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It's not unusual for tech company CEOs to make the journey to Washington, DC, and announce billion-dollar investments to curry favor with politicians in power.
It should be. It has always been disgusting how normalized corruption is in this country. It's not surprising or shocking, but it's no less wrong.
We are only as low as we are in corruption rankings because we legalized it. PACs lobbying etc
Atleast outside of the west bribery is available to the working class. Here it is just for the owners
Yeah but the problem with that is that bribery quickly goes from being an option to a requirement
Zuck is a cuck.
Mark cuckerberg with our supreme dicktaster.
Always was. Hyuk hyuk
Trying to understand.
At the meeting - when interviewed by the press - Zuck mentioned 600b.
Then - after that questionnaire between Zuck and the press was over – he leaned over to Trump and was like – paraphrasing: “was 600b good? Don’t recall if that’s what we discussed”.
I’m assuming this is a bit of non-news - but am just trying to follow why it is news. Or if every hot mic capture is just juicy news.
trump was getting these tech ceos to say big investment numbers into the camera so that trump could say that he is the greatest president ever. The estimate that zuck gave was very high, and the fact that he later said ‘was 600b good?’ In the ‘hot mic’ moment suggests that the number was inflated to appease trumps ego and that these numbers are not real.
I would say it wasn't to appease trump himself, but to influence the people watching this.
Proof that these announcements are bs for the sheep. We already know that but the sheep do not.
600 b is more than the intrinsic value of zucksempire, not a chance they invest that, and if they did it would be for stuff that would make them more at our expense.
600 b is more than the intrinsic value of zucksempire
There is no such thing as intrinsic value.
There is though, the real assets that have value, the time value of future earnings from their assets minus a risk premium.
Market value is what is a worthless number in most all contexts outside of hostile takeovers and arbitrage plays on valuations by parasitical private equity and hedge funds.
For instance, tesla owns properties, machines, can turn out so many cars for how much with whatever risk of not.
Meaning they might have an intrinsic value of 10 billion, probavly less now with the whole nazi thing.
Market cap of a trillion for tesla is meaningless, that money does not exist, realizing actual money from the stock progressively lowers the value.
Wouldn't this be soo much easier if we just charged them all a proper amount in taxes?
Rolling blackouts, coal ash dumped into drinking water reservoirs, fossil fuel smog thick in the air, clearcut forests that would help clean the air, and "safer nuclear,” oh and peak oil was a while ago... Rationed water that may but likely won't, be safe for cooking, drinking or bathing...but ai surveillance and eternal war are worth it!
"safer nuclear,”
Why the "air quotes"? Nuclear remains the most efficient, powerful energy source, and is vastly more resilient to disaster than even before.
by what metric is nuclear the "most efficient" or "most powerful" energy source?
but ai surveillance and eternal war are worth it!
Don't forget the thrill going up every confederate's leg because they owned the libs!
I would never encourage violence online
I would.
Play TF2. Do it. Frag your friends.
"Online"
If you haven't heard, coal ash, fly ash, isn't really a thing anymore since they discovered that the ash, similar to volcanic ash, can act as a pozzolan and be used 1:1 to replace carbon intensive Portland cement for concrete, up to half off the cement mix. Since then the ash that is now valuable has been used for that instead of just being dumped. The old stuff in ponds is less useful but might be used after some light processing.
https://www.thespruce.com/fly-ash-applications-844761
https://www.concrete.org/frequentlyaskedquestions/faqid/688.aspx
"Heavy Hitters" that's cute for a bunch of flesh light pussies.
I really hope the Internet invents a parody product that embodies that fully, The Fasc White® fleshlight. Bundle it with tiki torches and a Best Buy ensemble so these backbirths go into battle with full hands.
Next week Facebook will layoff a couple thousand workers and then the elites will see the markets tumble and be like "wtf America, why are you doing this to yourself?"
Guaranteed normal people wont see a cent of that