r/AskReddit • u/DrCompenomics • 13h ago

Who’s the best real-life example of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” and what happened?

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u/benneladoo 11h ago

Yeah when Trump won, I sold my model S and bought a VW electric.

I'll never drive a vehicle whose founder did nazi salute

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u/ShockedNChagrinned 11h ago

Your sarcasm was too subtle 

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u/Staninator 41m ago

When the joke is too good.

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u/Cassiyus 10h ago

Should have chosen Ford, made right here in America.

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u/benneladoo 10h ago

I was about to but then I heard he was anti semite who admired Hitler 

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u/throwaway_mpq_fan 10h ago

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u/TheMusicalTrollLord 9h ago

I think you're missing the joke that VW also has direct Nazi associations

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u/Liquid_Clown 6h ago

He made the first joke bruh

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u/Kalse1229 2h ago

That actually got a laugh out of me. Good one.

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u/klutz1987 11h ago

I see what you did there 🤣

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u/whyohwhy13 10h ago

I mean if my choices are cars made by former Nazis or current ones I know which is slightly better

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u/bstabens 3h ago

Former Nazis because they might have learned their lesson..?

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u/whyohwhy13 3h ago

Well I’m assuming vw leadership is no longer Nazis like they were when the company started. So former Nazi company where as Elon is currently spreading Nazi propaganda so current Nazi. So if my only options are company formerly run by Nazis or the company currently run by Nazis I’ll pick the one that’s not actively being a Nazi

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u/SamPackElliott 10h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/thirty7inarow 8h ago

"Founder".

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u/DragoonDM 2h ago

Hey, he found the company and then bought it.

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u/tremynci 11h ago

Uhh... Neighbor, how much do you know about the history of Volkswagen?

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u/throwaway_mpq_fan 10h ago

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u/cordless_meyer 8h ago

The now discontinued Chevy Bolt is a great little reliable EV

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u/NomDePlumeOrBloom 8h ago

I'm with you, but please don't call him a founder of Tesla.

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u/kilamumster 4h ago

I always translate that in my head to 'he found it and bought it"

Our modern-day Columbus.

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u/Wild_Height_901 5h ago

Perfect response

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u/cheese_karate 5h ago

You are very funny, I love it

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u/abielle1177 4h ago

The nazi salute wasn't even a big deal, just a symbol. His backing of that trumped up pedophile monster was his downfall.

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u/apwork17 11h ago

This is satire, right?

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u/octopotes 11h ago

Buddy I got bad news about VW for you….

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u/throwaway_mpq_fan 10h ago

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u/tashkiira 8h ago

Um. based on other replies, there's something you should know about Volkswagen.

Hitler founded it.

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u/joejackson62 11h ago

So, instead, you bought a car that was created by the German Labour Front, a Nazi organization, under the direction of Adolf Hitler.

Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.

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u/throwaway_mpq_fan 10h ago

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u/joejackson62 10h ago

Sure Jan...

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u/Arsewhistle 10h ago

They were making a joke

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u/DieFichte 1h ago edited 1h ago

In case you are slightly obtuse: Volkswagen is a brand, it's not the car. And I'm pretty sure every member of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront and the original VW leadership is pretty dead (not 100% guaranteed, there might be some 100 year old german around that started working there very young).

So technically he bought a car that was created by engineers in Germany 80 years after the brand was asociated with the NSDAP and the Reich. If that person lives in the US, it's also pretty much guaranteed the car was built in the US, wait, it might still be a Nazi car, nevermind!

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u/Rannasha 10h ago

Wow, that's an argument that has never been used before...

Note that VW barely produced any cars prior to WW2 when the factory was repurposed for the war. After WW2, with the factory essentially ruined by allied bombardments, the British army took control of it and had it rebuilt.

So the line between the pre-war KdF cars (the few that were produced) and the post-war VW cars is very thin.

And even if there was a clear, continuous line of governance from Hitler to the VW of today: Hitler is long gone. Musk is actively undermining democracies right now. The two are not comparable.

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u/maverickhawk99 7h ago

It was a Roman salute but ok.

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u/abielle1177 4h ago

Your hero is a pedo asshat.

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u/Commonmn 11h ago

Wasn't VW founded by Hitler...?

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u/throwaway_mpq_fan 10h ago

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u/Commonmn 10h ago

Wasn't sure if that was the point. There was no sarcasm notification.

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u/Four_beastlings 9h ago

Literacy is dead

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u/renegadecanuck 9h ago

Come on man, you need to get better at detecting context clues.