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| DATE | 2016-11-01 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Meanwhile, in the land of 'Who, me?'
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Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu):
> That is your opinion....and evidently Rueters as well.
'Reuters'.
That is not only my opinion, but also the facts of my life's experience
and that of numerous business people in my family, past and present.
"You are entitled to your own opinion, but
you are not entitled to your own facts."
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(Not a popular view in the Breitbart/Infowars/white-power set with whom
you're currently strange bedfellows, I know.)
> like Walmart? Sony? Microsoft? Pfizer? American Tobacco? Standard
> Oil? Cablevision? Google?
For all of the grievous faults of all of those -- and I notice you've
included a corporation founded in 1870 and dissolved in 1911 (Standard
Oil Company, Inc.), out of that list only Amercan Tobacco Company
(merged into Brown & Williamson and subsequently renamed to Fortune
Brands) has a sinister history able to compete -- differently. And one
big difference with American Tobacco Company is that it did _not_ get a
decades-long reputation for defying court orders, deliberately
mass-shredding evidence demanded for official proceedings, filing false
affadavits under oath in court, ignoring court deadlines for production
of records and answers to interrogatories, and brazen admission of all
of these things on grounds that they'd delayed, obfuscated, and
destroyed enough that nothing more could be done about it.
> Who? Are you completely detached from reality on this matter?
Show me where any of those infamously piratical firms -- including
pre-1911 Standard Oil that you bizarrely chose to compare against -- did
even 10% of that. Please. And then you can speak to me about
detachment from reality, without my laughing out-loud.
(And then, show me where John D. Rockefeller is running for President of
the United States. Unlike the short-fingered vulgarian in question,
he'd actually have the distinction of _actually_ being extremely wealthy,
and not just saying 'I think I'll add a few billion dollars to my paper
net worth, today, just because in my sole view I feel valuable.')
> I'll take Trump.
Please _do_ take him. ;->
Maybe you can drop him off in Coney Island. There's a sideshow
somewhere that needs him.
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