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> It's honestly wild that a sitting US president is calling out specific company CEOs

This truly never happened before. Oh wait:

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/03/gm-ceo-resigns-at-oba...

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Not an apt comparison. GM needed $50 billion in government funds just to stay alive.

All of tech is propped up by the government.

GenX and Millennials watched too many "Sprite; you do you" commercials and grew up believing in their autonomy and freedom.

But American government was always at the wheel, via regulation, law, and drinks in DC off the clock.

It's all PR to say our system free market and the like. Intel wouldn't exist without falling in line over the decades.

In what ways was the PC revolution propped up by the government?

Lose the argument, change the conversation? An old tactic, but a stupid one.

So we're moving from "it never happened, it's crazy!" to "of course it's happened before, but it's different this time, so I just falsely pretended the time before didn't happen"? Of course each case is different. But Presidents interfered in economy of private enterprise for a while - including criticizing CEOs, firing CEOs, and many other intrusive acts - especially after (and including) FDR, and pretending nobody before Trump ever did it is either ignorant or disingenuous. If you don't like what Trump is doing, great, explain why, but don't falsely claim things like that didn't happen before. They did.

I didn't move shit, I stated a fact and you went apoplectic over it.

Wasn’t that in conjunction with the us govt essentially taking over gm though?

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