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!’
comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) 57•2 months agoHeadlines 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.
shittydwarf ( @shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English48•2 months ago Rookwood ( @Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English31•2 months agoNot 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:
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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…
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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 ( @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ) 18•2 months ago¿Por que no los dos?
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RangerJosey ( @RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ) English15•2 months agoI’d imagine Jeremy Clarkson might have said this on old top gear before he outed himself as a massive asshole.
enbipanic ( @enbipanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English8•2 months agoAll Nazis are assholes Not all assholes are Nazis
7rokhym ( @7rokhym@lemmy.ca ) 13•2 months agoTBF, 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 ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 10•2 months agobased we did it fascism is defeated
Hanrahan ( @hanrahan@slrpnk.net ) English8•2 months agoFry used to be on Mastodon, not sure if he’s still there ?
ThomasCrappersGhost ( @ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk ) English1•2 months agoJust looked…the accounts still there. No apparent activity in a year.
millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) English3•2 months agoWhy is this thread full of Nazi propaganda? Yikes. 😬
kanata ( @kanata@lemmy.ca ) English2•2 months agoHes a great friend of Israel. If any thing, hes anti-woke, the salute is more of an anti-woke salute than its a nazi-salute. The group most upset about it are the left and friends.
DFX4509B ( @DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org ) 0•2 months agoIf Elon isn’t a full-blown Nazi, he’s at minimum a Nazi sympathizer. His actions at the inauguration proved where his allegiances lie.