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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I get what you're trying to get at. But I'm talking the developed material wealth of a region. Actual physical infrastructure like rails, mines, factories, universities and everyone with the required education and training to run all of it.

If the victors of the first war received the dividends of that real infrastructure- that matters right up until the moment that they don't anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You do realize Germany lost 48% of it's industrial territory in the treaty of Versailles, right?