OMG! We just lost Zuck

Ugh.

Everyone in Silicon Valley is a liberarian. So, it doesn't take much....

Of course they will all cave in. Trump will stop at nothing to fight his “enemies.” They are all scared of him.

One always picks the easy fight

One praises fools, one smothers light

One shifts left to right

Politics -- the art of the possible

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[quote] Everyone in Silicon Valley is a liberarian.

But I LOVE Liberians!

They all went into meltdown and started deranging themselves when zero percent financing went away and the free money stopped flowing around the time Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic went under. These boys losing their cash grift is the source of much more than you think.

Mill to Z is 1.50 to everyone else

What? You thought he was a man of the people?

DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE

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Well he's a registered Democrat, R9.

As though that came as a surprise.

Who was at Mar-a-Lago having a congratulatory dinner of Big Macs before all of the votes were reported?

Who gave umpteen bold as brass clues over the past year?

Who doesn't have the balls to use his position to stand up to a potential president who might challenge so much as a single dollar in earnings?

I won't mention any names, but it does rhyme with Yuckerberg.

He called Trump a badass after the assassination attempt in PA, so we didn’t JUST lose him. He’s a fucking simp and a shill.

It was a delusion, and then some, to ever think “we” (Dems) had him.

In case you all missed it Billionaires are in charge of the country now. Is it any surprise other billionaires are all sucking up?

Always remember the kneelers and the appeasers

Maintaining status and money is more important than ethics and morality

I miss Sheryl Sandberg. She was a good balancing force, but left the company and the board.

Why do the rich and powerful have to be such santorum?

It amounts to a big dick contest when all is said and done. That's really all it is.

Just listened to an interview with Marc Andreesen on The Free Press. It’s not only about maintaining status & money.

If I have this right, according to him, it’s about AI. Silicon Valley were worried the Biden admin wanted the feds to take over development of all AI applications, prohibit AI startups—the way the feds locked down nuclear research in the 50s, & 60s.

In any case, no, tech is not about kumbaya.

This is no way a surprise.

Oh no, the billionaires are "caving," i.e. coming to terms with the fact that they're stuck with the president they have, and doing the political version of buying him flowers. These fuckers shouldn't be able to donate this kind of money to anything remotely political.

[quote]In case you all missed it billionaires are in charge of the country now.

“Now” r16 ?! They have been for decades. And they’re firmly in charge of both parties.

Billionaires in all sectors want the regulatory structure loosened even more so that they can keep consolidating their economic base. Fewer insurance companies, fewer banks, fewer grocery chains, fewer pharmaceutical companies, fewer hospitals.

Plus, the financial sector is staggeringly influential. IDK, what percentage of gdp now?

That concentration of wealth deforms the economy & therefore the political system.

[quote]If I have this right, according to him, it’s about AI. Silicon Valley were worried the Biden admin wanted the feds to take over development of all AI applications, prohibit AI startups—the way the feds locked down nuclear research in the 50s, & 60s.

They want to be able to do whatever they want to "innovate" without worry of slowing down to prevent things like...ya know...ruining people's lives.

Not to mention that Zuckerberg's crown jewel, Facebook is a granny product on which the sun has eclipsed, a forum for keeping track of the jokes in poor taste of you uncles and grandparents, and memes about the Great Bronze MAGA and against liberals who don't worship at the altar of tax-free $$$..

He's on his way to becoming "Hi! I'm Tom, from Myspace!" and it pains him to think of himself as incalculably rich *and* on the declining end of a curve. He sees an audience that's pulled one foot out of its grave with the election and he wants them all over his Facebook world.

Hypocrisy-Greed-Physics

"If I have this right, according to him, it’s about AI. Silicon Valley were worried the Biden admin wanted the feds to take over development of all AI applications, prohibit AI startups—the way the feds locked down nuclear research in the 50s, & 60s."

This is true. There's even a pro Trump PAC that has been pushing him as the pro-AI president and fear mongering about Biden's attempt to keep the industry from developing too quickly because it will "put us behind Red China."

And of course, they rarely say this stuff out loud, because most Americans are terrified of AI. The Dems know, and they chose not to run an anti-AI campaign. All Kamala had to do was talk about AI taking peoples' jobs and enticing their children to commit suicide, and she would have had the election in the bag, but she didn't want to ruffle industry feathers.

[quote] In case you all missed it Billionaires are in charge of the country now. Is it any surprise other billionaires are all sucking up?

I think the only billionaires who might not bend the knee is probably Mark Cuban.

The AI stuff is all over the bro podcasts. They had bros bragging about sucking up all the Bluesky data after the company announced they'd never use the platform to train AI.

'Just'? He whored Facebook out in 2016 to post lies about Hillary. Then he was just so contrite and promised to do better.

You all better be talking about this stuff to your MAGA-voting family, and don't make it partisan. This is how change happens.

R32, right. I never trusted him

He's a weasel. Look at his physical appearance, his body language, the weak chin and features, the can't-look-you-in-the-eye thing, the hints of deep raw anger when he's called to explain some simple thing.

I don't think he ever matured as an adult.

The “we just lost” troll isn’t part of the “we” it refers to

True, but a good illustrative conversation, despite the trollery.

I never really thought of him as being in our corner anyways.

Zuck is probably on the autism spectrum like Musk.

We need another Luigi to deal with Zuck.

I expect everyone to do what's in their best interests. Like it or not, he will be President again and has made no secret that he's out for revenge. Why put yourself in the crosshairs? A million dollars is lunch money for Zuck. Why not throw Trump a bone?

I wonder how George F. Will feels about all this?

[quote]'Just'? He whored Facebook out in 2016 to post lies about Hillary. Then he was just so contrite and promised to do better.

Wasn't Facebook pro-Hillary in 2016?

I recall one of its founders (Moskovitz?) donating big to her campaign.

Facebook started to become a mess in the few years prior to the 2016 election. They were allowing a lot of disinformation bullshit on there. A lot of the Obama birther crap was all over Facebook for years.

I'm not in favor of "Obama birtherism", but it's interesting that you seem to believe the main function of that app should be to censor it's own users, R44.

I personally believe the FCC rules absolving these platforms of liability for their user behavior (section 230) should be dropped, or we need stronger libel laws to stop blatant disinformation.

It looks like a lot of people will be sucking up (already are).

mark cuban would not only bend the knee, he'd be on all fours if he weren't already totally humiliated and embarrassed...

Ugly from the inside out