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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] 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours 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