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The problem is: people don't care.

In case you don't believe that: look up Volkswagen history (as if the name wasn't enough of a hint) and I think you will agree that Tesla may be a swasticar ... it's not the first swasticar.



But current Volkswagen leader- and ownership is not nazi, unlike Tesla.

VW in effect was re-founded after the war by the British military administration as a trust and only privatised into a public company in the 1960s.

The biggest shareholders of BMW on the other hand are still the Quandt family whose grandfather Günther Quandt definitely was Nazi member, collaborator, donator and massively profiteered from the slave labour by concentration camp victims and prisoners of war.


Or Ford.


I mean, if in 80 years Tesla is called Cybertruck (the company set up to make Volkswagens was not called Volkswagen, and produced effectively zero civilian cars in its Nazi era), has been appropriated from its previous owners, who went to prison or worse, is a separate legal entity, and shares no principals with the original company, then you might have a point.

Ford is a closer comparison, but even there, Henry Ford was no longer really involved in the company when he went really publicly off the rails (he'd handed it over to his son by then). There's not much precedent for Tesla's situation, where the _current_ leadership is being publicly insane.




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