Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: Swan Eaters: Rasputin Was A Jerk Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:24:40 -0700 Organization: nil Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:24:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="790904a03c598940fabf843a96e18f9e"; logging-data="195544"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18dp/PnOXS+21cFkf8U7A1L" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:IqcFehpWBGvvN2glNlPj4FyfHCo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: On 4/28/25 12:52, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 4/28/2025 9:16 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> "Dob" writes: >>> [[Hyperlink Blocked]] >>> >>> "Lynn McGuire"  wrote in message news:vsmqov$1i9df$1@dont-email.me... >>> >>> Swan Eaters: Rasputin Was A Jerk >>>     https://www.gocomics.com/swan-eaters/2025/03/27 >>> >>> And kinda evil too. >> >> Musk is the modern american Rasputin. > > Nope.  Musk is the modern Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Henry > Ford rolled into one man. > > Lynn > Edison and Ford yes. Westinghouse not so much as he was a real inventor and not merely an exploiter of researchers and industrial giant per-Edison and Ford. Mush is a hater like Ford and i believe Edison held some irrantional prejudices as well. Mush did have some Rasputin-like hold on American consciousness but his foolish hacking away at government agencies has disenchanted a great many of us, US citizens. Evil is banal and Mush is such. bliss