Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

theintercept.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 50 posts

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#11

Post by idle_processor »

sokoloff wrote: post #9
dickbasedregex wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good! Can we not have a near perfect crop of complete losers next time? No one wants Zuck anymore than Hillary. Seems like a good way to lock in 4 more years of regret.

/me raises hand that I'd rather have Mark than Hillary. It's not so much that I agree with everything he says or stands for and I most certainly appreciate but don't idolize him. I'd rather have nearly any tech-savvy outsider than at least half the major party primary candidates last year.

I'd prefer someone less complicit in establishing the surveillance state.

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#12

Post by jedmeyers »

spaceflunky wrote: post #4

It's funny how $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads by a foreign entity is a crime against humanity. But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries [0] or the US getting involved in god knows how many other elections is like totally... meh. [0] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...

How do you know those were pro-Trump ads? I am just curious about the sources.

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#13

Post by 0xfeba »

spaceflunky wrote: post #4

It's funny how $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads by a foreign entity is a crime against humanity. But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries [0] or the US getting involved in god knows how many other elections is like totally... meh. [0] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...

Apples, oranges. Also, red herring. Also, WhatAboutism.

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#14

Post by Markoff »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #10
sokoloff wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/me raises hand that I'd rather have Mark than Hillary. It's not so much that I agree with everything he says or stands for and I most certainly appreciate but don't idolize him. I'd rather have nearly any tech-savvy outsider than at least half the major party primary candidates last year.

Being tech savvy is a poor qualification for leading the free world. He should get his own kingdom in order first.

leading the free world? you really mean US is some leader of free world? in what filed exactly? living standard, healthcare, education, internet, etc? because I fail to see pretty much any positive field in which US would be world leader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#15

Post by TeMPOraL »

Naritai wrote: post #6
spaceflunky wrote: post #4

It's funny how $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads by a foreign entity is a crime against humanity. But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries [0] or the US getting involved in god knows how many other elections is like totally... meh. [0] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...

"Whataboutism is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Yeah, but what's the name of the epistemic fallacy you commit when you single out one instance of a common phenomenon and subject it to extra scrutiny?

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#16

Post by sokoloff »

idle_processor wrote: post #11
sokoloff wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/me raises hand that I'd rather have Mark than Hillary. It's not so much that I agree with everything he says or stands for and I most certainly appreciate but don't idolize him. I'd rather have nearly any tech-savvy outsider than at least half the major party primary candidates last year.

I'd prefer someone less complicit in establishing the surveillance state.

Less complicit than Mark is what I assume you mean, though it was ambiguous in my mind whether you meant "than either of those two".

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#17

Post by TeMPOraL »

Markoff wrote: post #14
aaron-lebo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being tech savvy is a poor qualification for leading the free world. He should get his own kingdom in order first.

leading the free world? you really mean US is some leader of free world? in what filed exactly? living standard, healthcare, education, internet, etc? because I fail to see pretty much any positive field in which US would be world leader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs

It's a well-known historical phrase. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_World#Leader_of_the_Free_....

Whether it is accurate now is another topic, though.

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#18

Post by fortythirteen »

spaceflunky wrote: post #4

It's funny how $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads by a foreign entity is a crime against humanity. But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries [0] or the US getting involved in god knows how many other elections is like totally... meh. [0] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...

> $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads

No details as to the content of the ads have been revealed. One would think that if they were pro-Trump they would have mentioned that in the release.

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#19

Post by 1337biz »

dickbasedregex wrote: post #3
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #2

Well, testifying would put a big hitch in his political career I bet.

Good! Can we not have a near perfect crop of complete losers next time? No one wants Zuck anymore than Hillary. Seems like a good way to lock in 4 more years of regret.

Don't worry. I think is charisma for a mainstream crowd is up on par with Shkreli.

Re: Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify

#20

Post by fortythirteen »

justboxing wrote: post #5
spaceflunky wrote: post #4

It's funny how $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads by a foreign entity is a crime against humanity. But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries [0] or the US getting involved in god knows how many other elections is like totally... meh. [0] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-...

> But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries The source you quoted shows nothing about 'Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries'. In fact it exonerates him of your charges. The most recent US interference in a foreign election (quoted in your source) was in 2000, when Dubya was President. You could arguable attribute that to Bill Clinton, since the groundwork would ha…

Wikileaks showed CIA interference in the 2012 French elections[0]

[0] - https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/

Post reply on HN