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Re: Zuckerberg wanted meet at Clinton campaign to understand “political operations”

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Post by serb348 » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 2:19 PM UTC

tssva wrote: post #9

Headline is incorrect. Zuckerberg wanted to meet with John Podesta while he was on a trip to the area. No mention of meeting at any Clinton campaign office. In fact the last message in the thread was an attempt to arrange a meeting time at Facebook campus. Even if the title was suppose to be "wanted to meet with Clinton campaign". This is not necessarily accurate either. Zuckerberg did want to meet with John Podesta,…

Couldnt fit in complete title!! I just tried to trim "Facebook CEO Zuckerberg wanted to meet with Clinton campaign to "help his understanding" of "political operations" " off twitter linck

Re: Zuckerberg wanted meet at Clinton campaign to understand “political operations”

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Post by cafard » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:44 PM UTC

tssva wrote: post #8

mirkules wrote: post #5

I always said that politics should be left to politicians. Nobody is fooled that by thinly-veiled "philantropic efforts" what is really meant is "using Facebook's huge platform to further some political agenda" If we are happy having engineers deal in politics, we should never be surprised when politicians deal in engineering.

Politics should be left to politicians is what has us in the boat we are in. Engineers, teachers, poets, plumbers, horse trainers, Walmart greeters, and everyone else should be involved in politics.

Provided always that they remember that politics is not engineering, classroom teaching, etc.

Re: Zuckerberg wanted meet at Clinton campaign to understand “political operations”

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Post by convolvatron » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 4:55 PM UTC

mirkules wrote: post #5

I always said that politics should be left to politicians. Nobody is fooled that by thinly-veiled "philantropic efforts" what is really meant is "using Facebook's huge platform to further some political agenda" If we are happy having engineers deal in politics, we should never be surprised when politicians deal in engineering.

how do you know its not 'using a political agenda to further Facebook's huge platform'?

Re: Zuckerberg wanted meet at Clinton campaign to understand “political operations”

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Post by tssva » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

serb348 wrote: post #11

tssva wrote: post #9

Headline is incorrect. Zuckerberg wanted to meet with John Podesta while he was on a trip to the area. No mention of meeting at any Clinton campaign office. In fact the last message in the thread was an attempt to arrange a meeting time at Facebook campus. Even if the title was suppose to be "wanted to meet with Clinton campaign". This is not necessarily accurate either. Zuckerberg did want to meet with John Podesta,…

Couldnt fit in complete title!! I just tried to trim "Facebook CEO Zuckerberg wanted to meet with Clinton campaign to "help his understanding" of "political operations" " off twitter linck

Zuckerberg requested meeting with Podesta to help understanding of "political operations"

Reflects the purpose of the meeting and who it was with. The twitter title is misleading since Zuckerberg didn't want to meet with him in his role as Clinton campaign manager. He was even willing to wait until after the election.

Re: Zuckerberg wanted meet at Clinton campaign to understand “political operations”

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Post by tssva » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 5:33 PM UTC

cafard wrote: post #12

tssva wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Politics should be left to politicians is what has us in the boat we are in. Engineers, teachers, poets, plumbers, horse trainers, Walmart greeters, and everyone else should be involved in politics.

Provided always that they remember that politics is not engineering, classroom teaching, etc.

To quote Thomas Mann, "everything is politics".