Road safety regulators said that some of the crashes “involved collisions with clearly visible objects that a competent driver would be expected to avoid.” […] It’s at least the third time in the past year that Waymo has recalled robotaxis over potential software issues. In February, the company recalled 444 automated vehicles after two robotaxis crashed into the same truck that was being towed, according to The New York Post. Last June, 700 robotaxis were recalled after one crashed into a telephone pole in Phoenix.
Jake Glaser posted this Waymo struggle example in Los Angeles to Swastika:
Waymo turned into oncoming traffic on the way to work. It sat there confused for 45 seconds with its hazards on. Then it proceeded to back up into oncoming traffic. And they’re about to let these guys on the freeway 😂
Other family members intervened, apparently, to stop a Nazi mother in Texas from preparing and sending her son to commit a school mass murder.
The family also found three loaded magazines and a note that had several names of mass shooters written on it, as well as various references to white supremacy and nazism. The student reportedly told his relative that he got the ammunition from his mother, who had been taking him to buy tactile gear in exchange for babysitting his younger siblings, according to the affidavit.
On Monday, before he went to school, the student told the relative he was “going to be famous” and referenced “14 words,” a reference to white supremacist writings.
One of the central moral lessons from the Holocaust is collective responsibility and the dangers of standing by while atrocities occur.
The post-WWII reckoning in Germany emphasized that “just following orders” was not an acceptable defense, and that ordinary citizens bear responsibility when they enable, support, or fail to resist systematic evil.
The whole nation has thus taken extraordinary steps to acknowledge there must be a collective responsibility for the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities. This includes:
Paying reparations to victims and their descendants
Creating extensive memorials and educational programs
Implementing laws against Holocaust denial and Nazi symbols
Incorporating this history into national identity and education
The well-studied approach reflects the understanding that while not every German was personally complicit (approximately only 300 Germans are among the tens of thousands who have been formally honored for personally opposing genocide), the society as a whole bore responsibility for allowing Hitler’s rise and the subsequent atrocities.
An underlying principle about bystander responsibility remains relevant, regardless of the scale of harm, from giving the Hitler salute to working for Hitler.
In other words, employees of Tesla bear some moral responsibility to respond to their leadership when it violates fundamental values, even when doing so carries personal risk. In fact, personal risk may be the evidence of taking an actual moral stand, as opposed to a purely self-serving one.
“We welcome the clarification from Senator Kiziltepe,” said Hikel and Böcker-Giannini [after she called Tesla a “Nazi car” with a subsequent clarification]. The Tesla location is an important economic factor for the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region. “The people who work at the Grünheide site and come from many different nations should not be held liable/accountable for an alleged Hitler salute from their boss.”
This statement from two young politicians Hikel and Böcker-Giannini isn’t an isolated incident but represents a dangerous pattern in contemporary German politics.
As newly elected leaders of Berlin, they’re continuing a dangerously ignorant trend where economic considerations are used to wash away moral principles that Germany once held sacred due to their grave errors. Furthermore they’re using doublespeak to both claim moral high ground to defend immigrants “from many different nations” as a shield while actually promoting an environment extremely hostile to immigration.
The thoughtless move to deny Tesla workers (and by extension, Tesla’s operations) are accountable regarding Nazi symbolism reflects how thoroughly selfish interests can corrupt historical memory.
…battery factories in Berlin, where, thousands of forced slave laborers were used, including female slave laborers from concentration camps…
And what about the fact Tesla factories are known for racism and flagrant safety violations, while undermining worker right using loopholes?
These supposedly center-left politicians from the Social Democratic Party—the very party that was persecuted by the Nazis—now find themselves providing cover for a company whose leader displayed a gesture associated with profit from genocide.
What makes this particularly alarming is that it’s happening in Brandenburg, where the far-right AfD has gained significant ground using similar “economics” campaigning. Rather than standing firmly against the normalization of Nazi symbolism, these politicians have chosen to compartmentalize morality and open the door to Nazism: the Hitler salute by the Tesla CEO is unacceptable, yet workers who choose to enable him should be able to avoid consequences. This represents precisely the kind of moral compromise that enabled fascism’s rise in the first place—placing some personal or local economic stability and convenience above all ethical principles.
This isn’t a fire drill. This is the fire. If you know Peter Thiel and Elon Musk family history, you know this is the return to Nazism.
By framing a statement in terms of protecting jobs and economic development, Hikel and Böcker-Giannini reveal how thoroughly German political discourse has been captured in their mind at the expense of historical responsibility. The fact that these politicians can simultaneously acknowledge Germany’s Nazi past while attempting to excuse the most obvious present-day manifestations of it demonstrates the profound moral contradiction at work. At least the British can see it clearly.
In 2025 a 98 year old veteran commemorated victory in WWII by driving a Sherman tank over a Tesla. Source: David Mirzoeff / Led By Donkeys / SWNS
A sudden catastrophic failure of Tesla in the UK, considered the last place on earth still seeing positive sales of the dangerously out-of-date and defective car, is apparently explained by this news:
Naseem Akbarzada, Tesla country manager for Saudi Arabia, told reporters this week: “Today we are proud to officially launch in the kingdom, marking the start of a long-term presence in the country.”
That sounds so ominous, how a judge hands down a proud sentencing. Tesla, unwelcome around the world, has been ordered into a long term presence in desert isolation.
And then this:
Saudi economist Mohammed Al-Qahtani welcomed Tesla entry into the market, but urged the company to invest more in the country, saying “we do not want a showroom… We want to be… not just consumption.”
Isn’t that also what the Saudis said when they pushed Elon Musk to use their billions to takeover Twitter and make it more anti-semitic? They didn’t just want to consume social media, the Saudis wanted to be the the supply-chain to produce more hate speech, right?
Perhaps we see now why nobody would be buying a Tesla in the UK anymore. A money laundering system can artificially prop up Elon Musk with evil investments closer to home.
Musk confirmed that he would be striking major deals with Saudi for all of his companies….
…Musk halted the discussion to bloviate about building Boring Company tunnels that can “essentially create like a worm hole or a warp tunnel from one part of a city to another and alleviate traffic.” It is important to note that Starlink is the only thing promised by Musk in this chat that has made it past the vaporware phase.
Of course it’s all vaporware. That’s the easiest form of money laundering. If the product were real, the Saudis would have to receive something worthless to them. On the other hand, huge sprawling parking lots full of unused and unwanted Tesla Cybertrucks and Robotaxis make more sense in an empty Saudi desert than spread across America, China or Europe.
Swasticars: Remote-controlled explosive devices stockpiled by Musk for deployment into major cities around the world.
Think about Elon Musk attempting to look clever by lecturing the biggest deep drilling technology nation in the world. Do you think they care about his dream to buy a couple used drills so he can dig some shallow holes to reinvent the subway? I mean Saudis know this stuff better than anyone. Just think about the best modern ways to lay down subways for desert cities. It’s not drilling.
Elon Musk is allowed pretend to be smart and to bloviate because the Saudis (let alone Russians) just need an attention-seeking and willing idiot. When all this big fraud falls apart and Elon Musk is on the run from the law like Epstein, expect him to pop up in a fancy apartment (evil executive privilege retirement plan) in Moscow or Riyadh.
One example of the kind of “executive privilege” events that now may be linked to Epstein is Ronald Reagan’s transfer of arms to Saddam Hussein, via Saudi Arabia, to illegally avoid Congressional oversight let alone accountability to the American public.
The Iran-Contra scandal seems to have been just a tip of the iceberg when factoring that Epstein may have been a useful pawn during that time to intelligence agencies, enslaving girls and trafficking them within arms deals to dictators.
No wonder Trump and Musk have been so focused on deals with the Saudis lately. Iran-Contra seems like only yesterday to the GOP, I’m sure.
What we really are witness to right now, if history is any guide, is the scaffolding for a transfer of restricted AI technology to a sanctioned country through a series of cutouts, with proceeds funding proxy forces in a conflict zone, all justified as necessary for strategic interests despite explicit congressional prohibitions.
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