Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster

Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by guelo on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:34PM (#14915642)

God damn it. Now all the billionaires are lining up for a run, this is our new dystopia. Trump's election is like the moment in Rome when Caesar crowned himself emperor, the empire went downhill from there. We need to re-establish the old societal norm of hating rich people or all we're going to get are celebrity billionaires from now on. Rich people are inherently bad and evil. They got to where they are by destroying many people along the way. All our efforts as a society must be directed at limiting their power or our democratic experiment is over. Bring back the guillotines!

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by dang on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:35AM (#14917411)

Would you please not post ideological rants here? There are plenty of ways to make a point about plutocracy without degrading the discussion quality like this.

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by Mikeb85 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:43PM (#14915701)

Either the billionaires run it or the politicians owned by the billionaires. The fact anyone ever thought it was ruled by the people is kind of amusing.

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by Turing_Machine on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:03PM (#14916648)

" like the moment in Rome when Caesar crowned himself emperor, the empire went downhill from there"

No, actually the Roman Empire started when Octavian was granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate. It was a republic before that. He didn't "crown himself" anything.

I'm not sure which "Caesar" the OP had in mind (there were...umm... a bunch of them) but the Roman Empire continued to expand for quite a long time after the end of the Republic. It didn't start shrinking until the time of Hadrian, fourteen emperors down the line.

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by justin on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:40PM (#14915682)

Such a bunch of bullshit. Plenty of people are rich because they are doctors, surgeons, entrepreneurs who provided a service and created jobs.

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by _delirium on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:15PM (#14916188)

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars simply by being a doctor or surgeon. In medicine, it's the pharma investors who make that kind of money, not the people who actually work in hospitals.

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by CurryMath on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:26PM (#14916228)

And why would the pharma investors be bad people?

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by Turing_Machine on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:50PM (#14916587)

Especially since "pharma investors" includes people like the pension fund manager who tries to make sure your grandmother keeps getting her retirement check every month.

It's easy to gin up hatred against some mythical Scrooge McDuck character swimming in a money bin. Not so easy when it's that kindly old lady who lives across the street.

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Re:Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster by programmarchy on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:30PM (#14915969)

This is the type of demented thinking that brought about the gulags, which were morally reprehensible and made everyone poorer.

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