AlfBicknellDec 17, 2022
Ruben Bolling ๐Ÿชฒ
Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?
Dec 16, 2022 at 3:26pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadThomDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling
Show threadArclightDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling That's a vivid imagination you've got there... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent
The Dearborn Independent - Wikipedia

Show threadhedwygDec 16, 2022
@arclight Yeah, I was about to say, Oh, like Henry Ford?
Show threadLeft In MissouriDec 16, 2022
@hedwyg @arclight You got here before me, but, yes, almost exactly like Henry Ford.
Show threadArclightDec 16, 2022

@conruthhow @hedwyg It's not a competition. I'm just glad there are people who are familiar with Henry Ford's history.

Aside: Kingsford Charcoal is a spinoff of Ford Motor Company to monetize the wood waste from car production early on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_(charcoal)

Kingsford (charcoal) - Wikipedia

Show threadWtimeDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling @arclight Thank-you! #NazisIntheUSA
Show threadk0anDec 17, 2022
@arclight @rubenbolling wow I hadn't heard of this. It's crazy that 900K was 2nd in the country back then.
Show threadJimHasFun [he/him]Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Well, when you put it like *that*โ€ฆ
Show threadEllen SpertusDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling You win the internet today
Show threadMC FrontalotDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling this is super funny and TDI would be an excellent secret codename for Twitter from now on
Show threadSean Eric FaganDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling I see what you did there.
Show threadTallawkDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling wait...
Show threadken1951robertsDec 16, 2022

@rubenbolling Once upon a time, there was a Federal Communications Commission (formerly Federal Radio Commission) which actually did something.

But there were some well-known US businesses that were Nazi collaborators, including:

Henry Ford/Ford
IBM
Kodak
Coca-Cola
Associated Press (AP)

See: https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/

Nota bene: I am NOT condoning what Elon Musk is doing now, nor what was done in the past. I am appalled at what is happening. But I'm noting that history sometimes repeats itself.

10 Famous Companies That Collaborated With Nazi Germany - History Collection

Germany's Nazi era was one of the darkest chapters in human history. Fortunately for mankind, Hitler's "Thousand Year Reich" lasted only twelve years before getting stomped into the dirt. Still, Germany was one of the world's leading economies, which meant that many companies - some of them still thriving todayโ€ฆ

History Collection
Show threadJeff Shaffer CBET, retDec 16, 2022
@ken1951roberts @rubenbolling Somehow, I used to find some comfort in that old adage b/c good always seemed to triumph over evil, but I now think that it should be reworded to โ€œHistory doesnโ€™t repeat, but it rhymesโ€ and Iโ€™m not so confident that in the future there is any such guarantee.
Show threadMatt SchwartzDec 16, 2022

@CivilityFan @ken1951roberts @rubenbolling

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
- Dark Helmet, Spaceballs

Show threadEB ShenanigansDec 17, 2022
@ken1951roberts @rubenbolling absolutely!
Show threadPatDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿ˜‚ Bazinga
Show threadHaelwenn /ัะปะฒัะฝ/ Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Waitโ€ฆ he did waht.
Show thread[email protected]Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Have you listened to Maddow's Ultra? Henry Ford was an ardent Fascist.
Show threadKeikioainaDec 16, 2022
@gordanagovic @rubenbolling Pretty sure that was the joke @rubenbolling was making.
Show thread@Ms_Ellen_FDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling I see what you did there!
#CivilRights
#FreeSpeech
#Antisemitism
Show threadMmathews1Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling ๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŽฏ
Show threadjack the nonabrasiveDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling I can hardly afford to imagine that.
Show threadApplemaskDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling History doesn't repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes
Show threadGamera: full oโ€™meatDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling built Ford Tough.
Show threadAlexander ShendiDec 16, 2022

@rubenbolling

At first I thought you were talking about Henry Ford. ๐Ÿ˜‹ ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

Show threadKeikioainaDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Yeah, I see what you did there. Nice.
Show threadktDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling โ€œSiri, who was Henry Ford?โ€
Show threadJeff YangDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Ah yes, I know the guy youโ€™re referring to, first name has two syllables and last name one syllable, itโ€™s on the tip of my tongue
Show threadguardianelmDec 16, 2022
@originalspin @rubenbolling just above the trailer hitch on my Dad's pickup, even๐Ÿ™‚
Show threadGary NordellDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling I havenโ€™t seen anyone comparing Elon Howard Hughes but I see some parallels.
Show threadAnne Fausto SterlingDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Listen to #RachelMaddow #podcast series #Ultra. This has happened before! The parallels are amazing
Show threadWendy NatherDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling @spike Very well done.
Show threadSpike Dec 17, 2022
@wendynather @rubenbolling I feel like people might learn something from this.
Show threadPoor Choices Made Fresh DailyDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling @swilua I see what you did there....
Show threadChristineDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling
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Show threadBenCisco ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธโ™ฆ๏ธDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling When you put it that way it sounds kinda HEY WAITAMINIT
Show threadLauraDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Ford did the same thing, bought out the local newspaper to run only to benefit him and crush others
Show threadFashCheck UKDec 18, 2022
@laura1970 @rubenbolling That was the point.
Show threaddoesntgooutsideDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling itโ€™s almost like history repeats because humans donโ€™t learn from it
Show threadbeSpacificDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling As you said - #HenryFord
Show threadJames McDaidDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Imagine, history does repeat but hopefully as farce this time.
Show threadGraham Ollis ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒป๐ŸŒฎDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling er.
Show threadR Tyler Croy ๐Ÿฆ€Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling you have now been blocked by The Ford Foundation ๐Ÿ˜†
Show threadJohn-Mark GurneyDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Wonder how much longer till you're required to post on twitter about how awesome your Tesla is before you're allowed to drive it!
Show threadIgnoredByMyCatsDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling those who forget history are doomed to repeat it... maybe?
Show threadSeth BrownDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling you mean, like Henry Ford did?
Show threadDave3307 ๐Ÿฅ‘Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Forgot the part about getting schools to teach square dancing to keep the kids away from that devil jazz
Show threadRev. Dr. MazigaziDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Orson Welles will make a film of this person!
Show threadDr. MrsDec 16, 2022

@rubenbolling

Henry? Henry, that you???

Show threadarcepiDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling writers really need to innovate for 21st century. This feels like a cheap reboot of the 20th.
Show threadarcepiDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling I almost wrote the toot using roman numerals for the centuries
Show threadcuddly but deadly! Dec 16, 2022

@rubenbolling I know itโ€™s all been said before but

HIGH QUALITY TOOT NO NOTES 5/5

Show threadcuddly but deadly! Dec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling also been said before but I feel people need to know that YES RUBEN IS AWARE OF HENRY FORD THAT'S THE JOKE
Show threadNathanael NerodeDec 16, 2022

@rubenbolling

Growing up knowing people who actually lived through the 1930s (2 grandmothers, father) and 1920s and 1910s (2 grandmothers) has really helped me deal with the present day

Show threadchet_manleyDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling how very FORDunate that didn't happen back then....
Show threadmrpieceofworkDec 16, 2022
@[email protected] uh...
Show threadcoalacroataDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling ok, today you win
Show threadScottinSoCal ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ•Š ๐Ÿณโ€๐ŸŒˆDec 16, 2022
@rubenbolling Well, that's just crazy talk. That couldn't have happened.