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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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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[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 123 points 2 years ago

Headlines are being headlines, I get it, but Fry was repeating a joke:

“I heard a very good joke yesterday,” the QI host, 67, told Stig Abell on Times Radio on Thursday.

“Someone said, ‘Musk is not a Nazi... Nazis made really good cars,’” he went on, before bursting out laughing.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Right, and here's the clip.

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 2 years ago
[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago

Still a Nazi.

Just America shrinkflated Nazism so the intelligence had to go. Still 100% of the hate and malice America loves to eat though.

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. He's still a Nazi. You're not getting the point.

Fry is trying to provoke Musk into saying, "yes, they're good enough," turning it an admission that he is indeed a Nazi.

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

Let's repeat it again kids. Elon Musk is a piece of shit

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[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago

The cybertruck is exactly the sort of thing Nazis would come up with. It's the King Tiger of trucks - impressive specs and appeals to insecure men, but way the fuck too big and designed for unrealistic situations instead of practical reality.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

It can't realistically tow heavy loads cause the hitch breaks off, and it can't travel far with heavy loads. Definitely not the king tiger of trucks.

Wasn't the king tiger notorious for breaking down constantly? Or was that a different German WW2 tank?

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Also dangerous for crews. Sherman tank crews had a 75% survival rating when their tank got bust. I think the tiger had an 80% death rate or something.

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[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 points 2 years ago

I, as of recently, live in a place where I actually see those things driving around (and a lot of other trucks). They look like children's toys compared to the absolute monster fords and some other trucks (not to mention they really do age like milk from what I've seen). Some of these behemoths can't even fit in a single parking spot, it's kind of insane. One of those would be more deserving of this title I think (I don't know cars so I can't say any specific models I'm afraid)

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[-] Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not apologizing and then immediately giving a speech to AfD about not being ashamed of "cultural purity" beg to differ. Either way, him being an actual Nazi is irrelevant. There are 2 options:

  1. He is an actual Nazi and believes in the ideology, which makes him a fucking Nazi. It should be noted that his grandfather was an extremely anti-semitic politician who moved to South Africa because he admired Apartheid...

  2. He did it as a troll. In which case, at a POTUS inauguration he decided to behave like a teenage boy as the richest man in the world and make light of something that saw 6 million Jews slaughtered and remains as a threat to the security of Jews around the world to this day. Which makes him a colossal piece of shit.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 years ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wonder where she is now....

Awww. She's all grown up, and seemingly successful.

[-] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

I'd imagine Jeremy Clarkson might have said this on old top gear before he outed himself as a massive asshole.

[-] enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 years ago

All Nazis are assholes Not all assholes are Nazis

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[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 years ago

Fry used to be on Mastodon, not sure if he's still there ?

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[-] 7rokhym@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

based we did it fascism is defeated

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Elon is the new Henry Ford. But I'm afraid we have no modern day Roosevelts to smack him down.

[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Henry Ford actually had some good ideas himself. Elon steals all his ideas.

[-] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The company being named Tesla seems pretty Edison.

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