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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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[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ok fair enough, I accept the explanation you provided. Folks are taking issue with the following comment in particular.

What does it take to impress you? To what would you assign their disturbing success?

In isolation, this sounds a little too close to admiration for the Nazis, which is why we got some reports about it. It seems to me it's just unfortunate phrasing, because together with the explanation you just provided, it sounds like a reasonable take for you not to want to paint them like some hapless foe that was easily defeated, because that discounts the difficulties faced by those who fought the bastards.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I wanted to clarify, but there were so many comments coming in, I didn't see how I could do it effectively. And not seem like I was what some people thought I was

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

I know, it's difficult when people pile on with bad faith takes. Anyway don't worry, I think it's clear what you meant now.