r/technology • u/NowThatsMalarkey • Feb 21 '25

Social Media Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover didn’t make people like him, study shows

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/mark-zuckerbergs-makeover-didnt-make-people-like-him-study-shows/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAZlr-hGuhX1KqqPjBTkTce5FHYoTfozy456eW6cuu8YldzC5rpGfIlP07_a0jXdYc_eaaM6DrAXHX5G8e2xGc5SpbfTOxsJAwxR81w_TBGJlcjoLsVnZ8PWO1lNJgWgzm3MMz0BHDbCl-W5ehgrTueoJBD4LubB0aUd2ecJ39Y
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u/rnilf Feb 21 '25

Doesn't really matter if people like him if everyone keeps using his company's products, which only continues to increase his wealth and power...

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u/DizzySecretary5491 Feb 21 '25

It really wasn't. Back when these companies first started out conservatives hated tech and the money thrown at it and viewed it as liberal California bullshit. So they got in bed with liberals through the Democratic party to secure funding and low regulation in exchange for pushing socially liberal policy and having a socially liberal public face.

Fast forward. Liberals came after them for abusing their workers, wanted to regulate their monopolies, wanted them to pay taxes and talked about a wealth tax. So they jumped in with conservatives so they could not pay taxes, not be regulated, keep their monopolies, and abuse their workers. In exchange they promoted Nazis and racists to make conservatives happy.

There's no there there. These guys are all on the spectrum and narcissistic to boot. But above all they are money and power hungry and consider themselves gods and want to build a global techno, feudal, mercantile, oligarchical, libertarian utopia. Conservatives are willing to let them do it hence the fascism and bro style.

Zuck would wear a tutu and smear shit in his hair while fellating a mule if he thought it would make that reality come true.

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u/Friskfrisktopherson Feb 21 '25

This. Theil, Marks mentor from day 1, emailed Mark and advised him to do the make over. It's not about convincing the masses, it's about shifting to meet the tide and stay in the upper echelon. Remember that Zuck knew about J6 etc in advance, he knew about Cambridge Analytica, he's had an eagle eye view on the right wing fascist take over every step of the way. Him changing coats in the home stretch isn't a coincidence, it's a life raft.

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u/DizzySecretary5491 Feb 21 '25

Thiel is the only one of them with a core and he as been a straight conservative fascist republican (but I repeat myself three times there) from the get go. Both Musk and Zuck are his pupils.

The only good thing about all this is they are going enslave, impoverish, enserf, and let die all the conservative commoners as well. They don't realize it yet, but they are on the menu. Sure they'll get to hate and hurt for a bit, but they are going to get eaten with the rest of us. Even the six figure income crowd and low level millionaires are going to lose everything.

What they also don't get is if we make it through this, or when it comes crashing down, conservatism and conservatives aren't going to get to walk away. Everyone will have seen what they and their ideology is. It won't go back to the way it was. The consequences will be bad.