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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he's absolving Musk, or that he's criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,

'No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!'

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What does it take to impress you? To what would you assign their disturbing success?

Meth chocolate, fascism, and taking on armies using WWI tech and tactics

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It can't be discounted the amount of luck they had early on, as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, biggest thing is that their attack, though expected by quite a few powers, came out of left field and add in the rushing forward on armies still using cavalry units and the early massive land grab via Germany makes sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I guess they were a bit better than France when it came to how to use tanks and the whole "allowing leaders on the ground to take the initiative" but that's about it.