What do you mean you've 'seen this one'? It's brand new.
What do you mean you've 'seen this one'? It's brand new.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28694964
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Actually, they never stopped manufacturing for the German army. Except for a couple of years after WWII.
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No it's fine, America is the fascists this time. Please help us Germany, it's all gone tits-up.
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Its time to let go. Germany today is nothing like the reich and they should not be hostage of their past. Things change, go Rheinmetal!
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Germany voluntarily remilitarises and suppresses speech just in time for the AfD to take over next time.
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Kübelwagen 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Yeah, because Russia went away, so no army needed!
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I even hear Norway's getting a navy (ㆁωㆁ)
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They'll have barcodes on the sides so that they can scan-de-navy-in.
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Very well done. You're booked at the stockade for the entirety of next week.
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Wait, I thought Porsche was the parent company and VW was an offshoot created from one of Hitler's requests(?) to make a car affordable for the people.
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VW was state own corp created to produce Porsche's vehicle design. It was privatized in the 1960's. It wasnt until 2013 when porsche took ownership over VW.
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Porsche is owned by Volkswagen and Volkswagen is owned by Porsche
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Porsche tried to take over VW in 2013 but underestimated the cost. They nearly went bankrupt trying to do that so the largest shareholder of VW, the German state of lower-saxony then asked VW to instead take over Porsche - which they did. So since then Porsche has been part of VW
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reminds me of time wave zero
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Why? There is no need for that! No one wants wars to happen
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Si vis pacem, para bellum
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And as we all know, the best way to prevent anyone from attacking you is to make sure you're as defenseless as possible
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It’s a funny joke, I’ll grant you that. But to be serious, Volkswagen, the company, did not exist until after World War II. Mercedes, BMW, on the other hand…
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Volkswagen was founded in 1937
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A cursory reading of Wikipedia doesn’t really do the history of Volkswagen quite right. As a component of the government in the 1930s and early 1940s, they made some prototype vehicles that would eventually be the beetle, and yes, a few vehicles for the military. But it wasn’t until post war reconstruction where Major Hirsh and the British military took over and started the company we know today.
I’ll grant you that lowercase v volks wagen and the Nazis overlapped, and that is cause for some discussion and some joking. But it’s also true that uppercase V Volkswagen isn’t quite as guilty as Mercedes-Benz et. al. in the build for the Nazis department.
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This meme is mfw this meme because I saw it as the message of Russian propaganda last week
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Its a grim world when the reaction to Germany rearming and scaling up their military is 'hold on, let then cook'
If there's a 3rd world war Europeans cannot be trusted with military.
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It is a grim world where people only recognize these patterns when they happen to the country or group with the same name. Genocide can only happen to Jews, Nazis can only be Germans,...
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Nah, we can all be nazi
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