• hansolo@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Because it’s so much better when they’re charismatic assholes?

    • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      I think it’s much sadder (more sad? saddest) that people fall for such absurd douche bags. If they would at least be sexy and seem smart you could understand how people could be fooled but this is just too hard to watch.

      • theneverfox@pawb.social
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        3 months ago

        Propoganda fucking works, simple as that

        Billionaires just buy good press and publicists to manage their image, it’s so effective they believe it themselves

  • Tournesol@feddit.fr
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    3 months ago

    I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.

    This. This is what I feel like

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos-- you can tell they are insecure. They became rich and powerful and now want to stomp on people.

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        3 months ago

        He’s been implicated in the recent genocide in Myanmar. Facebook cultivated the spread of the racist lies, allowed it to proliferate, spread in the region and then shorted companies operating there. If you know there’s going to be ethnic cleansing in the region, causing outrage and destabilisation, business takes a hit and the options pay off massively. All it takes was the deaths of thousands, but hey Mark has the capital to burn on his AR pet project that nobody wants.

  • DontMakeMoreBabies@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    Little Dick Energy. That’s what I think every single time I see any of these folks in the news. But apparently there are enough weird little aspirants out there that they do alright?

    Fuck 90% of this species. 👍