Karl Marx's Bath Water

I am a communist worker from the post-Warsaw Pact space. I am an early 1990s boy. I work in IT. I am not doing well, mentally or financially. I like to think I am kind. I am optimistic about the future. I am vegan.

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Gentle reminder to pace yourself and drink water. You are not alone.

Made me think of Henry Ford. They are so much alike.

Both Hitlerite car company industrialists. Both owners of mass media failing to make money:

American automaker Henry Ford used mass media to spread lies about Jews to hundreds of thousands of American readers. In 1920, Ford’s newspaper began publishing a series of articles called “The International Jew.” Despite attempts to make the newspaper more profitable, Ford continued to lose money on it.

Both publicity stunt clowns:

In 1915, [Ford] chartered a ship to sail to Europe with a number of prominent peace activists. Ford hoped that the publicity around the “Peace Ship” would lead warring nations to negotiate a peace treaty. The mission was a total failure. The press mocked Ford and called the mission a “Ship of Fools.” After the Peace Ship embarrassment, Ford blamed Jews for starting World War I and for standing in the way of peace efforts.

Both admired by fascists in Europe:

From the moment Adolf Hitler became the Nazi Party leader in the early 1920s, he praised Henry Ford. In a 1923 interview for the Chicago Tribune, Hitler said, “We look on Heinrich Ford as the leader of the growing Fascisti [Fascist] movement in America. We admire particularly his anti-Jewish policy … We just had his anti-Jewish articles translated.”

Both with a total lack of principles beyond profits. Musk is the same way, he will change his public image to whatever is currently popular (while working to change public opinion).

Similarly:

Ford was against helping fight the Nazis during WW2:

In 1940, Ford joined the America First Committee. The America First Committee was an antiwar organization in the United States that promoted both isolationism and antisemitism.

Ford after the US joined the war:

Once the United States entered the war in December 1941, however, Ford publicly supported the war effort and issued a statement denouncing antisemitism.