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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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[โ€“] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To what would you assign their disturbing success?

Material support from the Western ruling class who wanted Hitler to destroy communism for them.

[โ€“] Bloobish@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

This, the biggest mistake Germany made was interfering with dominant western European capital (i.e. the US, UK, and France). If they had just devoured the eastern European countries and fought Russia then capital would not have batted an eye.