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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began 2017 with a bold personal challenge: "to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year."
So far, his whistlestop tour of the states certainly bears all the hallmarks of early political canvassing.
As part of the challenge, Zuckerberg reportedly wanted to meet longtime Democrats who voted for Trump in the last election and asked his team to reach out and find such people.
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Such a tour becomes even more conspicuous in light of unsealed court filings from a class-action lawsuit in 2016 in which Zuckerberg attempted to dilute shareholder power and afford himself permanent control of the $440 billion company.
Of particular note in the proceedings was a message sent to Zuckerberg by Marc Andreessen, one of Facebook's most prominent investors, in which he raised the issue of "how to define the government service thing without freaking out shareholders that you are losing commitment."
"It's the thing people will point to on announcement and say 'what the f**k are you guys doing agreeing to this', particularly since... government service would require you to give up control of Facebook anyway and it's a moot point," said Andreessen, adding credence to speculation that Zuckerberg will make a run for political office at some point in the future.
One of the richest men in the world will be looking out for the little guy, right?
Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/386718-zuckerberg-political-campaign-rumors/
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:34PM (1 child)
Reasonable points. Sounds like Japan or Russia not Israel. Or maybe France. We don't fight for Japan or Russia or France or do their bidding. Likewise I'm totally not saying "bomb Japan again" but there's a spectrum of friendliness and putting them in charge of US policy as the 51st state is clearly going way way way too far. "We are best buddies" is a long way from "we die, a lot, for you, on your command".
For a good time, I could claim you described South Africa back in the good old days. "Serious", and "Power" being somewhat relative terms on that continent, LOL. Certainly, S.A. back in the good old days wasn't exactly Euro/USA levels of democracy, but observation shows S.A. was a lot more civilized than Rwanda, for example. Now that's a rough neighborhood. Frankly everyone in Africa of every color had a better quality of life when the Euros were in charge in the colonial era. And if they thought the euros were kinda tough masters, they're gonna have so much fun now that China is taking over, now they are a bunch of real hardasses.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 02 2017, @07:25PM
France? Those cheese-eating surrender-monkeys? They'll end up being the first arab nation with nukes here in the next few decades because of their immigration policies. That's how much they love to surrender.
Japan? We absolutely do protect them or they'd be Chinese right now. They're allowed fuck-all for a military, remember?
As for Israel dictating American policy? Get off the crack, man. You're eventually going to notice you live in a nation whose majority religion's deity was Jewish. That tends to lead to favorable feelings towards them.
We also like an underdog, which they are in spades. Every last nation within two borders of them hates their breathing guts and would love nothing better than to see them all dead. And yet they stand. Do they have help? Sure. That's still huge fucking brass cajones though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.