Accurate article, terrifying how much weight and power tech has brought to these people. Techno feudalism, in the hands of an oligarchy (broligarchy?).
The pursuit of market share and revenue at the expense of democratic accountability and human interaction, lies are currency, truth a casualty..
She's one of Australia's best comedy writers (her account on the bad platform came up with absolute bangers all the time, too) who makes people laugh and fume in equal amounts....my reaction to her is always the first one, for what it's worth.
If you're talking about zuck, oh man...
- Went on Joe Rogan to complain about the lack of masculinity
- Rolled back hate speech and dei practices for meta and Facebook, so bigots can say whatever without punishment
- Made a really cringe cover of Get Low with tpain
When I 1st started reading this heading (I subscribe to the @theguardian.com from 1/2way round the world via Kindle) I thought it was going to say:
"I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down — I just didn't think it would be so soon."
Still applies.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I've known these guys are all a bunch of overgrown middle schoolers for at least a decade, but the article about the ceos excited they could say "R[...]d" and "Pussy" again really just hammered it in further than I was expecting
Dear God. Imagine being such an asshole that you feel "liberated" because you don't have to consider the people around you anymore. I hate this timeline.
Listened to the first 10min of the Rogan-Zuck interview.
OMG, it's like their brains have become infinite soups of a-historic micro pitches, with no logic, fact checks, moral principles nor narrative consistency. Belief systems based on sales. 'All that is solid melts into air' and all that.
Jukker-da-fukker must have had a terrible childhood where he was never picked for teams, teased relentlessly by everyone in his neighborhood, etc.
He is still getting the same shit, but behind his back.
He can blissfully think he could be king some day soon, and ALL know it's possible. *smirk*
🤮
Prog Americans who live in bubbles & think US racial issues are global are going to let guys like Mukesh Ambani and Zhong Shanshan take over just because they aren't white.
I mean, by conventional narrative standards, yeah the “bad guys” lost, but from a more critical perspective, the nerds are actually the bad guys (for reasons that would fill several other posts’ character limits)
I too am normal like you viewer. I enjoy cooking on my multi thousand dollar grills while sitting in folding camp chairs so new you can see the packaging creases.
There is categorically absolutely nothing Christian about trying to control other people. I live in Ireland 🇮🇪 , where all people treat each other equally regardless of their religion or non religion. These people aren't being Christian, they're being fanatical.
Was it 'The Jerk' where Steve Martin's character creates the spectacle grip, makes millions from it, installs a night club in his mansion with light-up dancefloor, then cases of cross-eyed litigants bankrupt him & he returns to the gutter?
That.
Every time my glasses slide down my nose - and that’s a LOT - I almost always say “Damn these glasses,” then I think of THE JERK and get the giggles. 🤓
The only thing that would make those 'Meta AR glasses' even MORE cool would be some white tape across the bridge of the nose.
Nerds have been waiting their whole lives for this.
It's a good article but what Rebecca gets wrong here is that these men stuck in adolescence are not and never have been nerds and all the good and bad that comes with that term. They have cultivated that image just like they have taken credit for other people's work.
These men are not nerds. They are the guys who harassed the nerds in high school - and never got over that the nerds consistently kicked their asses into next week.
Sadly being around guys in traditionally nerd circles, from computers to DnD to Furry...large numbers see these guys as God's and gobbled up the reactionary politics, bigotry and sexism. 'Nerds' are, in sizeable numbers, no way as endearing as they used to be
Unfortunately >< Still, there's a small comfort in that guys like Zuck and Elon never were themselves and are just pitifully identity deprived to the core. Although nothing comforting about how people who should know better have fallen for them.
I’m so glad that I’ve ALWAYS surrounded myself with the left side of nerdy cis men in fandom. They might debate on the best way to accomplish something or who is left enough… but they try to stand up for marginalized groups and individuals.
Pretty much. There have always been problems and bad undercurrents, undoubtedly. But no surprise the really toxic aspects of nerd culture have only swelled with social media, Youtube, gamergate, and everything else in the past 15 years allowing barely nerd-adjecent guys to congregate and make noise.
Like... if you actually play DnD, 40k, host LANs, go to cons, or got at actual participation going, you pretty much *can't* be openly bigoted. Sure people cover for bad apples, but it's not conductive to getting a group together or running a league or just keeping peace. It's a self-sorting process.
"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole." - The Social Network, 2010
I don’t think we should let them do that. I think we should burn them down because we don’t live in the men. The human race doesn’t have to live inside these horrible men we have to live on the planet, so that’s common sense. if they’re gonna burn down the planet then we should burn down the men.
If 'murka had instead spent the last few centuries training the world to equate success with, say, enlightenment and contributions to improving the human condition we'd be in a very different place.
Since people ave been the same through history atleast we know that all the rest of the greedy despots have Also probably been giant fucking losers aswell
I'm sorry you have the richest man in the world thinking it's cool to be a nemesis of someone who admitted they shat their pants on purpose 🤔
“…they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are, on top of their other sins. It’s too much, I can’t take it, there needs to be a change.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.”
La masculinidad de los perdedores es la peor, resentidos contra las mujeres y contra los hombres que no pueden ser. El feminismo no es cosa de mujeres. Nos libera de ser unos patéticos necesitados de poder. Toda esta gente son machitos que se van a extinguir
I think Offspring summed him up.
“You know, it's kinda hard just to get along today
Our subject isn't cool, but he fakes it anyway
He may not have a clue and he may not have style
But everything he lacks, well, he makes up in denial”
I did. It's always the weak minded doofuses that only have the power and status because of birth lottery or some other lucky break (which is most ultra rich people anyway) who never grew psychologically past adolescence and who think they're gods gift to the world, who do this kind of shit
I think we can ALL comfortably say that we thought it would happen with like, a cackling mad and charismatic villain we would try to sally a brave but fruitless final stand against.
Not The Guy Who Stalked His College Girlfriend and South African Racist Desperate For Attention to name two
I'm not gonna sit here and discriminate against the Republican ideology because it is a good one to have in certain situations.
That being said, there is a goddamn EPIDEMIC of really spiteful and hateful people. I just won't call them Republicans or right-wing because that's not what they are.
OMG he is soooo fucking embarrassing!🙄😖
Surely Zuck has peeps in his life who love him enuff to tell him that his lamearse attempts to emulate Joe Rogan/Andrew Tate/pro-Trump “masculinity” are even more cringeworthy & disgusting than the real thing???
Dude has a bazillion $$, a ton of power & influence, a wife, kids and a life most peeps would envy but he’s still the same angry, envious, uber-aggrieved nerd of Fincher’s “The Social Network”
I mean Lex at least had some positive contributions to mankind and was super smart while being a villainous monster. There isn’t a thing these people have contributed from their own brain just stolen for their ego.
If they weren't such selfish, petty LITTLE "men", they'd be leading the fight against cancer, or to end world hunger, or to educate and protect our children, or help the people in CA, or ANYTHING that isn't squalid and self-serving.
He and his wife gave a bunch of money to San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the county hospital there... which, of course, was then renamed Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH).... so the world can always be reminded of their "generous" tax write-off...
I'm a 22-year SFGH retired nurse. We didn't want his name added when they did it and asked the admin not to... they were only interested in his $$$ and thought using his name would add status. With his alliance to Trump, he doesn't represent the hospital's values and they should remove it.
I was an RN at SFGH many years ago. (That was actually my first job as an RN--a LONG time ago). I was long gone by the time this happened, but I know the renaming didn't sit well with the staff! And the idea that a county hospital is now named for a billionaire is really crazy.
You can't be that rich without being a selfish petty looser with a massive ego. (Oh and without being already born in a rich familly so already being disconnected of reality)
Truth. Being that rich involves doing everything you can to take more money than anyone else, aka the profit motive. Which is confusing to anyone else who isn't obsessed with money grabbing. The bible calls it a sin. At the level of American oligarchs, it is a cultural insanity. A mass-hysteria.
Actually there is an ideology at play here. They think the strong should annihilate the weak and that feeding the poor or helping those stricken with cancer just weakens the gene pool. They are even bigger cunts than you realize.
the fact is they don't even care what anyone thinks of them. All they care about is power and money. They'll do anything to stay relevant and coerce people into using their whatever shitty products
No matter how much money he gets, or even if he somehow manages a "good " of some kind, he's gonna be known for all time as the limp weenie who kissed Drumps booty.
Honestly it's probably this attitude towards people like them that turns them into the ones who will watch the world burn because they can. If we were kinder to people and helped people regardless of their highschool football team participation the world would probably be a much better place
this has, with all due disrespect, the same energy as my sixth grade class getting separate lectures after columbine. the boys got preliminary active shooter training. the girls got told we should be nicer to people because we never knew who was struggling and it could keep them from acting out.
other people are not your human shields to prevent people who are whole entire human beings with free will from acting like shitbags. much like if the only thing making someone a good person is religion, they weren't a good person to start with.
Weird. I was bullied relentlessly as a kid for being weird, not "feminine" enough and for liking obscure and niche things. I didn't turn into an egotistical maniac. Shocker
I tell my children that one of the richest dweebs on the planet wanted to steal ancestral land in an occupied territory so he could raise beef cattle. Which is dumb on its face but a “numbers guy” should know the resource infeasibility of feeding water to fart machines in the middle of the ocean.
Robert Reed, the actor who played Mike Brady, lived in a time when being gay, even in Hollywood, was a career killing sin. He would stay in the closet until after he died. This mother-zucker courted a relationship that wants to bring us back to a time like that. Please don't disgrace Robert Reed.
Didn't know anything about the man (Mr. Reed), including his name. (As I said, I didn't watch the Brady Bunch). I loathe the group currently coming into power - in light of their racism, misogyny, bigotry against LGBTQ folks. (And dishonesty, overt criminality, etc...)
Zuckerberg seems like he’s with the group of, if you can’t beat them, join them. My gut tells me he’s doing the minimum of what Trump is asking him to do but yet look like he’s going along with him and praise him so Facebook and Instagram are not targeted.
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Real life Bond Villains.
https://youtu.be/GYwPa-ldrPE?si=w9B45MLwQ3qghqWo
🚬😎
The pursuit of market share and revenue at the expense of democratic accountability and human interaction, lies are currency, truth a casualty..
The Creepy Nerd.
- Went on Joe Rogan to complain about the lack of masculinity
- Rolled back hate speech and dei practices for meta and Facebook, so bigots can say whatever without punishment
- Made a really cringe cover of Get Low with tpain
Sorry for the gift of knowledge
"I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down — I just didn't think it would be so soon."
Still applies.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I know dudes like this. Being unable to casually toss around slurs for a few years felt like hell to them.
OMG, it's like their brains have become infinite soups of a-historic micro pitches, with no logic, fact checks, moral principles nor narrative consistency. Belief systems based on sales. 'All that is solid melts into air' and all that.
He is still getting the same shit, but behind his back.
He can blissfully think he could be king some day soon, and ALL know it's possible. *smirk*
🤮
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful WHITE men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
And the ONE characteristic all his toadies share is their lust for power and wealth.
Unrestrained capitalism is GREAT.🙄
To be clear, the operative wording is...
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And the ONE characteristic all his toadies share is their lust for power and wealth.
Unrestrained capitalism is GREAT.🙄
The danger is oligarchy in ALL forms.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-23/billionaire-mukesh-ambani-plans-world-s-biggest-data-center-in-india-s-gujarat
That was a mistranslation.
It was supposed to be, "The dorks shall inherit the earth."
That.
Nerds have been waiting their whole lives for this.
or earth burns more quickly
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I'm sorry you have the richest man in the world thinking it's cool to be a nemesis of someone who admitted they shat their pants on purpose 🤔
Kim Jung Un has way more swagger than any of our knuckleheads
“…they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are, on top of their other sins. It’s too much, I can’t take it, there needs to be a change.
It’s time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.”
“You know, it's kinda hard just to get along today
Our subject isn't cool, but he fakes it anyway
He may not have a clue and he may not have style
But everything he lacks, well, he makes up in denial”
Zuck, ya got ONLY 1 million to cut fact-check from you POS social media toilet? You have a goldmine, azzhole, but like a cheap suit.......
The Serfs are upset
Not The Guy Who Stalked His College Girlfriend and South African Racist Desperate For Attention to name two
That being said, there is a goddamn EPIDEMIC of really spiteful and hateful people. I just won't call them Republicans or right-wing because that's not what they are.
Surely Zuck has peeps in his life who love him enuff to tell him that his lamearse attempts to emulate Joe Rogan/Andrew Tate/pro-Trump “masculinity” are even more cringeworthy & disgusting than the real thing???
Im trying to make mother-zucking a thing,
BTW.
and memes have the same power as the idea that one picture can say 1000 words... sometimes you don't need more