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Actually...this particular matter would be a very good thesis for historiography. Hmmm.

Its really amazing how he was ever employed by a University.

very curious if the intel video cards are worth it. Need someone to take on Nvidia

The cautionary tale here is that the Left had the House and Senate in 1974 and the author of that piece Bradford Snell (talk about a name that was on the nose) was a staffer for the Congressional committee trying to break up monopolies. He was a GM hater for a variety of reasons. Not saying if those reasons were valid or not. Not having a majority anywhere in the US Government makes the opposition pretty damn weak. Not having any the media report on what is happening in a straight way is weaker. GM surviving its bankruptcy in the 2000s probably had that guy rolling in his grave(not sure if he's alive or not). This article takes on the thesis that the multi-nationals were as blamable as Snell and the other New Left types thought. https://undsoc.org/2021/05/31/forced-labor-and-multinational-corporations/ Let me state that the conditions on the ground are very different because in this case the monopoly is dominated by a person in Musk who has extra-Constitutional access and control of multiple US Government agencies and the executive branch and who is manipulating ongoing US foreign policy to punish allies (e.g., Poland). The closest parallel to the WWII era might have been Henry Ford who was an anti-Semite but during WWII was nothing but patriotic and supplied several B-24s, Jeeps, M4 tanks, etc. Actually, Ford empowered and on drugs might have been very similar but even he didn't control as much monopolistic power as Musk does.

https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/government-shutdown-likely-friday-night-after-schumer-says-senate-dems-will-block-gop-funding-bill/ Oh...ok

The V Corp Headquarters in Frankfurt was in the IG Farben building. It had a dumbwaiter elevator that i was shocked hadn't killed anyone.

So, watched the movie Anthropoid tonight. Its about the Czech resistance movement's assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Very moving. Hard not to see the reprisals the Nazis implemented and compare to the Trump crew and see very little difference in outlook. Bongino or Patel or Hegseth seem like they could order that sort of thing without compunction.

All those companies were put back on a working basis by the US and Allies after the war. VW for example was resurrected by a British Army major who needed the locals to have jobs so he got the factory going.

The US Army Air Force and Royal Air Force dropped all those facilities to zero value.

The enterprise purchases of any Musk aligned entity offshore will be severely hurt by his behavior and that of Trump. He’s in an excellent position for a person who ran all these monopolies in an anodyne manner…but acting like a sociopath nazi ain’t gonna help him keep business if alternatives can be found.

Sure. The Nazis will use a lot of things against us.

Yes. We the people have the right to fight this unconstitutional schmuck's control over our Government.

Yeah but that doesn't cover ending funding for research on pancreatic cancer.

Is not showing up an option?

1000 men will be fighting over the right to write code for one of the Musk automated drilling machines that will test his theory that the Earth's mantle is a good place to raise his children.

we will, through the power of sarcasm and understatement!

[pushes glasses back on nose] "you see Mithraism was an religion that competed with christianity in the first few centuries in the Roman Empire....mnheh, glavin....Hey LAYDEE!"

CNN is really struggling to capture the moment.

Good news for Mexico and the Caribbean

guarantee the Canadian election will go to the party that vows to fight the United States harder and increase defense spending and reduce purchases of US weapons.

Or a sense of shared ethics that made them hold off on hurting others because it would reflect badly on them at the country club.

The "Luigi approach" opens up a can of bullets

Greenlanders Reject Trump’s Overtures at the Ballot Box - WSJ Good on you Greenland

Did they condemn the Hitler salutes?