Technology

I don't think the Cheeto can hit the back of anyone's throat

Just his gums

So what? Either reason is bad.

"more people" is absolutely irrelevant because most of those people are zombies that don't do anything but consume.

They never cared

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.

"The first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend."

It's so Trump doesn't target them. He could effectively destroy their business.

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...

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

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.

The thing is, most billionaires are sociopaths. You don't get there without being able to treat people like cattle, and consider yourself far, far, far above everyone else.

They're all late game capitalist oligarchs, which almost always trends towards fascism in the end. It's no surprise, it's been happening for a while now, we're just the biggest country to fall under this spell.

They don't have any morals or ethics, they only have one purpose: Make more money at any expense to build their dragon hoard further.

They'll praise trump and suck his dick if it doubles their earnings. That's all they ever cared about. And trump will absolutely do them favors if they kiss his ass. It's one of the things he was impeached for already.

Neither. Trump is a narcissist, so they're trying to get on his good side to get favors down the road.

Pretty sure Trump said he wanted Zuck executed

Does all this sound like they’re actually loving Trump or are there credible threat to their health from the Trump admin?

Credibly threats to their revenue streams, more like. You don't climb the ladder to billionaire-hood without kissing a few assess and sucking a lot of dick.

After his first Presidency, Trump threatened to throw Zuck in prison, more than once.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-sucks-trump-threatened-190856588.html?guccounter=1

They think they're going to make a lot of money through mergers, acquisitions, and monopolization. All they need to do is suck a little dick publicly

I like Louis Rossmann's borrowed quote here:

If you're going to be the bitch, you be the whole bitch. Ain't no room for a half-bitch around here.

How much can a hitman possibly cost??

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.

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.

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

To be "allowed" to stay out of prison.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-sucks-trump-threatened-190856588.html?guccounter=1

Zuccin on the cheeto, for sure

On his knees and ready to please.