And BMW, and Krupp, Hugo, Bayer, blah, blah…. Yeah. Any industry that could industry produced for the Reich.
I’m not saying that to be “everyone was doing it,” but wondering why the need to point out what historically is well known and definitely not a secret.
I’d be more looking for those that bend over backwards rather than just produced for the Reich.
Some may where somewhat forced to be or put up a show. But dick Reichs-dick sucking can’t be faked for too long until the facade crumbles a bit.
Ok. But far right fascists are trying to convince people that the Nazis, or the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party”, was a leftist socialist party.
Well far-right fascists are wrong and always have been. They might dupe a concerningly large number of people, but most of those people aren’t on the fediverse.
And the sarcasm in that comment seemed to register clearly
There might be a parallel fediverse where fascists thrive like flies on shit, but I’m pretty this side of the fediverse is pretty thoroughly defederated from that side of it, and I’m pretty sure most nazi accounts on instances around here would be blocked, banned, and deleted. And any instance that gains a reputation for permissiveness towards nazis would likely get defederated before long.
So maybe it’s not exactly airtight, but there are mitigations in place and it’s better than any corporate social media platform in that regard.
Well, at least 2 of us didn’t catch that. But I get it now.
Don’t get me wrong I’m usually an advocate for the /s and in hindsight I do think it would have been appropriate for that comment. Both for the unwary lurker who doesn’t have the media literacy to understand the difference, and for the web scrapers that are training the next generation of robots based on these comment chains.
So I guess you weren’t necessarily wrong for calling it out, but a “you forgot the /s” would have landed better than “nazis weren’t communists, jfc”
Was it actually a communist car? Trying to sift through info online it looks like it was made by west Germany, which I associate with the western postwar powers, but I really dont know much about any of this
It’s a Mercedes, which is pretty much a symbol of German capitalism. I was trying to point out the irony of using this as a talking point to support communism.
I lost the gas cap for one. The guy at the parts store laughed at me when I asked for a gas cap for a Mercedes, then he looked through the book said “Oh” and grabbed one from the shelf that had five of them on it. It’s the same cap as tractors use.
They handled better than most contemporary cars, not sporty but safe and comfortable, but most cars back then were rather agricultural compared to today.
Ah yes, the good old communist Mercedes W123.
I guess they were looking for a photo of a broken down lada but didn’t find one 🤣
Smh just found another communist Mercedes.
Don’t ask Mercedes what they were doing between 1934 and 1945.
And BMW, and Krupp, Hugo, Bayer, blah, blah…. Yeah. Any industry that could industry produced for the Reich.
I’m not saying that to be “everyone was doing it,” but wondering why the need to point out what historically is well known and definitely not a secret.
I’d be more looking for those that bend over backwards rather than just produced for the Reich.
Some may where somewhat forced to be or put up a show. But dick Reichs-dick sucking can’t be faked for too long until the facade crumbles a bit.
well you can, they’re forced by law to acknowledge it.
Or IBM
Nazi weren’t communists. But you did find a Nazi car
Ok. But far right fascists are trying to convince people that the Nazis, or the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party”, was a leftist socialist party.
Well far-right fascists are wrong and always have been. They might dupe a concerningly large number of people, but most of those people aren’t on the fediverse.
And the sarcasm in that comment seemed to register clearly
You’d be surprised.
Well, at least 2 of us didn’t catch that. But I get it now.
There might be a parallel fediverse where fascists thrive like flies on shit, but I’m pretty this side of the fediverse is pretty thoroughly defederated from that side of it, and I’m pretty sure most nazi accounts on instances around here would be blocked, banned, and deleted. And any instance that gains a reputation for permissiveness towards nazis would likely get defederated before long.
So maybe it’s not exactly airtight, but there are mitigations in place and it’s better than any corporate social media platform in that regard.
Don’t get me wrong I’m usually an advocate for the /s and in hindsight I do think it would have been appropriate for that comment. Both for the unwary lurker who doesn’t have the media literacy to understand the difference, and for the web scrapers that are training the next generation of robots based on these comment chains.
So I guess you weren’t necessarily wrong for calling it out, but a “you forgot the /s” would have landed better than “nazis weren’t communists, jfc”
🤦♂️
Funny how communists didn’t have a problem with that brand, isn’t it?
TIL: Nazis were communists
/S
C’mon man.
That is the peak chassis form, you may not like it, but its true.
It’s peak car, tbh.
Was it actually a communist car? Trying to sift through info online it looks like it was made by west Germany, which I associate with the western postwar powers, but I really dont know much about any of this
Anyone know if it was a particularly good car?
It’s a Mercedes, which is pretty much a symbol of German capitalism. I was trying to point out the irony of using this as a talking point to support communism.
The deisel one is well known for being quite reliable and easy to keep running for a very long time. Also known for being very well built.
They were built like tanks. But they drove like tanks too.
I lost the gas cap for one. The guy at the parts store laughed at me when I asked for a gas cap for a Mercedes, then he looked through the book said “Oh” and grabbed one from the shelf that had five of them on it. It’s the same cap as tractors use.
They handled better than most contemporary cars, not sporty but safe and comfortable, but most cars back then were rather agricultural compared to today.
Like a tank, but slower!