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[โ€“] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (1 children)

General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil, and Phillips Petroleum were convicted of an actual conspiracy related to the monopolization of transit systems, which replaced beloved streetcar (rail) systems with rubber-tired oil-burning buses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

[โ€“] ooklamok 9 points 1 year ago

Isn't this Judge Doom's plan?