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!'
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.
Yeah, his alliances life with power, money, and people thinking he's cool (narcissism). The racism and cruelty are just his personal side projects.
I'd imagine Jeremy Clarkson might have said this on old top gear before he outed himself as a massive asshole.
All Nazis are assholes Not all assholes are Nazis
Before? What, in primary school?
What did he do to out himself, out of curiosity?
He punched a guy in 2015 over available food options, which got him fired from BBC. His popularity didn't take that much of a hit from this incident despite him clearly being in the wrong (Hammond and May both left BBC with him and they started a new show The Grand Tour, which wasn't as popular as Top Gear, but was still popular.
Then, in 2022, he wrote an opinion piece for the Sun about how much he hates Megan Merkle and included a bit where he said she should be paraded naked through the town. Amazon decided to not start any new projects with him after this, though they continued with the plans to wind down The Grand Tour which had already been established.
He's got a farming show now, so he wasn't cancelled over this, despite burning some bridges.
Well that's a pretty disgusting thing to say about someone. I don't know what Merkle did to – in his view – deserve such comments, but I can't imagine the comments were warranted.
I haven't read the piece but apparently he didn't even go into the why.
What a douche canoe.
Fry used to be on Mastodon, not sure if he's still there ?
Just looked…the accounts still there. No apparent activity in a year.
based we did it fascism is defeated
Not every strike in the battle has to be the winning blow.
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
Elon is the new Henry Ford. But I'm afraid we have no modern day Roosevelts to smack him down.
Henry Ford actually had some good ideas himself. Elon steals all his ideas.
He's the new Henry Ford, but also, he's the new Henry Ford
Why is this thread full of Nazi propaganda? Yikes. 😬