• rayyy@lemmy.world
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    You guys are just giving him ideas on how to build better a better cybertruck swastikar.

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    The Nazis didn’t use the ‘Swastika’ per se, they used a specific type of swastika called the hooked cross or hakenkreuz. Calling the Nazi cross a swastika brings confusion and disrespects many cultures where the symbol has a meaning diametrically opposite to that of nazi ideology.

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      I’ve been practicing dharmic religion for many years. Swastikas are used pretty heavily in dharmic spirituality to represent wisdom, or divinity, or the sun. I understand and have even used the symbol for its intended meaning.

      The symbol the Nazis used is a swastika. It’s okay and correct to call it one.

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      In english the Hakenkreuz was always called swastika. That’s the common usage and calling that wrong is pretty pointless.

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      Indeed. Most people don’t know what a real Swastika is because of Nazi fuckheads. They don’t deserve to be able to continue using the term.

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        So yes that is all true.

        However, the mental link of the name “Swastika” with the Nazis has had 90 years of reinforcement in popular culture.

        If you want to perpetuate a meme that annoys Elon and damages the Tesla brand (because I think they still spend $0 on marketing) then:

        1. “Swasticars” is a very good phrase because it’s a portmanteau and everyone (in WEIRD nations) can work it out, have a little giggle, and then spread it as a meme.
        2. Explaining that it’s technically incorrect by going “well actually… (Pushes glasses up)” is not going to help spread the meme and is just being a bit pedantic.
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      6 hours ago

      You make a very good point that i have not considered yet. Thank your for bringing this to attention.

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        Nah, they made the voice speak english with a German accent, but it keeps messing up the directions in roundabouts.

        For some reason the GPS gets confused when directing you to take the third exit in a roundabout and keeps saying: “Take the third reich”

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      15 hours ago

      The Founders Edition is a limited production run of only the first 88 units built

      Edit: and it comes in 14 package variants, naturally

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    I’m swastisure he doesn’t give a fuck. This is peak slacktivism, on par with sharing a meaningless chain post on Facebook.

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    Shitty cars, shitty company, ketamine addled fascist prick owner.

    Still no “Full Self Driving” after claiming “soon” back in 2015…

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      I mean, the model 3 and Y would be great cars if it weren’t for Elon. Tesla, SpaceX, and the whole world would be much better off without him.

      Edit: also I’m not talking about FSD, I think it’s bullshit and will continue to be bullshit for the foreseeable future. I like to drive my car.

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        Until self-driving tech is good enough that you can safely not have a human behind the wheel it isn’t really anything other than a toy.

        As soon as you can remove humans from the equation you can have automated trucks, without even the capacity for a human driver, that’s where the real future is, not in owned vehicles that will always have, by definition, a driver in them anyway.

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      if he kept his promise of self driving and an economy model we would all be very uncomfortable right about now.

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        VW means people’s car.

        That’s not wrong, but Volk is more nuanced than that. Think somewhere between folk and ethnicity, so it’s still fascist.

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          Not entirely true

          Substantiv, Neutrum [das]

          1. durch gemeinsame Kultur und Geschichte [und Sprache] verbundene große Gemeinschaft von Menschen “ein freies, unterdrücktes Volk”

          2. [ohne Plural] Masse der Angehörigen einer Gesellschaft, der Bevölkerung eines Landes, eines Staatsgebiets “das arbeitende, werktätige, unwissende Volk”

          1. Many people who’re connected through similar history and culture, “a free people”, “a suppressed people”
          2. [without plural] Members of a society, the inhabitants of a country, “the working people”, …
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            No, it’s definitely not a comprehensive definition, I was going for the meaning in context of VW. The correct response to pedantry is pedantry, though :)