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      Definitely go for the “used to be nazi” company over “currently a nazi” company.

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        I guess if those are your only two choices, but the VW scandal is one of those things which should be completely unforgivable to any conscientious buyer.

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      The current swasticar overtaken by the former swasticar

      I see you are only attracted to mimicking Elon Musk symbolism in one-line X media platform fashion when you approach symbolic systems. Everything is entertainment mockery to you: VW hippy busses are pro-Nazi symbols, LOL LOL LOL. The echo-chamber is inside your brain, only able to repeat what horrible leaders have conditioned your mind to parrot. In this case, Adolph Hitler values and Elon Musk values into Twitter-length X simulacra response on Lemmy media platform in April 2025.

      “That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together” - Hannah Arendt

      You can take the Twitter users off of Twitter, but you can’t take the Twitter out of their brain. 8 whole words of parroting symbols.

       

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      “For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III ‘to prove a villain.’ Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is ‘banal’ and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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          Fuck he escaped outside of his echo chamber!

          Unable to talk about your simulacra mental conditioning, can you? Only able to react within the 5,000 Cambridge Analytica meme patterns that lead your mind to mock and mockery, Nazi symbols of Elon Musk memes.

           

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          “The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

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        I think the joke has to do with what Volkswagen was during the nazi-regime, there were no hippie busses back then.

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          I think the joke

          I think the joke is to make light of the USA situation in April 2025 and how X media platform messages and Elon Musk electric media communications is used to create “mind virus” changes in the population, to use absurd comedy and surreal humor, to cause dissociation of reality among the electric media consumers, as this Lemmy user has been doing against pro-NATO and pro-USA defense efforts to educate the population about Russian Hybrid Warfare on the World Wide Web / social media systems, trivializing topics with low-effort dismissive reaction-comments.

           

          “bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014

           

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          “For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in ‘Brave New World’ was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 [email protected]

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              lunlu @lemmygrad.ml: No way you are not an AI

              So many Lemmy users are so poorly educated on what real humans are and think everything they consume through computers is artificial intelligence, I created a Lemmy community for you…

              [email protected]

              You need to learn not to trust fake Artificial Intelligence detectors, you probably also need remedial morality lessons too: [email protected]

               

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              “What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer science, 1974

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                  No, I think what I need is Deez Nuts.

                  You communicate like “these nuts” are Elon Musk in your mouth - Twitter-thinking level of media comprehension and engagement, little short-line shit-thinking Tweet reaction comments. Copying your social machine heroes.

                   

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                  “Social media, that little narcissism machine, the easiest way we have ever had to place ourselves on a pedestal of vanity, also is the mechanism that most efficiently breaks you up.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019