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by voidlogic 4445 days ago
>if you name a company Uber, it's definitely implied that you're better than the alternatives.

Wasn't this the point of the name?

Where I live people use über often and it means pretty much what it means in German and has no Nazi connotations. (Of course most of our German ancestors moved here long before WWI)

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Of course it's the point but in precisely in this context it has a nazi overtones because this is how the nazis used it see "Übermensch" or "Deutschland über alles".