• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    never attempted to defect

    How do you know?Did he ever have the opportunity to do so? The nazis probably kept him under 24/7 armed surveillance.

    didn’t try to minimize the suffering his employers caused

    Same question.

    At best he was an apolitical developer of arms for Nazi Germany who used concentration camp labor to do it.

    No, at best he was a slave himself, just with more privileges. Like how in US chattel slavery house slaves had more privileges than field slaves but still had no freedom, rights or ability to make their own choices.

    In contrast, Musk has all the rights, privileges and freedom in the world and he’s voluntarily using it to aid fascists and other monsters while pretending that it’s a heroic thing to do.

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      1 year ago

      Because he had every reason to make all the claims he wanted and didn’t. Operation paperclip would’ve cleared his name if he had put up a reasonable farce of it.

      And I know because a lot of researchers on the American side were German and Italian defectors who left when fascists started gaining power. Werner von Braun wouldn’t’ve been subject to quotas or anything like that as a leading rocket scientist.