Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government forever

Re:Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government... by fsloth on Monday January 09, 2017 @01:53PM (#13358722)

Yep. 1. Cities destroyed by atomic weapons 2. Rockets 3. Computers 4. A dystopian one party nation state murdering millions of it's own (murdering en masse is nothing new but usually there was some excuse - soviet system brought state instituted terror to a whole new levem).

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Re:Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government... by JumpCrisscross on Monday January 09, 2017 @02:06PM (#13358841)

> usually there was some excuse - soviet system brought state instituted terror to a whole new levem [sic]

Perhaps on an absolute basis, the Soviets were the worst, but on a relative-to-population basis history is littered with meaningless massacre.

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Re:Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government... by fsloth on Monday January 09, 2017 @02:37PM (#13359105)

I agree, yet, I don't think there is anything intellectually dishonest in counting human suffering in absolute measures. Yes, we can identify historical patterns, but individual humans are not just playing out a manifestation of social dynamics, they are living their life. The heart and mind are equal in gauging the world - just different aspects of it.

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Re:Zuckerberg could run Facebook while serving in government... by platz on Monday January 09, 2017 @02:06PM (#13358832)

We have been living in a dystopian sci-fi novel since 33 AD. Or, if you prefer, 66 million years ago.

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