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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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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€“] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

they had extremely ~~well trained soldiers~~ brainwashed child murderers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

[โ€“] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Two things can be true at the same time. German soldiers were incredibly cruel in non-combat situations, and at the same time highly competent in combat.