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supernal resonance

@nazgul aren't you glad we saw the bastard run Twitter before anyone followed him to Mars?

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.

Florida atheist:

@nazgul it's always been about scamming..
and ' opulence w. that mvsk guy..
only well-off's could afford his rides.. etc. etc. BUT now there's a home for used tsla cars.. @ electrifiedgarage.com and i hear chevy is servicing tslas..

SCAM-crypto all up in here: youtube.com/watch?v=WYYXTGyvDm (court history of ttwttr dealings) $$$ or control over' xyz

eribosot

@nazgul I think it's charitable to call Ford a Nazi-enabler. He was a full-on Nazi.

Bjornsdottirs

@nazgul this meme is winning in the darkest and saddest way possible

FediThing

@nazgul

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.

FediThing

@JosetAEtzel @nazgul

Wow. Wonder how it ended up there? :/

That's an excellent analogy by the way, very vivid.

grob 🇺🇦

@nazgul hah, I just *knew* it'd be Ford both times when I read the first time. So fucked up.

Nancy Wingfield

@nazgul Fairly sure he was never the former Henry Ford but always the latter.

theo⏚ ✅

@nazgul

Ford created Fordlândia in Brazil.

Elon dreams of creating Muskville on Mars.

Infrogmation

@nazgul

Though Ford's cars were much less prone to spontaneously bursting into flames.

Infrogmation

@nazgul
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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Infrogmation

@nazgul
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

@nazgul
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.

Hiker
@nazgul We have known this for a long time: the line between genius and madness is very narrow.
Laurens 🧢

@nazgul It's interesting both their first and second names are double and single syllables 🤔

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