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When a Tesla gets stolen, do they call it an Edison?
- The tagline for Edison motors is "Stealing Tesla's ideas"
  
  So folks know this isn't a hypothetical Edison Motors 🍁

He's worse. Edison never managed to steal Tesla's name.
- Nah just his work and credibility

So you're saying he invented the electric car right? jk. Edison, probably would have creamed his pants for an opportunity to create a government position to eliminate his competitors.
- Edison did abuse the government enforced patent system to eliminate his competitors.
  
  Same as it ever was.

These days I'd say Henry Ford, which Id argue is even worse.
- Remember when the ADL complimented him as 'the Henry Ford of our day', and then walked it back as organization members pointed out that side of Ford's legacy and then he spent the next few years proving those folks extremely right?

If I see a headline that Elon is driving other companies' cars into elephants to try to show how dangerous other cars are, I'll have to check to see if it's an onion article.
It probably won't be.
- Topsy was electrocuted at the request of the ASPCA because they deemed it more humane than just giving her a bunch of cyanide and hanging her.
  Edison Studios, which has about as much relation to the man as Tesla Motors Inc. does their namesake, filmed the event.
  The War of the Currents was a decade previous and between Edison and Westinghouse.
  Edison and Tesla wrote each other friendly letters and spoke well of each other in public.
  Tesla has such a weird reputation. Entertainment is not history.
  
  So you're saying Tesla did NOT invent a cloning device?

Thomas Edison (derogatory)

at least Edison has a legacy worth mentioning
- I mean, he was still a capitalist pos of the highest order as well as sympathetic to the antisemitism that was well within the Overton window in those days.
  !topsy!<
  
  Topsy did nothing wrong.

"You promised you'd be Tesla but you're just another Edison" -Rät (Penelope Scott) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxT9TLGoLI
- As much as I enjoy the song it's important to remember that the Tesla vs Edison story is 60% bullshit.

Except if Elon went deaf he'd never stop bitching and moaning about it.

More like P.T. Barnum
- No, PT Barnum was at least entertaining. Sure, he just wanted to take your money, but he didn't kill people in the process and you got a pretty reasonable value for paying admission.
  
  He was mostly lucky in that regard. The amount of fires Barnum had with only animals dying and not people is pretty impressive. He had at least five buildings burn down alone. One of his fires at the American museum had a nice effect due to the cold weather in New York at the time.
  It took a while after his death before one of the big top shows really went up in smoke with significant loss of life.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire

Imagine what kind of Topsy level shenanigans he can get up to under the coming administration.

Henry Ford arguably more appropriate, given his propagation of fascist ideology.

Wow, the coping on Lemmy over Elon Musk is wild.
Like it or not, he's going to be in the history books, for generations to come. If you think he's just riding along on some sort of wave you're very wrong, if you listen to any of the people who work with him, he's very involved, very focused, and the driver of every project he starts.
- Lmao. Yes, super involved, with hot takes the entire time because he doesn't have the experience or academic knowledge. Truly a Thomas Edison. I can believe he has a lot of ideas, I can believe a reasonable number of them are good business ideas. I have a very hard time believing he knows more about car engineering than people who have done it for their entire career.
  
  Hot takes aren't inherently wrong, they're just unpopular in the current climate. Hot takes don't mean uneducated, especially today when academic doesn't always = truth.
- I'm confused. The post equates him with Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison is very much in the history books. They're not saying Elon won't be in the history books. I only see one comment here disagreeing.
  
  Yeah, it's just very clear that no one wants Elon in the history books, by the way they try very hard to downplay his life involvement with everything
- But don’t you understand? The point of websites like this one is to have your incorrect opinions validated!!
  
  The good thing about Lemmy is my comment isn't buried by thousands of bot accounts. When I'm downvoted for my wrong-think, everyone still sees it!