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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars."
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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!'
A small country took on the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD (TWICE) and very nearly won. The second time with a lunatic at the helm.
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
It can't be discounted the amount of luck they had early on, as well.
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.