Mark Zuckerburg comments on Peter Thiel controversy regarding Trump donation

Post by DasIch » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 2:22 AM UTC

Mao_Zedang wrote: post #9

DasIch wrote: post #8

These kind of statements remind me of the "Not everything was bad about Hitler" faction. "Sure he killed millions but think of the highways he built!" Trump is one person, you can't separate his position on policy X from all the other things. You may want to support him because of some specific policy but if you do, you will support all of his policies, there is no way around it.

If trump wins, and doesnt actually do anything remotely as bad as hitler will you feel bad for taking this extremely radical point of view?

Post by x0x0 » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 3:14 AM UTC

Mao_Zedang wrote: post #10

kafkaesq wrote: post #3

Quick summary: (1) Dodges the main issue of Trump's being not just a controversial candidate, but as we now know, an apparently unapologetic, serial sexual assaulter; along with (2) Thiel's blatant indifference to this fact; (3) to which Mark says, basically "Whatever about this sexual assault stuff -- of course FB can't afford to alienate any significant sized constituency, such as the pro-Trump electorate".

*Alleged serial sexual assaulter

Post by Steko » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 3:58 AM UTC

cyphar wrote: post #14

DasIch wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly certain Trump isn't going to do anything remotely as bad because he wouldn't have the ability to. In any case the parallels are shocking and I'm far from the only one who has noticed, so I don't think the idea is all that radical to begin with.

I think you see the "X is Hitler" trope quite a lot in politics. And yes, the similarities are uncanny but there's a very simple reason for that: All moderately successful and ambitious politicians will, to a first-order approximation, be similar to Hitler. Why? Because Hitler was a successful, ambitious and quite influential politician who fought against the hardships in his life. This is not to say that Hitler was…

Post by codezero » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 5:56 AM UTC

Post by Mao_Zedang » Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 7:09 AM UTC

x0x0 wrote: post #13

Mao_Zedang wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

*Alleged serial sexual assaulter

We're not a court of law. By the time there's 9+ accusers, many of whom shared their stories contemporarily (viz people writer who told 6 people), you're verging on Crosby territory to deny what plainly happened.