Well they all collectively chose a high risk, high reward and highly fascist regime over lower risk, lower reward one. So let them cower in terror of being struck down because the quality of their ass kisses were not adequate.
The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."
Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king." - 370 BC
At least in this story Aristippus is gaining something tangible, and presumably he was eating bread and lentils before he sucked up to the king. In Zuck's story, before licking the orange butthole he already had everything. He had to taste spray tan and dingleberries to make his imaginary numbers say something slightly different on paper without changing anything about their impact on his life.
The King: RADICAL ANTI-MONARCHY TERRORISTS are using LENTILS to BAIT YOUR CHILDREN INTO SEX CULTS. This cannot be allowed to continue!!! We MUST remove ALL LENTILS from ANY CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY.
That's why it's so pathetic: he doesn't have to. If Bernie Sanders were elected, a wealth tax implemented, etc, Meta would still exist and his quality of life wouldn't change at all. He chooses to suck up to Trump, which is about as "small dick energy" as you can get...
For some, human pride and dignity have literally no value, or is something they will hold simply to trade it off whenever convenient, especially in a world that can value it, so it’s just like a commodity.
I think this has to do more with the popular vote going to Trump than anything Trump did specifically. They all collectively shat on him or didn't interact with him from 2016 and all through Bidens presidency.
They saw that public opinions has shifted so badly that Trump swept everything and won the popular vote. Suddenly they are all his best friend.
They never cared. They just want to be in the "side" more people like. you're forgetting that money/power is what drives these people. They saw more money in power in bashing Trump or siding with the Democrats until the 2024 election happened. Now they feel they can get more money and power by siding with Trump.
True, but those people are great when all you care about is line going up. People who ask think critically and ask questions don't make line go up as fast.
Well yeah, they're publicly traded companies. Once the owner gives up their controlling stake and/or steps away from leadership positions, so does any kind of moral basis for the company's decisions.
I've worked at private and public companies, and the owners of the private companies often made choices based on their personal moral code (i.e. we will/won't work with org X because of Y), whereas at public companies it's all about whatever makes sense strategically in the short to medium term, and sometimes long term.
If a publicly traded company seems to be your friend right now, that's because it's currently profitable for them to do so.
Imagine being one of the wealthiest people in the world and still having to suck septagenerian donkey dick in order to be "allowed" to do what you want with all your wealth and power.
Tech bros are new money. The oligarchs who own all R's, and most of the D's, are old guard generational wealth dynasties spanning the most powerful industries — energy/commodities (fossil fuels, mining, petrochem, etc), wall street, the MIC, big agriculture, big pharma, media and telecommunications.
Those are the oligarchs who want Russian/Chinese style state capitalist dictatorship, because they're the ones who'll be in charge. Their lobbyists write ALL the bills and orders the GOP put forward. Trump is just the figurehead to distract the people and maintain the whole "democracy" charade until the thin veneer is no longer necessary.
I feel like 'normal' politicians are more beholden to old-guard oligarchs, because those are the ones that brought their parents and grandparents to power. The people who've been funding them through their whole, 50-year careers. Those oligarchs have generally learned to avoid the public eye, including politicians that attract public scrutiny.
Donald Trump doesn't care about relationships, heritage, or established trust. He just wants money and flattery, right now, in great volume, and that makes him uniquely susceptible to new money tech bros.
It must be horrific to talk to Trump in person. He smells horrible, his moods swing constantly, he has incredibly stupid takes on issues you are an expert in, and he requires constant praise. If you take your hot wife with you he’ll be ogling her constantly. Nurses probably go out of their way to see another patient when he’s at the hospital.
Now you are one of the richest men in the world, and you have to pretend you like him. I mean, something must be seriously wrong with you if you got fuck-you money and still degrade yourself to those levels.
that's needlessly offensive to donkeys, a single one of whom surely has more dickal mass than the entire administration and all republican senators and house reps combined
I too start my day with a prayer to and prostrations to to the greatest man to have ever lived, glorious leader kim jong un. Creeps me out this looks so damned familiar.
I should start a pillow company. I could market them as being great to scream into when life....happens. When you read a headline, scream into a pillow. When a news story breaks, scream into a pillow. When your dog runs away, scream into a pillow. When your kids run away, scream into a pillow. When the government turns into a thinly fascist operation working under the direct leadership of Putin, scream into a pillow. When World War 3 breaks out, and America is the bad guys, scream into a pillow. When Canada and Mexico invade the USA, scream into a pillow. When you realize just how smug of a bastard George Clooney is, scream into a pillow! When you're happy and you know it clap your hands! silence Ok, just scream into a pillow then.
The sad thing is, I'm now thinking I legit could make some money by releasing "Scream Pillows". Marketed specifically as stress relief. Because that's the 2025 we live in.
Zuck, just go to prison already. You wanna be a man? Stand up to the bully in the room and go to prison. Gives you plenty of sparring partners to practice all that BJJ.
And when you're ultimately stabbed a million times in the chest, at least your daughters won't be as ashamed of you as they will be when they look back on this moment... yknow, as they cry golden tears into trillion dollar bills.