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!’

  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
    71·
    7 hours ago

    Exactly this. My grandmother lived under the Nazis and she said they were fucking idiots. Exactly the same type of incompetent blowhards. The whole hyper scientific ubermensch BS in the cultural zeitgeist is so frustrating. I blame all the WWII video games and movies that played up the myth to have more interesting villains than the sleazy shit stains that they actually were.

    • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 hour ago

      The strength of the Germans was that I.) they had a really good industrial base, and ii.) the traditions within the army meant they had extremely well trained soldiers. Both of these predate nazi-rule. For instance, Germans also arguably had the best (equipped) army in WW1.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      2·
      38 minutes ago

      I blame all the WWII video games and movies that played up the myth to have more interesting villains than the sleazy shit stains that they actually were.

      I guess Wolfenstein being banned for glorifying Nazis actually had some merit.