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Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by bogomipz »

>'“Wouldn’t it be better,” he asks with a sly smile, “if it was actually an accepted thing for people to want to go understand how other people were living?”'

Hey Mark, here in the "normal regular person world" that's actually already accepted. There's a name for it, its called empathy, its a basic human trait. The fact that you perceive that as somehow "unaccepted" shows just how disconnected from reality and clueless you actually are.

The fact that you see going on a road trip as something extraordinary and worthy of your vast PR machinery is nothing short of a joke.

Also I'm sure that embarking on a road trip while being surrounded by security detail and a team of PR flaks is creating an authentic experience for all involved.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by willvarfar »

igravious wrote: post #14
uniban wrote: post #3

Zuckerberg has done all these things within a relatively short period of time: * Says he’s no longer an atheist, "questioned" religious matters, he broke through his skepticism and now believes religion to be “very important.” * Restructuring of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In the SEC filing it says that he can take a leave of absence from Facebook and still retain voting control of the compa…

You couldn't source all these bullet points, could you? I'm not saying that they're not true, I'd just like a bit of confirmation to what you're saying without searching for 20 minutes.

They were in the article?

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by nashashmi »

mozumder wrote: post #12
perseusprime11 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope not! He will never win.

If it's Trump vs Zuckberberg, he'll win. The only question is if he makes it through the primary.

I am more scared of Zuck becoming president than I am of Trump becoming president.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by hadrien01 »

igravious wrote: post #14
uniban wrote: post #3

Zuckerberg has done all these things within a relatively short period of time: * Says he’s no longer an atheist, "questioned" religious matters, he broke through his skepticism and now believes religion to be “very important.” * Restructuring of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In the SEC filing it says that he can take a leave of absence from Facebook and still retain voting control of the compa…

You couldn't source all these bullet points, could you? I'm not saying that they're not true, I'd just like a bit of confirmation to what you're saying without searching for 20 minutes.

They're all in the article.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by [deleted] »

Shivetya wrote: post #8

Facebook's threat is that politicians have little control over it and it is not limited to just one country in scope. I don't use facebook but I like that it exist. the only regulation of such an entity is to keep it non discriminatory because if it were to start picking winners and losers it probably could have undue influence.

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by mc32 »

mozumder wrote: post #12
perseusprime11 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope not! He will never win.

If it's Trump vs Zuckberberg, he'll win. The only question is if he makes it through the primary.

Not if people really mean it when they say they are upset by the Russia news manipulation or Trump's incomplete withdrawal from ownership where conflict of interest could be perceived an issue.

It depends on if people have convictions against those complaints or they were simply "not our candidate" excuses.

Or maybe Mark will divest completely.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by Chardok »

"A study published earlier this year by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that heavy social media users were, on average, more isolated than their peers. Zuckerberg doesn’t see it that way, arguing that the best way to a better society is more Facebook."

"Zuckerberg sometimes talks about the promise of brain implants, which he believes will one day convey the entirety of one’s mental state to another human being"

Perhaps I have been watching too much Star Trek, but he is sounding just like the Borg.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by zizek23 »

uniban wrote: post #3

Zuckerberg has done all these things within a relatively short period of time: * Says he’s no longer an atheist, "questioned" religious matters, he broke through his skepticism and now believes religion to be “very important.” * Restructuring of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In the SEC filing it says that he can take a leave of absence from Facebook and still retain voting control of the compa…

This country worships success. That's the reason Trump won.

Zuckerberg is not only ridiculously successful but touches everyone's life everyday and people may feel an intimacy that doesn't exist.

Without being judgmental just looking at the dynamics he is going to win.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

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Post by uniban »

igravious wrote: post #14
uniban wrote: post #3

Zuckerberg has done all these things within a relatively short period of time: * Says he’s no longer an atheist, "questioned" religious matters, he broke through his skepticism and now believes religion to be “very important.” * Restructuring of Facebook stock trough the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In the SEC filing it says that he can take a leave of absence from Facebook and still retain voting control of the compa…

You couldn't source all these bullet points, could you? I'm not saying that they're not true, I'd just like a bit of confirmation to what you're saying without searching for 20 minutes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/12...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/connector-in-chief/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/zuckerberg-hires-cli...

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/10/chan-zuckerberg-initia...

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/02/zuckerberg-hires-fo...

https://www.businessinsider.nl/mark-zuckerberg-personal-goal...

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