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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] 129 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Right, and here's the clip.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes. He's still a Nazi. You're not getting the point.

Fry is trying to provoke Musk into saying, "yes, they're good enough," turning it an admission that he is indeed a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (24 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder where she is now....

Awww. She's all grown up, and seemingly successful.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Wasn't the king tiger notorious for breaking down constantly? Or was that a different German WW2 tank?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

All Nazis are assholes Not all assholes are Nazis

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

based we did it fascism is defeated

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Henry Ford actually had some good ideas himself. Elon steals all his ideas.

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