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Kee HinckleyFar too accurate.
supernal resonance@nazgul aren't you glad we saw the bastard run Twitter before anyone followed him to Mars?
Kenny Kravitz@resonancewright @nazgul I feel like we could do without the kind of people who would've followed him to Mars tbh
⚙️ Roy Phillips
Peter Jakobs ⛵@kennykravitz @nazgul ironic eugenics?
420@nazgul so sad 😞
Bindestrich@nazgul too few know this. He made the "protocols" of the elders of Zion famous.
Tortipede@nazgul I saw this and couldn't help thinking that "Fordlandia on Mars" would scan the same as Hawkwind's "Uncle Sam's on Mars". Most of the lyrics would still fit, too.
eribosot@nazgul I think it's charitable to call Ford a Nazi-enabler. He was a full-on Nazi.
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@nazgul this meme is winning in the darkest and saddest way possible
FediThing has moved!Wow... the Henry Ford rabbit hole is extremely disturbing. Apparently Hitler had a portrait of Ford in his office, and credits Ford's anti-semitic works as inspirations in Mein Kampf 😬
Jo Etzel@FediThing @nazgul I happened upon a copy of Ford's "International Jew" at a Goodwill outlet store, in a bin with hundreds of other books (cookbooks, kids' books, novels; the usual mix).
Utterly surreal, in a disgusting and horrifying way; cheaply-printed volumes like that have caused (and still do) so much pain and harm. Like stumbling across an unexploded bomb; something that should not ever be treated casually.
Wow. Wonder how it ended up there? :/
That's an excellent analogy by the way, very vivid.
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Breathe@JosetAEtzel @FediThing @nazgul isnt it strange how we drive all these automobiles that are fascist related? Kinda creepy.
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@nazgul hah, I just *knew* it'd be Ford both times when I read the first time. So fucked up.
levampyre@nazgul Very accurate, indeed.
Greyshley @nazgul *insert shady car salesman joke here*
Fuchsiii~~~@nazgul i wouldnt stop at Nazi-enabler.....
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Aviva Gary
InfrogmationThough Ford's cars were much less prone to spontaneously bursting into flames.
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Ford had some cleverness (I'm not sure I'd give Elon even that) in designing and setting up factories to mass produce inexpensive but adequately reliable for the time cars, when that is exactly what the market of the time and place wanted.
One of his problems was that he thought whatever other notion that crossed through his head was brilliant, when often it was the opposite. This sometimes led to big failures.
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He was against alcohol, spicy food, jazz music, etc and insisted his workers abstain. In the US, factory workers could say "sure" but get away with going downtown when the old man wasn't looking.
However it completely destroyed his grand vision for a huge rubber plantation and factory in the Amazon in Brazil, "Fordlandia".
The rubber would have been hella useful later when sources from Asia were cut off by WWII.
But the Brazilian workers refused Ford's conditions.
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@Infrogmation He introduced Square Dancing into schools to fight Jazz. 🙄
I remember a classmate trying to hide under a table to avoid having to dance when our teacher made us do that. :)
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Also, if it had been up to Henry, Ford Motors would probably have been out of business by the early 1930s due to his obstinateness.
Ford's market share was declining in the 1920s, but Henry insisted their product would remain the Model T, little changed from 1909.
His son pushed hard and repeatedly to finally get a new model introduced in 1927.
Travis Newton 👨💻@nazgul Actually, I think Ford and Musk are alike. Only Musk has the internet. Ford didn’t. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/
Hiker@nazgul We have known this for a long time: the line between genius and madness is very narrow.
@Hiker Well, certainly the line between too much money and madness.
@nazgul But how did he come to so much money?
@Hiker Step one, which is true of just about every single major figure in tech. Have a rich father.
After that it’s starting companies and selling at the right point, and investing in more. He’s certainly not become rich from the revenue of anything. Nor have I ever heard mention of any great advancements he’s made in anything. Money makes money.
Laurens 🐐@nazgul It's interesting both their first and second names are double and single syllables 🤔
Saskboy K.@nazgul You never go full Ford.
stoicmike@nazgul At least Ford's money became the liberal Ford Foundation. Musk's money goes to a $700M yacht and planet destroying space ventures, fraudulent tunnel exploits, etc.
Gerhard SchröderIch freue mich über jede gute SpaceX Nachricht. Raumfahrtfan.
Ich bin froh dat er eMobility angeschoben hat mit Tesla. Besser wäre weniger Individualverkehr, aber OK.
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tbehrens✡️@nazgul And still to many who do Not know.
Ivey Janette McClelland@nazgul As a salesman,he ain't no Cal Worthington (and his "dog" Spot).
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