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  • Mainly because people hear something that tickles them and they mindlessly repeat it.

    Boss didn’t design any Nazi uniform. His company was one of thousands to at some point hold a contract to manufacture clothing for the military. The Boss contract wasn’t even that large, a few tens of thousands of units. The SS uniforms were designed in-house , most notably by SS-Oberführer Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck. Neither of them has the celebrity value however.

    Meanwhile, people quickly forgot that the dispatch system for railway transportation in the Holocaust was supplied by IBM.










  • Politics fans were miffed because at the time Bono was bitching about how the Irish Government wasn’t spending enough on foreign aid, while the band had just bought a skyscraper in Dublin and had offshored their business affairs so they no longer paid tax in Ireland. They’re the PETA of gobby musicians.

    They’re also aggressively mediocre, so most music fans would find no value in the album. There was a reason the band took the payoff.

    Tech fans were outraged because the album turned up on every iTunes-connected device without consent, and there was no way to remove it until the avalanche of complaints led Apple to make an update specifically to allow this.