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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'd imagine Jeremy Clarkson might have said this on old top gear before he outed himself as a massive asshole.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What did he do to out himself, out of curiosity?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He punched a guy in 2015 over available food options, which got him fired from BBC. His popularity didn't take that much of a hit from this incident despite him clearly being in the wrong (Hammond and May both left BBC with him and they started a new show The Grand Tour, which wasn't as popular as Top Gear, but was still popular.

    Then, in 2022, he wrote an opinion piece for the Sun about how much he hates Megan Merkle and included a bit where he said she should be paraded naked through the town. Amazon decided to not start any new projects with him after this, though they continued with the plans to wind down The Grand Tour which had already been established.

    He's got a farming show now, so he wasn't cancelled over this, despite burning some bridges.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well that's a pretty disgusting thing to say about someone. I don't know what Merkle did to – in his view – deserve such comments, but I can't imagine the comments were warranted.

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