Lastgirl posted:

Mark Memerberg's Memeitarian Memeocracy

Venom Snake posted:

Just popping in to say Zuck's continued pushing of UBI has a lot of party people in meltdown mode because a loving tech goonlord is to the left of them lmao

quote:

And then he told the story about how his love for Rome and all things Roman almost took him in such a radically different direction with his life, that Facebook probably never would have been born.

He said:

"I love Rome. I studied Latin and Roman history and culture. I loved it so much that when I was going to college, I actually thought I was going to major in Classics.

I didn’t. I ended up majoring in computer science and psychology. But I didn’t make it that long in college anyway."

[...]

He also told this story:

"I love Rome so much, that when my wife and I got married, We came to Rome on our honeymoon. I made us go to all of these different historical and classical places. So much so, that when we got back and we were looking through the photos, my wife was making fun of me, saying she thought there were three people on the honeymoon: me, her and Augustus. All the photos were different sculptures of Augustus."

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark...facebook-2016-8

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

omg

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Mark Zuckerberg's sister has a Ph.D in classics, is editor of https://eidolon.pub/ and has written about reclaiming Western classical heritage from the alt-right.

quote:

The day that Google launched its social network in 2011, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called an impromptu meeting that turned into a declaration of war.

Zuckerberg told employees that the launch of Google Plus meant a zero-sum competition for users, and declared a state of "Lockdown" that encouraged employees to work crazy hours to improve its own product, according to an excerpt from an upcoming book from former Facebook employee Antonio Garcia Martinez.

Zuckerberg even turned an ancient Roman slogan into Facebook's battle cry. Garcia Martinez remembers him saying:

"You know, one of my favorite Roman orators ended every speech with the phrase Carthago delenda est. 'Carthage must be destroyed.' For some reason I think of that now."

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-declared-war-on-google-plus-2016-6

the bitcoin of weed posted:

zuck is a huge loving nerd and I hate everything about him but if he ran entirely on a promise of UBI and to destroy the Republican party and salt the earth on which they stood I'd probably vote for him twice

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Larry Parrish posted:

Oh my god he's literally a national socialist. I'm not sure if that's cool/funny or another sign of literally being a culture less tech nerd

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Cultureless tech nerds are usually the exact diametric opposite of national socialist, which is libertarian.

Larry Parrish posted:

I meant as in, literally, a guy who glorifies western culture and socialism. Not a nazi. Although I guess what little of his proto platform that's out is more like libertarianism with a tiny social safety net to ensure the people with no jobs can still view internet ads

Jeb! Repetition posted:

I was aware you meant that (although glorifying western culture isn't the same as nationalism).

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

rebuilding the roman empire also reclaims multiculturalism as essentially western

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

I wonder if some phd history student a generation from now will write a thesis about how making Caesar in New Vegas well written led to Trump getting elected

rudatron posted:

wait, zuckerberg is a roman history dork? how the gently caress did that happen

fits my needs posted:

toast!

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

more evidence: he adopts the contrapposto while eating toast in his kitchen

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Jose posted:

i'll hopefully be voting a jeremy into power

Baloogan posted:

this post made me actually irl a little nauseous

quote:

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg is talking up universal basic income — the guaranteed distribution of cash stipends to cover basic expenses — as a possible new safety net as technology automates more jobs, putting more people out of work.

In a Facebook post about a trip this week to Alaska with wife Priscilla Chan, the Facebook CEO praised the state's Permanent Fund, which pools the state's oil revenue and pays out cash dividends to eligible Alaskans. In 2016, that dividend was $1,022.

"This is a novel approach to basic income in a few ways. First, it's funded by natural resources rather than raising taxes. Second, it comes from conservative principles of smaller government, rather than progressive principles of a larger safety net. This shows basic income is a bipartisan idea," Zuckerberg wrote

Baloogan posted:

this post made me actually irl a little nauseous

FuriousxGeorge posted:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/07/05/mark-zuckerberg-praises-universal-basic-income-on-alaska-trip/103447704/

FuriousxGeorge posted:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/07/05/mark-zuckerberg-praises-universal-basic-income-on-alaska-trip/103447704/

Taintrunner posted:

can't wait to wipe the social safety net in exchange for pittances

this entire vision is so hosed. elite dominated corporate control while the vast majority of people never see wealth or even the fruits of their labor, but at least they have UBI, which most likely won't be enough to secure basic housing, but you can live in some shithole i'm sure