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[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago

Thomas Edison (derogatory)

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 11 hours ago

at least Edison has a legacy worth mentioning

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

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!<

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Topsy did nothing wrong.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 88 points 18 hours ago

He's worse. Edison never managed to steal Tesla's name.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

Nah just his work and credibility

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 23 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 2 points 2 hours ago

So you're saying Tesla did NOT invent a cloning device?

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago

Crazy story. Tesla didn't, David Bowie absolutely did.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 101 points 20 hours ago

When a Tesla gets stolen, do they call it an Edison?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 83 points 20 hours ago

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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 87 points 20 hours ago

Edison did abuse the government enforced patent system to eliminate his competitors.

[-] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 33 points 19 hours ago
[-] Zorsith 16 points 17 hours ago

Where is that large automobile?

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 32 points 19 hours ago

These days I'd say Henry Ford, which Id argue is even worse.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

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?

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

More like P.T. Barnum

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