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  1. Matt Matt

    i made this car in 2016, when I was 19. This is the first time the badging - a very mature nazi joke, poking fun at Mercedes-Benz' origins as a manufacturer - appears on screen. Going back and forth on whether or not I want to retexture it to remove that. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876094

    Friday, 18-Mar-22 02:06:51 UTC from web
    1. adiwan adiwan

      @zeldatra Fun fact: You can find Nazi connections in almost every big German company's history that is old enough it existed during World War 2. Volkswagen, Siemens, Bosch, several steelworks...

      Friday, 18-Mar-22 06:17:08 UTC from web
      1. Matt Matt

        @adiwan It’s to be expected, honestly. The US outlawed slavery long before most modern American companies got their start, and the ones that do go back that long are from New England which was less reliant on slave labor than other places, I’m sure if like Coca Cola existed in 1830 I’d be able to point at them and go “hey this company owned slaves”

        Friday, 18-Mar-22 18:38:04 UTC from web
        1. Scribus Scribus

          @zeldatra Considering the way scrip was manipulated, one could make an argument about company towns

          Friday, 18-Mar-22 21:47:15 UTC from web
          1. Matt Matt

            @scribus Yup, thought about this too.

            Friday, 18-Mar-22 22:02:47 UTC from web