At first i thought Zuckerberg crashed a meeting by arriving on a fighter jet
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Billionairism is a disease.
You either give away your money or you become diseased. You or I couldn't do it. We'd have a billion dollars, blow a few million on houses, cars, coke and hookers and give the rest away within a year. Schools, housing, mass transit, healthcare - so many good works to do.
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Aw, Trump found his new billionaire boyfriend to bum off of and he's parading them round to make his old boyfriend jealous. Classic.
"It's OK, he bought a ticket," said trump.
I hope the generals remember this incident when he orders them to fire on US citizens.
They're going to put LLMs into those fighters.
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Hopefully they will refuse to discuss violence, rendering the fighter jet useless
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But the freewheeling atmosphere they encountered during their effort to brief the president on a top-secret fighter plane project has been part and parcel of how Trump has transformed the West Wing since returning to power this past January.
The president reportedly has taken to referring to the Oval Office — the iconic inner sanctum of American executive power — as “Grand Central Terminal,” comparing it to the bustling train station of his native New York City.
For the most part, he’s not wrong to do so. Unlike in most other administrations where the president’s office is a tightly-controlled environment with only a select few top aides given so-called “walk-in privileges,” Trump’s Oval is the center of his world of friends, confidantes, advisers and employees who often mill about nearby in the West Wing, even when they might not have much to do there.
Even Trump’s cabinet secretaries, who ostensibly have their own, often ornate offices and large bureaucracies to attend to themselves, have taken to spending time at the White House to pop in and out of meetings with top Trump aides, such as Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Hes turned the office into a king's court
With too many jesters including the one on the throne.
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Looks like trump found his new benefactor. Which is honestly baffling because we literally all just saw what happened with Musk. If these tech CEOs are supposed to be geniuses why do they keep falling for the same shit? Like, just google what happens to most oligarchs when they support any kind of authoritarianism. Whether it's Mussolini, Hitler, or Putin, they always get shafted in the end. Does money and greed just cause brain damage or something? Is it the massive amounts of power and drugs?
In this case, it makes sense though. The recent techbro crypto bank announcement, a bank created by the same tech billionaires that intentionally crashed/destroyed SVB, is basically a play to shift the American financial system into stablecoins / cryptocurrencies entirely, as it's something that the tech bro class figures they can control for their own benefit.
That's all moving ahead on schedule, and is in line with Curtis Yarvin's whole techno fascist monarchy dream for how democracies need to die. They really only need to appease Trump for so long as it takes to get control of those purse strings. Egging on destruction / chaos for things like social services also feeds this pattern, it's easier to convince someone they need to make drastic changes to their home, if that home is currently on fire.
Having a constant tech-fascist publicly whispering these sorts of things in Trump's senile ears helps to keep up the facade within the maga-bubble that it's a "broadly accepted" approach to benefit everyone, that's been agreed upon by a bunch of "data driven" science types, when it's absolutely not. It's tech oligarchs looking to dismantle and own most western democracies.
Like, just google what happens to most oligarchs when they support any kind of authoritarianism. Whether it’s Mussolini, Hitler, or Putin, they always get shafted in the end.
What on earth are you talking about? The oligarchs who supported Hitler made a bunch of money, saw organized labor crushed, and then did fine after the war. Nazi war criminal Fritz ter Meer, who was a senior board member of IG Farben, manufacturing Zyklon B for the gas chambers, got a couple years in prison and then became chairman of Bayer.
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Every single one of these assholes were simply in the right place at the right time. Many with a leg up from money and cronyism. None of them are any smarter than the people you deal with every day.
Exactly, in fact a lot of them are exceptionally stupid.
It's his turn to be betrayed by Trump. Hopefully, it happens before the mid-term primaries, so Zuckerbot can join Musk in funding the opposition.
Does money and greed just cause brain damage or something?
Looks like they've known this for awhile. I missed this, thanks for posting.
- people of lower economic status were better at reading others’ facial expressions—an important marker of empathy—than wealthier people.
- drivers of luxury cars were four times less likely than those in less expensive vehicles to stop and allow pedestrians the right of way. They were also more likely to cut off other drivers.
- A number of studies have found that affluent children are more vulnerable to substance-abuse issues, potentially because of high pressure to achieve and isolation from parents.
- While a process addiction is not a chemical addiction, it does involve compulsive behavior—in this case, an addiction to the good feeling that comes from receiving money or possessions—which can ultimately lead to negative consequences and harm the individual’s well-being.
- In upwardly mobile communities, children are often pressed to excel at multiple academic and extracurricular pursuits to maximize their long-term academic prospects—a phenomenon that may well engender high stress
- There is no direct correlation between income and happiness. After a certain level of income that can take care of basic needs and relieve strain (some say $50,000 a year, some say $75,000), wealth makes hardly any difference to overall well-being and happiness and, if anything, only harms well-being:
Interesting article. I was actually just trying to recall this study, and then it was mentioned:
A UC Berkeley study found that in San Francisco—where the law requires that cars stop at crosswalks for pedestrians to pass—drivers of luxury cars were four times less likely than those in less expensive vehicles to stop and allow pedestrians the right of way. They were also more likely to cut off other drivers.
"I'm different". They really believe that they are better/smarter than everyone else.
It's narcissism. The driving force behind conservatism as a whole, is narcissism. They all think they're the special individual that will get special treatement. Hence the whole "leopards eating faces" thing.
It would be more correct to say the driving force is Type B personality disorders, of which narcissism is one. But sociopathy plays a big role too.
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I own a percentage of the president duh... that means I can go where I want.
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