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Polish Tourism Minister Sławomir Nitras has called for a Tesla boycott following Elon Musk’s remarks urging Germany to “move past” its Nazi history.

Musk’s comments, made during a far-right AfD campaign event, sparked outrage, particularly in Poland, which lost 6 million people in WWII.

The controversy comes ahead of Germany’s February 23 election and just before Musk’s Tesla earnings call.

As a key advisor to Trump, Musk’s stance could impact Tesla’s market position in Europe, where historical remembrance remains a sensitive issue.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As an aside, I love the irony of that speech. Musk tells the wannabe Nazis that they can forget about the sins of their (great)grandparents.

The idiots of the AFD want to forget the past simply so they can repeat it.

They want to repeat the sins of their forefathers, they just don't want to be reminded of the consequences that followed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I somewhat disagree. They don't want to forget, they want to finish the job. They have immense pride in something they should feel shame for. That, I think, is the issue. The unwillingness to feel shame, so they replace that feeling with over-zealous pride.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Still grandparents in a lot of cases. I’m 40 and my grandfather fought the Japanese in WWII.

Plenty of people left on this planet who had grandparents on every side of that war.

Or maybe your parentheses was meant to cover both.

Yeah it was.

Fuck it. I typed it. Maybe some other idiot will read it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hey, hey. We can start a club!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

He wants them to put aside their past guilt so they can focus on the hypothetical future guilt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

When history teaches you to not do whatever the fuck you're about to do, forget the history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had the same question with Trump copying so many of his political plays from 1930s Germany… does he… does he know how the story ended?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He thinks Hitlers generals were loyal so... Nope. Seriously even the Wehrmacht foot soldiers turned on the Nazis in the end openly attacking the SS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

does he… does he know how the story ended?

Let's lock him alone in a bunker with a Walther PPK for a few hours to see for ourselves.