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The popularity of the Volkswagen shows that Europe has no objection to (formerly) Nazi cars, but there are limits ...
by jjgreen 9mo ago
The popularity of the Volkswagen shows that Europe has no objection to (formerly) Nazi cars, but there are limits ...
- ahartmetz 9mo agoLong ago Nazi vs currently another brainfart away from invading
- dgellow 9mo agoSame for Ford in the US, right?
- eurleif 9mo agoI once saw a Volkswagen with the vanity plate "FORD". A little concerning.
- asadotzler 9mo agoIndeed,"formerly" carries real weight. It's one thing to have car company with highly distributed ownership that was once Nazi aligned the better part of a century ago, and an entirely different thing to today have a personal piggy bank company for a billionaire Nazi active in global politics.
- CamperBob2 9mo agoIf a VW exec throws a Hitler salute in public, they will no longer have a job the next day. When Musk does it, he gets a trillion-dollar pay package. So no, there's no comparison to be drawn here.
- pkaodev 9mo agoI think people are missing the joke here (notice the italicised 'are').
- jjgreen 9mo agoNot uncommon :-)
- MuskIsAntidemo 9mo ago[dead]
- rsynnott 9mo agoSo, VW as a brand has origins there, but there's little other continuity. It's a fairly different situation.