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Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
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#42It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
How do you think "the rich controlling our government" would look? I can think of two possibilities: either someone rich and corrupt being elected and using the office to their own advantage and that of other rich people, or the rich influencing the government to enact the policies they want despite the people in control not also being rich. I'm not sure about you, but watching "worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring" of the new Trump administration is impossible for me to differentiate from either of those scenarios, let alone both of them.
Yes, most Trump voters are not nearly as wealthy as him (or the other executives kissing the ring), but when taxes are lowered and government services are cut due to the reduced budget, they're the ones losing more than the rich compared to a higher progressive tax rate. If the theory you're trying to disprove is that the government couldn't possibly be caused to enact policies that benefit the rich to the expense of everyone else, the fact that someone is elected by a large number of non-wealthy people doesn't demonstrate anything that would make your argument more convincing.
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#43> All that power, all those resources, all that potential influence - and he uses it to make himself smaller This is what I find most incomprehensible. These people really do have the power to do whatever they want and still have enough money to retire comfortably a thousand times over. And this is what they choose to do.
Insecure narcissists. Those guys had no friends before being rich, and they seem to have a deep need to feel loved. Because they don't know what it means to have actual friends, they think whatever they pay or enforce with money counts. It doesn't, they are just rich losers.
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#44Also relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew... . It's incredible, really. I thought the main point of being a billionaire was independence. "Fuck-you money" taken to the extreme. You've "won" society, now do whatever you want. Make things better for humanity by funding novel research. Or sit in a cave and build the best orgasm machine ever. Whatever. I think Larry and Sergey have the r…
> Zuckerberg became rich and famous for being a smart guy who didn't do the bullshit that other people wanted him to.
I disagree. He became rich for being in the right place at the right time. He became famous because he became rich.
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#45Hating Mark Zuckerberg is like a barometer for someone having no mind of their own. We've been told that Mark was responisble for Trump in 2016 and teenagers having low esteeem. It's so laughable.
He seems like a fine guy to me. His quasi-embrace of Trump reflects the wider public realizing that, first, Trump has some plus-sides (dismantling DEI is one of them). And second, the whole "resistance" thing really didn't pay off. I didn't vote for him, but he's president, and moping about it isn't useful.
Zuckerberg and people's attitude towards him also represents progressives quite nicely, especially in their relationships with tech. Turns out "we hate you so much, you are awful and evil" is a good way to drive people away.
edit - I will also say that Mark was the only tech CEO who impressed me in front of Congress, when he pushed back on the whole misinfo/disinfo craze.
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#46Trump and his sleazy tech bros will go down in history as the gravediggers of democracy.
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#47Idk, this article assumes that the company before the recent changes reflected his beliefs of how companies should be run. But the way I see it, it's pretty clear he disagreed with a lot of it, and just felt too much pressure (internal from employees, external from the media) to not fall in line. Does no one remember that in the 2010s, Zuck went around trying to advocate against the calls for censoring "disinformatio…
> Does no one remember that in the 2010s, Zuck went around trying to advocate against the calls for censoring "disinformation", arguing free speech shouldn't be regulated by a company?
Nope! I remember it too. It was impressive at the time. All the CEOs standing in line acting like there's no problem with a ministry of truth approach, and Mark was the only one who said the obviously correct thing. I've liked him since then.
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#48when you take the king’s shilling you must do his killing
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#49It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
How do you think "the rich controlling our government" would look? I can think of two possibilities: either someone rich and corrupt being elected and using the office to their own advantage and that of other rich people, or the rich influencing the government to enact the policies they want despite the people in control not also being rich. I'm not sure about you, but watching "worlds richest people line up to kiss…
You're assuming that those non-wealthy people have objectively studied both candidates, weighed their platforms, and chosen the one they have determined will make their lives better. As opposed to, say, the one who promises to hurt they people they want to see hurt, or the one who claims they will protect them from whatever out-group they consider dangerous.
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