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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 30 points 2 days ago

Elon Musk isn't a Nazi, FFS.

... Nazis could make cars.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

VW means people's car. Making nice cars is a socialism, apparently.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

VW means people's car.

That’s not wrong, but Volk is more nuanced than that. Think somewhere between folk and ethnicity, so it’s still fascist.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

You're wrong.

In German and Dutch it just means people.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

In German spoken since the nazis used it as a propaganda term it has taken on a different connotation. The denotation of “Volk” may be “people” in some senses, but “Menschen” fits much better for most uses of people. “A people” is “ein Volk,” but “people” is most commonly used as the plural of “person,” which would be “Mensch.” “Volk” has an ethnic connotation, which the singular meaning of “people” has, but the plural does not.

[-] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Not entirely true

Substantiv, Neutrum [das]

  1. durch gemeinsame Kultur und Geschichte [und Sprache] verbundene große Gemeinschaft von Menschen "ein freies, unterdrücktes Volk"

  2. [ohne Plural] Masse der Angehörigen einer Gesellschaft, der Bevölkerung eines Landes, eines Staatsgebiets "das arbeitende, werktätige, unwissende Volk"

  1. Many people who're connected through similar history and culture, "a free people", "a suppressed people"
  2. [without plural] Members of a society, the inhabitants of a country, "the working people", ...
[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

No, it’s definitely not a comprehensive definition, I was going for the meaning in context of VW. The correct response to pedantry is pedantry, though :)

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, you are right.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

He's a cheap American imitation Porsche family.

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