The driver … came to Germany in 2006. But he is not an Islamist … on the contrary: He was apparently a radical critic of Islam and sympathized with the AfD – and Elon Musk.

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    Perhaps he calculated that the best he could do to help AfD win power is to become the Arab Terrorist bogeyman people would rally to them in fear of, and bet that the fact that his actual political views would be dismissed as incongruent with the “Arab Terrorist” model in people’s minds.

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      17 hours ago

      Or perhaps the psychological warfare and disinformation peddled by Musk, AFD, and co actually induces a mental illness in a subset of the population.

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      Perhaps. Or perhaps he was in too close contact with psychiatric patients.

      In other words: speculation is fun, but insight is hardly gained through it.