dwazou@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoRebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers. www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down11
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkRebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers. www.theguardian.comdwazou@jlai.lu to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square30linkfedilink
minus-squarehansolo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoBecause it’s so much better when they’re charismatic assholes?
minus-squarejlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI think it’s much sadder (more sad? saddest) that people fall for such absurd douche bags. If they would at least be sexy and seem smart you could understand how people could be fooled but this is just too hard to watch.
minus-squareBeNotAfraid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoPeople will kiss anyone’s ass for enough money.
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSo like, if instead of musk and zuckerburg, it were a 1990s George Clooney? The smug bastard…
minus-squareTournesol@feddit.frlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoI’ll hate him just as much… but damn does he look good doing it.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoPropoganda fucking works, simple as that Billionaires just buy good press and publicists to manage their image, it’s so effective they believe it themselves
minus-squaresbv@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYeah, I don’t get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they’d still be fucking us over.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoYeah but at least they’d have style. Their popularity would at least make sense. It would feel a little less horrifyingly alienating.
Because it’s so much better when they’re charismatic assholes?
I think it’s much sadder (more sad? saddest) that people fall for such absurd douche bags. If they would at least be sexy and seem smart you could understand how people could be fooled but this is just too hard to watch.
People will kiss anyone’s ass for enough money.
So like, if instead of musk and zuckerburg, it were a 1990s George Clooney? The smug bastard…
I’ll hate him just as much… but damn does he look good doing it.
Propoganda fucking works, simple as that
Billionaires just buy good press and publicists to manage their image, it’s so effective they believe it themselves
Yeah, I don’t get this. If it was George Clooney or some other charismatic/likeable person, they’d still be fucking us over.
Yeah but at least they’d have style. Their popularity would at least make sense. It would feel a little less horrifyingly alienating.