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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[–] 202 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (43 children)
  • [–] 142 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Exactly this. My grandmother lived under the Nazis and she said they were fucking idiots. Exactly the same type of incompetent blowhards. The whole hyper scientific ubermensch BS in the cultural zeitgeist is so frustrating. I blame all the WWII video games and movies that played up the myth to have more interesting villains than the sleazy shit stains that they actually were.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The strength of the Germans was that I.) they had a really good industrial base, and ii.) the traditions within the army meant they had extremely well trained soldiers. Both of these predate nazi-rule. For instance, Germans also arguably had the best (equipped) army in WW1.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Early Nazis also galvanized a young working force with actual socialist policies that guaranteed them good jobs and housing (before Hitler's multiple violent party purges, scrapping most of it for a fascist-capitalist junta)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I blame all the WWII video games and movies that played up the myth to have more interesting villains than the sleazy shit stains that they actually were.

    I guess Wolfenstein being banned for glorifying Nazis actually had some merit.

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

    Hitler was a drug addict and the trains didn't run on time.

    German trains still don't run on time. Can't blame that one on the Nazis, that's just a German thing.

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

    Headlines are being headlines, I get it, but Fry was repeating a joke:

    “I heard a very good joke yesterday,” the QI host, 67, told Stig Abell on Times Radio on Thursday.

    “Someone said, ‘Musk is not a Nazi... Nazis made really good cars,’” he went on, before bursting out laughing.

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

    Still a Nazi.

    Just America shrinkflated Nazism so the intelligence had to go. Still 100% of the hate and malice America loves to eat though.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (24 children)

    Let's repeat it again kids. Elon Musk is a piece of shit

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Not apologizing and then immediately giving a speech to AfD about not being ashamed of "cultural purity" beg to differ. Either way, him being an actual Nazi is irrelevant. There are 2 options:

    1. He is an actual Nazi and believes in the ideology, which makes him a fucking Nazi. It should be noted that his grandfather was an extremely anti-semitic politician who moved to South Africa because he admired Apartheid...

    2. He did it as a troll. In which case, at a POTUS inauguration he decided to behave like a teenage boy as the richest man in the world and make light of something that saw 6 million Jews slaughtered and remains as a threat to the security of Jews around the world to this day. Which makes him a colossal piece of shit.

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

    The cybertruck is exactly the sort of thing Nazis would come up with. It's the King Tiger of trucks - impressive specs and appeals to insecure men, but way the fuck too big and designed for unrealistic situations instead of practical reality.

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

    It can't realistically tow heavy loads cause the hitch breaks off, and it can't travel far with heavy loads. Definitely not the king tiger of trucks.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (10 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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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    If Elon isn't a full-blown Nazi, he's at minimum a Nazi sympathizer. His actions at the inauguration proved where his allegiances lie.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    based we did it fascism is defeated

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

    Fry used to be on Mastodon, not sure if he's still there ?

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    TBF, Elon's cars are great at killing groups of people with toxic gasses and then incineration their bodies. Just because he isn't efficient today, doesn't mean he isn't working on being a better Nazi tomorrow.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatal-crash-four-dead-lake-shore-cherry-1.7361751

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

    Elon is the new Henry Ford. But I'm afraid we have no modern day Roosevelts to smack him down.

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