Poland urges Tesla boycott after Musk’s call to ‘move past’ Nazi guilt – POLITICO

[circledot@feddit.org]

Not just Polens should boycott any of Musks businesses.

[karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de]

It ain't gonna happen. The majority of people don't care. Fascism is the playground of big corporations so they will all fall in line and people will support them. It was the same in Nazi Germany.

[dmmacniel@feddit.org]

95% of all German companies that existed prior Hitler has a dark chapter. You wanna get rid of them all?

[asafum@feddit.nl]

"it's time to move past the Nazi guilt of the past and forge a new Nazi guilt! Join me in our new embarrassing and disgusting Nazi future to feel guilty of!"

[melchior@feddit.org]

Why? The only thing needed would have been to throw the really bad ones into prison and take the wealth from the owners. Also 95% seems high. Most companies are pretty small and your average backery did not have much to do with mass murder.

[localhorst86@feddit.org]

Typically, when looking at such companies history, it might look something like this:

1911: Founded in Hinterwalddorf by the two Goldstein brothers under the name "Goldstein Maschinenbau GbR"
1918: First branch in Nachbardorf, beginning of market expansion
1925: 100th branch openedin Hauptstadt, revenue increases
1933: First international branch in Austria
1938: Goldstein brothers leave the company, transfering ownership to the Wolf family
1939: Renaming of the company to "Reichsmaschinengesellschaft AG"
1947: Reestablishment of the company by the two youngest nephews of the Wolf family as "Hinterwalddorfer Maschinen GmbH"

etc.

[pedz@lemmy.ca]

Careful, he may sue the Poles for not buying his cars and limiting his freeze peach.

[karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de]

It was to illustrate the futility. Name a single boycott that actually hit a corporation hard and forced them to be a little less shitty. I am not aware of any except for maybe maybe the Montgomery Bus boycott.

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

The Delano grape strike and boycott.

[maalus@lemmy.world]

Good thing to know that the minister of tourism is our god-king, and the immense outrage is him saying "we shouldn't buy teslas and boycott them".

Honestly, nobody in Poland gives a fuck.

[allnewtypeface@leminal.space]

This is Poland we’re talking about. Any company even hinting at exonerating the Nazis, the Soviets, the Russian Empire or any historic aggressor going back to the Teutonic Knights is going to find the local market hard going.

[saleh@feddit.org]

Not so fun fact: The company that made the protective paint for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin is a legal successor of one of the main Cyankali suppliers for the gas chambers.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

Yes.chad

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

And they say the Scottish hold grudges

[fabledaepitaph@lemmy.world]

Way ahead of you, Poland.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Good one, EU in it's entirety should do that

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

It's free speech to choose NOT to buy a Tesla

[eujdkekeje@feddit.org]

We know. That was obviously a hyperbole on Musk's attitude.

[etterra@discuss.online]

Please do. Tesla sucks and Musk is what the Brits would call a "wanker." Love from Chicago, Poland.

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

I feel like they'd have harsher words for him