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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @06:49PM
Democrats have lost the working class. They are now the bipolar party of the wealthy and educated who must signal their virtue without actually helping anything on the one hand and the unemployed, underemployed, and gimme-gimme urban poor on the other hand. It's the party of those wealthy enough to fret about the environment and live the vegan eco-yoga life as well as the party of those who spend their EBT buying the most artificial Cheetoes possible because of no self-control or thought of health or planning for the future.
The Republicans managed to scoop up the wide, swath in between, which the Democrats abandoned. If Trump keeps his promises and improves things for the middle class over the next two years, the Republicans will control the country for decades to come.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:26PM
If Trump keeps his promises and improves things for the middle class over the next two years, the Republicans will control the country for decades to come.
So, not? Republicans are in more danger than the Democrats if they think the middle working class has chosen them, instead of just going for the "FU" vote. But what is important here is the extent to which the ultra-wealthy are seeking to control public policy. Nothing new, I guess. JP Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt did the same, as well as Andrew Carnegie. And we have the usual old school Republican contributers who made their money the old fashioned way, Adelson, Koch Bros, DeVos. But now we have the new tech billionaires? Gates, Andreesen, Zuckerberg, Thiel, and others. What do they want, and do they have the best interests of the people in their hearts? If they have hearts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:49PM
For now, you're more right than wrong.
That's why I said they need to go back to where their votes traditionally are. As Republican-lites they only get 50-60% of the votes whereas they need 60+. The Republicans are going to find out their anti-worker policies that they will sweep in are not what got them elected.