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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

He literally thought that being rich meant that he could ignore the entire concept of *the Earth's axial tilt* (he was wrong): memex.craphound.com/2010/06/02/f...

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Fordlandia: novelistic history of Henry Ford’s doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

Of course that was the least of Ford's follies. Ford also believed in a secret Jewish conspiracy to control humanity: www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

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Ford's Anti-Semitism | American Experience | PBS

Ford lent authority to the anti-Semitic fears and assumptions of many Americans.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026

And despite the fact that Ford was so often demonstrably as thick as pigshit, no one was able to stop him from hiring soldiers to literally slaughter anyone who tried to limit his ability to tell other people how to live their lives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

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Battle of the Overpass - Wikipedia

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