I remember reading a story about how the North Koreans would dig tunnels under the border. It took years and the ultimate goal was to dig all the way to Seoul. I remember feeling bad for all the time and man hours the North Korean state wasted on this stupid protect. This reminds me a lot of that.

Jesus, who says 'sud-Oh'?

Riiight. Id like to learn more about Dodge; I'm gomna check if there's a Ken Bursesque History of Dodge documentary.

Edit: there is no such documentary.

Edit 2: But there is a fairly decent one.

Ford owed them dividends since they had shares from when they worked for him. And the Dodge Bros asked for these dividends but Ford basically already spent it on cutting wages, building factories, lower the price of cars, kissing puppies etc. All of which, as you may have noticed, is shit that investors (i.e. the Dodge Bros) hate in the short term, while, of course, expanding his business in the long term. Ford had a plan to buy them out, ya see. And, honestly, I can understand why they took him to court for that. Cuz he purposely made decisions that went against their interests as investors because they were his competitor. And the Dodge Bros, they're not some pampered plutocrats, they came from a fairly impoverished backround - the details of which I won't bore you with, as they are the same as every other rags to riches Americana. Though I do think its worth mentioning that they were not initially accepted among the social elite as they would drink beers and roughhouse with the men.¹

All of this is very interesting, but it kind of muddies the water in terms of serving as an example of greedy investors forcing the corporate hand. But what if the hand that guides the corporate hand is not the investors' but the invisible hand of the market?² And the Dodge Bros and Ford are just puppets to the invisible hand³ as it guides them along with a relationship to the wellbeing of actual humans⁴ that could be characterised as arbitrary at best and malicious at worst. Maybe that's the lesson here.

That and that Henry Ford is a scary motherfucker.

1. Which is, I suppose, another rags to riches Americana story, but its one that's pretty charming, a kind of, still one of the boys attitude, a dream that you can become wealthy and not be innately corrupted by that wealth. Like the Dodge Bros eventually were.

2. Which, looking at it now, I appreciate is a contrived metaphor, but it sounded good in my head.

3. The invisible hand is doing one of those Godfather cover art pupeteer with strings and shit. They're not sock puppets. I did consider making a fist-of-capitalism-up-your-ass joke here but it sidetracks the issue a bit, and its a bit sexist/kink shamey.

4. And plants and trees and animals.

Wtf, do proprietary algorithms actually cost this much?

Ah. Okay. It took me a moment to get this person's perspective on this. They're a non-US citizen who's asserting that this person's 'wokism' (i.e. nont being a prick) is hypocritical because they didn't voice their concerns over the exile of Russian devs from the Linux Kernel. Isn't that kind of a mix of a straw man (not clear what this 'woke' person's views are on that; troll makes assertions on what the 'woke' person didn't say) and an ad hominem (this 'woke' didn't argue against anti-Russian sentiment, therefore their arguments for equality are invalid).

I feel like I've wasted my time considering what this clown had to say.

Ehhh, I don't agree with the notion that extremists are bad. The definition of an extremist is 'A person who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.' I don't think animal rights extremists or environmental extremists are bad because I think the norm is morally reprehensible, unacceptable and unlikely to change without a pushing that norm through extremist measures.

It hasn't lost its effect. It never had an effect to begin with on the people that this cunt was sieg heiling because they are happy to downplay the very real and very obvious fascist elements of the American right. Saying the word Nazi has lost its effect makes this sound like the issue is one of semantics, as though if that word hadn't (wholly and justifiably) been used so much in recent decades that people would now wake up and go, 'Oh fuck, this guy is actually really bad'. But they wouldn't. Because fascists don't think other fascists are bad.

Omg, when I saw that thing as the group was going through the cave I knew they were fucked.

Image from Bezerk manga for those who don't know. These kinds of malformed beings are essentially lower demons from the Bezerk's Boschean version of hell. Great manga but deeply fucked up.

I just about to write this. If we could have a rule on this it'd be great. Really don't like these depressing comics.

I think my face would be more concerned if they specifically picked Voyager out of the 90s/00s Trek.

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I've seen this photo a bunch of times. Who is this guy? And why is high flipping the bird?