in any of the headlines. >
  
  Damm, i wish i could repeat nazi talking point and get 100,000$ >
  
  So you want to be a republican politician? >
  
  What do you expect from some who benefitted from apartheid? >
  
  What we’re they hoping to gain? >
  
  Cant say Im surprised. >
  
  Electric Trump gonna Trump. >
  
  I used the news search engine at news.google.com.  expo.se is the only source running this story.  
  I think very little of Musk and this seems plausible, but is it possible that it might be less than true? >
  
  Was Musk directly involved in this funding offer? Highly unlikely.  However, the phrase 'birds of a feather...' springs to mind.  Elon is clearly attracted to people of this mindset, so much so that he's giving them money. >
  
  Tegmark is a very famous scientist, and Musk is attracted to people like that. >
  
  Elon musk is a human nazi diving rod. Or there's some other explanation. >
  
  Fascists breathe money. >
  
  Bruh—that’s what Nazis do. They love a Hugo Boss Uniform.  I mean Bruh - who doesn’t? >
  
  A lot of people like me never realized he was a fraud until he banned journalists on twitter last month. I didn’t worship the man but assumed he was but I did think he actually started every company he eventually ran and thought he had envisioned the innovation himself. 
  I’m not ready to classify Elon as nazi just yet, still if unintentional an outcome like this shows he lacks judgment and is further proof he’s irresponsible with how he’s been spending money lately. 
  I mean look at the current state of twitter is seriously disgusting, a majority of the user base is obsessed with conspiracy theory’s. They now think every liberal wants to away their gas stoves and inject them with a Covid vaccination. What really scares me is the anger level, if it keeps up someone will wind up getting hurt like we saw on Jan 6. 
  Yet somehow Elon views this as an open forum and town square for legit debate, he’s full of shit and clearly pushing a far right political agenda. >
  
  He has long ties to Nazi sympathizers >
  
  Elon is showing his true colors, again. >
  
  Well now we know why Tesla’s got discounted >
  
  Are race stripes standard now? >
  
  Does Elon have USA citizenship or dual. Because if he has dual we might be able to put him a cargo hold and send him to Liberia. >
  
  Why would you do such a thing to the Liberians? >
  
  This surprises no one. >
  
  It surprised me, mostly because I liked Max Tegmark though >
  
  Lots of good people are indirectly involved with rotten people, through the investments. >
  
  Yeah but according to the article Max Tegmark was directly involved in this, he’s the director of the organization that did it, he was even more directly involved than Elon musk who just donated to them >
  
  Except that Morgan freeman is a member of an external board, and not a direct contributor of funds? >
  
  The headline clearly states Musk-funded, and he did provide even the initial funding to found the organization.  As for whether FLI is an evil bunch of nazis?  Probably not, they probably just fucked up stating their intent to fund this Swedish group by not properly vetting them and likely didn't even send them the money in the end. >
  
  Elon has been in the headlines for years now and he has never had to deal with the consequences of a bad decision that he has made >
  
  He’s going to one day because he’s eventually going to push the boundaries too far. >
  
  So who do we get mad at Elon, MIT or Sweden? >
  
  No idea whats happening but the amount of prejudice in that title alone makes me believe its fake. >
  
  I genuinely think Musk has a brain tumor or something. His behavior has been so flipping erratic. >
  
  He’s always been a bad guy. He says some of his Teslas are FSD - Fully Self  Driving.
  They are not.
  They are driver assist options. Lots of other cars have driver assist options. But those car manufacturers don’t describe they’re options as “full self driving.” 
  There is no such thing as a fully self driving car and using “FSD” is false advertising. Musk is making false claims.