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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] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I keep getting this feeling that Musk is a stooge and he sacrificed himself/was sacrificed with the Nazi salute thing as a distraction.

He doesn't give a shit about Tesla tanking, as long as he can use his new connections to ride the stock market waves through some well-planned trades (i.e. insider trading).

These guys can insider trade all they want now. Who the hell is gonna stop them? Nancy Pelosi? Lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, he's looking higher than just money. He was making a bunch of moves that the MAGA folks weren't happy about, such as getting into fights with Laura Loomer over the specifics of how they're going to fuck over everyone. A little hand gesture at a rally, and suddenly all those people are lining up to defend him.

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

Agree. I don't care about Trump's second term since I'm not a US citizen but I'm worried about the trend of money buying everything. Recent events have shown that billionaires don't need to pretend to care about society. They can just join a political party and use their money to do whatever they want.

Musk supporting AfD is just him proving his power. He could not care less about Germans or even Tesla. As much fun as seeing Trump having to clarify that he's the president, it's a really bad trend that in this age of media content and AI, it's easier than ever to influence any society.

I'm pretty sure DeepSeek will play in this direction: give free AI with "PRC influence" to everyone, and when repeatedly enough time, people will believe what they're told.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

He's right we should move past the guilt and onto whatever it is that strips modern day Nazis of their wealth for reparations.

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

I would say he's right if he meant Germany would move past it's Nazi guilt, stop funding a goddamn present day genocide and arrest the perpetrators of the currently ongoing one, like the ICC has told them to do.

Can you imagine, Germany standing against genocide one of these days ? That would be a grand step forward.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, let's forget the colonial past and what we used to do to people coming from Africa that moved to the Americas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Very few reasons to get a Tesla when Lucid exists. I can think of three good ones— price, software reliability, and concerns about the company’s health— but these aren’t enough to overcome the icky feeling of funding Musk and his aspirations for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

One of my first thoughts about Musk's support for the AfD was that maybe we can trick these idiots into buying Teslas. That at least would be good for the environment

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