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Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#2He would have to totally give up Facebook.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#3He would have to totally give up Facebook.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#4Right, because electing a "business man" with a questionable past is working out so well right now.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#5He integrates Facebook's surveillance platform with FBI, DEA, NSA, CIA, DHS, INS, IRS, and so on. Allows all local jurisdictions, including those harassing poor or minorities, access to it through the "fusion centers" or whatever they have now. All kinds of horrors follow.
That's just the Facebook risk. There's also the problems that can come from his actions as President in general. ;)
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#6What has he done that makes anyone think he'd be a good city councilman, much less President?
As far as I can tell almost his entire adult life has been spent making money off of people either by indirect victimization or through selling their personal data. That doesn't strike me as someone who is interested in political service for reasons I'd consider appropriate.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#7He integrates Facebook's surveillance platform with FBI, DEA, NSA, CIA, DHS, INS, IRS, and so on. Allows all local jurisdictions, including those harassing poor or minorities, access to it through the "fusion centers" or whatever they have now. All kinds of horrors follow. That's just the Facebook risk. There's also the problems that can come from his actions as President in general. ;)
Facebook is a CIA front. It's been integrated since the beginning.
He is a company man. Wouldn't be the first company man to become president. Although afaik he would be the first jooish president.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#8Right, because electing a "business man" with a questionable past is working out so well right now.
To play Devil's Advocate, Mark Zuckerberg has at least had a more direct contribution to the business that made him wealthy than has Trump, who merely licenses his name to products and properties he otherwise has no involvement in.
If I had to vote for a businessman, I would rather vote for the one who actually made something innovative. And Zuckerberg speaks Chinese, and even if he isn't fluent and would probably never be allowed to speak with Chinese officials without a translator for protocol's sake, having a bilingual President would be a breath of fresh air compared to one who barely speaks English.
Although this may just be a case of me preferring a competent evil to an incompetent one.
Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#9He integrates Facebook's surveillance platform with FBI, DEA, NSA, CIA, DHS, INS, IRS, and so on. Allows all local jurisdictions, including those harassing poor or minorities, access to it through the "fusion centers" or whatever they have now. All kinds of horrors follow. That's just the Facebook risk. There's also the problems that can come from his actions as President in general. ;)
Facebook is a CIA front. It's been integrated since the beginning. He is a company man. Wouldn't be the first company man to become president. Although afaik he would be the first jooish president.
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Re: Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
#10Right, because electing a "business man" with a questionable past is working out so well right now.
To play Devil's Advocate, Mark Zuckerberg has at least had a more direct contribution to the business that made him wealthy than has Trump, who merely licenses his name to products and properties he otherwise has no involvement in. If I had to vote for a businessman, I would rather vote for the one who actually made something innovative. And Zuckerberg speaks Chinese, and even if he isn't fluent and would probably ne…
My point was, that you'd be going from a train-wreck to a pile up on the interstate.
They're both fucking ridiculous concepts as the leader of a country. That you've got one of them now should be eye opening enough that this doesn't happen again for a fucking long time.