A bit from Norm Macdonald’s 2017 Netflix show “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip & Trickery“:
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Sweden Dumps $1.4 Billion of Tesla Stock, Citing Abuse of Workers
Tesla is the only American car maker to deny people their right to organize, even for reasons of health and safety.
Swedish pension fund AP7 said on Friday it has blocklisted and sold all its shares in U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla, citing violations of union rights in the United States. […] An AP7 spokesperson said the fund’s stake in Tesla was, when it was sold in late May, worth around 13 billion crowns ($1.36 billion).
AP7 admits they knew about Tesla labor violations for a very long time, but were slow to act on them, as they explain with a “we had dialogue” narrative.
Despite several years of dialogue with Tesla, including shareholder proposals in collaboration with other investors, the company has not taken sufficient measures to address the issues.
Sweden’s financial management team is basically saying they pulled a 1938 Munich Agreement, and should we believe that they expected it would work this time?
Let’s go back for a minute to 2017 headlines when Sweden would have been reading that the Tesla CEO only agrees to address serious complaints about worker safety if his workers did not organize their complaints.
In a June 2017 meeting with Tesla employees, CEO Elon Musk solicited their complaints about safety issues and promised to address their concerns, so long as they refrained from trying to organize a union, the National Labor Relations Board alleges.
That’s like Britain hearing in 1938 that Hitler will only address complaints about invading his neighbors if those neighbors refrain from organizing to defend against blatant law violations.
Tesla blatantly violated [labor] laws—and on Friday, [September 2019] Amita Baman Tracy, an administrative law judge in California, agreed.
You may be thinking what does 1938 have to do with Swedish leaders in 2019 shrugging at Tesla crimes. In fact, the comparison is more relevant than you might imagine. Hitler’s violence against organized opposition in 1938 cited Henry Ford’s racist suppression of American rights as direct inspiration.
That Ford/Hitler alignment meant that American labor was under direct and coordinated attack by militant fascism. Take Ford’s big 1937 Battle of the Overpass, for example.
The “Battle of the Overpass” is one of the most famous events in the history of the American labor movement. The national attention garnered by the photographs and the subsequent hearings provided damning evidence of the methods utilized by Ford and other companies to fight unionism.
I’m sure if you are an American you’ve never heard of this “most famous event” in American history. Amiright? Not a single American gets taught this history, because it inconveniently lays bare Henry Ford and Hitler conspiring in a way that America should have been at war against both.
If you are from Sweden, the chances you know anything about American fascist history… forgettaboutit.
[Ford] security men began to tear notebooks from reporters’ hands. Others went after the photographers, confiscating film and smashing cameras to the ground. They chased one fleeing photographer for five miles, until he ducked into a police station for safety. […] Ford workers testified that if their superiors suspected them of showing interest in the UAW, Ford Service Department men would pull them from the assembly lines and escort them to the gate as they were fired on the spot, often without explanation.
And yet, the 1937 Ford/Hitler news should sound very familiar to anyone reading the 2017 Tesla news of journalists threatened and workers fired for showing interest in a union.
Tesla’s “total recordable incidence rate” was 8.8 percent (8.8 injuries per 100 workers) in 2015, the last full-year that data is available for. That’s 31 percent more than the 6.7 percent total recordable incidence rate for the automobile industry as a whole…
Tesla very clearly and intentionally returned to 1930s Ford/Hitler management theory with predictable results, killing workers when they aren’t being injured and abused.
By 2019 headlines had made this all abundantly clear as a court ruled without question that Tesla broke labor laws, like Ford in 1937, not to mention the hate crimes while building the “Swasticar“.
It sure took a while for the Swedes to dialogue their way to a divestment from American fascism. It almost seems like they flipped, suddenly remembering which side won both WWI and WWII. Should we be surprised Sweden went for Tesla in the first place, when Swedes seemed to be flirting with their flavor of Nazism during the exact time Tesla increasingly was exposed for Nazism?
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
So, the real question here, given Tesla has been a toxic Nazi dumpster fire since Elon Musk abruptly seized control from its founders, is what Swedes should do now after admitting they never should have touched such an inhumane company to start with.
…as reported by Reuters, Sweden takes the prize for most dramatic plunge: sales dropped 80.7 percent…
Not buying cars, not buying stock, neither seems to go far enough to stop harms, given DOGE now is allegedly building backdoors into NLRB. Perhaps their AP7 should donate all profits made from holding Swasticar stock to the anti-racist and anti-fascist organizations, to serve public safety interests like protecting against armies of killer robots attacking workers?
Austin Tesla Robotaxi Runs Over Children, Fails 8 out of 8 Safety Tests
Tesla’s attempts to make a road robot for over a decade has apparently failed to see children in 2025 Austin, violently running them over as if their lives don’t matter.
In all eight tests, the self-driving Tesla did not slow as it approached the bus, struck the child-sized dummy and continued driving.
To be fair, Tesla engineers apparently have leaked that they never intended to avoid hitting children.
Self-driving Teslas only gained the ability to recognize school bus signs a few months ago, in December 2024.
Let THAT sink in for a second.
Teslas started driving themselves on American roads in October 2015.
Here’s a chilling detail, about how Tesla’s newest hardware and software reacted to failing a basic child safety test:
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software did not disengage or even alert the driver to the fact there had been a collision on any of the test runs.
Keep that in mind any time Tesla tries to claim that they have no evidence their car has been killing, or will kill even more, children. Of course they can say that, given how they reportedly bury data faster than anyone can bury the dead children.
New report reveals Tesla officials’ efforts to hide potentially damaging data: ‘Would suffer financial and economic harm’
Peter Thiel represents the hidden genealogy of American fascism
Peter Thiel’s extremist anti-democratic politics make perfect sense when you understand he was literally raised by a father repeatedly fleeing the prospect of democratic rule, seeking sanctuary among American white supremacists who offered a future of racial exclusion through different mechanisms.
Born in Germany in 1938 (formative childhood years under Nazi rule), his father Klaus trained as a chemical engineer and married before immigrating to the United States in 1968 with their one-year-old son Peter (born October 11, 1967 in Frankfurt). Klaus left just as the student movement was forcing Germany to more seriously confront its Nazi past, moving to actively prevent his son from receiving the historical education that would prevent ideological transmission.
A pattern emerges: Klaus flees Nazi Germany to a Nazi-influenced territory of southern Africa. After Germany came under 1967 pressure to end Nazism, he sends his family into an overtly racist enclave until eventually it too faces pressure for majority rule in 1977. Klaus flees next to the epicenter of America’s emerging hard-right movement. In California, avoiding the German education that would prevent transmission of Nazism, the Thiel family found American extremists who shared their worldview about anti-democracy, racial hierarchy, and property rights over civil rights.
It’s hard to say economic migration was ever at hand for the Thiel family, given the signs of ideological refuge-seeking by Klaus trying to avoid admitting who lost WWII. Klaus twice left the place where “Heil Hitler!” was normal conversation, a notable life choice. First from Nazi Germany, and then from Nazi Namibia (Swakopmund).
On the eve of Namibia granting political representation to non-whites by 1978, Klaus abruptly fled the infamous Nazi enclave in Africa to the “white flight” town of Northern California, where the extremist “anti-tax” (anti-government) revolt was mobilizing as a form of conservatism — Reagan’s racist revolution was crystallizing.
Klaus chose the San Mateo (racist redline county) development called Foster City at the absolute highest peak of racist “master plan” areas protesting American desegregation.
A young Afrikaner working for Klaus in 1976 put it like this, perhaps best revealing the family’s urge to move from Swakopmund to Foster City, California:
“Heil Hitler!” said the black gas station attendant matter‐of‐factly to the department customer, raising his right arm to the traditional height. He offered the outdated salute after a pleasant conversation in which he explained the fluency of his German… it appeared not to be a joke, but rather a greeting that he had exchanged before with German customers.
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A hitchhiker, a 23‐year‐old Afrikaner leaching woodworking at a uranium mine near here… thought he was typical of his generation, he said, more modern than that of his parents. […] If majority rule comes, he said, they will probably cross the border with many others.
As project manager for construction of Namibia’s Rössing uranium mine in the mid-1970s, Klaus inserted himself into South Africa’s overtly illegal nuclear supply chain during the height of apartheid (South Africa occupied Namibia while rejecting UN Security Council Resolution 435). His illegal project supplied uranium for multiple national nuclear programs and operated despite international criticism of working conditions and racial segregation. He moved his family to notoriously Nazified Swakopmund during the mine’s construction phase, where Peter was placed into “German-language” schools.
In other words Klaus skips out of Germany just as denazification lands, headed to America. But then he skips from prosperous 1970s America to instead go to work in an overtly illegal apartheid South Africa nuclear weapons proliferation project during the height of international sanctions.
One unverified claim suggests Klaus’ American colleagues even called him “The Gestapo,” though the source and context of this characterization remain unclear. More significantly, Klaus’s decision to leave the occupation and reconstruction of Germany to oversee South Africa’s weapons material development in Swakopmund under the apartheid system during the 1970s—when international sanctions and moral opposition were intensifying—reveal a preference for racist authoritarianism.
Perhaps that explains Klaus’ hard line on always remaining a German citizen and speaking German at home for 51 years, while never living in Germany, instead claiming to have his home in America while working abroad. This decision was highly unusual—while his wife Susanne became a naturalized U.S. citizen, Klaus maintained his German passport throughout his entire American “residence” until his death.
Klaus maintaining German citizenship like this for five decades was genuinely aberrant behavior for his generation. And yet there appears to be no evidence of naturalization applications, rejections, or legal barriers that would explain this choice. INS and USCIS records from Klaus’s era (1968-1970s) are held in National Archives C-Files, but no evidence emerged of any citizenship proceedings. This suggests Klaus’s rejection of American citizenship to stay German, while also fleeing Germany to prevent Peter from denazification, was entirely voluntary for his entire life, rather than circumstantial.
The timing, choices, and context create a genuinely suspicious pattern that deserves serious scrutiny rather than dismissal.
On top of that, when Peter proudly entered Stanford he bragged to at least two classmates that apartheid “works” and was “economically sound”. He clearly was referring to his father’s work in apartheid-era Namibia specifically to construct uranium mining infrastructure for South Africa’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, in an operation where Black migrant workers were “dying like flies” from radiation exposure while white managers like Klaus enjoyed country club privileges with son Peter.
Klaus’ documented toxic career represents exactly the kind of German technical expertise that found ideological comfort in systems of racial domination and nuclear intimidation. Peter’s current politics are a direct result of his father’s efforts to preserve Nazi beliefs through migration to South Africa (occupied Namibia) and America.
Peter Thiel expending huge financial resources to push J.D. Vance into office, let alone his other campaigns and candidate choices, aren’t mysterious contrarian positions or intellectual quirks. They’re direct inheritance from his father’s extremist German views of the world, driving racial authoritarianism to justify race-based political domination.
Klaus successfully transmitted his ideology through geographic positioning, economic integration, and ideological reproduction.
- Nazi Germany 1967 (fled after defeat to avoid denazification of Peter)
- Nazi-influenced Namibia 1977 (fled approaching majority rule, again seeking Nazi sanctuary)
- Reagan’s California (found American white supremacist movement)
Culmination of the multi-generational Nazi project means the 1940s were able to bubble along via the tech industry into 2020s American authoritarianism by families who never accepted defeat, just adapted their methods and hid among American and Afrikaner enclaves. Peter Thiel represents a direct genealogical link between Hitler’s Germany and Trump’s America.