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Zuckerberg's Political Ambitions?

posted by on Sunday December 11 2016, @11:11AM   
from the can't-wear-hoodies-in-congress dept.

aristarchus writes:

Business Insider features a column that tries to connect some dots between Thiel and Zuckerberg.

Now that we have seen the texts sent between Facebook founder and investor Marc Andreessen discussing Zuckerberg's desire to make sure his stock holdings do not prevent him from being able "to serve two years in government," as Bloomberg reported, it casts new light on Zuckerberg's relationship with Peter Thiel.

All groundless speculation, no doubt, but the author, Jim Edwards, does provide a timeline that is interesting, to say the least. The issue comes up because of a recent shareholder lawsuit against Facebook's board that forced release of the aforementioned texts.

As Alice said in Wonderland, "curiouser and curiouser".

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Original Submission

• No, D party needs to die. No, D party needs to die. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @02:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @02:47PM (#439977)

  Just like the Republicans.

  I can only hope now that Sanders is back on the I ticket, he'll have learned his lesson and stick with the Independent ticket through to the next election (assuming he thinks his withered corpse-like self can make it that long, plus the 4-8 years if he won a presidency.)

  The Democrats have been never been a good party. Only in the past 50-70 years did they 'pretend' to be the party of the masses, and for the most part the D&Rs have just been switching places for the past 150 years, playing a shell game of politics that the America people have been losing. Now is the opportunity for real change: wipe out the old on both the left and right, get rid of first past the post voting, and begin working on a system that represents the common citizen's views of where america is, where it should be and what compromises can and can't be made to get us there.

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• Re:No, D party needs to die. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @06:28PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @06:28PM (#440019)

  Only in the past 50-70 years did they 'pretend' to be the party of the masses,

  Post-factual fake news is followed up by fake history? Jefferson kept Hamilton at bay, Jacksonian Democrats had mud on their boots, FDR saved the working class from the kind ministrations of the Republicans. Are you saying they have only been pretending for the past seventy year, and actually were the party of the common man prior?

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